Kevin Sampson

Kevin Sampson is a British author, who is widely known for his novel, Awaydays published in the year 1998 and Stars are Stars, which was published in the year 2006. Currently, Kevin Sampson resides in Birkenhead, Merseyside. Sampson began his writing career in the 1980’s when he secured several gig reviews for NME in the 1980’s. However, Neil Spencer, who was the editor at the time, famously sacked Kevin Simpson for reviewing a Sex Gang Concert at one of the biggest clubs in Liverpool city that had been burned down the night before the concert was to take place. Sampson then went ahead and became a regular contributor to i-D, Jamming, The Face, and Time-Out as well. Sampson eventually returned to Merseyside in the year 1990, with the aim of assisting a longtime friend, Peter Hooton, start Produce Records with Wayne Chand, Ian Croft, Paul McKenna and Barney Moores as partners.