Luxury Stranger

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Luxury Stranger is the ‘brain child’ of Simon York and it is growing…

After working within a strictly guitar based rock band, achieving success being signed to Roadrunner Records, playing with some top names in music (including Mansun and 10CC) and finally coming away from the band - Simon began solo work as a musician, artist and actor. Experimenting with electronic instruments and layered vocal textures, creating both giant and subtle soundscapes, Simon worked at first under the guise of The Earl of Sound but ended up killing off this character and returning to the name Simon York…


“I loved the Earl but he had to die. He took over my personality, he was a scoundrel - a dangerous and womanising creature…” (Simon York)

To learn more about Simon’s past work, see Simon’s biog on his Myspace profile (found in the LS top Myspace friends).

Luxury Stranger is Simon York’s future - Simon is now embracing both electronic and guitar based music and working as the front man / songwriter / brains of Luxury Stranger, and plans to return to live work in the very near future.

At the end of February 2008, Chris Ruscoe (pictured below) joined Luxury Stranger as bass player.

Chris comes from a background of various alternative and electronica bands. He has an obsession with home recording equipment and old vinyl collections. His musical passions are broad, addictive and often disturbing…

Drawing on the darkness of early post punk bands, the imagery of The Cure’s ‘Pornography’ era, and the obsessive production values of Martin Hannett, Chris considers his playing style as solid, low slung, and innovative.