Luxury Stranger

“Dreams of slavery and masturbation…”

“Perverse, passionate and dark lyrics matched with disparate, agonisingly powerful music.”

“Perverse, passionate and dark lyrics matched with disparate, agonisingly powerful music.”

Luxury Stranger is a three piece, dickensian mod band based in Nottingham, UK and is the ‘brain child’ of Simon York. As from December 2008, Luxury Stranger are signed to Major Digital (an off-shoot of germany’s Major Records).

Likened to The Chameleons, with influences drawn from dark post-punk and new wave, vocalist/guitarist Simon York was previously signed to Roadrunner Records, under a different guise. They currently have one album released, Desolation .

After working within a strictly guitar based rock band, 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)