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Nottingham, United Kingdom

“Dreams of slavery and masturbation…”

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

Luxury Stranger is an English band, based in Nottingham, UK

Likened to The Chameleons, with influences drawn from the darkness of post-punk, the theatre of 70s glam (Bowie/Eno/Reed/Pop) and the commerciality of 80s new wave, Luxury Stranger are a ‘Jekyl and Hyde’ style of band - a methodical architect in the studio and a passionate powerful monster on the stage.

Luxury Stranger played it’s first gig on Friday, 5th September 2008 at Junktion 7, Nottingham (see blog for details). In December 2008, Luxury Stranger signed with Major Digital (an off-shoot of Germany’s Major Records).

Luxury Stranger is currently playing live as often as possible to promote the Desolation album and help expand the band’s growing fanbase. The band is also experimenting with material which could make the list for the second LS album…some of these pieces are already in the LS live set.

Luxury Stranger is:
Simon York - voices/guitars/other instruments
Chris Ruscoe - bass/other instruments
Paul Sycamore - drums/percussion

Keep checking the events section on the band’s last.fm, Facebook and Myspace profiles for news on shows and go to the official LS website http://www.luxurystranger.com for up-to-date news.

You can also register as a fan on the band’s myspace site: www.myspace.com/luxurystranger as well as on the band’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Luxury-Stranger/99445195362 - Remember, support from people like you will help LS continue to grow.

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indie, new wave, simon york, post punk, post-punk
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1	Grounded full track	12
2	Dirt full track	7
3	Dreaming Our Lives Away full track	5
4	Marlene full track	4
5	Substance full track	3
5	THE WRONG TIME full track	3
7	N.M.Q.P. full track	2
7	PRECIOUS FOR EVERMORE full track	2
7	Inner Eye full track	2
7	Completion full track	2
11	Paradise Untouched full track	1
11	Don't Go full track	1
11	Another Time, Another Place - 'Get in there' mix full track	1

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Alaizu wrote:
September 2009

you sounded great at the soundchck sorry i couldn't stay for the show! keep up the god worj guys i love your sound.

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DEMON_CARESS wrote:
September 2009

GROUNDED is GREAT!

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captainfutility wrote:
August 2009

superb set at ynot, gentlemen. but who was that in the mask? glad i managed to bump into you during bbc (simon) and then in the bar ten mins later (paul). i'm off to listen to 'marlene' again :) :) sy

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captainfutility wrote:
July 2009

see you at y not

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SGDminea wrote:
July 2009

vladlenas, I wouldn't say Latvia is in Western Europe...

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Major_Records wrote:
June 2009

Many thanks for listening to Luxury Stranger! We really appreciate it...Check out http://www.youtube.com/luxurystranger and http://www.luxurystranger.com for more tracks, videos and tourdates:)

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Arkhamian wrote:
June 2009

You sound GREAT!

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LuxuryStranger wrote:
May 2009

http://www.luxurystranger.com - now live!

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Weerth wrote:
April 2009

Awesome! Congratulations!

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vladlenas wrote:
April 2009

I'm from Latvia (Western Europe) and I really love your music! Thank you ^^)

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magicalsushi wrote:
February 2009

According to what their record label posted in my shoutbox, they've been compared to Mansun. I can't see why anyone would compare them to Mansun though, when they sound more like a carbon copy of Interpol. Not that that's a bad thing.

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Worm_Man wrote:
January 2009

I'm listening to some of the songs. They sound interesting. I will keep listening in more details. So far the recording is pretty neat.

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LuxuryStranger wrote:
October 2008

Mick Mercer (writer of many books, ex-staff on NME and Melody Maker) has written a review on Luxury Stranger's Desolation album. Please follow the link (or copy and paste into your browser) to go to the LS myspace blog which in turn links to Mick's review... Thanks! http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&pop=1&indicate=1

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Cooljools99 wrote:
October 2008

hi there! I was steered in your direction by the delectable charlotte!...and i'm so glad she did really loved the tracks i heard...grounded was a particular favourite. Will try and catch you live sometime soon! Jools

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chow_chow75 wrote:
September 2008

Sorry I missed the J7 gig - work... grrr I can't believe I missed the 1st gig - that would have been a story to tell when you're big big BIG! I hope to make the next on though (saw your flyer on myspace - looks cool!) Have good one, Pete

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chow_chow75 wrote:
August 2008

Yo! Just seen your advert bulletin on myspace and had to pop over here to listen to the new tune - love it! Mr York, you are one talented jelly bean my friend... it'll be nice to hear the LS live version - sounds promising. Later, Pete

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chow_chow75 wrote:
August 2008

Hey LS guys... just finishing at work and thought I'd send you a message. I've seen the new pics of you on your myspace site - lookin pretty cool lads, definately lookin the part. Any news on when you're gigging? Take care, stay strange for us! Pete

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Petrikske wrote:
July 2008

Great songs, remind me of The Chameleons.

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GothicBowie wrote:
July 2008

I been listen to you music and what I like the most is the combination of Drum/voice.. not that the other instruments are not good, but the drumpart together with voice are amazing keep rock on grtz from Belgium, Erik

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LuxuryStranger wrote:
June 2008

Just a big thank you to everyone who's been listening to and liking the music of LS! Hope you continue to support us and that we'll see you when we start gigging later this year (don't worry folks...it's all coming pretty soon!) Later, Simon York XX

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Recent LS shows - "what no blog?!"

14 Aug 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/luxurystranger

Recent LS shows - "what no blog?!"Hello all, hard at it I hope... Yes, we've had a fair few messages from folks saying "we've seen you've been playing quite a bit recently but we've had no blog report. …

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