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The Girl at Charing Cross Station, remixed and remastered, is available on the 2020 album 'How to Smile Upside Down'. Gary Hurlstone Channel https://www.you...
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About Me
I tell stories - work created over years of performing and writing. Thematically this can include anything from the Mary Celeste mystery, Northern Soul Music, Alien Invasions, castaways, the life of photographer, David Bailey - anything goes.

I don't make a conscious effort to blur the boundaries between style/genre, this just happens, probably as a result of purposefully feeding myself on a performance diet of rock, folk, world, blues, cajun, reggae, New Orleans jazz, experimental and showband. Result: I am a music cataloguers nightmare!

Following a series of collaborations, a new album, How to Smile Upside Down, was released at the end of September 2020 which included contributions from musicians in New York including Peter Scherr, Tony Scherr (Norah Jones, Iron & Wine, Todd Caldwell (Crosby Stills Nash/James Taylor, Jackson Browne)UK violin player, Jamie Parkes, Gillie Nicholls, (Albion Band) Canadian percussionist, Robbin Harris and Richard Bamping, (Hong Kong Philharmonic) cello.

​I write songs because, hell that's what I like doing, but in these times of corporate music influence, independent music making is often the only way to go. You get the freedom but ...

Music has given me great times and got me through some troubled ones. I am pretty sure this is the same for many of us. But every life is different. They don't have to have the same musical backdrop. Do they?

How to Smile Upside Down 2020

A whole bunch of musical creatives made the whole thing possible:

Richard Bamping-cello (Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra)

Todd Caldwell-Hammond B3 (Crosby-Stills-Nash, James Taylor, Bonnie Rait, Jackson Brown)

Tony Scherr-Bass/electric guitar (Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Iron & Wine, Loudon Wainwright)

Gillie Nicholls-vocal (Albion Band)

Jamie Parkes-violin

Robbin Harris-percussion,

Zen Chen-vocal

The whole thing was pulled together through the incomparable talent of Peter Scherr who acted as mentor, producer, orchestrator and contributed double bass as well. Recording sessions took place at various parts of the globe, New York, Hong Kong, Calgary. What could have been a nightmare turned into the perfect excuse to do what I love doing most: making music, smiling upside down in the strangest of circumstances

THE Zen Kick 2012

My solo album, The Zen Kick, was released in May 2012. It was recorded and produced at The Studio in Sai Kung (Hong Kong) by Peter Scherr, and mastered in New York at Masterdisc by Scott Hull. The heartbeat at the beginning of the Zen Kick, was recorded at the Women and Childrens Hospital in Shenzhen China, prior to my daughter (Zen) being born.

The album includes contributions from a number of fine musicians including Peter Scherr (electric and double bass), Bob Mocarsky (piano/keyboards) and the Mongolian horse head fiddle player, Hugejiletu.
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As a musician I have learned to be flexible - I am a singer songwriter mostly but have worked on art projects, done voiceovers, taught, managed and generally ducked and dived to make a living. I ran a magazine in China, an art gallery and toured.
What is your primary genre/style of music?
Ah, the tricky question! I stopped trying to fit into a category and just let songs take their own direction. I am a music cataloguer's nigtmare. I guess I fit into a sort of alt folk, rock, reggae, pop, ethnic, sort of bag.

The Girl at Charing Cross Station: The story behind the song

"Living, I loved her dearly and I shall never cease to love her in death." Edward 1st
This song was originally inspired after I read an article about the marriage between King Edward 1 and Queen Eleanor of Castile and the Eleanor Crosses. Theirs was an arranged marriage but one which, according to history, was very much based upon a loving relationship. Eleanor died whilst still a relatively young woman (in 1290) having already given birth to sixteen children, many of whom did not survive to adulthood. Edward was deeply saddened by her demise and ordered crosses - the Eleanor Crosses* to be made and erected at the places where she had lain on her way to London, her place of final rest. One of these crosses now looks out over the Charing Cross Station forecourt.

In 2013 I had never visited Charing Cross Station but, as I hurried to a Friday night concert in Trafalgar Square, I took time-out to visit the Station and see the Cross. As I studied the details of the monument, I was intrigued by the notion that Edward would take such trouble to demonstrate his affection. Once inside the main passenger terminal, I listened as train announcements echoed across the walls of the packed platforms. Then, before my wandering gaze, a young couple ran to embrace each other, bounding seemingly in slow motion, arms outstretched, completing their affectionate manoeuvre just before they reached the Station sweet-kiosk.

From my position under the arrivals and departures clock, I smiled as I looked for somewhere to sit down, a temporary scribbling place where I intended to record a few details of my visit. Not a seat to be found. I looked up—the woman had vanished, possibly into the scrum for the trains.
“Could all passengers for the seventeen twenty-five departure to Hastings please make their way to platform nine. Could all …”

The man peered out towards the crowds anxiously twisting his head left-right as he looked for her.
And, as the 17:25pm Shuttle to Hastings shunted forward, clattering its way from London towards the south-east coast, coaches breaking noisily through the glare of June sunshine, he too had gone.
Somehow all of this got twisted into a story about Edward and Eleanor meeting again in a future life, reincarnated as latter day commuters together once more after many years apart. I never really bought into the idea of the ‘perfect love’ between them though, so I introduced the idea of Edward regretting some of his harsh treatment towards her (…and though I hurt you, now I’m sated).

Eleanor thus became the subject of the song, ‘Girl at Charing Cross Station’ – playing out her frustrations on a platform that twisted between the past and the present, ‘slow and slow’, tormenting the latter day Edward with her rush hour ‘now you see me now you don’t’ game. His fate now to spend eternity looking for the someone he would never find. I guess this idea of seeking and never finding is part of the human condition, a practice many of us engage in from time to time - ‘but we keep on running, why?’ Of course Edward may have been a good guy, but I probably would not have been able to get a song out of this!

*The cross at Charing with its angels at Eleanor’s feet, is a later version of the original, a replica, and was initially erected where Whitehall meets Trafalgar Square. The last journey of Eleanor, "The Faithful" ended at Westminster Abbey, the "Queen of Good Memories" final resting place.

The Girl at Charing Cross Station

The seats are all taken
It’s Friday night
At Charing Cross Station
When I first catch sight of you
Standing alone
Am I dreaming?
A trick of the light?
Nothing’s changed, you look the same
Then you slip away
The girl on the train looks like you
She’s looking back so I smile too
Though I hurt you—now I’m sated
Stop this war—kill the hatred
Slow and slow, slow and slow
Let’s go out tonight and sail out into the light
The girl on the train looks like you,
She’s looking back so I smile too
A thousand faces, this rain is burning
Run for cover, our platform’s turning
Slow and slow, slow and slow
Let’s go out tonight and step out into the light
God it’s such a pain—spending half our lives
Going around in circles, but we keep on running, why?
Because you never know who you might find
But which train are you on?
Which train are you on?
Which train are you on?

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