Princelet Street Tracks & Information

Track List: (All songs written by Catherine Howe
	#	Track name	length	MP3 Preview of Track
	1	Princelet Street	3.16
	2	You Never know	3.58
	3	All I Can Say	3.57
	4	Shine Like A Star	3.12
	5	You Are	3.00
	6	Come Back Soon	3.03
	7	Someone's Been There Before	3.31
	8	Say The Word	3.05
	9	Brothers (1850)	3.36
	10	One Percent	3.40
	11	No Matter	3.44
	12	C'est La Vie	3.00
	13	Yorkshire Hills	2.58

Information about the writing of Princelet Street by Catherine Howe

Recorded at GraceNotes, Pinner, Middlesex. Produced by Kevin Healy. Front cover picture is of Princelet Street, Spitalfields, London, taken by Catherine.

Musicians : Jeff Leach, Andrew Vinter and Catherine Howe - keyboards; Kevin Healy - guitars; Phil Cranham - bass; Don Richardson - double bass; Steve Rushton - drums; Martyn David - percussion; Dave Bishop - sax; Jeff Daly - penny whistle; Nicki Woods - cor anglais; John Francis and Andrew Laing - violins, Andrew Byrt - viola, Julia Graham - cello and solo cello.

Princelet Street is in Spitalfields and crosses Brick Lane in London's East End. With Bethnal Green Road to the north, Whitechapel High Street to the south, Princelet Street has been home to generations of immigrants. Many of the buildings date back to the Protestant Huguenot silk manufacturers of the 18 th century who fled persecution in France. The nineteenth century saw an arrival of Irish immigrants followed, in the 1880s and onwards, by Jewish refugees. The area is now home to a large Bangladeshi community. Spitalfields remains a fascinating place. Dickens drew upon it for his novels; Jack London wrote about his attempt to survive it; Jack the Ripper stalked it.

In the 1970s and 80s, when its existence was threatened by modern development, Dennis Severs re-enlivened his house on Folgate Street. Behind 19, Princelet Street, stands one of the oldest English synagogues surviving. More recently Iain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein co-authored Rodinsky's Room, a book about the search for David Rodinsky who, during the 1970s, lived at, and disappeared from, 19, Princelet Street. Monica Ali has written about today's Spitalfields community in her novel Brick Lane, also Tarquin Hall in his Salaam Brick Lane . Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor is set within the streets of Spitalfields and revolves around the building of Christ Church, recently restored.

My great-grandmother Susannah Constantine was born on Princelet Street in 1851, her mother worked as a silk winder, her father as a fancy comb maker. Lots of my family lived in or near the City of London in the early 1800s, and even before I knew this I used to go city walking there as a girl because it felt like coming home. Princelet Street the album is inspired by the street and a sense of family, past and present, and as I enjoyed writing and recording its songs I hope you'll enjoy hearing them.