Kingston grew up in a family of inventors and industrial machinists. His father, a theater lighting designer, built most of his own equipment, while his grandfather built his own diamond saws and polishing machines to work precious stones. The family ethos being - Build it yourself and you'll get exactly what you need.

When Kingston added digital drums to his kit he fabricated twelve pads out of oak, covered in gum rubber. Arranging them into a tight piano octave configuration, triggering drum samples and other sounds by setting up velocity sensitive thresholds. This way a soft hit will activate one sample and a greater impact will create a completely different set of tones.

The digital drums were originally intended as an add on to Kingston's acoustic kit but he found they sounded so good, were easy to set up and play while standing, that he packed his acoustic drums away and has been playing digital ones ever since.

Kingston was lead vocalist and percussionist for Alien Gin, as well as graphic designer and arranger/producer of most of their recordings.

Recording every Alien Gin practice session, Kingston would then edit and arrange the recordings into songs, adding his vocals, harmonica, keyboards and other sounds and effects. With "Evil as a Train" the inspiration came from a short guitar riff that was being cut from another song. Once Kingston heard it he knew he had something and built the song up from there.