Kingmaker is tagged as: indie, alternative, rock, british, hull Kingmaker was a British indie rock group, founded in Kingston upon Hull in 1990. Teenage schoolmates Loz Hardy and Myles Howell formed the group during their year off after school. They placed an advertisement for a drummer, and eventually recruited the significantly older John Andrew. Andrew was an ex-travelling puppeteer. The band began playing and touring, before making their recording debut with The Celebrated Working Man EP. After this they signed up to Chrysalis Records and released a second EP, entitled Idiots at the Wheel in January 1992. They were also immediately courted by the music press, and they invented a niche category for the band, which they dubbed “New Cool Rock”. With a fan following building up, and lyrical austerity in their melodic music, they were tipped by some as the “next big thing”. Their debut album, Eat Yourself Whole was well received, and spent three weeks in the UK Album Chart, reaching a high of number twenty-nine in October 1991. In addition, the single release of the album’s title track, “Eat Yourself Whole”, reached the U.K. Top Twenty. They then landed an American record deal with Chrysalis. Kingmaker’s second album, Sleepwalking was released in 1993, to general acclaim. Hardy’s s... Read More About Kingmaker Biography...  Send Kingmaker ringtones to your cell
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