Early Recording Career
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 "Waterproof" in 1991. The music press dubbed their music "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 Albums 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 Top Twenty of the UK Singles Chart.
During 1992 they were supported on tour by a pre-Pablo Honey, Radiohead. On 29 August that year they appeared on the bill alongside Babes in Toyland, Beastie Boys, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds etc., at the Pukkelpop festival near Hasselt, Belgium.
They then landed an American recording contract with Chrysalis. Kingmaker's second album, Sleepwalking, was released in 1993. Although the album was well received, frontman Hardy felt that it signalled the end of the band's creative independence and consequently was the death knell for Kingmaker.
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