Sounds From The Junkshop #8 - Kingmaker
"Oh let's just pretend we're human beings for a while/Maybe chronic shyness could drive us to a smile..." - Kingmaker, Queen Jane , 1993 Kingmaker...god, the poor buggers. Here's the thing about Kingmaker - they were essentially nailed from the get-go as a poor man's Wonder Stuff by pretty much everybody and it meant that when the tide started to turn against that brand of music with Britpop starting to stir, they were very much the first band in the firing line and really copped it with both barrels. Did they deserve it? Hell no. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. It's easy to forget that in the wake of the Sisters of Mercy, the Cult and (to a lesser extent) New Model Army all graduating to the proper grown-up charts that Yorkshire was a bit of a musically barren place as the ‘80s turned into the '90s. While across the Pennines, Madchester was in full swing, the only bands we really had coming up over here who were getting any press of note ...