Honey Smugglers rubbed shoulders with the likes of Blur, Suede, Dodgy and Levitation (Ex House of Love guitarist Terry Bickers new band) without sounding like any of them.
An uber tight organ driven music machine that mixed pop, groove and a lot of psychedelia into a bunch of catchy, inventive, eclectic and very English songs, they were un-pigeonholable at a time when everyone was looking for a pigeon to hole.
With one foot firmly in the Pop scene (they knew how to write a good tune) and the other in a more musically expansive world, thanks to their collective musicianship and singer/guitarist Chriss singular lyrics and melodies, the Smugglers were of their time but in many ways ahead of it too, as the arrival of Britpop a few years later would testify.
