King of the Slums started up in around 1985 in the 'Hulme', area of Manchester, England UK.

They never considered themselves a 'Manchester' band, just a band with an arty background, a little self-indulgent with story-type songs. A distorted electric violin was used all the time in early recordings, along with guitar, bass and drums. They continued developing this sound throughout their initial singles and albums. In 1991, following their 3rd studio album, they fell out with record companies, management and each other and disbanded. Their instruments damaged, their biro’s broken. They were on the verge of a tour in the USA, and were considered a vital LIVE act.

In 2009 the band embarked on a new album, but everyone fell out again and only developed 5 or 6 new songs. The resulting album, “The Orphaned Files”, was sold out many times and is now a collector’s item but the band did not pursue things further.

In 2016 the band got back together and released a full brand new album ‘Manco Diablo’ in 2017 which received widespread critical acclaim. The band are currently happy together and view their 6th studio Album ‘Artdog Gods’ released in June 2018 as their finest piece of work to date. Notably the new album featured the reintroduction of violin and viola.

The band rarely do interviews�.

“If it’s as much about the people who makes the music as the actual music itself, then it’s just become silly entertainment, and therefore the music becomes silly too. “

“I have always found talking about the music, a silly after event, which has nothing to do with the music. Everyone in the band does it for the music. The music is too important to us to undermine it with post rationalism. It is our art. We cannot change that art with more words. We paint our musical pictures, anything else after that is not really a relevant issue. We are all too busy to indulge in after the event conversations. “ Charley Keigher April 2018

“All the words and all the music we have ever written, recorded and performed Live, were written when we were all 14 years old. The rest is merely history”. ( KOTS/April 2018. )

“The Art of the Future will be the overthrow of situations or nothing” Debord