The Makers were an Australian band formed by ex-Split Enz keyboardist, Eddie Rayner, and musician and singer, Brian Baker.
[3] Rayner then worked in England on Paul McCartney's album, Press to Play (August 1986), before connecting with fellow Split Enz alumni, Noel Crombie, Nigel Griggs and Phil Judd in the Wanx (which were renamed Schnell Fenster) in 1987.
[4] Upon return to Australia Rayner collaborated with Baker to co-write the musical score for a feature film, Rikky and Pete (1988), directed by Nadia Tass.
[1][8] The Makers provided four singles, "Big Picture" (April 1990), "New Kind of Blue" (August 1990)and "Daylight" (October 1990) and "Simple Things" (March 1991).
[7] In the following year the group were joined by Michael Barker on drums and toured Australia in support of the United States band, the B-52's.