BOX DISCIPLES

Wagnerian in density, drenched in the half light of Elgar's heart of darkness, The Box Disciples rose from the disinterested ashes of High Wycombe pop rock outfit Sweatbox Plan to sculpture a series of epic panoramas that captured the fierce melodrama of an existence fired equally by tequila, amphetamine and heartbreak.

Like a spiritual release, an epiphany that opened the doors to a period of stripped-to-the-bone emotion, these songs soundtrack a period of time that saw the band starting out like the last gang in town and finishing in absolute desolation - broken by unbridled despair, anger and a distrust that verged on psychotic.

The songs captured the essence of it all and wrapped it in religious imagery. They were outsider songs, odes to the darkside, sermons on loneliness. But above all they were love songs.

Born in Marlow and killed in Nottingham, The Box Disciples consisted of Martin James (later of funk rock band Crunch Bird and since the 90s as a solo electronic composer known as Mothloop , Dick Meredith, Majid Hamill and Chris Watts. They only lasted for six months - during which time they enthralled all who experienced them.

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