The start of THE BIGGER THE GOD story stretches back some eight years to what we are now entitled to call the "early 90s". Having been tipped locally as Oxford's Next Big Thing for their first three years the national music press finally succumbed to their charms in 1995. At that point they had an ever-increasing fanatical following with shining teenagers fainting at their gigs at The Jericho Tavern and two EPs released on their own Indigo label: "Gluttony and Self Abuse" and "Lily".

In 1995 they released the double A-side slab of wunder-pop "Miss Pritchard"/"Shagged", only to be forced to withdraw it due to the fact that Indigo (their label) shared its name with a jazz re-issue label. The initial 7" only pressing had already sold out in Oxford, but the band decided to re-release it to the nation on the imaginatively retitled OUTdigo label.

1996 was the year of the blossoming of THE BIGGER THE GOD. They released a flurry of singles, the chutzpah of "Mum Steals Boyfriend", which saw them on The Big Breakfast, where a smitten Zoe Ball begged them for one of their "Goddess" T-shirts; and the manic "Pentonville", whose budget video (£90) was broadcast sandwiched between Tina Turner and Bryan Adams on Top Of The Pops 2.

The rest of that summer was spent recording their debut album "Variety" of which Melody Maker raved: "It's not a Variety pack, it's a greatest-hits-to-be. It's all Coco Pops and no Bran. It's a hit!" Rather than resting on their gilded laurels TBTG upped the ante in early 1997 by taking their twin obsessions of English kitchen sink drama and high theatre to their logical conclusions. These were manifested as a controversial love song betwixt brother and sister ("When Martin Met Martine") and a ground-breaking live production at the Oxford Playhouse (The Royal Variety Performance) which combined musical dexterity and the theatrical aplomb of David's stage personae to produce the pinnacle of a month-long UK tour and a pivotal stage in the band's career. There was no looking back...

Taking the Burlesque and Vaudeville as their cue, combining the distinct flavours of French accordion, spaghetti westerns and fairgrounds, and exploring themes like murder, tree rape, dismemberment, and schizophrenia, the band retreated to the studio where they chiselled away at their own musical evolution. After a brief flirtation with the Shifty Disco Singles Club (a double A-side of "If Everyone I Ever Loved Left Me" and "Mr & Mrs Right") and a live Radio 1 broadcast during Sound City, the band finally found their tangent. And now they're going off on it.

The band surfaced for the occasional live show with the addition of a keyboardist and an accordionist but most of 1998 and 1999 was taken up with the production of "...and the ugly", the defining moment of TBTG and their magnum opus. Blurring further the lines dividing up the Arts, David took up the offer of the lead-male role in TBTG video director, Richard Duriez's first feature film, "The Devil's Feast". The film opened in December of 1999 and surprisingly enough features music from "..and the ugly".

Here are some sites about the film :
For details of the characters as if it were a true story...
For a trailer from the film and more info...