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James Henry
I started playing guitar and writing songs at 16. My
early musical influences were The Jam, The Who and The Kinks - Yes I was a
serious Mod! One of my first bands featured Inge's older brother,
Ewan, on bass guitar!
After spending a year in Sweden writing and recording, I returned to
Shetland and formed "The Strange Conspiracy." Inge and I
met at this time. The sound of the "Conspiracy" was the
beginning of what would eventually become Drop the Box. I was
heavily influenced by the folk/pop/punk bands around in the late 80s and
early 90s such as The Wonder Stuff, Levellers, Hothouse Flowers and most
of all The Waterboys.
In 1992 I met Alan Robertson, drummer with Strange Conspiracy, in Aberdeen
a year after the band had broken up. We were both keen to form
another band and as students had time on our hands! Alan introduced
me to Michael Ferrie and along with Leo McCann we jammed as an acoustic
folk/trad band called 
"The Native Sons" for a year. Fraser
Mouat and Inge joined in 1993 and Drop the Box was born.
We have had many line-up changes over the years. I have enjoyed
playing with some wonderful musicians and personalities during that
time.
Having moved back from Aberdeen to Shetland in 1999, I now live in
Orkney.
Recently I've been listening to the Violent Femmes, Zutons, Cake, Kasabian
and The Killers - Liz Carroll and Lunasa are my favourite Trad. sounds at
the moment.
Inge
Thomson
James Henry
Jonathan Ritch
Russell "Sagar" Gair
Mark Laurenson