1993

BOA started with six members - Ed Herten, Paul Turrell, Steve Rodgers, Alex Caird, Ben Henderson and Jasmine Rodgers - playing predominantly funk-based music.



1994

Ed left to concentrate on his university studies and, pretty soon afterwards, Lee Sullivan joined bringing a stronger and rockier influence to the music.

1995

Jasmine and Alex left art school and Paul left his job at IBM to concentrate on the band. BOA toured the South of England in the summer of '95 and were filmed at one of their gigs at the Glastonbury Festival and featured on the Carlton TV arts programme 'Shift'.

1996

BOA was tentatively approached by Polystar Records and Jasmine met Polystar and Fuji Pacific Publishing in Tokyo. In April, BOA secured a one album/ two options worldwide deal with Polystar and are now finalising the publishing agreement with Fuji (as a formality - Fuji has worked hand in hand with Polystar from the beginning). In late '96 the band recorded 'DEEPLY', 'ELEPHANT' and 'TWILIGHT' with producer Darren Allison (Skunk Anansie, Spiritualised and The Divine Comedy) at Red Bus Studios, London.



1997

BOA finished recording the album in late '97 with Neil Walsh (The Space Monkeys, Mark E Smith) at Monnow Valley in Wales. The entire album was then mixed at PWL Studios in Manchester by Neil Walsh and Jason Barron and mastered by Steve Shin at Whitfield Street Studios, London.



1998

The album 'RACE OF A THOUSAND CAMELS' was released in Japan and Steve and Jasmine flew out to do some radio, TV and magazine promotion. On the hottest day of the summer, a video to 'DUVET' was filmed. Most of the filming took place on the balcony of Paul, Alex and Lee's house in New Malden. Footage of BOA walking around Kingston upon Thames and of a gig at Lampeter University were also featured. The video was produced by Alex Parkinson and Debbie Williams. As Japan is a mixed- media market, 'DUVET' is being used as a theme tune to a science fiction animation called 'LAIN' and enthusiasm for the single and the album has been growing thanks to this promotion. As a result of the 'LAIN' promotion, a remix of 'DUVET' has been made by DJ WASEI and was released on the 'LAIN' compilation album on October 30th. Jasmine has also been invited to play a role in the new Wong Kar Wai movie in Hong Kong in '99 and this is all before any live shows to date in Japan. On Japanese radio, BOA has been aired on Inter FM, Shibuya FM, Zip FM, Bay FM and FM Yokohama. The video has been aired on MTV, Japanese national TV and Space Shower TV and there have been interviews in numerous magazines.



