Poésie Noire won the Belgian rock contest Breekend in 1985. In the next year the group played as support to Dead Can Dance and the Sisters of Mercy and also a lot of gigs on their own. From that point the saga continued...

Originally the Poésie Noire had seven members, but soon there were only three, Johan Casters, Marianne Valvekens and Herman Gillis.

Unfortunately Poésie Noire ceased to exist in 1992. Antler-Subway waffled on the release of the album "Delirious" and released Poésie Noire from their contract. The band then signed on to EMI-Belgium (a much larger label) and changed their named to TBX. EMI-Belgium released "Delirious" under that name, but it didn't do too well (their music isn't meant for mass consumption). It was deleted from the EMI-Belgium catalog shortly afterwards.

Discography

1984: Gioconda Smile
1985: Hum and Haw
1986: Tales of Doom
1988: Tetra
1988: En Grand Colere
1989: Pity for the self
1989: Love is colder than death
1990: Marianne
2007: Sense of Purpose

*Compilations:
1987: Existential Despair, Methaphysical Distress, Ontological Ungludation & Cosmic meltdown
1990: Complicated compilated 84-89
1991: Tabula Rasa the 91 remixes
2007: Le pire de...

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