[1] Temple began her music career with Eg White, founding member of 80s boyband Brother Beyond, at the age of twenty.
Their collaboration, Eg and Alice, released only one album, 24 Years of Hunger (1991), but this was described by Allmusic as "one of the finest, most refined and fully realized recordings of the era, employing a much more sophisticated and romantic style than anything else out of England at the time".
[2] Allmusic also notes the accolades that 24 Years of Hunger received from other music critics: While writing and collaborating with White, Temple caught the attention of James Lavelle of the electronic group UNKLE.
After 24 Years of Hunger, Eg White concentrated mainly on songwriting and production, in which he was highly successful, but he also released two solo albums.
His 2009 album, Adventure Man, included the song Pull Me Through,[8] described in the pre-release sleeve notes as "a beautiful, harrowing ballad of survival written and sung nearly completely by Alice Temple... which was a way of 'closing the circle'".