Alex Neilson

Watch the latest video from Alex Rex (Alex Neilson / Trembling Bells) for Lucy, a song taken from his debut solo album Vermillion which is out now on Tin Angel Records.

Alex Rex (Alex Neilson) is an artist with a singular, uncompromising vision that he expresses in multifaceted and always fascinating ways. Vermillion, his solo debut, is both daring and formidable. An insight into ‘a complex and inquisitive musical mind.’

A new mix from our Lost in Transmission Series featuring Karima Walker, Human Behavior, Dan Blakeslee, Robert Sunday, Alex Rex, HMS Ginafore, Harrow Fair, Dirtwire, Mount Eerie, Allred & Broderick and more.

Taken from Alex Rex’s (Alex Neilson, Trembling Bells) forthcoming album Vermillion, “Song For Dora” is a skewed voodoo blues that combines Captain Beefheart style hoedown with Gregorian chant. Watch the new video which features traditional Tar Barrel Burning.

Shirley Collins’ Lodestar performance at the Barbican is fresh and contemporary and avant-garde at times. The assembled musicians are nothing short of brilliant, the arrangements are in turns atmospheric, joyous, stirring and thrilling.

Pangs finds Alasdair Roberts in a power trio with his long-time musical partners Alex Neilson and Stevie Jones, and along with guests Debbie Armour, Tom Crossley, Rafe Fitzpatrick and Jessica Kerr. Listen to The Downward Road, our Song of the Day.

Our Song of the Day is a live recording of the Trembling Bells performing ‘The Singing Blood’ at Celtic Connections. Don’t miss Stevie Jones, Alex Neilson, Alasdair Roberts with special guest Richard Youngs this Saturday at The Poetry Club in Glasgow.

Trembling Bells announce new mini-album ‘Wide Majestic Aire’ and reveal some exciting plans for 2016 which include Alex playing drums on the forthcoming new Shirley Collins album! Life is never dull with the Trembling Bells!

With songwriting like this it is hard to believe that it has taken Osborne so long to begin committing her own material to tape. We can only hope she doesn’t stop there.

Elle Osborne has announced the release of her new album It’s Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice featuring Alasdair Roberts along with Alex Neilson and Mike Hastings of Trembling Bells. Listen to the opening track – I Don’t Like Sundays.

Trembling Bells’ vivid cacophony rules benignly, combining volume, substance and intoxicating, druggy lyrical beauty in a darkly satisfying, curiously celebratory and often epic aural challenge. Don’t expect an easy ride, and don’t for a moment think of compromise – instead give this literally-stunning music your full attention, and stick it on repeat.

Our Song of the Day comes by way of a new video from the gorgeously quirky Sound of Yell which is led by Stevie Jones. The track Crescent features on the debut album Brocken Spectre.

We have a great session from The Crying Lion, an unaccompanied 4 part harmony singing group from Glasgow featuring members of Trembling Bells and Muldoon’s Picnic. It’s magical!

Stephanie Hladowski’s latest release ‘The High High Nest’ is a real gem of a record that manages to capture a sense of time and space that leaves you in awe.

Trembling Bells & Bonnie “Prince” Billy are to release a new collaborative album ‘The Marble Downs’ + UK Tour

After a ten year absence Elle Osborne has retuned with a new release ‘So Slowly Slowly Got She Up.’ It is by far one of the most beautiful re-interpretations of traditional folksong I have heard in a long time. The album features a top supporting cast including Alasdair Roberts, Cath and Phil Tyler and Alex Neilson of Trembling Bells. It’s our Album of the Year so far: Soul stirring, Magnificent …

Following on from their last release, Carbeth, Trembling Bells return with a well received follow-up, Abandoned Love. Alex Neilson, drummer and creator of the Bells takes the lead on this release which is interesting as it is the drums that Joe boyd first noticed in the interview extract below. That’s not normally a good thing as he points out. But it works…there is no doubt that they give a respectful …