Keep up to date with Rex and his GLOCKENKLANG low down tones at MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/rexpect
And since 2011 Rex has been providing the low end for that fab jazz group The Neil Cowley Trio:
http://www.neilcowleytrio.com/
And watch out for Rex with Mama’s Gun...
http://www.mamasgun.co.uk/
Australian bassist Rex Horan has been living and working in London since 1997. His most recent band project Mama’s Gun signed to Lockout Music in 2007. They are touring in support of Craig David and De La Soul in mid 2008. Their debut single “Pots Of Gold” has been receiving airplay courtesy of Chris Evans and Janet Long on BBC Radio 2. The Mama’s Gun album “Routes to Riches” is due for release in September 2008.
Other recent performing and recording credits have included: A Girl Called Eddy (Epitaph) and White Buffalo (Stamina Wax Records). He has played, recorded and toured with Richard Bailey (Jeff Beck, Incognito) “Fast” Eddy Clarke (Motorhead), Winston Delandro (Bob Marley, Sly And The Family Stone), Scotty Gorham (Thin Lizzy) and Mungo Jerry. He played on Verena Poetzl’s single “Addiction” in 2004 (Universal), which reached number one and went gold in Austria. His work in London’s R’ai bands Yusef and the Halal Joint, Abdelkader Saadoun and Cheb Nacim has seen Rex tour the European festival circuit.
He is a founding member of the Experiments in Spontaneous Performance (ESP) experimental cross-disciplinary improvisation company. His forays into the world of avant-garde and improvised musics included the staging of the West Australian premiere of John Zorn’s Cobra in 1996. He has played with and conducted the London Improviser’s Orchestra, receiving a five star review in The Independent in January 2006.
His expertise as a music educator has seen him working regularly for The Prince’s Trust Soundlive and The Irene Taylor Trust Music in Prisons. He has lectured in music and improvisation at The University of Western Australia, The University of Coventry, Warwick University, The University of Wolverhampton and the Richmond Upon Thames College.
Writing about Rex and his various projects and bands can be found in The Who’s Who of Australian Rock Music (Fourth Edition onwards), Liverpool Of The Southern Seas (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2003), and The Improvisation Game by Chris Johnston (Nick Hern Books, 2006).
He was twice named Bassist of the Year in the Western Australian Music Industry Awards (1996, 1997).
More about Rex can be seen and heard at these websites:
www.mamasgun.co.uk
www.myspace.co.uk/mamasgun
http://www.neilcowleytrio.com/
http://www.myspace.com/rexpect
www.myspace.com/barefootuk
www.myspace.com/agirlcallededdy
www.myspace.com/theheartstrings
Rex Horan with Mama’s Gun on tour with Craig David Summer 2008
Rex Horan with Mama’s Gun's with their debut Single 'Pots of Gold’ released June 2008
Rex Horan with Mama’s Gun's live in Blackpool 2008
Rex Horan with Mama’s Gun Performing Live and Unplugged for MusFlash TV SOUL
Jaximum Rexpect - are Rex Horan and Jack Pollitt - Socks