Lucine Bell is a musician from Somerset. Bell started learning the violin at age 5 when her parents noticed her playing pieces of music by ear on the piano in the family home, aged 41/2. she joined the national children's orchestra aged 8 and spent her childhood training as a classical violinist. bell started learning the electric guitar at age 7 and started writing her own songs, forming rock bands with friends at school. bell was accepted onto the commercial music degree course at bath spa university in 2004, where her songwriting was influenced by artists such as nick cave, pj harvey, jimi hendrix and patti smith.
bell left university after a year due to depression and mental health difficulties, she had exeprienced a change of heart and felt the need to take her life in a new direction. during the following years much of her work on ‘come in’ and ‘milk and honey’ was written. She released her first album, ‘Milk and Honey’ in october 2022, recorded with producer Matt Terry at Vada Recording Studios in the Midlands.. 9 tracks where Bell explores spiritual disillusionment, love, sexuality and death.
lucine bell teamed up with drummer phil cook and bass player alex taylor in 2024. the 3 piece band released ‘lucine bell: live at the pmc’ in june 2026, a 4 track ep recorded live at the plymouth music collective, and at the junction, in plymouth at their live show in february 2026. the trio have played live at the cobblestones in bridgwater and the fleece in bristol, and are currently in the studio recording lucine bell's second album.
