Studio: Producer/Engineer/Mixer
Originally from New Zealand, Alex has been based in Ireland since 2012. He is the head engineer at Grouse Lodge Residential Recording Studios, and his career includes working as a touring musician, producer, recording & mix engineer, and obsessive problem-solver! When not at Grouse Lodge, he works out of a variety of studios around Ireland and overseas.
Alex has worked on award-winning and Number 1 albums across a wide array of genres. He has worked with producers such as George Clinton, Garret "Jacknife" Lee, and Starsmith, and with artists such as Parliament Funkadelic, Sam Fender, James Vincent McMorrow, Lankum, and Catfish & The Bottlemen. Alex produced, recorded and mixed the critically acclaimed debut album “Hemet” by Niamh Regan, which was nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2020. He also recorded, mixed and co-produced Rachael Lavelle’s album “Big Dreams”, which was nominated for the RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2023. Full client list can be found on the right.
In short – Alex lives, breathes, and eats music of every kind. His diverse work across a range of genres reflects his broad musical knowledge, which enables him to bring an objective perspective to all his projects.
His aim is to find and bring out the essence of any music that he is working on - at the heart of every song is human expression. Alex’s philosophy is artist-centric – he wants to hear an artist’s music from their perspective, in order to get inside their vision and to realize it fully. The ultimate aim is to find what will serve the song in order for it to reach its full potential.
Musician:
Far from being purely a technician, Alex is a musician with diverse skills and tastes. While his primary instrument is the trombone, he is equally comfortable on keys/synths, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and programming. He has toured with high-calibre bands throughout Europe, the USA, Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Alex grew up studying jazz on the trombone, winning several awards, including being a Finalist for Best Folk Album at the NZ Music Awards. He played drums in rock bands in his teens, before finding his way into folk and Irish traditional music. Since relocating to Ireland, Alex has dug out a niche in the local music community, performing regularly with bands such as Irish neo-trad group Aldoc, indie-folk band The Young Folk, and contemporary Irish ensemble The Irish Memory Orchestra. He is regularly in demand as a session musician in the Irish music industry.
In The Studio:
George Clinton (Parliament Funkadelic)
Sam Fender
Catfish & The Bottlemen
Sinéad O’Connor
Xhibit
Niamh Regan
Lankum
James Vincent McMorrow
Sorcha Richardson
Ellie Goulding
Gavin James
Moncrieff
Rachael Lavelle
Amble
The Saw Doctors
Garret “Jacknife” Lee
Ham Sandwich
Martin Hayes & The Common Ground Ensemble
Dónal Lunny
Cormac McCarthy & Aoife Ní Bhriain
Warner Music
Mark Prendergrast (Kodaline)
Molly O’Mahony
Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin
Pa Sheehy
Lars Winnerbäck
Mark Guiliana
Robert “Sput” Searight
Ash Soan
Mike Johnston
Keith Carlock
Patrick Stefan
Rob De Boer
Cooks But We’re Chefs
Chris Wong
Still Blue
Saltaire
Amy Ellen
Notify
Gary O’Neill
Sky Atlas
Laoise Fitzgerald
Laura Ryder
The Hot Sprockets
Midnight Wayne
Good Strangers
Enda Gallery
Rodney Owl
Geoffrey Harold
The Neon Cars
The Whileaways
Inni-K
Ted Hutt
Tom McFall
Megan O’Neill
Papa Romeo
David San Clair
Mongoose
Interskalactic
Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf
Moxie
Kíla
Aldoc
Rodney Owl
Baile An Salsa
Vladimir Jablokov
Jack L
Zoe Conway & John McIntyre
Paul Noonan (Bell X1)
Solas
Dave Hingerty
The Eskies
New Secret Weapon
Ajo Arkestra
Jem Mitchell
Landless
The Nucleus
Caveboy
Sarah Kervin
The Young Folk
Anderson
Stomptown Brass
Accidents In The Workplace
Corner Boy
Fox Jaw
Túcan
Adam Marcello
Meilana Gillard
Siobhra Quinlan
+ more
On Stage:
Lankum
Lisa Hannigan
James Vincent McMorrow
Michael Bublé
Niamh Regan
Conor O'Brien (Villagers)
Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill
The Young Folk
Interskalactic
Aldoc
Irish Memory Orchestra
Mike McGoldrick Big Band
The Eskies
Anderson
Jerry Fish
Superbelle
Zoe Conway & John McIntyre
Glen Hansard
Booka Brass
Wallis Bird
Richie Egan (Jape)
Bronagh Gallagher