History

This timeline documents the development of Melted Dice as a music, poetry and visual art practice.

2026

The "Love" We Survived Project

2025

Leigh Folk Festival (Leigh-on-Sea, June 2025)

Performed original poetry at the festival's poetry open mic "Poetry & Spoken Word by Candlelight"

Coed Fest (Wales, June 2025)

Performed a selection of original songs at the festival's poetry open mic.

Southend Art Club Exhibition (Metal  Culture, May 2025)

Exhibited three acrylic landscape paintings and one mixed media poetry work.

2024

Melted Dice returned to performing, appearing at open mic events, including Peggy's Music Bar in Southend. During this time, Bex also joined the Southend Art Club, developing new painting work for the club's Spring 2025 exhibition. 

2020-2023

Period of independent creative development during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bex experimented with ceramics, textiles, painting, songwriting, and poetry. During this they were also managing several chronic health issues, which led to an interest in herbal medicine, and a deeper engagement with nature as a theme within the work.

2015-2019

Melted Dice performed as a three-piece band at venues across London and Essex, including Zigfrid von Underbelly (Hoxton), The Rocksteady (Dalston), The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Upper Norwood Library, as well as The Railway Hotel (Southend-on-Sea).

2010-2014

Early work by Melted Dice was performed as a three-piece band under the name Beyond the Dawn in Nottingham while Bex was completing doctoral research on belonging and otherness in contemporary queer cinema. 

Prior to 2010

Bex experimented with scriptwriting, poetry, and filmmaking, drawing inspiration from the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s-1980s.