Scarlet's Well were a British pop band formed in 1998 by Bid of The Monochrome Set, after the latter band amicably split for the second time.
They originally started as a studio project, the first four albums featuring a total of ten lead vocalists, including Bid, Zarif and Alice Healey, the latter being the only member other than Bid who has appeared on all albums.
A live band was formed at the beginning of 2004, with the help of Dickon Edwards, who appeared as lead guitarist at the first gig. Since then, they have been through various line-up changes with the last listed below.
Using a wide range of instruments on the albums, the music has been variously described as "gypsy folk to English psychedelic rock", "hybrid English pop and Baroque music", "a rich, lush and densely layered confection", and "sprightly guitar pop".
Conceptually "an ongoing and open-ended musical", set partly in a fictitious village in South West England called Mousseron