Alex Watts & the Foreign Tongue are an Australian rock band from Melbourne. The group was formed in 2010 as a solo project for singer/songwriter Alex Watts, who continues to perform with and without the band.

Originally encompassing punk and blues based rock, the Alex Watts & the Foreign Tongue shifted over its several releases to include singer-songwriter pop, rhythm and blues and soul.^[1]

As of 2014, Watts expanded the group from a traditional rock'n'roll four piece to encompass horns, keyboards and backing vocals.^[2]

In 2011, the band released the Desperate Love EP, which was typified by its raw, live sound, and moved stylistically from pop, garage rock, country and acoustic music.^[3]

In November of that year the band appeared at Queenscliff Music Festival alongside The Triffids and Kimbra. ^{[citation needed]}

In 2012 the band released This Haunting, a single co-written with Mick Thomas, of Weddings, Parties, Anything, which received a self-directed video. The song was well received in both Australia and Europe, receiving airplay from the main community radio stations in Australia.^[4] From that point on the band began a regiment of constant touring, helping to cement their reputation as an exciting live act.^[5]

They appeared at The St Kilda Festival, one of the largest events in the Melbourne music calendar, in both 2013 and 2014.^[6]

In 2013, Watts took a break from the band to undertake an acoustic tour of Australia followed by a tour of house concerts in the UK in December 2013-January 2014. These shows led him to record a solo EP, Sing, Strum & Strut, which was released through his own label, Astound Records, on 27 May 2014.^[7]

• Alex Watts - vocals, guitar
• Andy Phillips - guitar
• Michael McHugh - drums
• Brian Juffs - bass
• Jason Jennings - baritone sax