ARTiST: Bell X1
TiTLE: Tour De Flock
LABEL: BellyUp Records
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 71:39 min
SiZE: 101,7 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jun-17-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jun-18-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. My First Born For A Song 05:34
02. Whitewater Song 02:44
03. Eve, The Apple Of My Eye 05:32
04. Trampoline 05:31
05. Rocky Took A Lover 04:31
06. Bad Skin Day 06:13
07. He Said She Said 04:57
08. Tongue 05:44
09. Flame 07:03
10. I'll See Your Heart And I'll Raise You 06:39
Mine
11. Snakes And Snakes 04:32
12. Blue Rinse Baby 03:39
13. Lamposts 09:00
Release Notes:
Bell X1 - The Story:
Bell X1 are Brian Crosby, Dave Geraghty, Paul Noonan
and Dominic Phillips, Esq.
1991 - 2000
Brian, Paul, Dom and Damien Rice form Juniper,
having met in School. They go to College, play some
weddings, 21st's and Bar Mitzvahs... and for a while
have a Sunday night residency in the Kildrought
Lounge and Bar, Celbridge. They meet Dave, who weens
them off the Neil Diamond and Roxette covers. Band
move into house in country, release EP, "Manna", and
two singles in Ireland. Damien leaves band, the
others read about Chuck Yeager and his Right Stuff.
They call the new band Bell X1. Bell X1 support
Elliot Smith and Bon Jovi in the same 1 week period,
leading to severe identity crisis, making small
music with big hair. They make their first album,
Neither am I, in the summer/autumn of 1999 with Nick
Seymour of Crowded House and release it in Ireland a
year later, after much touring and a couple of ould
singles.
2001
Band take some time to indulge musical
differences.Paul records and tours as drummer with
Tipperary siren Gemma Hayes, Brian's away with
Offaly hearthrob Mundy, and Dave and Dom join Richie
Mullen of Lino Richie Carpets, Finglas, in touring
cabaret show. Bell X1 regroup in late summer and
write songs for what would become 'Music in Mouth'
in a house by the sea in Wexford.
2002
Second album recording starts in Ridge Farm studios
in Surrey, with producer Jamie Cullum. After 4 weeks
they move to the Fallout Shelter, London. The studio
has no teapot!! Some moaning. The band take turns to
make dinner. Some of it is shite. The world cup
happens. Mixing finishes in July and everyone goes
away for a while. Come back and mix it all again.
Borrow a friend's house in Kilkenny, record some
more songs, play hurling, are laughed at by locals.
Music in Mouth finally finished in December, a few
days after the birth of Jamie's daughter Ellie, who
was both conceived and born during the making of the
record.At least someone was doing good work.
2003, 2004
The album 'Music in Mouth' is released on July 21st
2003, to tremendous applause, and the band play with
allsorts to try to flog it. Tom McRae, Keane,
Starsailor, Aqualung and Snow Patrol show them the
highways and byways of the UK and continental
Europe. Songs from the record appear in many TV
series, from Teachers to The OC, and at home the
album goes double platinum, with four top 40
singles. In July 2004, the band gather in yet
another house in Wexford to write a new record.
2005
Flock is recorded in Dublin and mixed in London,
with Roger Becherian producing and Phil Hayes knob
twiddling. A shrine to Daniel O' Donnell (Irish
singing deity, ref Cliff Richard without ever having
had a brush with cool) is created in the green room,
Dave creates Pistachio Nut Shell Installation and
moustaches are grown. The band take a break from
recording and sell out a mini tour of the States,
where they record a live session for Nic Harcourt's
essential show on KCRW in L.A.
Flock is released in Ireland on Oct 14th, and goes
straight in at No 1 in the pop charts. The band sell
out a nationwide tour.