In Other News

July 4th 2003

UK support shows with The Bandits

Monday June 9th Birmingham - Sanctuary, Digbeth High St, ph 0121 246 1010

Tuesday June 10th London - Cargo, Shoreditch, EC2
tickets £8 from www.gigsandtours.com

May 19th 2003

The first single from our new record Music in Mouth is out now in the UK and Ireland and is called Whitewater Song. It's also available to download as an mp3 through the music lamp on this site.

Our friends Turn release their new record Forward on May 29th with a gig in Vicar St in Dublin at which we'll be playing too. Tickets are on sale from Road Records in Dublin and usual outlets for 15 europes and there is another Very Special Guest...

April 26th 2003

Yet more messin'... We are in fact playing in Dublin Castle on May 5th with Mundy and The Stereophonics. This is because no one was buying tickets and they begged us to play, apologising for all the messin', promising us riches beyond our wildest dreams.

No, not really. But we are playing. As of yesterday, there were some tickets still available.

Whitewater Song is out in Ireland now, and in the UK on Monday. Let us know if you've problems finding it (goodlucknow@eircom.net)

April 11th, 2003

More messin'... Whitewater Song, the first single from the new record Music in Mouth, is out in Ireland on friday April 25th, and in the UK on monday April 28th. Defo. The release also features the song In Every Sunflower.

Paul and Dave play at the Fair Play Dublin gig in Vicar St in Dublin on tuesday April 15th. The gig is to raise funds and awareness of Oxfam Ireland's Make Trade Fair campaign (www.oxfam.ie). Also performing are Mundy, Nina Hynes, Leya and special guests. The show is sold out we think.

Bell X1 support The Burn on their forthcoming Uk tour:

Wednesday 16th Leeds, Rocket
Thursday 17th Wolves, Little Civic
Friday 18th Tunbridge Wills, The Forum
Saturday 19th Cardiff, Barfly
Sunday 20th Leicester, Princess Charlotte
Tuesday 22nd Cambridge, Boatrace
Wednesday 23rd Stoke, Sugarmill
Friday 25th Bristol, Louisiana
Sunday 27th Southampton, Joiners
Monday 28th Oxford, Zodiac downstairs
Tuesday 29th London, 100 Club
Wednesday 30th Preston, Uni

Contrary to initial reports, and to ongoing advertising, we are not playing in Dublin Castle on May 5th with Mundy and the Stereophonics. We were asked to play, only to have the offer withdrawn because The Stereophonics management wanted to add another band they are managing to the bill. If people have bought tickets and now wish they hadn't, you should be entitled to a refund. Please contact us if you find this not to be the case (goodlucknow@eircom.net)

good luck now

March 17th 2003

Whitewater Song, the first release from the new record Music in Mouth, is out in Ireland and the UK on April 21st.

March 4th 2003

We're taking the horse to France, where they adore Le Piat d'Or. We're supporting Tom McRae on his French tour in the following places

March
Wednesday 26th Paris, Elysee Montmartre
Thursday 27th Strasbourg, La Laiterie
Friday 28th Dijon, La Vapeur
Saturday 29th Clermond, La Coop De Mai
Monday 31st Toulouse, Salle Ramonville

April
Tuesday 1st Bordeaux, Theatre Barbey
Wednesday 2nd Nantes, Olympic

Paul and Dave play at an acoustic evening in The Everyman in Cork on Thursday March 20th. Kells-ish Indie Rockers "Turn" are also playing. Not sure what time doors are open, but it's 8 euros in.

February 22nd 2003

Dave and Paul are playing at an acoustic evening called Songs from the Parlour in The Stag's Head, Dame Lane, Dublin on Wednesday Feb 26th.

The latest on releases is that there is a single out on April 14th. It is called Whitewater Song. We're looking forward to getting stuff out and playing some ould gigs...

Hello.

Our message board has been down for almost a week now, we know, and we haven't been able to post any note of explaination on this page until now either. We apologise. The folks who are hosting the site fucked up, and don't seem to really give a shit. It will be back up as soon as possible.

We are deciding what we're going to release from our record.

I know this keeps changing, but as of now we're releasing an EP in March with the album to follow...

Thank you for your patience. The new hairdos, outfits, and in some cases, teeth, will be revealed soon too.

The record is called Music in Mouth

Hello. The above shows will be quietish affairs with occasional ri-ra agus rualia bualia. We are looking forward to playing the songs just once of an evening, without the opportunity to "just change this little bit here..." Hooray!!

Paul and Dave support Tom Mcrae in the following places:

Whelan's, Dublin tuesday december 3rd

Auntie Annie's, Belfast wednesday december 4th

King Tut's, Glasgow thursday december 5th

The Borderline, London sunday december 8th

New Morning, Paris monday december 9th

Rotonde, Brussels tuesday december 10th

thursday may 16th 2002

back in dublin for another week before starting mixing in london next tuesday... bit of a bizarre existance, where we are in london is posh but a bit lifeless chiswick, where when it's sunny we have lunch in the park of st peter's square with all the nannys and the au pairs. In dublin i've been listening to the sorry pissed squabbles of the drunks on my doorstep.

will be finished the record in the middle of next month, and there are two new songs on the music page, "daybreak" and "snakes and snakes"

should be playing at witnness this year, will let you know when we do

be good.

monday april 15th 2002

there are two more songs uploaded onto the site, "real palm trees" and "next to you"

thursday march 21st 2002

we've put up a new song through the music lamp called "i'll see your heart, and i'll raise you mine"

february 1st 2002

our friend and former colleague mr. damien rice released his first record today...i must say i've come over all teary eyed, and the past has come flooding in so fucking vividly upon snatching the few glimpses i did from an illegal copy (don't tell him!!)...sounds great, feels great (packaging furry),... in all it it smacks so strongly of him, oozed from his very pores...he did it, the little stubborn bastard on his road less travelled by,... he did it.

p

january 21st 2002

kinda sitting here in dublin, drumming our fingers, itching to start recording... recorded some more songs here last friday, 5 or so in a day, live...really to give ourselves and the label more of a bearing on what kind of record we're going to make...in some ways i don't really want to know... met dave, the A&R guy from Island over the weekend ...Artists and Repertoire, what's all that about then??... a good man, by first impression...it could have been strained, the old "let's find some common touchstones and be on the same wave length" factor...but it was cool.

the frames played in london tonight, hope it was all good...

january 17th 2002

jst back from rehearsals , new songs sprouting all the while, ...can't stop the rock. In a bizarre twist of events, we have 3 or 4 songs, well just pieces of music at this stage, that i suppose follow conventionalish song structures, without singing...yet. There was a time when someone would always bring a song more or less completed on the guitar (or in "sketch" form, legally speaking...) to the band and everyone would add their parts. Now stuff very often kinda just happens, and we try to crowbar in and ould song into what is generally a very exciting piece of music to us. I think these are some of the moments we live for, when someone's tip sets off another's, and without ruining it by talking about it or formalising...and we arrive somewhere having run a leg each type of thing

sometimes are good

p.

january 7th 2002 (bring the wise men and their gifts into the crib today...)

hello!! recently landed after being away with the fairies and no computer. ..hope everyone is well and had a warm and fuzzy christmas.

we are going away, hopefully to france, to start recording at the end of the month...love all that that french gear. so yeah, we signed to island records of london just after the last gig in the music centre.... Felt great and excited and a bit dirty about it all, but we think it's hooray... the folk we've met from island are good humans and we're making this record the way we want to...they also have a cool little studio in the basement of the island building in london...they also have pj harvey signed to them...!

so, mentalness... probably will be recording and faffing and eating and arguing and mixing until sometime in april, and probably won't be doing any gigs between now and then, but you never know...

december 11th 2001

excited to have el diablo play with us in the music centre...check out www.catchygogo.com for the suss on them, i think there's a tune to download too... the gig will be followed by the screamadelica christmas party, featuring david kitt, graham hopkins from therapy, and a cast of thousands playing music for dancing, and folk can stay for this without being charged again (i know, but it sometimes happens)..

we have been down wexford way again for the past couple of weeks, writing songs. and staring into roaring fires. and staring into space. and getting gout. we now have 20ish songs to put on the blackboard for the next record, some of which (alphabet soup, boy loves girl, rockridge, real palm trees) you may know as we've been playing them for a while...also stuff we've been playing lately - last time around, ten paces, daybreak... excited by the last few especially, cos they were borne out of jams, and not complete-tune-on-acoustic-guitar based..."u in the stars" can still be downloaded from this site, and this practice of putting stuff up is something we intend to continue.

november 19th 2001

thanks to all who came to the shows over the last while, it was great to get out and play new stuff...the show in the music centre on the 20th december will not be seated, as previously reported...and will be in the spirit of all things christmas...guests to be confirmed...it will be our last gig in a while, going recording...

november 6th 2001

paul was to play records for dancing in the temple bar music centre in dublin this thursday night, november 8th, but due to flakiness and lack of diary on his part, he cannot, as the band are in limerick...he will make an appearance at a later date, if they'll have him, those good folk from screamadelica, dublin's premier nite club...where the gang goes...

the upcoming date in the stables in mullingar was incorrectly posted as saturday november 10th, whereas the gig is happening on friday november 16th, as it now reads above...the december show in dublin's temple bar music centre will be a seated one, tickets will go on sale from early in the month

october 5th 2001

the message board has been down for the last couple of days, sorry about that, doing our best to sort it out (phoning our mate, cos none of us have a clue...)...we were to play in cleeres of kilkenny on friday october 19th but this has been postponed, will put up new date when we have it...

september 30th, 2001

spent a week in a charming gaff in wexford working on new songs recently...excited about playing them on the above dates...also doing some gigs with the frames on their tour in october/november, always a pleasure...will be recording a lot of the new stuff before christmas, hoping to go to a studio in france called black box...some of us went to give blood last week, as part of the the blood donating awareness week, none of us had given before...they only took paul's, but we all got into the good vibes of the event, the warm fuzzy feeling, sweet tea, & guinness...do it if you can, in dublin on d'olier st, above the manchester united shop...

support in whelan's on friday october 26th comes from marc carroll & babelfish...tickets go on sale from late next week (thursday 11th oct) from road records and sound cellar, priced £8...look out for the dog...

august 27th, 2001a

yes, new gig, we play the music centre in dublin on thursday 13th september... with guests, Zeppo, (www.zeppomusic.com) whose recordings we like a lot...tickets will go on sale from this friday, august 31st, from the music centre box office, road records and sound cellar

bit paranoid about playing too often, but we just wanna play, man...loadsa new songs wanting to try,...all singing, all dancing visuals show will also happen, from the good people at sumo visuals...we had many offers of houses in the country, thank you very much, and have chosen one for the end of september ...

binzer will be playing drums in the music centre ...thank you to those who came to whelans the last time, we had a fine time,...and we would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky frames...

august 15th, 2001

download the quicktime movie flyer for whelan's, saturday august 18th, here

new photograhs in the gallery from stephan bach (www.stephanbach.com) at the red box in dublin, april 14th last, and from marianne meyer (closepersonalfriend.com ) at the temple bar music centre, july 6th... thank you to both

august 7th, 2001

support at whelans comes from Íse ... doors are at 8.30 .. tickets are £8 and are available at the sound cellar on nassau street, road records on fade street, and the secret record store on wicklow street

july 16th 2001

doesn't seem to be much info floating about regarding the "happinness" stage at witnness (or the "cafe tent" as some are calling it), but we do know that we are on at 9.00 on the sunday, and that the tent is a 600 capacity one, and that there are no soundchecks...i think the super furry animals could be on elsewhere at the same time, which is unfortunate, in surround sound...but we could play in Dobly too if we wanted...looking forward to witnness, let's hope folk are treated well again, that the sun shines, and that the paper beer cups dont smell so bad when burnt...

there is a new song for download on the site called "rockridge"...we recorded this during our last recording session in april in london...it will only be there for a week from today...any problems downloading, let us know...this message will self destruct in...

if anyone knows of a house we could rent to make music in (remote-ish, ideally by the sea), during the last 2 weeks in august, would they mail us at bellx1@bellx1.com...

july 16th 2001

yes, we play witnness on the as-yet-unannounced "Happinness" stage on sunday , late we think.

and there was much rejoicing

we also play whelans of wexford street on saturday august 18th...tickets will go on sale from road records shortly, and it promises to be an unusual night

curiouser & curiouser...

june 31st 2001

those on the mailing list should have got a mail that mentioned how to get in for less this friday in dublin...if you didn't (apparently some didn't), then mail us (bellx1@bellx1.com) with "concession" in the subject, and you can get in on the night for £6, not £8, by announcing your email address at the door. Because this doesn't involve pre-purchasing a ticket, we would reccommend that you get there earlyish...

phantom fm, probably the best radio station round these parts, is back on air at 91.6 fm

should be playing at witnness, our people & theirs n' all...

june 22nd 2001

Blue Screen will also be supporting on July 6th at the music centre. I saw them play in Whelans at a lunchtime gig a few months ago ... really worth checking out if you haven't already ... (especially if you like trumpets).

june 13th 2001

paul is in buffalo recording an album with gemma hayes for the next 2 weeks ... the studio is on the u.s. / canadian border, in a hut on a mountain in the middle of a forest ... i wonder if he'll grow a beard.

otherwise ... we're not planning to do a tour in ireland again till probably october ... we'll be using the summer to record album #2 and showcase ourselves in other countries.

for those who are wonderong about witnness ... we still don't know if we will be doing it ... should know by next week .. you'll be the first to know.j

matt lunson will be supporting on july 6th at the music centre ... (the same guy that did vicar street with us just before christmas) .. tickets are available from ticketmaster at usual outlets or at the door on the night for £8 (incl. booking fee). ...

may 21st, 2001

Bell X1 support the frames in the taibhearc theatre in galway on wednesday may 23rd

may 20th, 2001

returned a rented car today with a pair of knickers tied to the aerial…had hired the car to travel to wexford & waterford, where we were playing over the weekend …so as we raced through the irish countryside at dawn this morning, looking out the window the dewey pastures formed a somewhat incongruous backround to the lacy black thing all distressed with wind …

played the curracloe hotel in wexford on friday, in the foyer there was one of those gold bordered glass framed signs that tells you in gold letters what's on in each room,… in the lounge there was a darts tournament…, earlier that day in the kelly conference suite there had been a meeting of the local Lion's club, and in the main function room there was us. the posters in the box office area of the function room were for "Be Bop Gold", "Slam" (featuring a woman's long finger nailed hand on a mans sweaty back…I think there was leather), and a hand written one for us…"tell your friends", it said. Thanks to the good sisters of the holy faith & all who crossed the dancefloor and moved their chairs up.

On stage at 12.30 in waterford…thank you all for singing nicely, dom included…brian had his hair tossed, & someone lost their knickers…

may 17th, 2001

looking at the music on a computer screen, following the waveforms…it's hypnotic, quite addictive…it almost makes the music secondary, the sole purpose of the music is to create these waveforms, these squiggles on screen, like relief or terrain.

this is how we've spent much of our recording time lately, we're using something called ProTools, which allows music to be recorded, and subsequently manipulated, on computer hard disk.

I'm afraid of ProTools.

you can record 8 million tracks, edit the shit bits out, make everything in tune, do things like that warbly vocal effect in cher's "do you believe…"

dunno, may be some kind of bullshit noble stand against progress, evolution, but I've had the vista visions…one is very often tempted to do things because one can, not because the song needs it,…digitalness means taking the undulating, rolling hills of sound and turning them into steps…, tiny ones that sure no one will notice sure, but steps. The ease of fixing stuff encourages laziness and bad sloppiness (there is good sloppiness)…picking at & repairing can squeeze the life out of a song, prune away the imperfections that resonate with the human condition and give us the horn…

But I'm being wooed, it's all the baying voices around me, welcoming ms. Tools into the fold, and boy is she putting out…

we've been working with programming artists ambulance on a version of a new song snakes & snakes for an album of collaborations coming out probably in the autumn. the album is in aid of the chernobyl childrens project and has folks like the frames, david kitt, mundy, the walls, glen brady,…

as part of the green energy shenanigans, bell x1 play on the river liffey on friday may 4th at 1.30 pm at the millenium bridge...if one giant green inflatable bottle should accidently burst... we are just back from london, making music, 5 new songs - alphabet soup (more hick than house music), snakes & snakes, real palm trees (of st. kilda pier), rockridge, and u in the stars. made recordings between dublin and london with jamie cullum and roger bechirian. recorded them 'cos we wanted to, don't have any definate release plans, but working on that....also working on putting up some more music on the site, diffficult as we don't actually own any of it, and feel free to bootleg gigs, burn cds, spread the good word...

heineken rollercoaster spreads foot in mouth across the land

started damply in dcu, fiasco with tickets meant that those who bought tickets and weren't students of the college weren't let in…so sincere apologies to anyone concerned…talked to some people about documentary about the Chernobyl children's project they're makin, and would we be in it… galway was packed, we were on first every night but at this one didn't feel like teaser pony ('lesser' stallion who has the job of exciting the mare before she's 'covered' by the 'shabba' stallion),… thanks to flirt fm and the good people of cuba … letterkenny - teaser pony, but brilliant, I always prefer foreplay anyway…and yes we play the nerve centre in derry on wednesday 28th march … 9 HOUR DRIVE TO FUCKING TRALEE, and horans hotel smelt of wee…a very grim st. valentines nite … we broke our vow and ate at the golden arches …hello to top folk from record shop … cork, met up with good friends, some malky fiens and beurres, did the 'pana ' (cruising on patrick st), and thursday night is singles nite in tescos, just off patrick st….this nite, Wilt were the men, reigning supreme over all they surveyed, for they are all seeing and impotent… brilliant… …maynooth following monday, kinda homecoming vibe, thank you (the hopper in the house, at great expense)…there is a limiter across the PA in this place, which basically means it sounds kinda shit, especially when, like on this tour, loud is the new loud… Carlow, fine gig, fine gaff the Dinn Ri…had a little song, "welcome to the dinn ri, at least it doesn't smell of wee"…Athlone, amateur dramatic production of the mikado - three little bands from eire are we…huge stage, huge hall, played football in it beforehand…people in the bar singing karaoke to bob the builder…Binzer guested with Wilt for radio disco, the pulsating, vein-in-temple blowing, open and close gob man…Waterford, ah waterford, my crystal city fair… thanks to vivid and friends for making us feel wanted, thanks and sorry to louise for the party, and hello from the fagins… did a non-rollercoaster gig with wilt in their hometown of kilkenny the following nite, in Cleere's - loudest gig ever, tiny venue, huge PA, car alarm in my head for several minutes after… dara, wilt's fine drummer injured in battle during this gig, so up steps Binzer for the rest of the tour…get well soon …UCD following monday, or Stillorgan RTC, as we called it, trying to wake them up…and you did …Limerick, strange day, sun was shining but the road was cold…kept being handed whiskey on stage, went from there, roomful sang 'burnin' ring of fire' for wired fm, kissed the crew, danced and carried each other home …hi avril!… no smoking, no talking, no breathing on the bus on the way to sligo next day…took tea and sandwiches when we got there, hello ita. very civilised gig , folk sat in rows on the dancefloor for us, and swung from the chandelier for wilt. Relish were kings on this night, Binzer wants to give/have Karl's babies…we all joined them for ACDC's 'whole lotta rosie' …havin the laugh

thanks to those who came out in support of Chernobyl Children's Project benefit gig in whelans...cash will be used to fund record of collaborations between rock/pop artists and dance artists, to be released later this year, again in aid of the charity...

we are pop/rock artists

apolgies to those who dont like guinness (only free guinness available at POD gig), but you could always have tried a guinness and reb bull...

Bell X1 will be doing the heineken rollercoaster tour this year. Also playing will be Wilt and Relish. As far as i understand - tickets will be on sale in the students union for gigs that are on campus, otherwise just pay at the door like a normal gig. I suggest that you contact the students union just to make sure of this.

Joining Bell X1 at the pod on february 10th will be 'I Am Kloot' and 'January'. Apparently there's free guinness going.

Bell X1 will be taking part in a benefit gig in aid of the Chernobyl Childrens Trust on Monday 5th February in Whelans. Also playing are Juliet Turner, Brando, Matt Lunson, and DJ's Glen Brady and Jimmy Behan. There is a bar extension to accomadate all the acts. Tickets are £8 at the door (or £7 with a concession flyer).

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two writers enjoy a pint in mulligans of poolbeg st.

one says, " i'm writin' a novel at the moment"

the other sups his pint and says, "yea, neither am i"