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Old 07-29-2003, 09:18 AM   #61
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Also, isn't Keelan a girls name?? At least I knew a girl once by that name.....Also I don't think that there is a 'k' in the original Irish alphabet. Cealan sounds more like a boys name to me
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Old 07-29-2003, 02:35 PM   #62
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in irish its spelt caoilinn. in english its keelan. thats why i asked if it was a girl or boy. i know both and they spell it the same way. lovely name tho for either boy or girl.
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Lovely boys name I think.I like Oisin as well.
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So back onto topic...


anyone heading to the instore gig in hmv grafton street on friday? ive never been to an instore there only tower as i never hear of the hmv ones till after... where do they usually put the stage up?
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i like irish names too. Caoilinn is nice, i can imagine the fun they'll have in airports, making reservations etc. in the future. we had enough trouble with Niamh and Sile when we were in the USA. they didnt even try pronouncing my mams second name (Ni Mhordha)
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Here's an interview Shane Mc Dermott did with Paul Noonan that was posted on the BellX1 site,its really interesting and has a few references to Damien <IMG border=0 src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">


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This is an interview I did with Paul after the HMV gig on friday. It's going up on Cluas in the next couple of days but here it is for you lot anyway. Enjoy.


Shane Mc Dermott: The album’s name is taken from an Austin Clarke poem, The Planter’s Daughter. Why did you choose it?


Paul Noonan: To me the album is a celebration of beauty, and I’ve always loved how beauty is described in that poem… “And they say that her beauty was music in mouth”. Hmm…we haven’t actually contacted the estate of Austin Clarke about the use of the line, maybe we should. I would hope that he’d like it.


How would you define the sound of the album?


This record, to me, is one of love songs in drag. They’re songs of love and loss presented in a celebratory, joyous way. It sounds a bit contradictory but I think we knew when we were making it that it’s a bit all over the shop. Some time in the future I’d love to make a very definite record with a definite sound, like a hip-hop record does, or a folk record. But I think we’d need to go off separately and do side projects for that sort of purity to appear.


How do you think it’s different from your first album, Neither Am I, and how do you think the band has matured since then?


I think we’re a lot less self conscious about things and we’re just being more soulful and honest about it. We lived for three weeks as a band in a house in Wexford and wrote this album then. For me, that was the most enjoyable part of the whole process, because we were communicating to each other without actually having to say anything. We fell upon some sort of chemistry. We didn’t have a lot of self-confidence when we were making Neither Am I.


One review said that had Music in Mouth been a debut it would have been one of this year’s best. Do you wish it was your debut?


No, not at all. You go through a process when you make a record, like a sort of purging. You make it and put yourself into it and it leaves its mark. In England it is our debut, but I hope that Neither Am I will come out there at some stage. We’re still very proud of it.
There have been a lot of comparisons to bands like Coldplay and even Radiohead. What do you think of this?


I think it’s lazy. There’s a quote from one review that says we’re Radiohead as Radiohead should sound now, and that’s just wank. I mean, who’s to say what Radiohead should or should not sound like?


It’s ironic that critics are saying things like Bell X1 have finally found their sound, when three of the songs on the album are years old. Why do Eve, the Apple of my Eye, fan-favourite Alphabet Soup and current single Tongue appear now and not on Neither Am I?


Well, we’d never recorded Alphabet Soup, and I don’t think we had done the other two justice in previous versions.

What about some of the newer material that fans thought would be on Music in Mouth, such as Real Palm Trees, 10 Paces and Rockridge? Will they make it onto a future record?


Yeah, maybe. I don’t know. The chorus of Rockridge has always bothered me. I think I’ve learned to be more honest when something is weak. If parts of it are beautiful or great and do something for you but there’s just something…weak, then it’s no longer good enough.


And do you know what the next single will be?


Yeah, it’ll probably be Snakes and Snakes. I don’t really know what works or what doesn’t as a single, I don’t know what its purpose is. Those classic three minute pop singles – I don’t really write those sorts of songs; I can’t think in that way. Trying to break the mould of what will get played on radio is very difficult. I think there should be an agreement between artists that nobody should try to play ball and please the powers that be or the advertisers or whatever, and instead try to make songs that are just a bit more interesting.


So does that mean you were annoyed with having to edit Tongue for radio play?


No, because that’s not a song that I’m particularly precious about, to be honest. I think I’d be a lot more precious about other songs. I much prefer the live version and the album version, but I didn’t mind so much as long as the edit didn’t castrate the song, which I don’t think it did.


What are your plans after the tour? Is a third album already on the horizon?


Well there’s a lot of songs, but we’re going to be touring for a year. I don’t want to make another record yet, I don’t think we’re ready to do that. We’re just hungry to get out and play, and sort of soak up the places that it brings us to. It’s really exciting having the record out in places that we’ve never really been before. It’s coming out in France, Belgium, Holland and Denmark, so we’re going to be over there.


Are you conscious of trying to avoid ‘The Frames syndrome’, where they seem to have reached a certain level and stayed there, more or less, for the past 10 years?


I don’t think that they have. It’s really hard being self-sufficient, you know, making a record, going touring, and putting the record out in the States yourself – it costs a sh*t load of money. I find the whole Frames story very inspiring. It’s truly a case of their fans…they’re like crusaders in a way, you know? They’re true patrons, they’ve funded the Frames’ explorations and helped bring their music elsewhere, and that’s just brilliant. I think Ireland is a place where people are acutely aware of that, and know how much of a part they play in the music. And Damien (Rice, former band-mate), who’s done very well for himself, has experienced the same kind of thing.


Speaking of Damien, what do you think of his album, O?


I really like it. It was weird in a way, very emotional listening to it. He went through a lot and he felt like sh*t when he left the band, and left the country for a while. To come back and do what he’s done is fantastic.


There are a few songs from your days together that you’ve both now done different versions of. Have there ever been any problems, legal or otherwise, concerning those songs and the rights to them?


No, it’s a bit weird with all the different versions out there, listening to all the debates – which version people prefer and why, who wrote this, who has the rights to that. But there have never been any problems. We’ve always tried to keep it human. We’ve all been friends since we were thirteen, so while there were times when we never thought we’d go through the things that we did, like Damien leaving the band, we’ve kept it friendly and I would hope that we’ve never hardened towards each other. It is like any relationship break-up, and hurt and anger can manifest themselves in lashing out, and yeah I’m sure we’ve gone through a bit of that. We’re in a position now though where everything is fine…but I’ll be glad when the day comes when he isn’t brought up in an interview. (Paul laughs suggestively)


Right. Moving along then…in Neither Am I there were, arguably, a lot of lyrics which are possessed of a certain sexual innuendo (example – from the track Slowset, “What do you say/ when she’s in your arms and you’re going around in those circles/ yeah what do you say/ when both of you know you’ve risen to the occasion”) while in Music in Mouth half of the songs have biblical references. Have Bell X1 found religion?


No, I don’t think we’ve found religion. But I don’t think we’ve lost it either. My next-door neighbour was a Methodist minister, and when I was really young he bought me a big Bible Stories for Children book, and I’ve always loved them. I’ve always loved the whole idea of the Garden of Eden and that beautifully simplistic world view it had. And the fact that people actually take it literally I find hilarious.


Have you ever felt the album was going somewhere you didn’t want because of pressure from the record label?


Not at all. We recorded and mixed a lot of it in their studios. All the suits were upstairs but they never actually showed their faces. They wanted to reinvent Island Records as the label within the Universal group that would let bands make the record they wanted. That’s great because at the time of Neither Am I, I don’t think we had the strength of character to do that. My flatmate Scott (Burnett) has done all the artwork for Music in Mouth and its singles, and they were great about that. There was never this idea of forcing some London design agency onto us.


And Scott Burnett was responsible for the major overhaul of your website recently. What sort of feeling are you trying to convey with the new look?


Somewhere that’s homely and inviting, where you can take off your shoes and sit back and relax with a really nice cup of tea. I think the other website was very cold. I want to bring more interactive elements to it as well, like the Kazoosical Bull competition (winner decided at the end of the Irish tour). I’d love to put in a games room or something, where people can go and play pong against each other.


With two albums under your belts and the band’s fan base growing rapidly across Europe, do you think the success and fame has gone to anyone’s head or are you all still fairly grounded?


One of the things that worry us sometimes is that we’re not in the classic rock ’n roll mode as people; we don’t seem to conform to whatever that is. That’s worrying because in this fickle world it seems the more outrageous you are the more records you sell. When we tour in England we live in a proper working farmhouse just outside Oxford, and people find that really strange. They say things like, “Why aren’t you in London throwing TVs out hotel windows?” We may give a TV a gentle nudge some day.


You have a degree from Trinity College. Do you have any back-up plans in the event that everything goes pear-shaped?


I have a degree in computer engineering and I still can’t keep the f**king website ticking over, so no, I don’t think there’s a future for me in that!


Finally, what’s your favourite biscuit? (You’d be amazed at what gets discussed on Bell X1’s website message board)


Hmm…I think I’d have to say chocolate hobnobs.



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Cheers for that, too much to read now though. Theres no time!!!!!


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Tis a bit long,should have highlighted the Damo parts,ah well <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">
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chocolate hobknobs! class<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">
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Well its the chocolate digestives for me <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">
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Old 08-05-2003, 09:33 PM   #72
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One question id really like to ask the bellies is if they really do "like airline food" <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">
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The only airline food i've ever liked is 'British Airways' shrimp cocktail!! And the dessert was lovely, some pastry thing. Mind you i'd drank half a bottle of blue label smirnoff and i was starving, so im sure the seat in front of me would have tasted nice at that point. Any other flight i've ever been on the food had been undescribable! Nasty nasty stuff!!!!!


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just to say that the bellies rocked last night in the village.... gig of the summer


and "tongue" is the best song ive ever heard done live... totally amazing<img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley1.gif">
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Went to see the bellies on Monday in Dolans and it was the best gig I've ever been to(including Damiens!),it was fantastic!They played my fave songs and were so nice afterwards.Me and Aisling had a great time <img border="0" src= "smileys/smiley4.gif">Tongue was fantastic live along with Man on Mir and White Water song.BellX1 woohoo!!!!
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and in cork on sunday, one of the best gigs i've ever been to as well!
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Emmett I thought u were seeing them tonite?
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Oooh I'm a gold member,yeah!
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what did you guys think of the veils? i wasnt that impressed... bit too heavy for my liking
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oh yeah...aisling gets a virus and doesnt become a groupie???? if anybody's a groupie i am, tell em fifi!!!!!! i'll get rid of my virus and i'll be back......just you waitand see..... im the biggest groupie damien ver had. love the new look em.
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i aint a groupie either ais and im here everyday....[img]smileys/smiley19.gif[/img]
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I've seen Aisling in action and she is the ultimate groupie!She should have an extra star comin her way i think[img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img]
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Thats it jewjew let it all out![img]smileys/smiley2.gif[/img] O by the way can my sister get her westlife cd back off you?
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Haha!!!! Burrrrrrrn!

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