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Tour De Flock
''Tour De Flock'' is the first live album and DVD by Bell X1. It is a 2-disc compilation featuring 16 tracks from their sold-out gig at The Point Theatre, Dublin on 1 December 2006. The album is the group's first since being leaving Island Records and was issued through their own BellyUp label. The deluxe double package comes with a wallpaper style digipack sleeve. The release was timed to coincide with their summer shows at Malahide Castle in Dublin and at the Marquee in Cork in 2007. Track listing * The live DVD contains the following 16 songs from the show. # "My First Born for a Song' # " Bigger Than Me" # "Whitewater Song" # "Next to You" # " Eve, the Apple of My Eye" # "Trampoline" # " Rocky Took a Lover" # "Alphabet Soup" # "Bad Skin Day" # "He Said She Said" # "Tongue" # "Flame A flame (from Latin '' flamma'') is the visible, gaseous part of a fire. It is caused by a highly exothermic chemical reaction taking place in a thin zone. When flames are hot enough to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell X1 (band)
Bell X1 are an Irish rock band from County Kildare. The group consists of Paul Noonan (lead vocals, guitar, percussion, keys), David Geraghty (guitar, vocals, keys, percussion, banjo, piano, harmonica) and Dominic Phillips (bass, vocals). They have performed on the '' Late Show with David Letterman'' and their music also has appeared in popular drama series such on the TV series ''Grey’s Anatomy'' and ''The OC''. Bell X1 are known for regular changes in sound from album to album, their range taking in alternative, indie, hard rock, post-punk, acoustic, lo-fi, folk rock, ballad, pop, synth-pop, new wave and electronica. They have been compared to The Blue Nile, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Coldplay, U2, Animal Collective, Elbow and Talk Talk. History Juniper The trio began life as members of the alternative rock band Juniper, along with former Bell X1 member Brian Crosby and singer-songwriter Damien Rice. The quintet had garnered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Marquee (festival)
Live at the Marquee is a season of music concerts and other live performance events organised by Aiken Promotions in a large Marquee (tent), marquee in Cork (city), Cork, Ireland, every summer since 2005. For about a month in June and July, a concert is held most evenings; tickets for each night are sold separately, with varying lineups and pricing. Acts have represented many genres of popular music, including rock music, rock, folk music, folk, electronic music, electronic, hip hop, rhythm and blues, and country music, country; as well as stand-up comedy acts. The first season was part of Cork's 2005 year as European Capital of Culture. It proved successful enough to be repeated annually. The venue for the first two years was the Cork Agricultural show, Showgrounds, then owned by the Munster Agricultural Society. When the Showgrounds were acquired by the Munster GAA for its redevelopment of the adjoining Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium, Live at the Marquee moved to an adjacent site ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cake Sale
The Cake Sale are a collective of mostly Republic of Ireland, Irish musical artists including Swedish singer/songwriter Nina Persson of The Cardigans and Australian musician Nick Seymour of Crowded House. The collective was formed by Brian Crosby (composer), Brian Crosby formerly of Bell X1 (band), Bell X1. They came together in 2006 to release a self-titled album called ''The Cake Sale (album), The Cake Sale''. The album was produced to raise money for the charity Oxfam, Oxfam Ireland and the Ireland Make Trade Fair campaign. It was released on 3 November 2006 in Ireland. The album was so successful that it was given an international release the following year; it was released on 10 September 2007 in the United Kingdom and on 16 October 2007 in the United States by the American Indie rock, indie label Yep Roc Records, which is based in North Carolina. Album details The album, ''The Cake Sale'' was recorded by a group of Irish and international musicians who were organised by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flame (Bell X1 Song)
"Flame" is a single by the Irish pop rock quintet, Bell X1, and the second to be taken from the band's third album '' Flock''. It was released on 10 March 2006. It entered the Irish Singles Chart on 16 March 2006, spending four weeks there and peaking at #12. The BBC described it and follow-up single "Rocky Took a Lover" as "two of the finest pieces of music written on this island", though lamented its lack of international success. The song was later included in a collection of works giving a "sense of the noughties" put together by Vincent Murphy and broadcast on ''Morning Ireland'' on 31 December 2009. Song information "Flame" received extensive airplay on Irish national radio and the musical style used was compared to that of Talking Heads. Track listings * CDS CID919/9877504 # "Flame" - (3:32) (radio edit) # "Monkey 61" - (-) # "Flame" - (Chicken Lips mix) # "Flame" - (video) # -- - (U-myx software) * 7" # "Flame" - (3:32) # "Monkey 61" - (-) * 12" # "Flame" - (Chicken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Took A Lover
"Rocky Took a Lover" is a single by the Irish pop rock quintet, Bell X1, and the third to be taken from the band's third album '' Flock''. It was released on 28 August 2006. It entered the Irish Singles Chart on 31 August 2006, spending four weeks there and peaking at #18. The single included a cover of the Depeche Mode song " Enjoy the Silence". Many Irish radio stations, including Today FM, had been playing the track since before the release of the previous single "Flame" (as early as December 2005) and the song was used extensively to promote the band's third album. In early 2008, the song featured on a Dublin Bus television advertising campaign. A special website—www.rockytookalover.com—was created by the band for the release of the song, featuring blogs written by the characters of Rocky and Adrianna. The BBC described it and previous single "Flame" as "two of the finest pieces of music written on this island". The band performed the song when they appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve, The Apple Of My Eye
"Eve, the Apple of My Eye" is a single by the Irish indie rock band, Bell X1, taken from the band's second album ''Music in Mouth''. It was eventually released on 11 June 2004 in Ireland and 14 June 2004 in the UK, having been originally scheduled for release on 28 May in Ireland and 7 June in the UK. It entered the Irish Singles Chart on 17 June 2004, spending two weeks there and peaking at number 18. The single included a cover of the Justin Timberlake song "Like I Love You". Outside Ireland it is best known in the United States where it featured as background music in a scene from one of their television shows, ''The O.C.'' Original "Eve" was originally written and performed when Bell X1 were Juniper (featuring Damien Rice). Called "Never", it was released on the ''Neither Am I'' album, before being rewritten and retitled "Eve, the Apple of My Eye" for their second album, ''Music In Mouth''. As "Never" it was performed at a 2FM session and released on a four-tracker as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigger Than Me (Bell X1 Song)
"Bigger Than Me" is a single by the Irish indie rock quintet, Bell X1, and the first to be taken from the band's third album '' Flock''. It was released on 30 September 2005 in Ireland and 10 October 2005 in the UK. It entered the Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is the Republic of Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and compiled on their behalf by the Official Charts Company. Chart rankings are bas ... on 6 October 2005, spending two weeks there and peaking at #16. (Insert ARTIST or SONG TITLE in capitals) Track listings *CDS 987389-0/LC00407 # "Bigger Than Me" - (3:50) # "Still Selling Shoes" - (3:23) # "My First Born For a Song" - (video)Chart performance [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork (city)
Cork ( , from , meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland. It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city's boundary in 2019, its population is over 222,000. The city centre is an island positioned between two channels of the River Lee which meet downstream at the eastern end of the city centre, where the quays and docks along the river lead outwards towards Lough Mahon and Cork Harbour, one of the largest natural harbours in the world. Originally a monastic settlement, Cork was expanded by Viking invaders around 915. Its charter was granted by Prince John in 1185. Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found around South and North Main streets. The city's cognomen of "the rebel city" originates in its support for the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses. Corkonians sometimes refer to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malahide Castle
Malahide Castle ( ga, Caisleán Mhullach Íde), parts of which date to the 12th century, lies close to the village of Malahide, nine miles (14 km) north of central Dublin in Ireland. It has over of remaining parkland estate, forming the Malahide Demesne Regional Park. History The estate began in 1185, when Richard Talbot, a knight who accompanied Henry II to Ireland in 1174, was granted the "lands and harbour of Malahide." The oldest parts of the castle date back to the 12th century and it was home to the Talbot family for 791 years, from 1185 until 1976, the only exception being the period from 1649 to 1660, when Oliver Cromwell granted it to Miles Corbet after the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland; Corbet was hanged following the demise of Cromwell, and the castle was restored to the Talbots. The building was notably enlarged in the reign of Edward IV, with towers added in 1765. The estate survived such losses as the Battle of the Boyne, when fourteen members of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Records
Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Island Records operates four international divisions: Island US, Island UK, Island Australia, and Island France (known as Vertigo France until 2014). Current key people include Island US president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to its significant legacy, Island remains one of UMG's pre-eminent record labels. Artists who have signed to Island Records include Bob Marley, Nick Drake, Queen, Jethro Tull, Grace Jones, Steve Winwood, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Brian Eno, Demi Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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