After critical raves, four national tours and multiple late-night TV bookings surrounding their breakout album Flock, Irish band Bell X1 returned in 2009 with the ambitious and cutting Blue Lights on the Runway. Now the band returns once more to the United States for an acoustic fall tour in support of an EP that the band is giving away via Reverb Nation to fans.
Featuring live versions of 'The Great Defector' from the Lillywhite Sessions and 'Rocky Took a Lover' from KCMP The Current in Minneapolis, as well as several others, this acoustic EP release is a precursor to the highly anticipated new full length that the band is now in the midst of recording.
Blue Lights on the Runway went to #1 in the band's native Ireland. Its first U.S. single, "The Great Defector" went top 10 on American radio this year. BLOTR is a synth-based metamorphosis for the group that led The New York Daily News to Paul Noonan "one of pop's most promising writers." On it, the central creative trio of Noonan, Dave Geraghty and Dominic Phillips retain the melody-focused approach of their first album but expand their sound through the addition of glitchy electronic nuances ('The Ribs of a Broken Umbrella') crunching, prominent guitars ('Breastfed') and glittery art pop ('The Great Defector'). Noonan's gorgeous ballad 'Light Catches Your Face' anchors the work, exemplifying the emotional gamut fans have come to expect from the versatile rockers.
BellX1 is bringing its live show to The Ark in Ann Arbor Oct. 11 2010
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