Davidgeraghty

BellX1’s David Geraghty released his debut solo album Kill Your Darlings in 2007, to huge critical and fan acclaim. The album was nominated for a Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year and in both Best Irish Album and Best Irish Male in the Meteor Ireland Music Awards. September 2009 saw Geraghty return with 'The Victory Dance', released on his own imprint Decal Records. The album was recorded in West Cork, mixed by Tim Martin (The Waterboys and Kirsty MacColl) and engineered by Greg French (U2, Van Morrison, Brian Eno and Placebo).
Geraghty was eager to ensure that the new album captured the intensity of the live band and in a departure from the somewhat isolated creation process of the debut, The Victory Dance is very much a collaborative effort, with band members Marc Aubele, Kevin Brady, Clare Finglass, Tiger Cooke and Dave Redmond involved from the very outset.
“For me, working with different people helps me avoid getting stuck in a rut when making an album”, says Geraghty, All it takes is one person in the room to say, ‘what about trying this’….and suddenly you’re off down a completely different avenue that you may never have thought of sitting alone in a studio”. I feel too that I return to the Bell X1 table with fresh ways of approaching things. Whoever said being in a band should be monogamous?”
The Victory Dance brought to life while Geraghty was on downtime from his BellX1 duties. The band made five US trips in the space of 12 months to promote their 4th studio album Blue Lights on the Runway. These tours include many personal highlights, in particular performing at the Lilywhite Sessions in the Avatar Studios (The Power Station), a studio seeped in musical lore having hosted Lennon, Bowie and Springsteen over the years. Geraghty also got the chance to appear on some of the biggest TV shows in the US, including The Craig Ferguson Show, The Conan O’Brien Show and the Late Show with David Letterman. Plans for album no. 3 are underway