Blog: State Magazine

“We’ve never really done this acoustic-ish malarkey in Dublin. It’s kind of scary,” Bell X 1 tells the crowd on their new live album Field Recordings . Well, that “malarkey” has been parlayed into a two discs live and acoustic (ish) extravaganza in celebration of their debut Neither Am I , released a decade earlier. The album, chronicles live performances in Europe and North America and it rarely disappoints. The familiar back catalogue has been stripped back to bare bones using just guitars, piano and an iPod. This makes for stark and utterly moving performances on [...]