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Stars

Bell X1

Sat 9/20

Tickets

All Ages

7 PM Doors / 8 PM Show

$30.00

Stars

http://www.myspace.com/stars
http://www.arts-crafts.ca/stars
Stars play laid-back pop for people who don't like laid-back pop. This isn't the "chill" pop that translates to "boring." These are simple, very listenable songs that require no active participation from the listener to get the feel-good gist. We're talking music for fans of American Analog Set and Broken Social Scene. Their songs, especially on their latest album Set Yourself on Fire, are instantly appealing and pull off the rare feat of actually making alternating male/female vocals work. Most of the time bands should pick a singer and stick with it (Arcade Fire?), but in Stars' case, when Amy Millan sings it's perfect for the song and when Torquil Cambell sings it's perfect for the song. - Oh My Rockness

Bell X1

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=21081442
http://www.bellx1.com/
Bell X1 and Damien Rice used to be a band called Juniper. Juniper berries are used to make gin. "Gin and tonic dressing gown..." is a lyric from Bell X1's debut album, Neither am I, released in 2000 in Ireland. Ireland used to be poor, and now it's blingin, with scattered showers. Showers of critical acclaim followed the release of their (multi platinum n ting) second record, Music in Mouth, in 2003 in the UK and Ireland; the public too were keen. Keane, Snow Patrol, The Frames, Bon Jovi (?!) and Elliot Smith are some of the people that Bell X1 have toured with. With the song Eve, the Apple of My Eye on the latest OC soundtrack, the band recently played in New York and LA, where some of the OC cast came to see the show. Showing their ignorance, the band didn't know who they were being introduced to, bringing to mind the meeting of Homer Simpson and Billy Corgan - "Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins" ..."Homer Simpson, smiling politely". Their current record Flock was released in Ireland and went straight to number 1 in the pop charts, followed by many sold out shows and all that jazz.

Bell X1 singer Paul Noonan's vocals whisper give-ins more than come-ons, offering explanations for why he stopped fighting his attraction to the nameless, genderless subject of the song. "I would dare to speak its name if I knew what it was called," he sighs, then shouts, and it's suddenly hard to believe that Noonan was Bell X1's drummer before frontman Damien Rice (!) left the band Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Pitchforkmedia.com

This is rock with gusto and drive and confidence and intent. Radiohead as Radiohead should sound now. It puts down a brave marker. Ã¢â‚¬â€œ NME

Today in Dublin, BellX1 fever is more virulent than the office outbreak of winter flu. TheyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re on the radio, doing in-stores on Grafton St. Water-cooler talk is of whoÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s got a ticket, who doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t have a ticket and, as the panic of the ticketless sets in, whoÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s got a spare one. Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Hot Press