New Single ‘Valentine’ from BELL X1 Founding Member David Geraghty
By OUT TODAY: New Single ‘Valentine’ from BELL X1 Founding Member David Geraghty ahead of Irish Tour & Album
David Geraghty announces new single (and video) ‘Valentine’ out Feb 13th ahead of Irish tour and Album Announcement
Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Geraghty is a founding member of Bell X1 and he continues to be a driving force behind the band. Releases have included ten albums (Four No.1), extensive world tours, as well as opening for acts such as U2 and Ed Sheeran.
Listen to ‘Valentine’ by David Geraghty on Spotify
Geraghty’s output also includes composing for TV & Film (which includes the short ‘The Crush’ which was short-listed for an Oscar).
Alongside this, Geraghty releases solo works. The debut, ‘Kill Your Darlings’ (2007), was received with critical acclaim and was followed up in 2009 with the equally evocative ‘The Victory Dance’.
2014 marked the first of two releases for Geraghty under the moniker ‘Join Me in the Pines’ with an album of brooding dark folk called ‘Inherit’. The release of ‘Monomania’ in 2019 saw a startling shift to a groove-based electro sound that has flashes of Prince, Gary Numan, Bowie, Nile Rodgers with reviewers commenting:
“Geraghty has proven himself a master of melody in the past, but this album confirms that he’s a crackerjack when it comes to groove and soul, too”. “Dismiss this as a side-project at your peril”.
Lauren Murphy – The Irish Times
“Throughout Monomania, there are flawless falsettos, shimmering synths and
rhythms so infectious they could carry their own health warning….It’s seriously impressive.”
John Walshe – Hot Press
Geraghty/JMITP has opened for acts such as David Gray and Hall & Oates at Live At The Marquee, Cork and Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
Since his last release, Geraghty completed an undergraduate course where he majored in composition and the study of classical piano. This saw him compose for a range of styles, which included Wind Ensemble, String Quartet and Electronica. These new musical ventures have allowed Geraghty to build on over 30 years of writing songs and creating cinematic soundscapes for screen.
For the making of the new album ‘KOMOREBI’, Geraghty also added the enriching process of Mixing to his Writer/Producer credentials. The album is an exciting development in this fresh and creative trajectory and is set for release in late Summer 2026.
VALENTINE
Song Bio
Valentine centres around a sense of loss and desolation felt from an estranged love.
While the main character carries their heavy heart in a once paradise-like world, the listener is pulled into a claustrophobic coalmine, where the air threatens to choke the songbirds that once sang together.
Valentine also plays with some themes that are akin to the loss of paradise, with a playful mash up with some contemporary phenomena, such as ‘Tinder’. Thus offering our hero a glimmer of hope to find love again and to clamour out of the darkness
LIVE
HEADLINE SHOWS
March 5 – Mike the Pies Listowel, Kerry
March 6 – John Lee’s, Tullamore, Offaly
March 20 – The Kasbah, Limerick
March 21 – Roisin Dubh, Galway
March 25 – American Bar, Belfast
March 26 – Sandino’s, Derry
March 27 – Balor Theatre, Donegal
May 2 – Greenfields Festival, Athy
May 22 – Poppy Lane Sessions, Kinvara
May 31 – Day & Night Festival
July 3rd and 4th – Bobstock Festival, Cork
also
SUPPORTING JACK L ON IRISH DATES
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