{"id":2784,"date":"2018-06-03T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2018-06-14T09:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T09:25:00","slug":"a-conversation-with-bell-x1s-paul-noonan-195-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-bell-x1s-paul-noonan-195-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Bell X1&#8217;s Paul Noonan (195, June 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is 20 years since <a href=\"http:\/\/bellx1.com\">Bell X1<\/a> came our way. As they note on their website, lots can happen in 20 years. There has been a rake of great albums in this time from the band &#8211; for our money, &#8220;Arms&#8221;, the\u00a0&#8220;difficult\u00a0seventh album&#8221;\u00a0from 2016, stands tallest &#8211; and they continue to forge onwards and upwards.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the band are marking 20 years of Bell X1 with a run of sold-out shows up and down the country, we thought it would be a good idea to bring lead singer <strong>Paul Noonan<\/strong> to Banter for a discussion about life, work, music and all the rest of it as part of the Wellington Weekender at the Workman&#8217;s Club on Saturday June 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/paulnoonan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/paulnoonan.jpg\" alt=\"paulnoonan\" width=\"370\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/paulnoonan.jpg 370w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/paulnoonan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/paulnoonan-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spend the\u00a0afternoon with us in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworkmansclub.com\">the Workman&#8217;s Club venue bar <\/a>and hear\u00a0some yarns, anecdotes, asides and insights.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 2.30pm and the conversation kicks off at 3pm-ish. Tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketweb.ie\/event\/banter-with-paul-noonan-bell-the-workmans-club-tickets\/8472535?pl=TWC\">here<\/a>\u00a0with a \u20ac2 charitable donation to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/Aware.ie\">Aware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 20 years since Bell X1 came our way. As they note on their website, lots can happen in 20 years. There has been a rake of great albums in this time from the band &#8211; for our money, &#8220;Arms&#8221;, the\u00a0&#8220;difficult\u00a0seventh album&#8221;\u00a0from 2016, stands tallest &#8211; and they continue to forge onwards and upwards. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/a-conversation-with-bell-x1s-paul-noonan-195-june-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A conversation with Bell X1&#8217;s Paul Noonan (195, June 2018)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}