Paul Noonan talks Bell x1's success, Printer Clips

The Bell x1 vocalist sat down with Hot Press' Eamon Sweeney ahead of the band's Forbidden Fruit performance and upcoming tour in Australia.

Despite the success of last summer's Chop Chop, which debuted at number one and was nominated for a Choice Music Prize, Sweeney feels there is room for it to grow and that its album cycle is far from over.

?I really don't feel like Chop Chop has fully flown its course yet at all... We're going to make another record and hope to start by the end of the year. I always feel we have to fully exercise the last one and I hope there are legs in Chop Chop. I don't feel we've got to enough ears with it.?

Also coming along is Printer Clips, a solo side project in which Noonan duets with a collection of talented female singers. The project has been years in the making, with Noonan recording in Dublin, London, Montreal, and New York, with artists including Danielle Harrison, Lisa Hannigan and Joan As Policewoman.

?I've always loved singing with girls... there's something about a duet that's more than a harmony, more than the sum of its parts. What epitomised that for me was seeing Gillian Welch for the first time. I realised the strength of two voices and a guitar, the unspoken intuition between two people.?

Read the full interview in the latest issue of Hot Press, in shops today.