Bell X1 9 p.m., Wednesday, March 1 The Chapel Tickets: $20-$22. Dublin mood-rockers Bell X1 return to the United States this month, supporting their seventh LP, Arms, and we’ve got your tickets to the show at The Chapel on March 1. As singer Paul Noonan told RIFF in October, Arms…

There was a time, years before Ed Sheeran and Hozier ruled the Irish rock airwaves, when Bell X1 was seen as the primary contender to the throne of U2. With the international acclaim of their third album, 2005’s Flock, the Dublin band went from local favorite to U.K. powerhouse.…

Bell X1, Courtesy: Johnny Savage SAN FRANCISCO — With Bono focusing his humanitarian efforts on Africa, we should consider ourselves lucky we have our own Irishman to help out in America. Irish vacationers are now experiencing here the same thing that Americans were when they visited Ireland in the…

Bell X1, Courtesy: Johnny Savage This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. Name an Irish rock band that shares its name with an American military airplane. Need help? This is a band that has sold out some of the largest venues on the Emerald Isle. The frontman’s first…