Paul Noonan with special guest Brian Crosby

Paul Noonan

Paul Noonan is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the frontman of the Irish group Bell X1.

Paul also performs as a solo artist and collaborator on a variety of musical projects – Printer Clips, a record of simply recorded duets with the likes of Joan As Policewoman, Martha Wainwright & Lisa Hannigan and more recently HousePlants, with the electronic musician Daithí.

From humble childhood beginnings as second flautist in the Lucan Concert Band (Yup!), Paul has also featured as contributor to records by Gemma Hayes, The Frames and The Cake Sale, a record for Oxfam. A keen and natural collaborator, he curated and directed the Starboard Home and Imagining Ireland projects in association with The National Concert Hall in Dublin.

Between these collaborations, Paul Noonan has been performing intimate solo shows around Ireland, playing songs from across the body of work that he has created over the past 25 years. He’s also a qualified and practicing music therapist, working with older adults living with dementia and with children in areas of social disadvantage.

Brian Crosby

Brian Crosby is a piano player, composer and performer who releases his own piano & ambient music and collaborates with film makers & artists on a variety of audio visual & installation projects.

He was a founding member of Irish indie band Bell X1 and the creator of the eclectic group The Cake Sale. He spent 10 years in Berlin where he converted a 3,500 square ft factory floor in Kreuzberg into a modular studio with nine rooms. The facility rapidly became a well-loved hub for a thriving film music scene and it was here that he collaborated with fellow studio residents Dustin O’Halloran, Hildur Guōnadóttir and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson on numerous Film and TV scores.

Brian is now based in rural County Wicklow, Ireland where he has built and works out of Treehouse Studios – a purpose built log cabin filled with an array of pianos and vintage instruments set in the native Irish woodland that surrounds his home. From here he recorded and released his first solo piano record Imbrium in the Spring of 2021, a work exploring the stillness of life suspended while the world was in lockdown.

Outside of making music Brian is also in advanced training to become a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, a therapeutic practise using breath and music to achieve altered states of consciousness enabling psychological and spiritual transformation.