Getting up close and personal with David Geraghty

DAVID Geraghty has learned to stop worrying and embrace imperfection. “I have made the decision not to get bogged down in whether something is the best thing in the world,” says the Bell X1 guitarist, who will unveil his new solo project, Join Me In The Pines, tomorrow in Cork.

“You can allow yourself be caught up in a process — trip on every small detail. It dawned on me that, to be at your most creative, you need to make a decision and go with it. You can always come back later on. I mean, The Beatles… it’s not the best band name in the world, is it?”

Geraghty likes to keep busy (he is a self-confessed workaholic). With Bell X1 on hiatus — they are resting between records and performed just one live date in Ireland this year — he has invested his energies in Join Me In The Pines. The name references, albeit circuitously, a speech JFK gave in Dallas shortly before his assassination at which he requested Jackie be at his side. It’s a solo project — sort of. But Geraghty was clear from the outset he didn’t want his name on the record sleeve, as was the case with his two previous extra-band efforts.