Eric Bell has been played on NTS shows including Bahamian Moor, with Your Love (Instrumental) first played on 1 June 2019.

Brief Story

I was born in East Belfast on the 3rd of September 1947. The first time I fell in love with music was around 8 years old, listening to classical music on a big wireless - it was great to daydream to. One Christmas, when I was 14 or so, one of my presents was a plastic guitar - it was totally unexpected. It was small, half size, had six different coloured strings, and pretty good frets.

There was a TV programme on in those…