a b-side for spring

que le soleil revient nous réchauffer…

the passing of a close friend and singer with us

we lost a good one this christmas – im gutted about Kevin Ryan’s passing… a backing singer with the band on many recordings, a beautiful person, a great musician, amazing songwriter and a best friend – my partner in crime for more than fifteen years – a wonderful soul, gone…
we had so much fun, so many songs, so many kilometres travelled and so much more adventure planned… i don’t know what to do with myself!
i thought i’d share this here video that we were working on. we were going to add some handwriting and drawing but didn’t get around to it 🙁 here we all are, though, immortalised in a moment… kevin and a selection of his friends, playing a song that he wrote about David Bowie’s passing a few years ago, “Mr. Jones”, set upon a collage of videos from the night.
[aidan]

waves on the beach at lahinch

One sunny-rainy morning in winter after covid, i had a walk along the seafront in Lahinch. It was the day after our Kennys show on Wallis Bird’s band’s 2022 tour. I took some pictures of the waves upon whose ancestors i learned to surf, from the cliffs where i wrote this song, at the other end of the day a couple of decades ago.

This version of “waves” by floatinghome is an excerpt of verse 3 taken from our live album, “live and sans souci”, with a bit of the effecty action from the end of the song copied over the start, featuring i, aidan, ben kritikos, augi dethier, remy lehembre, anna jacob and fabrice bihain.

Listen to or buy the full version of “waves” and indeed the full “live and sans souci” album (vinyl, cd or digital) at https://floatinghome.bandcamp.com/album/live-and-sans-souci

new stock: “live and sans souci” cds and vinyl

I have restocked our bandcamp shop with green and orange hand-printed cds and vinyl of our live album, “live and sans souci”. Pop by the shop and have a listen or pick up a copy for your collection.
SHOP: https://floatinghome.bandcamp.com/album/live-and-sans-souci
Here is a video of ‘waves’, one of the songs from that album; from when we were called aidan & the italian weather ladies 🙂
[aidan]

debut studio album “le grand discours” turns ten

woah, ten years today since our first studio album, le grand discours, was released. we did some videos for some of the songs…

so many beautiful artists and friends played on the album: augustin dethier, remy lehembre, fabrice bihain, simon beriaux, nico belayew, ben kritikos, francois massau, wallis bird, aoife o sullivan, marcus wüst, brian roache, christine docq, christophe capewell, shelley buckspan, david mcguinness, jenny woods, cian murphy, james guilmartin, jenny lindfors, anna jacob, antoine wielemans, alyanya massey, valerie balligand, karakter, hazelwood and rough trade – so much gratitude!
it was a journey creating it and its journey continues through the ears that listen still… though we have quite a different world these days!
[aidan]
listen or buy on cd: le grand discours on bandcamp.

read more about the wonderful musicians in this blog.