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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
WEDNESDAY 2.2.22: A PAIR OF SONGS FROM BERLIN
In 2016, i moved to berlin. Upon my arrival, i played a concert in Atelier 3/4 to present new songs which would make up the “Dreams For Dreamers” album later that year. Atelier 3/4 is the workspace of painter David Hedderman, luthier Matthias von Wallbrunn, fashion designer Harm Cordes and a fourth ever-changing artist. It […]
13th Aug 2021: Four Acoustic Songs from Bruxelles
On FRIDAY, 13TH AUGUST at 20H CET (19h ireland, for example), we will continue the virtual Floatinghome tour through the ages with a short acoustic concert in Bruxelles at about the time of our album, “le grand discours” (available on CD and to download in our bandcamp shop). It was the time when Augi, Fabrice […]
12th june 2021: three-song concert from the archives
Thank-you everybody for the generosity and kind words at last weeks online concert. It was lovely to spend a bit of virtual time amongst friends. With that in mind, i’ve been rooting through the archives and found a couple of nice bits of concert which i’m putting together and will share with ye. The first […]
SATURDAY 22ND MAY 2021: FLOATINGHOME ONLINE CONCERT
Hi all, I hope spring has sprung with you… On SATURDAY, i’m going to play some songs for all ye internauts… The online concert will start at 20H CET – that’s Germany, Belgium, Spain and all (19H GMT, for Ireland, like; 14H EST; 04H AET, but for all y’all on that side of the world, […]
New single, “April 2020” out September 4th, 2020 :)
As summer is coming to a close, we are releasing a new single, “April 2020” today 🙂 It is from future FLOATINGHOME album, possibly called “The Other Seat Was Taken”. It was written during the corona pandemic in, eh, april 2020, and recorded along the train lines in Berlin as the restrictions were lifting. The B-side […]
1st may 2020: lord altmont album out today for one day only
Bandcamp are, once again, generously giving artists 100% of proceeds for the day today, 1st may 2020. I am releasing the lord altmont album for the day on our Floatinghome page, if you want to get your hands on it, get it here, get it today 🙂 floatinghome.bandcamp.com/album/lord-altmont
A Gillian Welch cover for these quarantine days
Gillian Welch and a south-facing window 🙂 These are long days… Filled with beautiful music! I hope everyone is staying in, keeping well and slowing to the rythem. I was noodling around with this yesterday, i thought i’d share… FLOATINGHOME – Revelator (by Gillian Welch)