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Aiden Canaday

About Me

Despite leading the shambolic musical collective The Cooling Pearls, Aiden Canaday had been afraid to perform the unique and haunting solo songs he’d been writing for years. Hesitantly agreeing to a wee show late in 2007, he has been playing in and out of people’s minds ever since. Living in Oxford, but hailing from Ammanford, in the deepest depths of South Wales, he picks at his pink star guitar and hammers at his dark piano whilst wailing words until they make some sort of poetical sense. He writes songs with fervour using love and war and people and dreams as his inspiration. Is there a better world to be inspired by?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/12/2007
Band Website: None.
Band Members: He Poet and the beautiful Cooling Pearls.
Influences: Radiohead. Nick Drake. R.E.M. Pablo Picasso. This World. Gaynor Jenkins. The National. Damon Albarn. War. The Velvet Underground. Elliott Smith. Love.
Sounds Like: “Aiden Canaday gives a good impression of a man who’s only up there singing because he fell on to the stage accidentally while trying to get to the bar to buy his eighth pint and felt too embarrassed to walk away. Behind him his band is a sparse and untidy combination of acoustic guitar, violin and occasional melodica. And yet despite the shambolic nature of it, it’s a charming set Aiden performs: his unruly mop of hair and battered trilby reflecting his sweetly roughhewn voice that carries more soul than any Brit-schooled starlet ever could. We only catch three songs but it’s enough to make us want more.” - Dale Kattack, Nightshift May 2009.
Record Label: Poor Recordings.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Bring Me The Head Of A Love Song.

Hello, hello, yo, yo. Here's just a wee long note to those who took some form of appreciation in the music I make, both alone and with my wonderful friends, over the past year of 2008. It star...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:31:00 GMT

Fear, It Made The World Fall Short.

Hello world. First blog. Woop.I have played two shows in the last week, much fun. Thanks for putting me on people, and thanks to whoever came, ta muchos.The sun is out now, the wind too, and I'm off t...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:22:00 GMT