Fiachna Ó Braonáin

Fiachna Ó Braonáin
Background information
Born	(1965-11-27) 27 November 1965
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar

Fiachna Ó Braonáin (born 27 November 1965) plays the guitar and sings vocals with the Irish band Hothouse Flowers. Born in Dublin, he received his school education at Scoil Lorcáin, Monkstown, County Dublin and Coláiste Eoin, Stillorgan, County Dublin. The Hothouse Flowers were founded as a Dublin street-performance act called the Incomparable Benzini Brothers by Fiachna and his schoolmate Liam Ó Maonlaí.

Fiachna appears on a duet with Belinda Carlisle on her 2007 release, Voila.

In September 2007, he released an album with his other band PreNup. Fellow musicians are Cait O'Riordan (Ex-Pogues) and Dave Clarke (Hothouse Flowers). In addition to that, Fiachna also previously hosted "Poetic Champions", a radio show that aired on Today FM every Sunday night from 7–8pm with the program involving Irish musicians who discuss the various albums that had an influence on them and their careers.

In 2020, he released his first solo album, Bougainvillea.

Discography

Solo

• Bougainvillea - album, 2020
• Winter Sun - EP, 2020
• Her Coat And No Knickers - single, 2021

With Hothouse Flowers

• People - 1988 - UK No. 2
• Home - 1990 - UK No. 5
• Songs From the Rain - 1993 - UK No. 7
• Born - 1998
• Live - 1999
• Hothouse Flowers: The Best Of - 2000
• The Vaults: Volume 1 - 2003
• Into Your Heart - 2004
• Hothouse Flowers: The Platinum Collection - 2006

With PreNup

• Hell to Pay - 2007

With Michelle Shocked

• Artists Make Lousy Slaves - 1996

Guest appearance

• Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls (1989)
• Def Leppard – Retro Active (1993)

External links

• Fiachna Ó Braonáin at IMDb