Pat talked about this music video in French on the Lausanne-based Radio LFM on the occasion of its release in November 2018 and also performed the song live during the broadcast.
It shows the creative, recording and production process for the EP Icar and features Pat, his two brothers as well as the producer Jasper Leak as they mixed songwriting and recording with skateboarding and sunset surfing sessions.
The music video is set in and around a colourful rented Airbnb located in the vibrant beach town of Ocean Beach in San Diego.
Pat wrote “Staring At The Sun” in Biarritz, France, and the official music video for the song was filmed in the summer of 2018 in San Diego, California. Staring at the Sun is the first Level 42 album not to feature brothers Phil Gould and Boon Gould, although Boon did write the lyrics to six of the songs.They were replaced by British guitarist Alan Murphy, who had collaborated with Go West and singer Kate Bush, and drummer Gary Husband, who had been a member of the band MorrisseyMullen. Lyrics, Song Meanings, Videos, Full Albums & Bios: House Step, Capoeira No Se, Porcelain Fountains (Original Mix),, Porcelain Fountains. It didn't go so well - the band stopped and re-started the song because not everyone was on. U2 performed this live for the first time during the PopMart tour opener in Las Vegas on April 25, 1997. The album was rushed in order to meet deadlines. The Roisto Remix of this song came out in October 2019. Drummer Larry Mullen thought this could have been a huge hit if they had time to finish it properly. It is Pat’s most successful single so far, with more than 4.8 million Spotify streams. “Staring At The Sun” came out in October 2018 as the first single of Pat’s second EP Icar that was subsequently released on Universal Music Switzerland in August 2019 and produced by Jasper Leak, a Grammy-nominated Australian songwriter and producer from Los Angeles, known for his work with artists such as Sia or Quincy Jones.