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'Long Time Dead' (Single)

from 'Australia Restless' by Adam Gibson and the Ark-Ark Birds

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'Long Time Dead' ... the first single off Australia Restless' (2015)
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Adam Gibson is a Sydney lyricist and vocalist who has created a body of affecting work over the past decade. With a unique storytelling style, Adam is the voice of acclaimed band The Aerial Maps, whose two albums have been met with wide critical praise, and was a member of underground favourites Modern Giant. Marrying a love for vernacular language and Australian stories with a fine musical palette largely created by his brother Simon Gibson, Adam speaks of and about Australian lives and landscape like few others.

Moving onto a new chapter of his musical life, Adam released his debut solo album, titled 'Australia Restless', in 2015. Whilst exploring similar terrain as the Aerial Maps' albums, this new record (mostly co-written with his brother Simon) is a more personal take on his life and loves. Articulating his vision with a sharp eye for detail and the rawness of true experience, 'Australia Restless' (produced by Simon Holmes) was released in mid 2015.

'Long Time Dead' was the first single from the album.
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About 'Long Time Dead'

Says Adam, "It's easy to let your life drift away from you and allow yourself to lose track of those things that were once important. As people get older, they find more and more excuses for not doing things and often lose the spark they once had. The idea for this song came from a quote by Philip Adams combined with a line my mum has long repeated. Adams wrote that people are capable tackling vast accomplishments but that most don't and instead they 'sit in front of the telly and think that life goes on forever'.

"This ties in with my mum's quote that 'you're a long time dead', meaning that whilst alive, this is your chance to have a go, to do things, to make your best effort, because you're only here for a short time. As I myself have gotten older I too have had to fight the sense of "clocking off" and thinking that there's plenty of time. The fact is, however, there isn't, really. This is a song, therefore, which basically says, 'Well, what you gonna do today to live your life to the fullest?' Get off your arse, do something, make a record with your old friends, don't watch TV anymore."

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from 'Australia Restless', track released March 3, 2014
Written by Adam Gibson/Simon Gibson, produced by Simon Holmes, mastered by William Bowden. (AF Gibson / SR.Gibson ©).

Feat.
Adam Gibson on main vox
Simon Gibson on uke, drums + keys
Mark Na Na on guitar + dulcimer
Simon Holmes on BVs, chorus vox + banjo
Stewart 'Bluey' Cahn on guitar
Tim Byron on piano

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Adam Gibson Sydney, Australia

Adam Gibson is a Sydney writer, performer, lyricist, musician and artist.

His work is fundamentally “Australian landscape-based”, being influenced by the land and travel and the sense of being “in” and/or part of different environments, and the stories of the people who inhabit such land, with Australian stories and language and vernacular turn of phrase being very important. ... more

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