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The Great Ongoing (Album)

by Simon Robert Gibson

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Rockets 02:47
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Bourdain 03:18
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Three Months 05:11
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Jo 02:39
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Revelling in a life well-lived on the path to The Great Ongoing

The Great Ongoing is the debut solo album from Sydney singer/songwriter Simon Robert Gibson. A well-known figure in the Sydney music scene, Simon is best known as a drummer with his musical outings stretching way back to the thriving indie-rock years of the Sydney music scene of the ‘90s.

A founding member of the much-loved Disneyfist and later Modern Giant, Simon was also an original member of the acclaimed Aerial Maps, along with his brother Adam Gibson. Along the way Simon has played and recorded with many Australian bands, with long stints in legendary Half-a-Cow soul/popsters, Sneeze, plus Lazy Susan, the Simon Holmes-led outfit, Fragile, and his own later ensemble, The Coolites.

With a love of travel, surfing and adventure, Simon’s life has taken him down many a dusty road and to many a backstreet bar.

Essentially an album about connections, movement, and thoughts of the past running into dreams for the future. Parents, brothers, sons, daughters, friends and broken hearts, the things that “give life to life” underpin this widescreen selection of songs, with the central idea being that life is one “great ongoing” thing to be lived, breathed and experienced.

Although Simon sings and plays the majority of the instrumental parts on this record, he is ably assisted here by a cast of great talents including Alannah Russack (Hummingbirds), Peter Fenton (Crow), Mark Hyland (Handsome Young Strangers), Safari Lee (Family Fold), Tim Kevin (Hoolahan) and the late Mick Hart who all make essential contributions to this panoramic collection of affecting songs. A record written in solitude a long way from home but recorded with a group of close friends in their hometown, it is collection of songs from a life well-lived.

Old and new, past and future, faraway places and home, loss and optimism, they all connect if we just keep moving. In the words of his brother Adam Gibson when thinking about the old days, “they weren’t better days, just younger ones; it’s the great ongoing and you can’t hold it back.”

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released November 13, 2020

Simon Robert Gibson: vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards.
Mark Hyland: guitars, bass
Peter Fenton: vocals and guitars (tracks 3, 4, 6, 11)
Alannah Russack: vocals and guitars (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11)
Safari Lee: vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5, 9) trumpet (tracks 1, 7, 9)
Tim Kevin: bass, guitars (tracks 1, 2, 5, 7, 8)
Simon Hudson: bass, vocals (track 9)
Cameron Bruce: keyboard and vocals (track 12)
Mick Hart: slide guitar, bass (tracks 10, 12)

Recorded at Studio 57 by Marc Scully, Tempe River Studios by Tim Kevin, Damien Gerard Studios by Russell Pilling, BJB studios by Cameron Bruce, the Bamboo Hilton by SR Gibson.
Produced by Simon Robert Gibson
Cover photo by J.Tran. Artwork By Jen Huntley

With thanks: Adam, Joan, Bobby Snr, Pete F, Lannie, Nana, Pete C, Safari, Hang, Bobby Jnr, Jade, Jo, Grace, Mick, Coppo, Platty, Bluey, Erik, George, Jack, Dan, Dave.

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Simon Robert Gibson Sydney, Australia

Same Ocean Different Sea is the third solo album from singer/songwriter Simon Robert Gibson (out 17 May) A well-known figure in Aus music, Simon is best known as a drummer and writer.
With a love of travel, surfing and adventure, Simon’s life has taken him to many street-side cafes and backstreet bars.
Past and future, love and loss, experience and innocence they all connect if we keep on moving
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