‘Little Green Man’ by Angus Gill & Seasons Of Change – Video Premiere

Once again, Golden Guitar winner Angus Gill has teamed up with the members of Paul Kelly’s touring band, as Angus Gill and Seasons of Change, offering the poignant track Little Green Man, featuring and co-written with Billy Miller (The Ferrets). It is the second single lifted from their forthcoming second album, to be released in August 2023, marking the fifth studio album for Gill.

Little Green Man is a moving song about fathers and daughters, inspired by a chapter of acclaimed author Trent Dalton’s 2021 bestseller Love Stories. The song was conceived over email, with Gill writing the lyrics and Miller writing the music.

“I was so taken aback by the chapter ‘The Crossing’ in Trent’s Love Stories that I started working on a lyric. The story of a 12-year-old daughter and her father, approaching a set of traffic lights on Queen Street in Brisbane,” said Gill. “The song’s narrative takes place in the space of about 30 seconds, as the father and daughter experience a closeness, in front of the flashing Little Green Man. I wrote the lyric over the space of a few weeks and when I had something I considered close to finished, I sent it to Billy. He sent me back this beautiful musical arrangement, which perfectly complemented the lyric.”

Miller added, “I loved Little Green Man from the start. There was inspiration everywhere, from Angus’ lyrics which were inspired by Trent Dalton’s book Love Stories, then more inspiration from me when Angus sent me an a cappella vocal with nothing else but a drum loop. I’d never collaborated on a song that way, so I came up with the most beautiful chords I could imagine for the song, then the final inspiration came in the studio when we recorded it with a group of Australian legends.”

Dalton also praised the pair’s efforts. He said, “It's so flipping beautiful mate! To turn something you read into such a beautiful song about fathers and daughters and time and life ... well... that's about the best thing I could ever think happening! It means so much to me, as a father of daughters myself.”

The accompanying music video, which premieres today exclusively on Countrytown, was shot by John Elliott and edited by Gill. Watch the video below or via the link here.

The prolific singer-songwriter and producer is the definition of an artist, creating with his heart and writing what is real. With six number one radio singles and over thirty five songs recorded by other artists in the last year, Gill is a new generation songwriter’s songwriter.

After receiving a scholarship to attend the CMAA Academy of Country Music in 2012, Gill released his debut EP, Livewire in 2014. His self-produced debut album, Nomad followed in 2017 the same year he was named a finalist in the 2017 Toyota Star Maker competition.

In 2019, Gill released his second studio album, Welcome To My Heart. That same year, Angus Gill and Seasons of Change released their critically acclaimed album, 3 Minute Movies, which secured two Golden Guitar nominations for ‘Alt Country Album of the Year’ and ‘Group or Duo of the Year’. In 2022, he released the deluxe edition of his 2021 bluegrass inspired album, The Scrapbook, as well as his festive EP, The Gilly Season. 

Additionally, Gill has toured nationally and internationally several times, becoming one of the youngest Australians to perform on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee in 2019, as a guest of Nashville TV star Charles Esten. 

He has supported US country music superstar Kris Kristofferson, as well as the biggest names in the Australian music industry, including The Black Sorrows, Rick Price, Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, Beccy Cole, James Blundell and others.

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