Peter Long - Australian singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and sound engineer - Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia

Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Peter’s early introduction to music was via the radio and video clips on Saturday morning television. Inspired by the bright colours and soundscapes of 60’s British pop and psychedelia, he experimented with a variety of musical instruments in his early teens, eventually settling on the guitar and picking up drums, bass and piano soon thereafter.

After the obligatory period as bedroom-based musician creating sound experiments on four-track tape recorder, Peter served his musical apprenticeship as lead guitarist in Adelaide pop outfit Primitive Painters (1987-90), releasing the Sea Of Art album through Greasy Pop/Festival Records in 1990. He went on to collaborate with ex-Painter Greg Vincent in the darker, more experimental electro-pop of Puppethead (1991-2003), releasing two albums through German label Zuma. Eventually tiring of the Adelaide band scene in the late 1990s, he relocated first to Melbourne in '96 and then Sydney in '98, where he formed the power pop Resounder (1999-2000) with singer Pat Loughry and ex-Ratcat bass player Amr Zaid, as well as playing drums in Zaid's outfit, Ampersand.

Peter hooked up again with Vincent in 2000 to tour Puppethead in the U.S. and U.K. and upon returning to Sydney in early 2001 teamed up with Resounder drummer Rene Arriagada and bass player Jo Herbert to form the avant-pop Bümbüm (2001-2003), amusing Sydney audiences with it's oddball approach to indie rock, eastern tonalities and electronic toys. Due to internal differences, Bümbüm split in 2003, and Peter relocated to the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. He soon fell in with the infamous mens a capella group the Spooky Men's Chorale (2004-) and is still a current performing member.

In early 2004 he committed a backlog of material to tape, and with the help of ex- Painters drummer and good friend Andy Przygonski, laid down twelve songs at Megaphon Studios in Sydney. Following the birth of his son, he resumed recording in late 2005 and with the help of friend and engineer Steve Fieldhouse, finalised mixing in 2006. The album Midday Sun, mastered by Don Bartley, was released in mid 2007 to glowing reviews and the song Melody's Fate took out the Alternative Music prize at the Blue Mountains Music Awards that year.

At present, he is collaborating with Greg Vincent in a new electro-pop project called Ashram Poets, working on tracks for a new album and discovering the fine art of juggling child rearing with music commitments.