Peter Bibby causes a raucous on ‘Oceans’

Peter Bibby recruits Dog Act to bring disorder and chaos into his latest track Oceans. The loud, frantic track repositions Bibby, catapulting him from his folksier roots into a more abrasive soundscape. 

“Oceans started out as a little sea shanty-esque poem scrawled on a piece of paper about going mad in the middle of the ocean. With the help of the Dog Act it soon morphed into a fairly raucous tune. I used vibrato on the guitars to give it a wobbly seasick kind of sound, and we had some mates join us in the studio to sing along and clink beers together in the final chorus to give it the vibe of a pack of people getting drunk on a boat. As far as I recall, it is the only song I have written about losing one’s mind out at sea,” muses Bibby of the track.

The roaring commentary on an ocean friendly is accompanied by a visual “shot around Fremantle over a weekend by Duncan Wright, Luna Laure and Rhys Jones, who came up with the whole idea in no time flat after COVID-19 put holes in our original plan,” Bibby shares.

“I got to pretend I was a poorly dressed mermaid, a wharfy, a fisherman and a drowning guy as well as have a pretty damn good time doing it. I got a lot of seawater in my mouth for this video, but as we say in the game you have to suffer for the art. This is my second video featuring work overalls.”