Wallis Bird shares new song 'Life Is Long'
/Ireland’s Wallis Bird has been enrapturing audiences for over a decade with her irrepressible trademark stage show and inescapable live energy! Wallis Bird presents her unmissable new Single 'Life is Long', off the global multi award winning artists, upcoming album 'Woman' out on Sept 27th.
‘Life Is Long’ is an anthemic recollection of a family weekend in West Ireland which encompasses a vital carpe diem mindset – “Life is long / But the time is short.'' In ‘Life Is Long’, Wallis has captured a significant moment in time, and offers it as a gift to her parents. A weekend of laughing, eating and good company sees Wallis sentimental about her parents; noting how fortunate she is to have the relationship they have. The song even begins with a recording of her parents from that very trip.
Wallis is not one to shy away from expressing her feelings, and she believes that actions speak louder than words. A lot has inspired her since her last album; “The world has changed a lot, and I’ve changed with it. The #MeToo movement, Repeal the 8th, marriage equality in Australia, Black Lives Matter, Trump, Brexit, the rise of racism, the death of countless musical icons, the environmental crisis.”
She’s released five albums since 2007, performing some 800 shows this past decade, but having surrendered a finger to a lawnmower at 18 months old, the Berlin-based Irish musician enjoys a unique perspective. This is reflected in her two Irish Meteor Awards, Ireland’s annual music prize – mostly recently for Best Female Artist – and her prestigious 2017 German “Musikautorenpreis” (Music Author Prize), as well as two nominations for the Choice Music Prize, Ireland’s equivalent to Britain’s Mercury Prize. More importantly, her response refuses to differentiate between her life and the world’s. This was never more important than on her sixth album, the timely Woman.