Pete Kenyon and the Wake's debut single - Long Hard Labour of Love - has already received strong positive industry feedback, gaining national airplay on Australia's Hot Country FM network. A lover of classic song-writing, Pete finds the ‘3 chord’ simplicity of country inspiring. “Country music’s built around the body. Like Celtic music, it’s based on the dance. It’s human music, just by the melody alone. And there’s so many links between country, folk & and pop." Pete’s love of simplicity goes back to early inspirations like Warren Zevon, Dave Edmunds, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, and the late, great Marc Bolan (who once wrote one of his biggest, & simplest, hits in 90 seconds flat!) Other inspirations have been the Celtic-rock of Big Country, & the folk-pop crossover of Joan Armatrading, Paul Kelly, Neil Young & J. J. Cale. As for the single, "It's about the lineage of country in particlular - how today's musicians build on what's come before them. That lineage obviously includes people like Jimmy Rodgers and Hank Williams, but also early crossover artists like Leadbelly who wrote country standards but also inspired the '50's skiffle boom with 'Rock Island Line'. A lot of Jimmy Rodgers stuff is really just old blues with yodelling! So we all owe a debt to the past. And a lot of those people had very hard lives, as do a lot of musicians today. So, as the song says, it's a "long hard labour of love.”