"Brand New Day" is a song by Australian artist Alex Lloyd

Alex Lloyd

Alex Lloyd is an Australian singer-songwriter. His most popular album Watching Angels Mend, which includes the songs "Amazing" and "Green", was released in 2001 went double platinum. His third album Distant Light released in 2003 featured three songs that made the Australian top 40 singles charts...

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The opening track on Lloyd's self-titled 2005 album

Alex Lloyd (album)

Alex Lloyd's eponymous album is his fourth, released in October 2005 .After the release of Distant Light, Lloyd took an extended hiatus from recording and touring, electing to spend more time with his wife Ameila and new born son Jake...

, Brand New Day was released as a single in 2006.

Music video

With the video clip filmed in the Suburbs of Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, the clip follows the day of a white-collar worker

White-collar worker

The term white-collar worker refers to a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work, in contrast with a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor...

 (played by Australian actor David Wenham

David Wenham

David Wenham is an Australian actor who has appeared in movies, television series and theatre productions. He is known in Hollywood for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Carl in Van Helsing and Dilios in 300 and Neil Fletcher in Australia...

) traveling on the bus, conversing with other passengers. Lloyd is present throughout the clip seen playing acoustic guitar with the song.

An instrumental

Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....

 version of the song was used in advertisements for Telstra

Telstra

Telstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services....

's T3 share offer in late 2006. The original version was also used in a Victorian Worksafe Advertisement in 2009 showing a man heading of to work for the first time after a workplace accident.

Brand New Day was used as the soundtrack for the closing montage of City Homicide

City Homicide

City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 – 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne...

's fifth season titled 'No Greater Honour'

City Homicide: No Greater Honour

City Homicide: No Greater Honour, an Australian Police procedural drama mini series, is set to begin on 23 February 2011 on the Seven Network. The season will conclude on 30 March 2011 after 6 episodes.-Episodes:...

, which aired in Australia in early 2011.