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Adamson is a guitarist and songwriter for the London-based country folk band, AHAB. In 2009, Adamson formed the band AHAB with Dave Burn. Following a number of months of recording, Adamson released the self-recorded album titled, A.H.A.B.. The album gave the duo much-needed publicity, which led them
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While performing as a musician, Adamson worked for a number of agencies. His career began at Four
Marketing in London. He remained at Four Marketing for just over 4 years, before moving to the Reading Room as a Senior Project Manager. He remained at Idox owned Reading Room for just under a year,
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is a
British entrepreneur and Cofounder of Distributed, a technology company that specialises in Elastic Teams, he was previously a guitarist and songwriter for the London-based band, AHAB. Adamson is the son of musician
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In 2012, Adamson was recognised at the Spiral Earth Awards, when AHAB won the award for best group. In an interview, Adamson stated in 2012 that the five-piece band were living together in a house in
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band in the UK. They toured the UK, Europe and United States following the release of their first CD in 2009. The album they released in 2009 was titled A.H.A.B. Adamson has also held a residency at
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Cofounded Distributed, a tech startup working on redefining the way businesses work with contractors and freelancers at scale, they have a number of notable early customers such as
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Adamson spent a year at The
Digital Property Group, before setting up Wits End Digital in 2011. Since becoming the founder of Wits End, they have worked with a number of large companies, such as
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They returned to the UK, where they began to busk. They became well known locally and following a video of their busking going viral on YouTube, Adamson and the band were invited to play at
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played "Wish You" regularly, which was written by
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