David Bridie

David Bridie is a musician from Melbourne, Australia. Bridie first rose to prominence as a member of Not Drowning, Waving, which he started in the early 1980s with guitarist John Phillips. They released four albums on Australian independent labels to some level of critical acclaim and very limited sales.^[1] Their fifth album, Tabaran, was to be released internationally through Warner Brothers, but was dropped at the last minute.

In the early 1990s, Bridie formed a second band, My Friend The Chocolate Cake with Helen Mountford as a side project. The new band became Bridie's main focus when Not Drowning Waving broke up after the release of the 1992 Circus album. My Friend the Chocolate Cake has released six studio albums and a live album.

Bridie has released three solo albums, Act of Free Choice (2000), Hotel Radio (2003) and Succumb, released in August 2008.^[2] He has also written several soundtracks for Australian movies and television, most notably The Man Who Sued God in 2001, Remote Area Nurse and The Circuit in 2007-2010.

Discography

• Projects 1983-1993 (1994) [with John Phillips]
• Act of Free Choice (2000; rereleased in 2007; US release in 2002) The Title refers to the Act of Free Choice 1969 which was essential for the takeover of West Papua by Indonesia.
• Act of Free Choice (EP) (2001)
• Hotel Radio (2003; rereleased in 2007)
• Succumb (2008)
• Gone, un viaje que nunca olvidarás (2007)

References

1. ^ Allmusic website entry
2. ^ David Bridie website

External links

• Allmusic.com article on David Bridie
• David Bridie web site
• Not Drowning, Waving web site
• Follow the Geography, web site devoted to all of David Bridie's projects
• My Friend The Chocolate Cake web site
• David Bridie article on IMDb
• Interview with David Bridie - 2007

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