Over a 35 year career, David Bridie has made a name for himself as a songwriter, composer & producer.
From the global impact of his seminal 1980s and 1990s alt-pop groups Not Drowning Waving and My Friend The Chocolate Cake to his ongoing work as a solo artist and soundtrack composer, the scope of David’s output and influence are matched by few Australian artists.
December 14, 2024
David Bridie w Rosie Excess
Annual Birregurra Xmas Show
Birregurra
Victoria
Music
“Its been a while since our last correspondence” sprang from the Victorian lockdowns. 14 writers wrote and recorded a spoken word piece that David has created music for. The contributors include Kutcha Edwards, Edwina Preston, Anthony Morgan, Catherine Deveny, Farhad Bandesh, Kerri Simpson amongst others. A limited edition vinyl double album will be available in March 2023.
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David Bridie has been awarded the Australian Antarctic Territory Fellowship. This will see him travel to Antarctica and embark on an immersive creative process resulting in a new body of work inspired by the ice continent. A source of curiosity to many, the highly protected wilderness environment of Antarctica can only be accessed by artists through this fellowship.
Learn More“...no matter where his music travels, it carries with it an innate sense of place and time. Bridie’s music may speak about an uncertain future… but it is also rooted in a past running far and deep; the kind that gives birth to dreams.”
— PopMATTERS