David Bridie

Biography

David Ross Hope Bridie (born 1962) is an Australian contemporary musician and songwriter. He was a founding mainstay member of world music band Not Drowning, Waving which released six studio albums to critical acclaim. He also formed a chamber pop group, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, which released seven studio albums. During his solo career he has issued five studio albums and worked on soundtracks for Australian films and television like The Man Who Sued God, Remote Area Nurse, Secret City, and The Circuit. Bridie is the founder and artistic director of Wantok Musik Foundation; a not-for-profit music label that records, releases and promotes culturally infused music from indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. In 2019 he received the Don Banks Music Award.

Bio from Wikipedia

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

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  Songs From The South - Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits

  1997

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  The Makarrata Project

  2020

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  Wanted Man

  1994

Credited work

267 releases · 72 albums · active 1984–2025

• Performance · 918
• Other credits · 204
• Production · 111
• Engineering · 51

Studios: The Enormodome · Metropolis Audio · Sing Sing Studios · Periscope Studios

Frequent collaborators

• Not Drowning, Waving
• Various
• My Friend The Chocolate Cake
• Paul Kelly (2)
• Archie Roach
• Telek
• Christine Anu
• Andy White (4)

Around the web

• Wikipedia