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.
September 24, 2023
David Bridie LIVE at Winter Sunset Session Westernport Yacht Club Balnarring 2pm
Retrospective with Rosie Excess
Mornington Peninsula
Vic
October 12, 2023
David Bridie LIVE @ The Vault - Port Kembla
Retrospective - Not Drowning, Waving; My Friend the Chocolate Cake; Solo w Paul Cartwright
Port Kembla
NSW
October 13, 2023
David Bridie LIVE @ Bundanoon Memorial Hall
Retrospective - Not Drowning, Waving; My Friend the Chocolate Cake and Solo w Paul Cartwright
Bundanoon
NSW
October 14, 2023
David Bridie LIVE @ Smiths Alternative Canberra (Afternoon show)
Retrospective - Not Drowning, Waving; My Friend the Chocolate Cake and Solo w Paul Cartwright
Canberra
ACT
November 3, 2023
David Bridie Retrospective at Lighthouse Theatre Warrnambool
Performing songs from Not Drowning, Waving, My Friend the Chocolate Cake and Solo albums with support from Charles Maimarosia (Solomon Is)
Warrnambool
VIC
December 1, 2023
David Bridie 2nd Annual Xmas Show Special, Birregurra
With Rosie Excess Performing songs from NDW, MFTCC and Solo albums with a couple of added seasonal tunes
Birregurra
VIC
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.
New Album Out NOWWorks
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