Not Drowning, Waving provide guitar. Their name is derived from Stevie Smith's poem "Not Waving but Drowning". Rowan McKinnon soon joined on bass guitar and they recorded "Moving Around" with a drum machine. Other atmospheric instrumentals were recorded at the LaTrobe University's music department's studio. "Moving Around" was released as their debut single in April 1984 on the Rampant Records label. While recording tracks for the debut album, "Another Pond", Bridie and Phillips joined McKinnon (also on guitar) in the ambient pop band, Easter, with Russel Bradley on drums and percussion, and Tim Cole on vocals. Cole became sound engineer and recording producer
Citizens Here and Abroad as dreamy and cerebral. While their songs are built on catchy melodies, they don't tend to follow traditional verse-chorus-verse song structure, opting for a more experimental approach to composition. In 2004, their debut album, "Ghosts of Tables and Chairs" was released on Omnibus Records. The band toured the US and the UK in support of the album, and the track "Appearances" ended up being used in the U.S. television teen soap opera, The O.C. Their follow-up album, "Waving, Not Drowning" (see Not Waving but Drowning) was released in 2006 on Turn Records. Albums Compilations Citizens Here and Abroad Citizens Here