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
Hand-waving is engaging in a verbal hand-wave inappropriately. The spelling of the compound varies (both with regard to this idiom and the everyday human communication gesture of waving). While "hand-waving" is the most common spelling of the unitary present participle and gerund in this usage, and "hand-wave" of the simple present verb, "hand wave" dominates as the noun-phrase form. "Handwaving" and "handwave" may be preferred in some circles, and are well attested. "Hand waving" is mostly used otherwise, e.g. "she had one hand waving, the other on the rail", but is found in some dictionaries in this form. A more arch,