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
Not Drowning, Waving 1992. They also worked on the soundtrack for Richard Lowenstein's 1993 film "Say a Little Prayer". By October 1992, Cole had left and the sixth studio album "Circus" was recorded at the Rockfield Studios in Wales. It was produced by Hugh Jones (Simple Minds, Echo & the Bunnymen) for the White Label Records imprint on Mushroom Records. They were the support act for Peter Gabriel on his first tour of Australia in 1994. Early in the year, Bridie and Phillips compiled a selection of their soundtrack work as "Projects 1983–93" which was issued in April. Late in the year, Bridie