David Bridie Kicks Off National Tour with New Album Tonight, in Adelaide

By Staff Reporter

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:22:52 +1000

With new record Wake already out, David Birdie is now launching a National Tour.

we’re washing in dirty water cause we never flaunt our assets or our business schemes take 15 grams of Quinine with a bottle of Sal Volatile smoke Chesterfield non-filters and then jump in the sea Wake Tour Australian dates:when Dr Suess is painting in the sky you’ might catch a glimpse if you raise your focus higher (Dr Seuss is painting in the sky, off Wake 2013)

If Dr Seuss was painting in the sky we would all look up, take a moment to pause, allow ourselves to imagine a world beyond ourselves. This is the opening gambit that Australian songwriter and musician David Bridie, of Not Drowning, Waving, My Friend the Chocolate Cake, producer and film composer, on his new album Wake, challenges us with. Bridie now comes full circle to where he began in the early 1980s, creating his own work as a singer-songwriter. Five years on from his third solo album, Succumb which followed 2003‘s Hotel Radio and 2000‘s acclaimed Act of Free Choice, it was time…

Wake is classic solo Bridie – 11 original songs (and one Hank Williams cover, yes really) of shifting moods, textures and sound oddities, harnessed into perfect finality by Bridie’s unfailing knack for an infectious melody, evidenced in the album’s first single already gaining wide airplay, The Shortest Day of the Year. Original plans were to make a slow, stripped-back record.

Songs written on piano with a few added instruments. “That was the idea in the beginning, I was listening a lot to the Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan and I loved the space in that record”. Things got more involved from that simple premise, with the album being recorded across Victoria, New South Wales and New Zealand, with musical contributions from a plethora of guest artists representing a full spectrum of genres and styles.

Marita Dyson of Melbourne band the Orbweavers lends her serene and steady voice to tracks including the dreamy, beautiful album opener, Dr Seuss Is Painting In the Sky. Blackeyed Susans singer Rob Snarski fulfills Bridie’s long-held desire to record with him, lending his honeyed tones to the strident ballad, Old Lovers. Other guests include former Powderfinger guitarist Ian Haug, NZ artist Eden Mulholland, Ashley Naylor (Even, Paul Kelly Band), leading lady of The Bamboos Kylie Auldist, PNG-born singer Ngaiire, drummers Dave Folley and Michael Barker, long-time collaborator Helen Mountfort on cello, and guitarist wunderkind John Phillips.

Bridie remains one of the most distinctive voices and songwriters in Australian music, not only to the ear but to the heart. His soulful rasp offers unique insights, deep empathy and asks hard questions into the human condition. His is a voice of conviction, passion and integrity.

Check out David's new single Delegate