Waving Not Drowning Explained

Waving Not Drowning
Type:	studio
Artist:	Rupert Hine
Cover:	Waving not drowning 2001.jpg
Released:	1982
Recorded:	Farmyard Studios, Little Chalfont, Bucks
Label:	A&M
Producer:	Rupert Hine, Stephen W. Tayler
Prev Title:	Immunity
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	The Wildest Wish to Fly
Next Year:	1983

Waving Not Drowning is a solo album by Rupert Hine. It was originally released in 1982, A&M Records, and re-released on CD in 2001, VoicePrint. "The Sniper" was dedicated to Liam Byrne and "House Arrest" was dedicated to Donald Woods. The album title alludes to the Stevie Smith poem, Not Waving but Drowning.

Track listing

Music composed by Rupert Hine; lyrics by Jeannette Obstoj

1. "Eleven Faces"
2. "The Curious Kind"
3. "The Set Up"
4. "Dark Windows"
5. "The Sniper"
6. "Innocents in Paradise"
7. "House Arrest"
8. "The Outsider"
9. "One Man's Poison"
10. "Kwok's Quease" (Bonus CD track. Originally B-side of "The Set Up" single)

Personnel

• Rupert Hine - keyboards, drums, vocals
• Phil Palmer - guitar
• Geoffrey Richardson - guitar, viola
• Phil Collins - drums, marimba, timbales
• Steve Negus - drums
• Trevor Morais - drums
• Ollie W Tayler - saxophone, clarinet, recorder
• Chris Thompson - additional vocals
• Stephen W Tayler - engineering, mixing, co-production