Dickon Edwards
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Dickon Edwards (born Richard Edwards;[1] 3 September 1971), also known as Dickon Angel, is a St Leonards-on-Sea-based [2] indie pop musician and diarist. [3]
He was a founding member of the bands Orlando and Fosca, and briefly played guitar in the band Spearmint.[4][5]
He has kept a blog called The Diary at the Centre of the Earth since 8 December 1997[6] (predating the 1999 coining of the term "blog"[7] - he terms it an "online diary"). Excerpts from the blog were included in Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison's A London Year[8] and in the follow-up title A Traveller's Year.[9]
In March 2008 he released a printed collection of lyrics titled The Portable Dickon Edwards, which was released in a limited edition alongside Fosca's The Painted Side of the Rocket album.[10]
In 2021, Edwards completed a PhD on Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism at Birkbeck College, University of London.[11]
Personal life
Known for his dandy aesthetic,[12] Dickon has peroxide blonde hair and is often seen in a white, blue, or silver-grey three-piece suit, the silver-grey suit being a bequest from fellow London dandy Sebastian Horsley.[13] Edwards is a son of the quiltmaker and author Lynne Edwards MBE,[14] and the cartoonist Brian "Bib" Edwards.[15][16] His brother was the Adam Ant[17] guitarist, Tom Edwards.[18]
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External links
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- ↑ [1] DickonEdwards.com 31 December 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
- ↑ Top Ten Literary Diarists The Guardian. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Dickon Edwards The Minds Construction Quarterly. Winter 2003. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ A Spearmint Biography Template:Webarchive Spearmint.net. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ The Diary at the Centre of the Earth Dickonedwards.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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- ↑ Introduction A London Year. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Contributors A Travellers Year. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Press Release for Painted Side of the Rocket. Butisitart.org. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Dickon Edwards PhD Thesis final version. BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ↑ I am Dandy has arrived! Lives of the Dandies. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Fix Up Look Sharp: Dickon Edwards Meets Turbonegro's English Gent The Quietus. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ↑ Bildeston - Former teacher lands honour for craftwork Template:Webarchive Suffolk Free Press. 3 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
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