Dickon Edwards

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FieldValue
nameDickon Edwards
birth_nameRichard Edwards
birth_date
originBildeston, Suffolk, England
aliasDickon Angel
instrumentVocals, guitar
genreIndie pop
occupationMusician, Writer
associated_actsFosca, Orlando, Spearmint
website
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| name = Dickon Edwards | image = | image_size = | birth_name = Richard Edwards | birth_date = | origin = Bildeston, Suffolk, England | alias = Dickon Angel | instrument = Vocals, guitar | genre = Indie pop | occupation = Musician, Writer | associated_acts = Fosca, Orlando, Spearmint | website =

Dickon Edwards (born Richard Edwards;{{cite web | url = https://www.dickonedwards.com/diary/index.php/archive/heres-what-i-know-so-far/ | title = Diary at the Centre of the Earth | last = Edwards | first = Richard | date = 1997-12-08 | website = Dickon Edwards | access-date = 2024-03-26 | quote = My name is Richard Edwards. My friends and family call me Dickon, but these days I tend to proffer myself to strangers as Richard, in an attempt to be helpful.

He was a founding member of the bands Orlando and Fosca, and briefly played guitar in the band Spearmint.

He has kept a blog called The Diary at the Centre of the Earth since 8 December 1997 (predating the 1999 coining of the term "blog" - he terms it an "online diary"). Excerpts from the blog were included in Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison's A London Year and in the follow-up title A Traveller's Year.

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.

In 2021, Edwards completed a PhD on Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Personal life

Known for his dandy aesthetic, 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. Edwards is a son of the quiltmaker and author Lynne Edwards MBE, and the cartoonist Brian "Bib" Edwards. His brother was the Adam Ant guitarist, Tom Edwards.

References

References

  1. [https://www.dickonedwards.com/diary/index.php/archive/new-year-message-a-sussex-carol/] ''DickonEdwards.com'' 31 December 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  2. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/01/travis-elboroughs-top-10-literary-diarists Top Ten Literary Diarists] ''The Guardian.'' 1 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  3. [http://tmcq.co.uk/interviews/dickon-edwards/ Dickon Edwards] ''The Minds Construction Quarterly.'' Winter 2003. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  4. [http://www.spearmint.net/spearmint.html A Spearmint Biography] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-03-04 Spearmint.net. Retrieved 1 February 2016.)
  5. [http://www.dickonedwards.com/diary/ The Diary at the Centre of the Earth] Dickonedwards.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  6. (April 20, 2006). "It's the links, stupid". The Economist.
  7. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JSokAQAAQBAJ&q=dickon%20edwards&pg=PA11 Introduction] ''A London Year''. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  8. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iAqaCgAAQBAJ&q=dickon+edwards&pg=PT564 Contributors] ''A Travellers Year''. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  9. [http://www.butisitart.org/index2_files/press/Fosca_TPSOTR_press_release_sv.pdf Press Release for Painted Side of the Rocket]. Butisitart.org. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  10. [https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/47553/ Dickon Edwards PhD Thesis final version]. BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  11. [http://livesofthedandies.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/i-am-dandy-has-arrived.html ''I am Dandy'' has arrived!] ''Lives of the Dandies.'' 29 September 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  12. [http://thequietus.com/articles/07224-dickon-edwards-tony-sylvester-turbonegro Fix Up Look Sharp: Dickon Edwards Meets Turbonegro's English Gent] ''The Quietus.'' 20 October 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  13. [http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/latest-news/bildeston-former-teacher-lands-honour-for-craftwork-1-556215 Bildeston - Former teacher lands honour for craftwork] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-02-03 ''Suffolk Free Press''. 3 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2016.)
  14. Hooper-scharf, Terry. (8 February 2014). "COMIC BITS ONLINE: Tribute To Brian "Bib" Edwards by John Schiltz".
  15. "Diary at the Centre of the Earth » Seeing Dad".
  16. (27 January 2017). "Adam Ant cancels shows due to death of guitarist".
  17. Noble, Jason. "Fundraising page launched for Suffolk-based Adam Ant guitarist Tom Edwards". [[Ipswich Star]].

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