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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]

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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]

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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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