Dickon Edwards
Musical artist
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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]
3 September 1971
Dickon Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Dickon Angel |
| Born | Richard Edwards[1] 3 September 1971 Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
| Genres | Indie pop |
| Occupations | Musician, Writer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Website | dickonedwards |
He was a founding member of the bands Orlando and Fosca, and briefly played guitar in the band Spearmint.[4][5] He also wrote the lyrics for a song on the Scarlet's Well album Black Tulip Wings, 'Narcissus in the Maze'.
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] the follow-up title A Traveller's Year,[9] Our History of the 20th Century, [10] and Bus Fare[11] and the blog was also featured in an edition of the BBC1 arts programme Imagine.[12] In May 2017, it was recognised as the UK’s longest running web diary by the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London, as part of their exhibition Dear Diary.[13]
In September 2004 he wrote the afterword for a new edition of Jerome K. Jerome's The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.[14]
In September 2007, he contributed an account of his first trip to Tangier with Shane MacGowan, plus a set-list from his club night Beautiful & Damned, plus a photo of himself with Anne Pigalle, walking a lobster in homage to the French poet Gérard de Nerval, to The Decadent Handbook, edited by Rowan Pelling.[15]
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.[16]
Edwards was one of 57 modern dandies featured in the 2013 book by Rose Callahan (photographs) and Nathaniel Adams (words) I Am Dandy: The Return of the Elegant Gentleman.[17]
In 2021, Edwards completed a PhD on Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism at Birkbeck College, University of London.[18]
In October 2025 a collection of Edwards' diary entries from 1997 to 2007, edited by Robert Wringham and with an introduction by Travis Elborough, was published by P & H Books, entitled Diary at the Centre of the Earth. Vol. I. The book also contained 'supplementary material' in the form of magazine articles and interviews, together with 2025 annotations. [19]
Personal life
Known for his dandy aesthetic,[20] Dickon has peroxide blond 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.[21] Edwards is a son of the quiltmaker and author Lynne Edwards MBE,[22] and the cartoonist Brian "Bib" Edwards.[23][24] His brother was the Adam Ant[25] guitarist, Tom Edwards.[26]