Dickon Edwards
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Dickon Edwards (born Richard Edwards;<ref name="Richards1997">Template:Cite web</ref> 3 September 1971), also known as Dickon Angel, is a St Leonards-on-Sea-based <ref>[1] DickonEdwards.com 31 December 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2025.</ref> indie pop musician and diarist. <ref>Top Ten Literary Diarists The Guardian. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref>
He was a founding member of the bands Orlando and Fosca, and briefly played guitar in the band Spearmint.<ref>Dickon Edwards The Minds Construction Quarterly. Winter 2003. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref><ref>A Spearmint Biography Template:Webarchive Spearmint.net. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref>
He has kept a blog called The Diary at the Centre of the Earth since 8 December 1997<ref>The Diary at the Centre of the Earth Dickonedwards.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref> (predating the 1999 coining of the term "blog"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> - he terms it an "online diary"). Excerpts from the blog were included in Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison's A London Year<ref>Introduction A London Year. 3 October 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref> and in the follow-up title A Traveller's Year.<ref>Contributors A Travellers Year. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref>
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.<ref>Press Release for Painted Side of the Rocket. Butisitart.org. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref>
In 2021, Edwards completed a PhD on Ronald Firbank and the Legacy of Camp Modernism at Birkbeck College, University of London.<ref>Dickon Edwards PhD Thesis final version. BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online. Retrieved 3 April 2022.</ref>
Personal life
Known for his dandy aesthetic,<ref>I am Dandy has arrived! Lives of the Dandies. 29 September 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref> 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.<ref>Fix Up Look Sharp: Dickon Edwards Meets Turbonegro's English Gent The Quietus. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref> Edwards is a son of the quiltmaker and author Lynne Edwards MBE,<ref>Bildeston - Former teacher lands honour for craftwork Template:Webarchive Suffolk Free Press. 3 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2016.</ref> and the cartoonist Brian "Bib" Edwards.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> His brother was the Adam Ant<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> guitarist, Tom Edwards.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>