Welcome to the website of Dickon Edwards. Mr Edwards is a writer, dysfunctional dandy, flâneur, lyricist, DJ, and member of the recording artistes Fosca.

Mr Edwards has kept a online diary since 1997, inadvertently becoming one of the UK’s longest running blogs. Over the years, the diary has appeared on TV (BBC1’s arts programme, Imagine) and in various periodicals across the world, from the UK’s Select (RIP) to Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter.

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FOSCA NEWS
The new Fosca album The Painted Side Of The Rocket is available to order at the But Is It Art website.

100 copies are packaged with a limited edition book of lyrics and other writings, The Portable Dickon Edwards. The book is not available separately.

The album is also available on iTunes.

A live album, recorded at the Swedish festival ‘Rip It Up’ in 2007, is available online. More details here.

The Fosca website is here. There’s also a Fosca MySpace page.

THE DECADENT HANDBOOK
Out now in paperback, published by the wonderful Dedalus Books. DE contributes an account of his first trip to Tangier with Shane MacGowan, plus a set-list from club night Beautiful & Damned, plus a photo of himself with Anne Pigalle, walking a lobster in homage to Gérard de Nerval. Available from Amazon.

“The book is an antidote to bland modernity…includes contributions from contemporary libertines such as Dickon Edwards (pictured left with pet lobster), to the godfathers of decadence - The Earl of Rochester. J.K.Huysmans and Oscar Wilde. Five stars.”
- The Leeds Guide Book of the Fortnight

“…’El Hombre Indelible’ by Dickon Edwards has a wonky charm of its own….”
- The Daily Telegraph.

SCARLET’S WELL - BLACK TULIP WINGS (Siesta Records)
Buy online.

Scarlet’s Well are a fantastic baroque-pop band fronted by Bid, formerly of The Monochrome Set. DE can heartily recommend all the Scarlet’s Well albums; they’re little treasures of secret joy. On their latest release, “Black Tulip Wings”, he’s written the lyrics to a Gilbert & Sullivan-esque song called “Narcissus In The Maze”, set to music by Martin White.

Plan B
DE is a contributor to Everett True’s excellent UK music magazine, Plan B. Lately they’ve sent him to review films and interview clever directors. Plan B is available from a growing number of UK outlets, and from the website.

The High Horse
Dickon Edwards also contributes to London periodical The High Horse. A short story, Constantin Underground appeared in issue 2, while an article about his tentative adventures on a narrowboat, Tossing Upon The Spume, can be found in issue 4. Copies priced £1.50 are available in London at the ICA bookshop, Reckless Records (Berwick St) and Rough Trade (Neals Yard). For mail order details, write to: thehighhorse@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.thehighhorse.net

The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
D.E. has written the Afterword for a new edition of Jerome K Jerome’s 1886 collection of wry essays, The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow.

Published by Snowbooks at £9.99.
ISBN: 1905005040.
Click on the cover for more information at the publisher’s website.
Click here to read a review by The Evening Standard.