Diary at the Centre of the Earth : Vol 1 1997-2007 – Dickon Edwards

Softback

316 pages

Ponies & Horses

Songwriter, dyspraxic dandy-about-town, DJ, late-flowering academic, and accidental pioneering blogger with one of the longest-running Internet diaries in the world, Dickon Edwards bears witness to history, squeamishly uncertain about becoming part of it himself.

Between 1997 and 2007, Dickon leads his band Fosca to new heights, plays with indie bands Spearmint and Scarlet’s Well, walks a lobster, represents the Green Party for his beloved London district of Highgate, appears on the BBC’s Imagine, serves as a literary and film critic for fledgling magazine Plan B, comes to terms with his newfound status as a mildly prominent diarist, and serves as Shane MacGowan‘s “New Romantic butler” in Tangier.

A young genius loci of the queer and indiepop scenes of turn-of-the-millennium London, the diary takes us to clubs like Kash Point, Trash, and Edwards’ own The Beautiful and Damned, through sites of historic Soho.