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Based In London And Worthing Fosca Is A Foursome Formed By Dickon Angel Aka Richard Dickon Edwards Lead Vocal Lyrics Some Guitar After Spending Some Years In The Group Orlando Who Released Several Singles - Including One Under The Name Shelley Reproduction Is Pollution Sarah Records 1995 - And An Album Passive Soul Blanco Y Negro 1997 . His Previous Adventures Also Include Modelling At Various "unusual" Fashion Shows Playing Guitar For The Band Spearmint And Keeping An Almost Notorious Internet Diary "Website Of The Month" Select Magazine 1999 . After Leaving Orlando In 1998 Dickon Experimented With The Fosca Name Via Several Line-Ups Lead Vocalists And Musical Directions Playing A Handful Of London Shows And Releasing A Self-Produced EP Along The Way The Galaxie 500-Bothering Nervous London Something Velvet November 1999 Before Realising Two Things A That He Needed A Musical Collaborator For Guidance And Direction And B That He Should Take The Lead Vocal Duties Himself In The Interests Of Lyrical Truth. The Former He Found In February 2000 Alex Sharkey Guitars Bass Keyboards Programming Backing Vocals . Alex's Own History Includes The Groups Brighter Several Singles And An Album On Sarah Records In The Early 1990s Hal One Single Vinyl Japan 1994 And Pinkie. Dickon Cites Brighter's Christmas From Their Laurel Album As One Of His Favourite Tracks Of All Time And When Alex Wrote And Suggested They Tried Making Pop Music Together He Leapt At The Chance. Fosca Was Completed With The Invaluable Presence Of Two Players Who Had Both Appeared On Nervous London And At Various Pre-Alex Fosca Shows. One Was Rachel Stevenson Synth Backing Vocals Band Organising Who'd First Met Dickon In The Audience At A Gig - A Show By Brighter In Fact - And The Other Sheila B Cellos Rehearsal Space A Londoner Friend Of Rachel's And Member Of A 1960s-Style Dance Troupe. This Permanent Version Of Fosca Made Its Live Debut In March Supporting Trembling Blue Stars At London's Spitz Club. April Was Spent Recording An Album On Earth To Make The Numbers Up With Producer Ian Catt Whose Previous Credits Include Saint Etienne Kylie Minogue Trembling Blue Stars And Shampoo. A Single The Agony Without The Ecstasy Was Released On Shinkansen In June And The Album Followed At The Start Of October. At The Start Of 2001 Fosca Began Work On Their Second Album Diary Of An Antibody Again With Ian Catt. Due To Various Delays In The Recording An EP Featuring The First Three Songs From The Sessions Was Released In October With Supine On The Astroturf As The Lead Track. The Band Played A Short Tour Of France With Trembling Blue Stars In April And Played The Farwell Benno Festival In Sweden In July. The Band Are Currently Hugely Popular In Sweden - They've Appeared On The Front Covers Of Fanzines And Dickon Has Been Interviewed By National Radio - And They'll Be Returning There In Mid-October For A 4-Date Tour. This Tour Will Also See The Debut Of New Recruit Kate Dornan On Keyboards As Alex Has Decided He No Longer Wished To Play Live.

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