Andrew Edge was born on David Andrew Edge; 8 December 1956 and is a musician from Leeds, England.
19 Facts About Andrew Edge
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Andrew Edge moved to London in the late 1970s, and joined the Thompson Twins.
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Andrew Edge then joined Savage Progress, who supported the Thompson Twins on a tour of Britain in 1984.
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Andrew Edge changed to vocals and writing songs after he moved from London to Linz, Austria.
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Andrew Edge later released a solo album in 1996; Northern Sky, on BMG records.
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Andrew Edge released a CD in 2011 under the name Drumsing, with percussionist Judy Klausner.
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Andrew Edge took drum lessons from Leeds drummer Doug King, and Geoff Myers, as Myers was a noted drum teacher in Leeds, and played with the big band Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
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Andrew Edge later worked with musicians from the Leeds College of Music in the group GPO, as well as local Working Men's Club bands, like Street Choir.
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Andrew Edge played with them for eighteen months with Tom Bailey, Pete Dodd and Jon Roog.
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Andrew Edge later played drums for Uropa Lula, with David Lloyd, Allan Dias, Pete Fromm Carol Isaacs, and Chester Kamen who is the brother of pop singer Nick Kamen.
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Arista later dropped the group, and Andrew Edge joined Savage Progress.
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Andrew Edge played as a session musician for bands like The Chills Julian Cope and Freur.
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Andrew Edge worked again with Dodd and Roog from the Thompson Twins in a band called Big View, recording a single called August Grass, which was released on Point Records in 1982.
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Andrew Edge played a two-week tour of France with the Australian group Died Pretty in 1986, as drummer Chris Welsh had broken his foot in London.
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Andrew Edge then sang for the Austrian band Camorra, with Peter Androsch Robert Spour Sandy Sonntagbauer and Andreas Luger.
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Andrew Edge later formed the band YOYO in Linz, signing with EMI records in Vienna.
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Andrew Edge later worked with Robert Ponger, who was producer of Falco, and Austrian duo Paper Moon.
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In 1997, Andrew Edge sang Silent Night with Rainhard Fendrich.
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Andrew Edge has worked with Mojique v2.0, Karli Mostl, Bob Zabek, Andrew Edge recorded a CD with Josef 'Judy' Klausner featuring only voice and percussion.