Fosca

Fosca

Infobox musical artist
Name = Fosca


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Background = group_or_band
Origin = London, England
Genre = Indie pop, C86 (music)
Years_active = 1998 - Present
Label = But Is it Art? (2007 - Present) Shinkansen Records (2000-2002) Something Velvet Records (1999)
Associated_acts = Orlando
URL = [http://www.fosca.com/ Official website]
Current_members = Dickon Edwards
Rachel Stevenson
Tom Edwards
Kate Dornan
Past_members = Alex Sharkey
Sheila B
Charley Stone

Fosca are a British band, combining indie pop songwriting with synth pop instrumentation.

Fosca were founded by Dickon Edwards. The band debuted on Friday September 25 in 1998 at Queeruption in London. For the first show the band included seven members. The current line up is Dickon Edwards on vocals and guitar, Rachel Stevenson on keyboards and vocals, Kate Dornan on keyboards and vocals, Tom Edwards on guitar and former member Charley Stone performing live on guitar. They have released several CDs on Shinkansen Recordings.

The band was named after the protagonist in Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" based upon the translation of Lawrence Venuti of the novel Fosca by Igino Ugo Tarchetti, 1869.

Fosca are now with the Swedish independent record label But Is it Art?, on which they released their third album "The Painted Side of the Rocket" in Sweden on March 5 2008. UK release on April 28.

Discography

Studio albums

*"The Painted Side of the Rocket" (2008)
*"Diary of an Antibody" ( 2002 )
*"On Earth to Make the Numbers Up" (2000)

Live Albums

*"Fosca in Concert" ("2007")

EPs

*"Secret Crush on the Third Trombone" ("2002")
*"Supine on the Astroturf" ("2001")
*"The Agony Without the Ecstasy" ("2000")
*"Nervous, London" ("1999")

External links

* [http://www.fosca.com Fosca's Official Website]
* [http://dickonedwards.co.uk Dickon Edwards's Website (with his online diary "The Diary at the Centre of the Earth")]
* [http://millionreasons.livejournal.com Rachel Stevenson’s blog "A Million Reasons for Wanting to Carry on Living" on LiveJournal]
* [http://www.butisitart.org But Is it Art?]
*Myspace|Foscatheband
* [http://home.btconnect.com/smoke/shinkansen.htm Shinkansen Recordings]


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