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THE DAWDLER LINSEY TEGGERT TALKS TO NEWCASTLE MUSICIAN JOHN EDGAR ABOUT HIS NEW EP PURSED MODERN: A SELFDESCRIBED HOMAGE TO HIS FORMER LIFE AS AN ABLE-BODIED PERSON, HIS CONTINUING MUSICAL JOURNEY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMOUR IMAGE BY AMELIA READ
As John Edgar was writing the tracks for his latest EP, Pursed Modern, he knew something was terribly wrong with his health. John, aka The Dawdler, had been struggling for several years but things seemed to be deteriorating faster. “I knew shit was hitting the fan and that the wheels were falling off in my health department, but I didn’t understand why,” muses John with the same sense of dark humour that’s peppered throughout his
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creative output. After years of misdiagnosis and his body in steady decline, John was finally diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis towards the end of 2021. In retrospect, things began to make sense. “Over the years, what I’ve wanted to do stylistically has changed, which of course is normal: tastes and influences change. But it
