John Edwards took up bass around 1987 and co-founded The Pointy Birds, a group that provided award-winning music for The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs dance troupes. During the early 1990s Edwards started to perform solo and to play with other improvising musicians, including Lol Coxhill and Phil Minton, while also touring as a member of B-Shops For The Poor, The Honkies and GOD. Since 1995 he has been one of the key figures on the British improvising scene, playing with The London Improvisers Orchestra and collaborating with – among many others – Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Eddie Prévost, Veryan Weston, John Butcher, Alex Ward and Louis Moholo. He has been a member of Bruise along with Mark Sanders and Tony Bevan, and has toured and recorded in a trio with Bevan and Sunny Murray. Other ventures have included work with electroacoustic composer John Wall, Spring Heel Jack, FunDaMental and The Remote Viewers.
