Alex Edwards Music

Reputed “The Sting of Oz” (FAQ Café, Moscow) in Russia, Alex Edwards had returned home for further touring in 2015 before yielding to a creative sabbatical in 2016 – whereby he composed his debut novel “Maradha’s Game” over many years… a legendary science-fiction classic, which at 220,000 words was released on the internet in 2022.

But wait – isn’t this a musician? True, prior to his adventures in other expressions, Alex Edwards’ successful Northern NSW mini-tour in late 2015 helped cement his debut 20-track release “Flight Frost”, which as a production-free pilgrimage into singer-songwriter and folk-indie acoustic studies (and mastered at the famous Abbey Road!) remains an independent masterpiece in the Brisbane music scene.

Fast-forward 11 years to 2026, and Alex’s prolific literacy across many media had a myriad of crests and troughs to speak of, fulfilling Tapio Ylinen of Eclipse Music’s 2014 forecast of Alex Edwards personifying “One man and his guitar” – in other words – the tunesmith’s continuation of being an independent artist, rather than ever signing to a record label.

Indeed, whether it was Snowcats, Bank & Jail or Project Andromeda, the truth was, these bands were always intervolving with Alex Edwards Band’s alternative material. And now, after 16 years since 2010 – when Alex Edwards first performed in public at the now defunct Music Café in West End, Brisbane – with 79 releases online across 5 EP’s and 4 LP’s – the plot has absolutely coagulated.

Science fiction books, poems, a feature film animation, and so many popular songs all mesh into a kind of meta-artist statement as at the present, but how to sum it up? Sure, dozens of performances around the ridges of Fortitude Valley and beyond – but to describe it? Perhaps the milieu of Alex’s artwork really connotes the longing for connection, whether it be to historical figures and times, romantic others or extra-terrestrial kin – ideally not so galactically far away.

From a sketchbook of over 150 songs (and a combined total of 100,000 streams for those he released), the future looks pretty bright for the 2022 QMA-nominated singer-songwriter… 2021 equal first place national prize-winner for poetry and prose (through Access Arts Australia) and part-time music journalist who continues to gain comparisons to artists like Elliot Smith and The Shins.

His latest (mini) EP “Future Fraternities” was released on June 15 amid confirmations of a full band show later this year in Brisbane (venue & date to be revealed!).