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Staff Profiles
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 Bellamy Edwards
Writer
Bellamy Edwards: A post-wave, quasi-modernist, swing daddy master who was raised in Edinburgh - the international city of culture - and educated there during the 'train-spotting' years. He left, forever, three weeks after finding his first 'real' job and took refuge in a commune of artists and radicals on a remote peninsula in the north of Scotland. Eventually he left with a caravan of gypsies and ended up in Jaffa, Israel where he bartered for a living in the five thousand year old market. There he raised enough money to travel through the continent of Africa, using Accra as his base. A few years later he was back in Europe, moving from city to city, always on the fringes of society, living precariously, hand-to-mouth, with tremendous style until eventually, ten years ago, he settled down in Amsterdam, returning to Africa whenever he can.
 Bellamy is seeped in dark Juju and he grooves around like a bad thing. He once had high ideas verging on philanthropy, but they are now being replaced with nihilism and ennui as he watches society fragment and collapse into a gaudy, vulgar farce where only the banal and commonplace are of any consequence. When he was a small child his grandfather warned him, 'Never underestimate the mysterious power of stupidity,' and time and time again he is sadly reminded of this aphorism as culture becomes a word used only to describe bacterial growth in a petri-dish.
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