Background
Edwards was born in Aberteifi, Ceredigion, and the band was formed at Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi/Cardigan County Secondary school in 1982.
Edwards was born in Aberteifi, Ceredigion, and the band was formed at Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi/Cardigan County Secondary school in 1982.
As well as Datblygu, Edwards worked with Tŷ Gwydr and pioneering electronic act Llwybr Llaethog on L.L. v T.G. Military Cross DRE (1992), around which time he took up work as a secondary school teacher. Health problems and alcoholism forced Datblygu into retirement after releasing the Putsch double A single in 1995. Edwards has since been largely ignored by mainstream Welsh media but interest was revived after Ankstmusik re-released 1993"s classic Libertino in a triple disc box set along with the first two studio albums Wyau and Pyst in 2004.
Datblygu returned to the studio in 2008 to record a one-off 7" single entitled Cânew york Mynach Modern.
Edwards"s battle with health problems and alcoholism was chronicled in an O Flaen dy Lygaid documentary, produced by British Broadcasting Corporation Cymru for S4C. Edwards"s autobiography, Atgofion Hen Wanc, was published by Y Lolfa in 2009. Datblygu have been performing occasionally over the past few years.
In 2014 the band released new material and were featured in a documentary, Prosiect Datblygu, made in 2012 and broadcast on S4C to mark the release of the new songs.
