Leeds
Andrew Edge is the fifth child of Joseph Leonard Edge (b. 1926, d. 1986) and Audrey Edge, née Kirkbride (b. 1928), and grew up in Swarcliffe, East Leeds. He started playing drums at the age of 15; his first professional job being at the East Leeds Working Men's Club (now Seacroft Green Social Club), at weekends for £19 a week, playing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening for singers, or providing backing music. Edge took drum lessons from Leeds drummer Doug King, and also Geoff Myers, as Myers was a noted drum teacher in Leeds, and played with the big band Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Edge later worked with musicians from the Leeds College of Music in the group GPO (with Dave Cass, who later worked with Jive Bunny), as well as local Working Men's Club bands, like Street Choir. This involved playing as many as seven or eight performances a week, while also having a full-time job.
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