Edison's Children

Edison's Children
Edison’s Children 2011, Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood.
Background information
Origin	Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, Sugar Loaf, New York, United States
Genres	Progressive rock, neo-progressive rock, alternative rock, psychedelic rock, acoustic rock
Years active	2011–present
Labels	Random Disturbance Records, Racket Records
Associated acts	Marillion, Transatlantic, Kino, Acoustic Industry, Sunblister, Blackwood & Foti, The Eric Blackwood Band, Steve Hogarth, The Wishing Tree, DeeExpus, Robin Boult, Fish, Crimson Steele
Website	www.edisonschildren.com
Members	Pete Trewavas Eric Blackwood

Edison’s Children are a British and U.S.-based rock duo, formed in Aylesbury, England and Sugar Loaf, New York by Pete Trewavas of Marillion and Transatlantic and Eric Blackwood in 2011. They released a concept album, In The Last Waking Moments…, in 2011. Their song "A Million Miles Away (I Wish I Had A Time Machine)" was released as a single in June 2012 and reached the FMQB Top 40 for 10 weeks total, peaking on 18 October 2012 at #32 for most played song on United States Commercial Radio.

Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood wrote, produced, and engineered their album and played nearly every instrument on the album, except for the special guest appearances: Steve Rothery of Marillion; Steve Hogarth of Marillion; Ian Mosley of Marillion; Mark Kelly of Marillion; Robin Boult (Guitarist for Fish); and, Andy Ditchfield of DeeExpus. Edison's Children's "In The Last Waking Moments..." marks the only time that all of Marillion have performed on the same album, that wasn't an actual "Marillion" release.

A new haunting concept album was released in December 2013 called "The Final Breath Before November". The "edge of midnight on Halloween" theme provided a dark canvas and a step away from the more "commercial" sounding In the Last Waking Moments... The album was based on an actual "ghostly" encounter between Eric Blackwood and a young teenage suicide which Eric reported as being the most horrific thing he's ever experienced... as he exhibited "A morbidity equal to that of coming upon a plane crash". The album again featured Eric Blackwood and Pete Trewavas as songwriters but also a prominent role by drummer Henry Rogers of Touchstone and DeeExpus. Nineteen-year-old Henry Rogers had won recently the awards for "World's Best Drummer" by England's "Classic Rock Society" for 2 years in a row, beating out Dream Theater/Transatlantic's Mike Portnoy who had long held the honor.