30th Mar 2010

“No Place Like Home” @ Headgate Theatre Colchester

 

Date:
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Time:
7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location:
Headgate Theatre, 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, Essex, CO2 7AT
Fallen Idols present “No Place Like Home” – an intimate night of completely acoustic music at the gorgeous Headgate Theatre, featuring five local singer songwriters with an insatiable wanderlust:
FIONA BEVAN!        http://www.myspace.com/fionabevan
KERRY LEATHAM!  http://www.myspace.com/kerryleatham
ROSALIE BEVAN!   http://www.myspace.com/rosaliebevan
DOGTANION!          http://www.myspace.com/dogtanion
JULIANA MEYER!   http://www.myspace.com/julianameyer 

FIONA BEVAN
Fiona Bevan’s sweet, fiery warblings have been compared to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Marc Bolan. Her oddball pop songs are inflected with folk, and her award-winning lyrics pry into the dark, obsessive corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors, bored bubble-gum shop-girls, and forlorn lovers sleeping out in trees.
Fiona has been shimmering her blonde afro round the London gig circuit as well as playing in Zurich, Berlin, Glastonbury and Secret Garden Party festivals, and on Channel 4.
She self-released her debut album on iTunes last autumn, and will appear in a forthcoming British film starring Om Puri.

“Absolutely brilliant” Tom Robinson, BBC6Music
“Spine-tingling. Fiona Bevan completely transported me” Alex James, Blur
“Soulful and eccentric” Guardian
“A captivating new voice” London Jazz Festival 2009
“Radiant and uplifting . . . a major talent in the waiting” glasswerk.co.uk

KERRY LEATHAM
About to embark on a “Homemade Tour” of the UK with her label Tape Club Records, Kerry Leatham comes home to give Colchester a sneak preview of her “beautiful, intelligent urban-folk”.
Her debut album is due for release this summer - titled ‘Stories From The Self Obsessed’. The first single – ‘A Different Light’ - is out April 5th, in partnership with Tape Club Records. She will be singing a set of her own shy, delicate daydream songs, accompanied by herself on guitar and by Jay Darwish (Newton Faulkner’s bassist) on double-bass.

ROSALIE BEVAN
Influenced by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Gershwin to Pantera, Rosalie will be smokily seranading Colchester with her husky, sultry voice, accompanying herself with irresistible toe-tapping jazz/blues guitar work.

DOGTANION
Also from the Tape Club Records stable, fellow Colchester boy
Dogtanion will be playing his own variety of “harmonic, dynamic and surprising” music. Having made bedroom electronica since the age of 17, Dogtanion has survived two Glastonbury festivals, a weird thing with his big toe, and a terminated record deal. Now sliding around on his socks between East London and Manchester, Dogtanion will also be warming up for his appearance on the “Homemade Tour”.

JULIANA MEYER
“…definitely a star in the making” BBC Radio. 
Following the release of Juliana’s self-produced debut album ‘Holding Up The Sky’ in 2007, the success of the album led to an invitation to perform at the BBC Gala Show for BBC1’s Children In Need, where she performed alongside music legends, as well as performances at Glastonbury Festival, the Houses of Parliament, and headlining The Barn Stage at Beach Break Live Festival. She recently won Best Female at the EMAE Awards, and was nominated for Best Pop. She was also nominated as Best Solo Artist and Best Original Act in the TopOfTheOx Awards and her album ‘Holding Up The Sky’ was chosen by Music-News.com as one of their ‘Best Albums of 2008′, placed between Take That and Oasis.

Tickets are £4 and are available from the Headgate Theatre box office - 01206 366000

Doors at 7pm

Don’t miss it, it’s going to be a magical one-off!

30th Mar 2010

Album Review for Plant Your Heart

Every now and then you come across an artist who makes you stop what you’re doing and really take notice, today that is Fiona Bevan. Based in Suffolk in the UK, Fiona is a singer songwriter who has recently released her debut album “Plant Your Heart“, which according to her blurb is lyrically about “the dark corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors and forlorn lovers sleeping out in trees.”, which sounds like an interesting combination for sure.
On “Moths” I became instantly engrossed by her voice, which although playfully jumps from word to word quite gleefully, does purvey a real sense of depth and sincerity that draws you in and doesn’t let go. The music behind is pretty Folk orientated but there are links to Jazz and Soul, which help to set her apart from her piers.”
http://musicliberation.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-music-fiona-bevan.html
20th Mar 2010

Playing in Bath tonight!

I’m off to play in beautiful Bath tonight…seeing fields flash by from the train reminds me of The Build Up by Feist and Kings Of Convenience

:)

8th Jan 2010

“Life Goes On” wins best film

Last year I was involved in the making of “Life Goes On”, a film directed by Sangeeta Datta, starring Sharmila Tagore, Soha Ali Khan, Om Puri and Girish Karnad.
I co-wrote some of the film’s music with composer and sarod player Soumik Datta, www.myspace.com/soumikdatta and I also had a cameo role in the film, playing and singing in a bar.
Life Goes On has just been declared the Best Film at the Pravasi Film Festival which concluded on Wednesday.
http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/cinema/article76681.ece Production photo by Vipul Sangoi.

http://www.stormglassproductions.com/Stormglass/Life_Goes_On.html

I’ll let you know UK release details as soon as they’re definite! :)

28th Dec 2009

There Are Owls In The Bushes - Headgate Theatre, Colchester


18th Nov 2009

The Vortex - London Jazz Festival


Playing “Song For Our Brother” at the Vortex during the London Jazz Festival 2009

Playing “Dial D For Denial” joined by the wonderful Jonathan Geyevu on piano

Jonathan Geyevu, Fiona Bevan and Theo Bard
www.myspace.com/jonathangeyevu
www.myspace.com/theobard

16th Nov 2009

“Plant Your Heart” - the new album

“Plant Your Heart”, my debut solo album is FINISHED and OUT!

It’s available on iTunes here:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/plant-your-heart/id337980852

Please leave a review on iTunes if you can - thank you! :)

Plant Your Heart is also available as a Limited Edition CD in gorgeous recycled card packaging – click here to buy, but be quick as it won’t hang around long!

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6075774

The sweet, fiery warblings of Suffolk singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan have been compared to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Marc Bolan. Her band simmer and shimmer, her folk songs are inflected with jazz, and her award-winning lyrics pry into the dark corners of love, with a cast of stumbling party-girls, fickle sailors and forlorn lovers sleeping out in trees.

Fiona Bevan has been steadily flouncing her blonde afro round gigs in London / Brighton / Manchester / Zurich / Berlin / Glastonbury. She recently faced the judges on Channel 4’s “Orange Unsigned Act” with trembling knees and a cheeky grin, and won over Blur’s Alex James with her melodies and guitaring.

After a spring and summer jam-packed with gigging, including the acclaimed Vortex Tour East for the Mayor of London’s East Fest 09, Fiona has just released her debut solo album.

“Absolutely brilliant” Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

“Spine-tingling. Fiona Bevan completely transported me” Alex James, Blur

“Soulful and eccentric” The Guardian

“Film noir atmospheric, scorpion stinging, saccharine-coated Hell Hath No Fury ditties. Splendid stuff.” whisperinandhollerin.com

“Radiant and uplifting . . . a major talent in the waiting” glasswerk.co.uk

Fiona Bevan’s new album, “Plant Your Heart” is: Produced by Andy Fell.
Recorded at Real World Studios, Bath, and in living rooms in Hampstead and Gospel Oak, London, waiting for planes to go over, for summer storms to subside and for taxis to finish pirouetting in the road outside.
Featuring star performances from Francesca Simmons, Paul Taylor, Mark Thomas, Rosalie Bevan, Laura Bevan, Tim Walker, Robin Baynton and Andy Fell.

Mastered by Greg Calbi (Grizzly Bear / Sonic Youth / Martha Wainwright / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Mercury Rev etc)

Artwork by Caroline Ayello Wright

Photography by Ben Broomfield

8th Nov 2009

One Taste Festival @ The Bedford

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2nd Nov 2009

The Social - supporting at Dan Clews’ album launch


30th Oct 2009

In Awe Of A Mirror Ball

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This mirror ball’s a slung moon
That heaves the tides of new tunes
That slap the yellow sides smooth
Of an old wood ship that moves
Mysterious beneath you - 
That rocks, creaks, leaks and, sighing
Capsizes, tips us all in
To swim and find we’re breathing - 
Glad of leaning out towards
A fine silver glittered orb

Fiona Bevan