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I am very proudly announcing that I will be supporting super-duper chart-topping fellow-Suffolk-born singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran at Brighton’s Concorde 2 on 6th Oct along with the fabulous Passenger
so excited! 
Fri, Sep 9 - 8.30 pm The Barnsbury, Islington,
Sat, Sep 10 - 7:00 pm Cyclodelic presents the Alleycat Dolls and Gigcat! Kingsland Road Studio, 288 Kingsland Road, e8 4dn £10 CHARITY GIG for Cancer Research UK- tix £8 in advance here - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=260548120631809
Sun, Sep 11 12:15 pm The Mayor’s THAMES FESTIVAL - Boat Cruise gig - leaving London Bridge City Pier 12.15 £5 with Tanya Auclair, James Massiah, Charlie Dark and Troy Von Majik, on the Elizbethan Paddle Steamer http://www.thamesfestival.org/weekend/detail/a_cruise_in_the_company_of
Sun, Sep 11 8:00 pm Live & Unamplified @THE BOOK CLUB, Shoreditch £3 with Samantha Whates, Blue Rose Code, Beans On Toast, Half Sisters, Russell Swallow https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163268807083688
Tue, Sep 13 8:30 pm Live In The Lion’s Den @ Golden Lion, BRISTOLhttps://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210703785650659
Sat, Sep 17 4:00 pm SOUTHSEA FESTIVAL Portsmouth, Fat Fox stage with Sound Of Rum and Dry The River http://www.southseafest.com/lineup/
Sun, Sep 18 8:00 pm Worlds End, FINSBURY PARK, London
Sat, Sep 24 8:00 pm MINDFUL ARTS FESTIVAL @ Old Vic Tunnels, London, £12 charity gig for Mind with Polarbear, Stephen Fry, Tracey Emin http://mindfulofart.com/events/
Fri, Sep 30 11:00 pm Secret Gig London
Thurs, Oct 6 8:00pm BRIGHTON CONCORDE 2 supporting ED SHEERAN and Passenger http://www.edsheeran.com http://www.myspace.com/passengerofficial
Sat, Oct 15 8:00 pm HUSH, Mayfair - free
Sun, Oct 23 8:00 pm 606 CLUB, Chelsea with Gwyneth Herbert
Sun, Nov 6 7:30 pm ONETASTE FESTIVAL @ The Bedford Balham, London
Sat, Feb 25 8:00 pm Festival @ CECIL SHARPE HOUSE, London
Hello!
I hope you are having a good Thursday so far…
..::FREE GIG TONIGHT!::..
A quick heads up to say tonight’s gig at the Vortex is FREE! Doors open at 8.30, I’m on first, and then Moshi Moshi Records’ Idiot Glee will be kicking off his UK tour
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/idiotglee
..::WORD MAGAZINE!::..
Out today is Word Magazine with a covermount CD that features my song Fill In The Colours which I wrote and recorded with Lulu And The Lampshades producer Olly Price - it’s a brand new slice of blossoming lusciousness, featuring percussion noises subtly made by a typewriter (channelling Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5!), a 1980s keyboard, and samples from Portico Quartet’s Nick Mulvey on the hang drum… and at the moment, Word Magazine is the only place you can hear it! I’m off to the newsagents now to pick one up, woop!
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/now-hear
..::RADIO::..
Last but not least, if you missed Dial D For Denial on the Radio this week, here’s the link - it was on Tom Robinson’s show, recommended by last week’s brilliant singer songwriter Kal Lavelle - you can hear it at about 1hr20mins in! I♥BBC6Music!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b011024p
Thanks so much, and lots of love to you,
Fiona xxx
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In March 2011 I was commissioned by the Tate Modern to write a new piece - a musical response to Richter’s “Cage Paintings”. I performed it beneath Richter’s breathtaking paintings at the Tate Modern as part of their free Visual Dialogues celebration event.
Fiona Bevan at Tate Modern
Thank you so much to everyone who came to watch. Video to follow soon!
23 Feb 5.30 - 6.15 - ICA - playing as part of Shunt Takeover
23 Feb 8pm - Three Blind Mice - Poetry Anthology Launch with Jo Shapcott + Declan Ryan
9 Mar 9pm - Electroacoustic Club with Brooke Sharkey @ Slaughtered Lamb
11 Mar 7.30pm - Film Premiere @ Empire Cinema Leicester Square
12 Mar 8pm - Gung Ho Down @ Hootenanny Brixton - band gig
19 Mar 1pm - Tate Modern - musical response to Richter’s John Cage Paintings
7 Apr 8pm - The Elgin - band gig
24th Apr 8pm - 606 club with Gwyneth Herbert
1 May 5.30pm - Bang Said The Gun at Camden Crawl
12 May - The Vortex, with Idiot Glee (MoshiMoshi)
26 May - The Cheltenham Underground presents The Decent Days & Nights Weekend @ Slak
17 Sep - Southsea Festival Portsmouth
Next week I will be supporting the remarkable, spellbinding, wonderful, guitar-maestro, singer-songwriter John Smith on two dates of his UK tour, before he goes on to support BellX1 on their European tour!
So Brighton folk, we will be playing on Sunday 21st Nov at the Unitarian Church, Brighton (click here for tickets)
And Londoners, on Tuesday 23rd Nov we’re hitting the Vortex in Dalston, London (tickets here)
It would be lovely to see you if you can make it along!
Lots of love
Fiona x
“John Smith is a guitar man from Devon, quietly becoming recognized as one of the most exciting voices on the British Folk scene. He has supported John Martyn, Iron and Wine, Seth Lakeman, Davy Graham, John Renbourn, David Gray, Cara Dillon, Martin Carthy, Jools Holland, Tinariwen and Kelly Joe Phelps, among others.
He has two records out, Map Or Direction (2009) and The Fox & The Monk (2006).”
Fiona Bevan supporting John Smith, John Smith sporting a skull
“Brilliant” **** MOJO
“Utterly engrossing, earthy and compelling” **** R2
“Map Or Direction finds his own unselfconsciously mythic songwriting bolstered by rippling guitar parts and a wounded-bear bray. Great things are ahead” The Sunday Times
“Spellbinding” Time Out
“A guitar genius…He sounds as though he arrived 60 years ago but looks startlingly young, perched on a chair, quietly confident, charming and instantly engaging.” The Sun
Website www.johnsmithjohnsmith.com
Fiona Bevan at Forest Cafe, Edinburgh
| Date: |
Saturday, April 3, 2010
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7:00pm - 11:00pm
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| Location: |
Headgate Theatre, 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, Essex, CO2 7AT
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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!
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
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