Out today! The new music video for A Broken Heart Can Heal!

You can buy A Broken Heart Can Heal as part of the “Us And The Darkness” EP here.
OR, very excitingly, also out today is the We Are Folk Vol 1 compilation, featuring my fellow Ed Sheeran support act, Passenger, along with Ruarri Joseph, The Bonfire Band and many more

da da!

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

Here is an interview and some footage from my Tate Modern commission in March 2011.

Visual Dialogues - Fiona Bevan from Young Tate on Vimeo.

Many thanks to Tate Modern, Young Tate and the lovely talented folk at Reel Nice .

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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I spent the most glorious day of the year so far in the sepulchral, hipster church of too-cool that is Dalston’s Boys Club - bristling with taxidermy birds, mannequins and stacks of darkly smudged oil paintings against the walls - with sunlight jealously peeping through the gothic scraps of black sheet on the windows at the camera and lights glinting in the gloom. This was how I filmed an exclusive version of Pirates And Diamonds for Spine TV’s March issue of their Stolen Moments series. Here is the film, produced and directed by Dan Canyon and assisted by Jackson Ducasse.

Also featured in this month’s issue are artist Yuko Michishita explaining her position regarding insects - dead or alive, Lucy Rose singing a beautiful version of ‘Scar’ and artist Paul Fryer speaking about the responsibility of power. http://www.spinetv.net/stolenmoments

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.

www.Tate.org.uk

Fiona Bevan at Tate Modern

Thank you so much to everyone who came to watch. Video to follow soon!

I’ve just found out I’m a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition, chosen by judges including Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, Regina Spektor, Adele and Robert Smith (The Cure)!… Well done to all the winners, truly worldwide.

This is the song they liked:

Dial D For Denial by Fiona Bevan by fionabevan

You can buy the song on itunes here!

This Friday 11th March 2011 is the UK Premiere of “Life Goes On”, the feature film I wrote some music for and have a cameo appearance in!
I wrote a song called Zindagi especially for the film, along with music by Sarod-player extraordinaire Soumik Datta and Hindi lyrics by Bollywood super-songwriter Javed Akhtar. The film is a British-Asian retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear, starring Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri and Soha Ali Khan among others, with visually stunning direction by Sangeeta Datta (Brick Lane). There are a few tickets left for the premiere at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, London, on Friday night at 7.30 - www.empirecinemas.co.uk

Or it is being shown at selected cinemas nationwide - check your local listings
LifeGoesOnFilm

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