Thank you so so much to everyone who came to the EP launch! Whoo, excellent times! I couldn’t have asked for anything more - wonderful vibes, the Underbelly rammed full to the gunnels, and some seriously great times.
Massive thank yous to the Samantha Whates and Gwyneth Herbert for their astonishingly beautiful music, the Underbelly, Cara (Kiki Investigates) for origami birds, fairy lights and magic twinkliness, Ruffle for doing great sound, Silke Spingies for brilliant posters and flyers, http://www.maidofgingerbread.co.uk for beautiful edible creations, and to Rosalie Bevan, Neil Luck and Billy Strachan - my band - who are all time legends and gods of music, joy and otherworldliness.

lots of love! Fiona x

Fiona Bevan Us And The Darkness EP launch party

Thursday, January 20, 2011 · 7:30pm - 11:00pm
Location Underbelly, underneath Zigfrid
11 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU
London, United Kingdom

Venus Climbing presents: CD Launch Party for Fiona Bevan’s brand new EP

Come and join us for a gorgeous evening celebrating the launch of Fiona Bevan’s new four song EP - “Us And The Darkness”!

The new limited edition cd with stunning artwork by Rosie Emerson will be available on the night for the first time, before its iTunes digital release.

There will be live music from Fiona Bevan and her band, as well as beautiful songs from Samantha Whates and and the wonderful Gwyneth Herbert!

There will also be themed gingerbread (how often do you get to say that sentence?!) from the stunning Maid Of Gingerbread

There will be twinklings.
There will be shimmerings.
There will be bold flashes of light and colour slashing the dark depths of the underbelly.

This is not to be missed - See you there!

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

Thursday 20th January 2011 - Underbelly, Hoxton Square
7.30-11pm £3 entry
For guestlist/queries/more info, email: venusclimbing AT gmail DOT com

xxx

My new EP, “Us And The Darkness”, will be on sale at the launch party, this Thursday 20th January at the Underbelly, and released digitally on Monday 24th January on iTunes and the like. Hooray!

However, if you can’t make it to this Thursday’s launch party, and you want a real life CD as opposed to a digital download, here is a Buy Now link to pre-order!

There’s an option for UK postage or international, and you can use a Paypal account or your credit/debit card.

Postage

"Us And The Darkness" - new EP by Fiona Bevan, plus UK postage £5.50 "Us And The Darkness" EP, plus International postage £7.00

Thanks so much as ever for your support, and enjoy the music
lots of love
Fiona x

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

Intone1 from SquareiMedia on Vimeo.

myspace.com/ghostpoet
soundofrum.com
accidentalpowercut.com

We had such a brilliant time at Big Chill Festival 2010!
I played on the Words In Motion stage after Schlomo on Saturday night with Rosalie Bevan on bass guitar and backing vocals.
Thank you so much to Charlie Dark’s School Of Dark and Words In Motion for having us

myspace.com/charliedark

Fiona Bevan on the way to Big Chill

Rosalie and Fiona Bevan at Big Chill Festival

myspace.com/rosaliebevan

Big Chill - Kal Lavelle and Victoria Wijeratne

myspace.com/ghostsyouecho
myspace.com/kallavellemusic

Fiona and Rosalie Bevan at Big Chill

..::NEW RELEASE!::..

Today is the release of my electro single, “Winter Hunter” - a collaboration with producer The Living Graham Bond. Here’s the bluuuuurb:

Following the previous massive releases from Foamo and Randomer on Fat! Records, Winter Hunter is the latest from the pioneers of all things Fat! A combination of disco-bassline and one of the sweetest vocals around courtesy of London folk princess Fiona Bevan make a pretty special track that’s catchy and you can get down to.

Listen here - http://soundcloud.com/thelivinggrahambond/sets/winter-hunter

Buy here - https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/260493/Winter%20Hunter

The Living Graham Bond has also made a summer mixtape of tracks he loves, along with some of his own remixes, so feel free to listen or download it here:

http://www.mixcloud.com/thelivinggrahambond/winter-hunter-summer-mixtape/

http://www.mediafire.com/?kynndw4kmy5

Lots of lovely links:
myspace.com/thelivinggrahambond
myspace.com/fionabevan
soundcloud.com/thelivinggrahambond
twitter.com/mrtlgb
twitter.com/fionabevan

The Living Graham Bond and Fiona Bevan

Winter Hunter EP artwork - The Living Graham Bond feat. Fiona Bevan

There’s a preview screening tonight at 7.30 for “Life Goes On”, the film I wrote some music for and appear in, at Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus, plus Q+A session with the director, woo! A few tix left online… x
http://www.apollocinemas.com/index.aspx

Last week I performed at Should I Stay Or Should I Go - an exhibition at The Chelsea Space, curated by Mick Jones from The Clash. You can see lots of his pop culture memorabilia in the background here- it was vibrant and beautiful. I wrote a piece for the occasion, called A Swoon On The Throne Of Moans. In this photo, we’re performing a piece by Adam De La Cour, where he gets mics shoved into his mouth by Mark’s rubber-gloved hands. It was that kind of night The night was devised by Neil Luck, and we performed his pieces, as well as pieces by Matthew Lee Knowles, Ingrid Laubrock and Jo Thomas, all using text fragments by New York avant-garde playwright Richard Foreman as a starting point.

Fiona Bevan, Javier Carmona, Mark Knoop, Adam De La Cour and Federico Reuben performing at Mick Jones's (The Clash) pop culture exhibition