If you’re wondering how they did it, here’s a little film about the making of the new music video for A Broken Heart Can Heal…

Fiona Bevan // A Broken Heart Can Heal - Behind The Scenes from Clearhead on Vimeo.

by the superduper dreamteam of Clearhead Media and Wade Bros Productions

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

Here is the second interview from my Tate Modern commission. Filmed by Spine TV

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 .

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

If you couldn’t make it to the EP launch, here are a couple of videos from the night

Dial D For Denial - with the band

Pirates And Diamonds - performed solo as an encore:

Many thanks to the wonderful Ben Donaldson and Jon Barker

Here I’m playing Dial D For Denial, which is out on Jan 24th on iTunes as part of my new CD, “Us And The Darkness”, a brand new fresh EP of four songs, all recorded live with my band. Details in the post below about the launch party on 20th Jan - come! It’ll be a super night.

See some more Shed Sessions here, from the amazing Lucy Rose, Hyperpotamus, John Smith and Broadcast 2000 themselves.
www.broadcast2000.co.uk/shedsessions
Inspired!

Orchestra Elastique from Naor Elimelech on Vimeo.

Hipster.

www.myspace.com/orchestraelastique

This Thursday 21st October I’m playing at Berlin Scratch Night: We Beautiful Monsters at Modern Art Oxford. Curated by Neil Luck (Squib-box) and Simon Wright, it will be a night of Cabaret Voltaire-based entertainment.

Here’s a quick flash-back to my last adventure with Squib-box:

Arco: Notebook from Milton Keynes Gallery on Vimeo.

The line up on 21st October includes: Singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan, obviously, as well as…
Live film editing by Luke Williams
Feral improv from Mowgli (Federico Reuben, Adam de la Cour, Dominic Lash, Javier Carmona)
Poet Adam J Maynard
DJ Simon Wright

Drawing on a rich and diverse cultural history of Berlin, this evening of performance, music and film is part of Modern Art Oxford’s brand new series of BASEMENT GIGS.
Berlin Scratch Night: We Beautiful Monsters
Thursday 21 October, 7pm
£3, booking essential on 0185 813800

See you there!
Fiona x

This was my encore at The Workshop under Roadtrip on Old St last week. It’s a new song, unrecorded and so far almost completely unheard by humankind.

“Kiss Chase For Cupid” is a story about the slap-dash merry-go-round chase of love.

Thanks to Jon Barker for the video!

Lyrics: Kiss Chase For Cupid

I saw him from a distance lying down
In pain or pleasure, wounded by a thorn
I stopped to help but cupid’s bow was drawn
I didn’t stand a chance - my heart was torn - - -
But this man loves another…

Cupid you don’t care if you miss the mark
Your games rearrange the tangled hearts
Change the partners in the dance

Such a kiss, but oh it’s such a mess!
Everything you touch ends up like this
You draw your bow and arrow but you miss
Your aim is careless and we’re delirious…

Cupid you’re a crazy little boy
Racing wild and chasing fickle joy
Why d’ya never stick around to see
The consequences of your foolery

My man loves another - such a mess
Everything you touch ends up like this
You draw your bow and arrow but you miss
Your aim is careless and we’re delirious

Cupid, look at what you did
We pick up the pace when you say we should
What’s the use of this pair of puckered lips
And what’s the good of cupid’s chase
Without a kiss?

He tracked me down in meadows where I lay
By silver streams and bales of golden hay
Planted kisses on my sleeping face
Before I had a chance to run away

The one who loves me knows I’m such a mess
Everything you touch ends up like this
You draw your bow and arrow but you miss
Your aim is careless and we’re delirious

For such a kiss
Such a kiss
And without a kiss
What’s all this?!

Fiona xxxx