Neil Luck - piano + mandolin + shaker + backing vocals
Ewan Williams - drums + percussion
Rosalie Bevan - bass + backing vocals
James Chrichlow - violin
Sam Belinfante - cello
8th November @ The Bedford
18th November @ The Vortex, Dalston
"Satisfied Mind" with Sam Beer in Zurich:
Moths by Fiona Bevan - performed live on Channel 4 to Alex James and Lauren Laverne in the place where Dragon's Den used to be filmed. So not too scary or anything then.
The Balance by Fiona Bevan - live at Monto Water Rats.
Featuring Neil Luck on mandolin, Andy Fell on drums, and bassist Rosalie Bevan and viola player Laura Bevan both multitasking the sweet Bevan backing vocals!
Influences
In order of sub-conscious stream, and to be updated forever: Joni Mitchell, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Prokofiev, Sylvia Plath, Mina Loy, Kate Bush, Erykah Badu, Billy Holiday, Doris Day, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Deanna Durban, Anna Netrebko, Nina Simone, Bjork, Shakespeare, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dusty Springfield, Virginia Woolf, Alan Ginsberg, Stevie Smith, Jean Rhys, Jeanette Winterson, The Beatles, Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape era, Skunk Anansie, David Bowie, Ani DiFranco, Deftones, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Emily Pankhurst – use your vote!, Robert Louis Stevenson, D.E. Stevenson and other inspiring ancestors, Sigur Ros, Django Reinhardt, Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Martha Wainwright, Mercury Rev, Nina Simone, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, Neil Young, pisces, the god of love, the bitch goddess of success, singing in the shower, stupid dancing, and my undying great love of brown condiments – houmous, peanut butter, marmite and pickle.
Sounds Like
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
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 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
"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 http://www.yellowillustration.com
Photography by Ben Broomfield http://www.benbroomfield.com
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You will plant your heart in the woods for me
And I can live off the fruit of the tree -
Blood oranges, berries, ruby grapes,
From the sobbing, throbbing buried shape.
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