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Fiona Mackay Barclay Bevan is an English singer-songwriter from Suffolk, who currently lives in London.[1] She is noted for co-writing the song "Little Things"[2] with Ed Sheeran which became a number-one single in 13 countries for One Direction, and for which Bevan and Sheeran received a BMI award.[3]

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Fiona Bevan
Background information
Birth name	Fiona Mackay Barclay Bevan
Origin	Suffolk, England
Genres	Pop folk soul
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals guitar piano
Labels	Navigator Records
Website	www.fionabevan.co.uk

Bevan has also co-written songs released by Kylie Minogue, LIGHTS, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Tom Walker, Steps, Mika, Shane Filan, Hey Violet, Natalie Imbruglia and has written and featured on Stefflon Don's debut release.

As an artist, Bevan's debut solo studio album Talk to Strangers (April 2014) was released on Navigator Records, and she has toured as support to Nick Mulvey, Ryan Keen, Ed Sheeran, Hawksley Workman, Ingrid Michaelson, Gwyneth Herbert, Luke Friend and Bill Bailey. In 2015 she completed a tour of Canada, supporting Hawksley Workman and the year before that Fiona completed a tour of Australia supporting Busby Marou. Bevan also runs a residency night at Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston, London called "Fiona Bevan Presents" which has so far featured acts including Mercury Prize-nominated Sam Lee and Ed Harcourt, who also remixed her first single, "The Machine" in 2014.

Early life and education

Bevan is of British and Canadian parentage.[1] Her great grandmother was romantic novelist D. E. Stevenson and Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson was her great-great grandfather's cousin.^{[citation needed]} She was born in Bulmer in Essex,[4] brought up in Suffolk and went to Colchester County High School for Girls.[5]

Solo career

Fiona Bevan's debut EP In The Swimming Pool was released in 2007.[6] Her debut studio album Plant Your Heart was released in 2009 on the Fallen Idol label.[7]

In 2011 she released an EP, Us and the Darkness, on Venus Climbing co-produced with Robin Baynton. It features Bevan on lead vocals and guitar accompanied by Rosalie Bevan on bass and James Crichlow on violin.[8] One of the songs on the EP, "Dial D for Denial", was a semi-finalist at the 2011 International Songwriting Competition.[1] The song "Pirates and Diamonds" was included on the OneTaste Collective Album Vol. 2, released on 14 June 2010, while she also appeared on Winter Hunter Remixes by The Living Graham Bond released on 26 July 2010 on the Fat label.[9]

Her song "Love in a Cold Climate" was included on the For Folk's Sake Christmas 2011 compilation album.[10]

Bevan's second album, Talk To Strangers was released in 2014 on Navigator Records in the UK, Planet Music in Australia and P-Vine in Japan.[11] In 2015 it was released on Convexe / Universal Music in Canada, and Convexe in USA. The album's twelve songs were written by Fiona Bevan, arranged and played by Fiona Bevan and Shawn Lee produced by Shawn Lee and engineered by Pierre Duplan in Bloomsbury, London and mastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios, San Francisco. The Guardian wrote "Bevan took us on startling odysseys that suggested Erykah Badu, Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush spine-tinglingly joined".[12] The Line OF Best Fit called it "...mesmerisingly beautiful..."[13]

The first single "The Machine" was remixed by Ed Harcourt and featured Fem Fel and received airplay on BBC Radio 1 and BBC London. Clash Music commentated about the track, "Fiona Bevan contrasts pastoral, acoustic textures with her golden, golden voice"[14]

The next single, "Rebel Without A Cause", was released in May 2014, with remixes by Anushka, who are signed to Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings, and Mr Hudson.

The single "They Sang Silent Night" was released in 2014 as a peacetime/Christmas song, marking the 100-year anniversary of the Christmas Truce ceasefire when enemy troops united in peace to sing Silent Night across the trenches. A live version of the song aired on Christmas Day on national ABC radio in Australia, featuring Fiona accompanied by Jeremy Marou from Busby Marou on guitar.[15]

In December 2016, Fiona Bevan was featured on the Stefflon Don mix-tape Real Ting, with other artists such as Jeremih and Scouse Trappin Tremz. She wrote the song 'Forever' with Rymez and SteffLon Don, who was nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2017[16])

In February 2017, British newspaper The Observer selected Bevan's song "Sight of You" on the article "A history of the love song in 10 tracks", underscoring its importance in the digital era, especially for young music listeners, which "tackled the physical inadequacies many young women feel in the age of social media and told them they were OK to have". She commented that "it felt very important to write it like a feminist love song...Girls at that age – 12, 13, when their self-esteem is often rock bottom – need to hear those things said, so to hear them from their heroes is life-changing." Bevan received "hundreds of messages from girls on social media after the song grew in popularity.[17]

Bevan released a new solo EP, Wild Angels, Sweet Demons on Laurel Canyon in 2018.[18]

Collaborations

Ed Sheeran/One Direction

Bevan co-wrote the One Direction song "Little Things" with Ed Sheeran, which appeared on their second studio album Take Me Home (2012).[2] In October 2012, Sheeran acknowledged her songwriting skills in an interview with British radio network Capital FM, stating: "The great thing about it is I wrote that song with a girl called Fiona Bevan when I was 17 and we lost the song. I've kept in touch with Fiona, we've done gigs and stuff and about two months ago she sent me the tune and was like, 'Oh, do you remember this?' I was like, 'Yeah, I do remember that', and I was in the studio with the One Direction boys at the time and I was playing it and they were like, 'We really like that'. It's got one of my favourite lines that I've ever written in a song."[19]

Carl Ryden/Steps

In 2017, Fiona worked with the group Steps on their comeback album Tears on the Dancefloor.[20] "Scared of the Dark", the single she and Carl Ryden co-wrote for Steps, reached number 37 on the UK Singles Chart.[21]

Ben Haenow

Bevan co-wrote "One Night" for Ben Haenow with Ben and producer duo Red Triangle (production team) for his deluxe debut album.[22] The album reached the top 10 in the UK and his subsequent 'One Night Tour' was also named after the track.[23]

Gwyneth Herbert

Bevan co-wrote, with Gwyneth Herbert, two songs on Herbert's 2013 album The Sea Cabinet – "I Still Hear the Bells" and "The King's Shilling" – and performed with Herbert on the album and at its London launch at Wilton's Music Hall in May 2013.[24]

Laura Welsh

With Laura Welsh, Bevan co-wrote the single 'Red' and 'Concrete' from the 'See Red EP' which The Line Of Best Fit called "stunning".[25] Bevan also co-wrote Laura's previous single 'Sex and Violence' which was released as a 'Stream Only' premiere on Spin.com.[26][27]

ARCO

With Neil Luck she co-composed music for, and performed alongside the avant-garde string ensemble ARCO on Last Wane Days (squib-box), a two-act monodrama for voice and ensemble,[28] which was released on 12 March 2012. In a review, Tim Rutherford-Johnson said: "Bevan in particular can turn her voice on a dime. As co-composers, Luck and Bevan use sound and recurring motifs cleverly, so that the rampant dislocations achieve an unexpected coherence and continuity. Serious artistry".[29]

Poussez Posse

For several months in 2011, Bevan was joint lead guitarist in the Poussez Posse, a band fronted by Georgina Baillie and mentored by Adam Ant. Fellow members included other lead guitarist Danie Cox (later known as Danie Centric and Gobby Holder), bassist Molly Spiers MacLeod (daughter of Spizz) and drummer Rachael Smith. The last three later left to form self-styled "flock rock" band The Featherz. This version of the Posse played several support slots for Ant in 2011 and recorded tracks for a planned single plus EP. It was replaced by a new line-up, still fronted by Baillie and including future Curse of Lono bassist Charis Anderson, which continued to support Ant on UK, mainland European and Australian tours until the end of 2012. Footage from 2011 of a band meeting of Bevan's lineup of the Poussez Posse at Ant's home is included in The Blueblack Hussar, a documentary about Ant directed by Jack Bond.[30][31]

Music for advertisements and television

In the spring of 2015, Bevan's own track "Slo Mo Tiger Glo" from her album Talk To Strangers was chosen as the theme music for the HSBC adverts aired in the UK and Ireland.[32] Her song "Beginners Luck" was used as the E! 2015 winter red carpet season USA track.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Album	Release date	Label
Plant Your Heart[33]	16 November 2009[33]	Fallen Idol
Talk to Strangers[34]	28 April 2014	Navigator Records

EP	Release date	Label
In the Swimming Pool	16 February 2007[6]	Fiona Bevan
Us and the Darkness	March 2011	Venus Climbing
Wild Angels Sweet Demoms	November 2018[18]	Laurel Canyon

Songwriting credits

  indicates a background vocal contribution.

Year	Artist	Album	Song	Co-written with
2012	One Direction	Take Me Home	"Little Things"	Edward Sheeran
2014	5 Seconds of Summer	5 Seconds of Summer	"Voodoo Doll"	Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin, Adam Argyle
2015	Ben Haenow	Ben Haenow	"One Night"	Benjamin Haenow, George Tizzard, Richard Parkhouse
2016	Max	Non-album single	"Christmas Song"	Max Schneider, Matthew Radosevich
	Tom Walker		"Play Dead"	Thomas Walker, Joshua Grant
	Laura Welsh	See Red EP	"Red"	Laura Welsh, Jonas Wallin
			"Concrete"	Laura Welsh, Jonas Wallin
	Una Healy	The Waiting Game	"Angel Like You"	Una Healy, Jez Ashurst
2017	Steps	Tears on the Dancefloor	"Scared of the Dark"	Carl Ryden
	Caitlyn Shadbolt	Songs on My Sleeve	"My Friends & I"	Caitlyn Shadbolt, Mark Landon
	Steps	Tears on the Dancefloor	"Neon Blue"	Carl Ryden
	Tom Walker	Blessings EP	"Rapture"	Thomas Walker, Timothy Deal
	Hey Violet	From the Outside	"Unholy"	Nia Lovelis, Rena Lovelis, Miranda Miller, Casey Moreta, Julian Bunetta, David Pramik
	Lights	Skin & Earth	"Skydiving"	Lights Poxleitner, Matthew Radoisevich
	Tom Walker	Non-album single	"Heartland"	Thomas Walker, Shahid Kahn, Wesley Muoria-Chaves
	Guy Sebastian	Conscious	"High On Me"	Guy Sebastian, Mark Landon
	Lights	Skin & Earth	"Morphine"	Lights Poxleitner, Steve James Philbin
	Mika	Non-album single	"It's My House"	Michael Penniman Jr., Jonathan Quarmby
	Steps	Tears on the Dancefloor: Crying at the Disco	"Fool for You"	Carl Ryden
	Sonny Alven	Non-album single	"Cool with You" (featuring Goldens)	Sondre Alvestad, Jonny Wright, Simen Hope
	Alexandru		"Sellotape"	James Newman, Maegan Cottone, Jack Walton
	No Frills Twins		"Lonely with You"	Inna Rogers, Vanessa Rogers, Ash Howes, Richard Stannard
2018	Owen Thiele	TBA	"Some Like It Hot"	Wynne Bennet
	Aurora	Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1)	"Queendom"	Aurora Aksnes, James Edward Jacob, Couros Shebani
	Natalie Prass	The Future and the Past	"Far from You"	Natalie Prass
	Lewis Capaldi	Breach EP	"Tough"	Lewis Capaldi, Jonathan Quarmby
	Tom Walker	What a Time to Be Alive	"My Way"	Thomas Walker, Timothy Deal
	LION	LION	"Oh No"	Bethany Lowen
	Aurora	Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1)	"Gentle Earthquakes"	Aurora Aksnes, James Edward Jacob, Couros Shebani
			"Soft Universe"	Aurora Aksnes, James Edward Jacob, Couros Shebani
	Joseph J. Jones	Built on Broken Bones Vol. 1	"Put the Word Out"	Joseph Gibbons
			"Angels Turn Away"	Joseph Gibbons
	Backstreet Boys	DNA	"Chances"	Shawn Mendes, Scott Harris, Geoff Warburton, Ryan Tedder, Zach Skelton, Casey Smith
	Andy Brown	Non-album single	"Put That Record On"	Andrew Brown, Jonny Wright
2019	Claire Richards	My Wildest Dreams	"My Wildest Dreams"	Steve Anderson
	James Morrison	You're Stronger Than You Know	"Brighter Kind of Love"	James Morrison, Jonathan Quarmby
	311	Voyager	"Good Feeling"	Nicholas Hexon, Matthew Malpass, John Feldmann
	Andy Black	The Ghost of Ohio	"Heroes We Were"	Andrew Beirsack, Matthew Malpass, John Feldmann, Stephen Beerkens
	Ashley Tisdale	Symptoms	"Insomnia"	Ashley Tisdale, John Feldmann, Dylan McLean, Scott Stewart
	Tom Walker	What a Time to Be Alive	"All That Matters"	Thomas Walker, Timothy Deal
	Aurora	A Different Kind of Human (Step 2)	"Hunger"	Aurora Aksnes
2020	Steps	What the Future Holds	"Come and Dance with Me"	Carl Ryden
	Kylie Minogue	Disco	"Unstoppable"	Kylie Minogue, Troy Miller

References

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Fiona Bevan es una cantautora británica nacida en Suffolk.[1]Escribió la canción "Little Things" junto a Ed Sheeran, composición que llegó al tope de las listas de éxitos en 13 países interpretada por One Direction.[2] También escribió "Voodoo Doll" con la agrupación 5 Seconds of Summer para su álbum debut, además de "One Night" para Ben Haenow junto a Ben, Rick Parkhouse y George Tizzard para su primer disco.[3] Junto a Laura Welsh escribió "Sex and Violence".[4] Hizo parte de la grabación del álbum The Sea Cabinet de Gwyneth Herbert, compartiendo créditos en la composición de dos canciones. Su álbum debut como solista, Talk to Strangers, fue publicado en abril de 2014 por Navigator Records.

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