One song can change your life.
That’s what British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fiona Bevan discovered when she co-wrote “Little Things” with Ed Sheeran, which ended up being recorded by pop superstars One Direction.
That allowed her the luxury of recording her own solo album, “ Talk to Strangers” and embarking on a tour with Hawksley Workman, which come the the Yates Centre, Oct. 24 courtesy of the Geomatic Attic.
“I’m super excited about that. I’ve never seen him before, but I absolutely love his music,” Bevan enthused from England.
“ We’re going to be brilliant together,” she enthused.
“Our music is very different but it does go well together,” she continued.
“It’s strange, beautiful and very organic,” she said.
She noted she knows fellow pop star Ed Sheeran from playing around the London scene.
“ We both started playing around London at the same time. He’s a good guy. He’s an old friend, though we’re quite different. I come out of the blues and he comes out of the singer songwriter tradition,” she said adding a collaboration with him resulted in “Little Things,” which turned into a big thing for Fiona Bevan once One Direction recorded it.
“It meant I could record my own full length album. It opened a lot of doors for me,” she said.
She noted she does a lot of co-writing with other artists from punk to pop musicians.
“ All sorts, really. I really want to do some writing in Canada,” she sad.
She’d love to write with Hawksley Workman.
“ I’d love to if he was interested in it. That would be amazing. It would be so much fun,” she said.
They are playing 18 shows together on the tour, which began in Winnipeg, Oct. 15 and will end, Nov. 28 in Whitby, Ontario.
“ This is all wonderful to me. I’m meeting new people. It’s just so exciting I get to do this, really,” she said.
Bevan is excited about her new CD, on which she sang as well as played guitar, violin, piano, double bass, violin and keyboards.
She recorded it with producer Shawn Lee.
“Between us, we played all of the instruments,” she said.
“I’m really proud of it,” she said adding she hopes it will connect to audiences
“ I love everything on it,” she said adding they used the natural reverb of some of London’s Second World War air raid tunnels when they recorded the CD.
“ We used the natural echo of that space,” she said.
“There's a lot of love on this CD and a lot of joy,” she added.
She will be opening her show with Hawksley Workman as a solo act.
“I play solo a lot,” she said adding she will be accompanying herself on guitar.
While she performs her own unique brand of o]pop music powered by her distinctive high voce, she also as a strong affinity for punk music.
“I’ve been in a lot of different bands. I play electric guitar and I love punk music for it's political ideas,” she said.
“My songwriting is like a restless chameleon,” she said.
“I’m just really excited to come and play,” she said, adding she hopes to join Workman on stage.
More information about Fiona Bevan an be found on http://fionabevan.co.uk or through Twitter a @fionabevan
Tickets are available at the Enmax and Yates Box Offices for $35 plus GST and Service Charge.
