Closing Night Party & Festival Awards
ICA Theatre Fri 13 Mar 8pm–1am / £8 / £7 ICA members
The sexiest BEV fest yet aptly closes with a vamped-up Awards Party on Friday 13th. Join us for a night of devilish delights - live music, performance, VJs and DJs...
Join us as present awards to the best of the fest, and descend into a night of devilish delights with live acts including creepy and seductive melodrama from Plaster of Paris, "inadvertently hysterical", and "thrilling new wave rock" from Joana and the Wolf.
Following on from her sell-out event at the Birds Eye View film festival earlier in the week at BFI playing alongside silent film Salome, Bishi, multi-instrumentalist and South Bank Show Award nominee and DJ, will also be playing an exclusive set. Plus live demonstration from Nina's Hair Parlour in the ICA bar.
Plus Girlcore, a cluster of vixens creating chaos with cameras and costumes, and Gideon Reeling's (Mask of the Red Death Lates) singing femmes fatales. Cap it all off with the fierce energy of superhot DJ Goldierocks, with visual vampy remixes from Gabi Dworecki. Boys beware, but don’t stay away.
Sally Phillips (SmackThe Pony), Andrea Riseborough (Party Animals, Love You More) Janet Ellis (Blue Peter) and Robin Gutch (WarpX) will be presenting awards. To read about the awards and jury, click here.
This final festival celebration follows a fabulous line-up of some of the best short films from fast emerging UK women filmmakers. So why not watch our programme of UK Shorts Programme 2 to warm you up for the Closing Night Party?...
For venues and booking info click here
Plaster of Paris
Plaster of Paris are a the South London duo defying the octave boundries with their Gypsy ditties and folky meandering
Read our Plaster of Paris interivew in the Birds Eye View blog.
depicting tales of love, lust and woe. Having wowed audiences from Glastonbury to Europe, be ready to be taken by the hand into an intimate world heralded by a self-styled Kazoomaphone!
Bishi
Bishi is a singer, multi instrumentalist and DJ based in London. She studied Sitar at The Ravi Shankar School for Music and has a passion for English & East European folk, progressive pop & electronica. In 2008 alone, Bishi has recorded with a tango orchestra in Buenos Aires, performed shows at Glastonbury and Latitude and held a concert performing her new album Nights at the Circus with the London Symphony Orchestra Strings. This new critically acclaimed album was also nominated for the Times Award and for a South Bank Show Award, and she recently appeared on The Culture Show and Friday Night With Johnathan Ross. Her new album will be released in spring 2009.
Joana and The Wolf
Joana And The Wolf are a London four piece made up of Lithuanian singer-songwriter and English musicians.
Between regular London gigs, highlights so far include performing at Brighton's Great Escape festival, supporting James Dean Bradfield at ULU, playing the Rock n Roll stage at Bestival, recording a live session for John Kennedy at Xfm...and Joana singing on Kasabian's track 'Empire' ! They won the award for Best New Wave Act 2007 INDY Music Awards and made the finals again in 2008, the year they were Xfm Music:response competitors twice and performed at the Camden Crawl. Their explosive performances have established them one of the must-see acts of London - their photo was recently chosen to represent the North London music scene in the 2008 London style guidebook 'Pimp London: The Guide' In January 2009 they supported Pete Doherty with Babyshambles at The Rhythm Factory in East London.
Girlcore
Girlcore has some serious balls, for a bunch of girls that is. From synchronised mud wrestling and transvestites saying, “I do” - to glitter-inspired, beauty pageants, Girlcore is changing the way people party all over the world.
In their quest to promote female talent in the creative industries; this all-girl, DIY collective not only runs one of London’s most successful, off-the-wall, club nights but has hosted nights in Paris, New York, Prague and Moscow in the past year. And this is just the beginning. A group of young and inspiring artists, writers, DJs, performers, businesswomen and all-around maniacs, Girlcore is in the very early stages of its quest towards world domination.
Gideon Reeling
Gideon Reeling is a purveyor of bespoke interactive theatricals, he can currently be found at www.greatbritishroadtrip.com having been most recently awarded a commission by the Vauxhall collective.
Gideon Reeling's Assistants as 'Supervamp': Tickling the ivories - the much-loved Dino Gigantes. Tickling the fancies and elsewhere Miss Faith Hopefell, The Lady Loretta Faye and the charming (Hungry) Alice Tuttings.
Goldierocks
Goldierocks is Sam Hall; DJ, presenter and party planner du-jour. Her established monthly self-titled club night is a fine example (in the word's of MTV2/ Channel 4's Toby L) of Sam's provocative sense of 'style, finesse and foresight'.
Now most renowned for her energised DJ appearances, invading parties and aftershows all over the land - at some point in time, Sam's probably hijacked your fave indie/electro haunt. But she’s much more than London’s latest party-person, skilled DJing aside, Goldierocks is also growing her reputation as a respected producer, remixer, presenter and music journalist.
Gabi Dworecki (VJ) and Nayana Fernandez
Duodroume is the emerging Brazilian audiovisual artist and filmmaker Gabriela Dworecki, extreme electronic music enthusiast of cinema and sound.
The 26 year-old São Paulo native interweaves the explosive audio of São Paulo's breakcore scene with a visual narrative composed of spastic reappropriated film, creating an end result far exceeding the sum of its parts. She will be accompanied by Nayana Fernandez is a 28 year-old photographer, filmmaker and VJ born in São Paulo, who had also lived in Havana and Northern Spain. Based in the UK for almost 10 years, Nayana interests include contemporary cultures and different ways of using audio-visual elements to transmit, analyse and mix them up.
