Beatie Wolfe

Beatie Wolfe

Wolfe in 2013
Background information
Born London, United Kingdom
Genres
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Guitar
  • Piano
Years active 2010–present
Labels Indie
Website www.beatiewolfe.com

Beatie Wolfe is a London-based[1] English/American singer-songwriter, who has been described as "a pioneering songwriter"[2] and is most known for "seeing music differently";[3] creating new tangible formats for music, which include the 'World's First 3D Interactive Album App[4]' for her debut album 8ight, the first Album Deck of NFC cards and a musical jacket for her latest album Montagu Square.[5] These innovations have gained her critical acclaim in the music and technology field. Wolfe is also an Ambassador[6] for Innovation for the Britain is GREAT Campaign and the co-founder of a "profound"[7] research project looking at the Power of Music for people living with dementia.

Wolfe has performed album tours in the United Kingdom,[8] United States, and Europe and has given Keynote speeches at CeBIT, Wired UK's Conference & Digital Life Design (DLD). She has spoken & performed on BBC Radio 4, Monocle 24[9][10] & East Village Radio[11] amongst others.

Early life

Beatie Wolfe was born in Fulham, South London, to an English mother and American father. She attended the Young Blood Theatre group at the Riverside Studios between 2000 and 2004 where she wrote and performed in a number of plays at the Riverside Theatre and Lyric Theatre. Wolfe attended Ibstock Place School from age 3 to 16. Following Ibstock, she attended Goldsmiths, University of London where she studied English Literature. For her final year dissertation, Wolfe wrote about Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, which she received a first for and it subsequently was published online.[12] This led to her musical interpretation of Cohen's poem "Thousand Kisses Deep".

Early music career

Beatie Wolfe, California USA

On 10 – 12 November 2007, Beatie Wolfe was invited to play the Jack Kerouac Festival[13] at the Marquee Club alongside American performers Carolyn Cassady, Saul Williams and David Amram. David Amram, who declared Wolfe to be "the Baroness of bob", invited the London singer songwriter to perform at his residency night at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York. On 7 April 2008, Wolfe performed her first of several shows[14] with Amram at Cornelia Street Cafe, alongside The Sopranos star John Ventimiglia and poet Penny Vlagopoulos. She also performed at New York clubs Rockwood Music Hall, The Living Room, Pete's Candy Store and on East Village Radio.

Burst EP (2010–2011)

Beatie Wolfe's debut EP, Burst was released in January 2010 as CD & iPhone App. BBC London premièred her song "Oh Darling" and promoted the EP launch concert at St Pancras Old Church. GQ's James Mullinger[1] reviewed it as "the best concert [he'd] been to all year.”

In July 2011, Beatie Wolfe performed at the popular Secret Garden Party in Huntington. In August 2011, she was selected by EMI and Roundhouse to be featured in its 30/30 compilation album and recorded her song "Danger Blue" with producer Steve Hillage. This was released in December 2011 on Roundhouse Records. In August 2011, Wolfe shared the bill with American Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Following the show, Wolfe and Marsalis became friends and he became an important musical influence and mentor.

First Single "Never Ever": 2012

In August 2012, Wolfe's first single "Never Ever[15][16]" was released and attracted the attention of a variety of acclaimed personalities including Michael Acton Smith and London MP Tom Watson. As part of its launch she performed at the Arts festival Wassaic[17] in upstate New York alongside The Stepkids and Bing Ji Ling and did the radio premier on New York's East Village Radio. Back in London Wolfe performed with her Pack at Mind Candy's Moshlympics[18] and was subsequently invited onto the first Moshi Monsters TV show to perform "Never Ever." Wolfe returned to New York in September 2012 for a residency with Punchdrunk's theatre show Sleep No More and a run of other performances.

Debut album 8ight: 2013 – 2014

Wolfe's album 8ight was released in a "world-first"[19] format as a 3D interactive album mobile app that can be viewed by using a Palm Top Theatre device or the iPhone's visualisation technology.

Beatie Wolfe's 3D Interactive Album App "8" via Palm Top Theatre

The app and the album as a whole were positively received by various critics such as Wired magazine who described it as a "captivating 3D layered view that beautifully brings to life her captivating folk sounds"[4] and British GQ magazine,[20][21][22] who stated that Wolfe "continues to innovate with her new album 8ight".[23] Several magazines noted that Wolfe was "the first artist to introduce Palm Top Theatre to her product".[24]

8ight Apple Events

Beatie Wolfe Global Apple Theatre Tour for 8ight

Following her 3D Interactive App release, Apple Inc. invited Wolfe to perform at its worldwide flagship event theatres – London, New York & Berlin – to present her App in a live interview and perform tracks off 8ight. Live interviewers included New York Spin magazine editor & chief Craig Marks at the New York SoHo flagship, GQ's commissioning editor Charlie Burton at London's Regent Street theatre and Debug Founder Sascha Kösch at Berlin's Kurfürstendamm theatre.

8ight World Tour

Prior to the US tour for 8ight, Beatie Wolfe appeared on Monocle 24's Review Show to talk about the influences behind the album, which coincided with a review in Monocle Mediterraneo 2013 summer publication. In September 2013, Wolfe performed a USA tour including headline shows in San Francisco, San Diego, LA, New York and Boston. UK tour performances include The Stables[25] in Buckinghamshire, Hare & Hounds in Birmingham and 606 Club in London. European performances included Hamburg's Nochtspeicher, CeBIT in Hanover and the Berlin Kurfürstendamm theatre. In November 2013, Beatie Wolfe appeared on the front page of the Archant's Ham&High[26] with a double page album review and was invited to present her App and perform at Wired's creative salon in Old Street. Her "8” App was later reviewed in January 2014's Insider,[4] as a highlight of the night.

Album Lyric Book – "Words of 8ight"

Beatie Wolfe at Mayfair's Maggs Rare Books

On 19 February 2014, at Mayfair's Maggs Bros Ltd No. 50 Berkeley Square – one of the longest-established antiquarian booksellers in the world – Wolfe launched the first edition of 'Words of 8IGHT',[27] her lyric book to accompany the album. Wolfe has a connection to Antiquarian bookselling through her father and quoted buying a William Blake facsimile in the Christmas edition of the Ham&High.[28]

After 8ight: 2014 - 2015

Wish (Original)

‘Wish’ was launched in summer of 2014 at the Foreign Secretary’s official country residence, Chevening House,[29] to 150 different nationalities in attendance and directly after the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom’s speech. 'Wish' performances of interest include performing a duet with Neil Baldwin (subject of acclaimed biographical film Marvellous) and representatives from each Reserve Forces and Cadets Association to mark VE Day[30] 70.

Kids Wish for the World

Kids Wish for the World, a charity single in aid NSPCC's ChildLine & War Child charity, is a re-recording of one of Beatie's original songs[31] ‘Wish’ and this new version features children from all over the UK singing their very own wish for the world following a competition on Michael Acton Smith's children’s social media platform PopJam. The competition engaged over 50,000 children, received 22,000 children's wishes in two days. Of these entries Beatie chose ten finalists to record their wishes as part of the single and star in the music video.

Album: Montagu Square: 2015 - Present

Montagu Square is Beatie Wolfe's second studio album, conceived at the former home and secret studio of Jimi Hendrix, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon & Yoko Ono. The album's single 'Take Me Home' (released January 2016) was recorded in the room where McCartney wrote 'Eleanor Rigby' and Hendrix wrote 'The Wind Cries Mary' and has been translated into a fabric representing the song's geometric patterning[32] by textiles label BeatWoven. Montagu Square was released on 8 November 2015 across digital platforms, as the 'world's first' Album Deck of NFC Cards[33] and as a Musical Jacket cut by the 1960s tailor Mr Fish, who dressed Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and Mick Jagger.[2] Montagu Square features the song 'Need Somebody,' inspired by Wolfe's dementia project.

Power of Music

Power of Music & Dementia is a philanthropic collaboration between Beatie Wolfe, Spirit of Creation and 20/20 Research with the objective to test the positive impact that music can have for people living with dementia. The study has been described as "ground-breaking"[34] for testing music unconnected to memory that patients are hearing for the first time. The research tour ran for 4-months and Beatie Wolfe performed her original music at Priory Group care homes across the UK while responses were monitored, both during the live performance and in the weeks following as the same patients listened to Beatie's music on headsets. The findings, which included a significant improvement in communication and memory[7] were published in May 2015 and received positive press from The Times, Independent, Guardian, BBC Radio 4,[35] citing it as the first study to test new music.[36] Beatie has presented about 'Power of Music & Dementia' at WIRED's Conference, DLD, USCD, The Royal Institution. This is the first part of a larger project looking at the power of music to help to reanimate people living with dementia.

Beatie Wolfe's Presents

Britain is GREAT Campaign

Beatie Wolfe represented Britain at CeBIT in Hanover on 11 March 2014 for the British government's "GREAT Campaign" as the highlight for 'The Leading Women in Tech' event[37] alongside Dame Wendy Hall and BT Germany CEO Nina Wegner.

Patron

New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth has announced Beatie Wolfe as its youngest Patron joining including Twiggy, Timothy West, Sheila Hancock and Prunella Scales.

Beatie Wolfe's musicians "The Pack"

She performs both solo and with her Pack what Time Out describes as "soulful folk-pop".[38] Her musicians include violinist Nigel Kennedy and David Gilmour's bass player Yaron Stavi on double bass, Adam Hayes on drums and composer Peter Gregson on cello.[39]

Discography

Albums

Montagu Square

Released: 26 October 2015

Song Track Length Written By
Set Her Free 1 02:56 Beatie Wolfe
Battleships 2 03:54
From Green To Red 3 04:27
Take Me Home 4 04:13
This Love 5 04:38
Simply Friends 6 03:20
To Be Saved 7 05:38
Need Somebody 8 04:29

8ight

Released: 1 July 2013

Song Track Length Written By
Lied 1 03:05 Beatie Wolfe
Make it Up 2 03:05
Never Ever 3 02:59
Too Lovely 4 03:28
Danger Blue 5 03:12
Thinking For Two 6 03:18
Could She Be 7 03:18
Beautiful Affair 8 03:52
Lied (Extd Ver) Bonus 03:25

EPs

Burst EP

Released: 1 January 2010

Song Track Length Written By
Beautiful Affair 1 03:40 Beatie Wolfe
Burst 2 04:54
11:07 3 04:11
It Will All Fall 4 04:08
As You 5 03:24

Singles

Title Track Length Released Written By
Never Ever 1 02:57 11 July 2012 Beatie Wolfe
Too Lovely 1 03:28 26 September 2012
Wish 1 03:34 8 June 2014
Kids Wish for the World 1 03:36 8 February 2015

Videos

Video Directed By Released
Never Ever Phil Connolly 15 July 2012
Too Lovely 1Take TV 25 September 2012
Make It Up Robin Pattinson & Columbia Film Institute 4 December 2012
Lied (2D Version) Phil Connolly 1 August 2013
Wish Ben Stevenson 8 June 2014
Kids Wish for the World Ben Stevenson 2 January 2015

Apps

App Developer Released Designer Format
Beatie Wolfe – Burst EP Theodore Watson 8 February 2010 Design I/0 iOS
Beatie Wolfe – 8 Theodore Watson 1 July 2013 Design I/0 iOS

References

  1. 1 2 Mullinger, James. "Introducing Beatie Wolfe". GQ.com. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 Walsh, John (15 November 2015). "Beatie Wolfe interview: Musician explains why she's selling new album Montagu Square on a shirt, but not in record shops". The Independent (The Independent). Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Rundle, Michael. "Beatie Wolfe wants to you look at music differently, literally". Wired UK. Condé Nast UK. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Munson-Hirst, Ruby. "Meet Beatie Wolfe and her 3D interactive album app '8'". Wired UK. Condenast. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Roberts-Islam, Brooke (16 November 2015). "Beatie Wolfe's Tap and Play Album Launch and Musically Generated Digital Textiles". Huffington Post (Huffington Post). Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Rutstein, Dan. "CeBIT - a GREAT opportunity to promote the UK". UK Trade & Industry. UK Government. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  7. 1 2 Bennett, Rosemary. "Listening to new music improves memory of dementia patients". The Times (The Times). Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "Time Out". Time Out. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  9. ↑ "The Review – Episode 98". Monocle. Monocle 24. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  10. ↑ Bound, Rob (26 June 2012). "Is Art Basel still king of the fairs? A music session from Beatie Wolfe, Joseph Bullman discusses London's streets, and we visit Toronto's NXNE festival.". Monocle 24. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  11. ↑ "Listen to Singer-Songwriter Beatie Wolfe...". East Village Radio. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "The Leonard Cohen Files". Hydra.
  13. ↑ "Festival Line Up". Achilles Productions. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  14. ↑ "David Amram Celebres Fifty Three Years in Greenwich Village".
  15. ↑ "BEATIE WOLFE – NEVER EVER". Hill Dilly. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  16. ↑ Philip, Connolly. "Beatie Wolfe 'Never Ever'". Promo News. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  17. ↑ "Check out what happened at our 2012 Summer Festival!". Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  18. ↑ "MIND CANDIES TAKE GOLD IN THE MOSHLYMPICS". Mind Candy. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  19. ↑ Daunton, Nichola. "Beatie Wolfe at The Clubhouse | Live review". The Upcoming. The Upcoming. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  20. ↑ Jones, Dylan (1 October 2013). "Men of the Year Photos". British GQ Magazine – Condé Nast Publications: 77.
  21. ↑ Hall, Tom (26 July 2013). "Record highs – Music makers pick hot tunes to see you through summer". Monocle Mediterraneo Newspaper, A Monocle Special Edition 07: 33.
  22. ↑ "Tech – 3D Music is Here". The Gentleman's Journal. The Gentleman's Journal. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  23. ↑ Burton, Charlie (1 July 2013). "The Singer Beatie Wolfe enters a new dimension". British GQ Magazine – Condé Nast Publications: 36.
  24. ↑ O'Donoghue Oddy, Ellen. "Movements in music: The launch of Beatie Wolfe and Palm Top Theater". Pinch Magazine. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  25. ↑ Coffer, Nick. "Nick Coffer with Beatie Wolfe". BBC Radio Three. BBC Radio. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
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  27. ↑ "A Musical Modern Classic". The Culturepreneur. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  28. ↑ Galton, Bridget (12 December 2013). "Star's Letters for Santa". The Ham&High Express. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  29. ↑ "Beatie Wolfe 'Wish'". PopScoop. Pop Scoop. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  30. ↑ "Jo Good & Simon Lederman are joined by Vicky Pryce to talk about the election and Beatie Wolfe the musical director of the VE Day celebration". BBC London Radio 94.9. BBC. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  31. ↑ "Children make a wish with Beatie". Evening Standard. 22 January 2015.
  32. ↑ Franklin-Wallis, Oliver (30 November 2015). "Beatie Wolfe is using music to treat dementia". Wired UK Magazine (Wired UK Magazine). Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  33. ↑ Mundy, Jon. "Lumia 640 NFC skills used in new Beatie Wolfe video". Microsoft. Microsoft. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  34. ↑ Jupp, Emily. "A musical miracle for dementia". The Independent (The Independent).
  35. ↑ Adams, Anna (29 August 2015). "BBC Radio 4's PM interviews Wolfe's on her Power of Music and Dementia". BBC (BBC Radio 4).
  36. ↑ Clarkson, Natalie. "Music could be the best medicine for dementia patients". Virgin. Virgin. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  37. ↑ Rutstein, Dan. "CeBIT – a GREAT opportunity to promote the UK". UK Trade & Investment. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  38. ↑ "Time Out". Time Out. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
  39. ↑ "Peter Gregson and Beatie Wolfe at the Apple Store". Song Kick.

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