Hannah Clive is a BBC Introducing in London artist of whom respected British Music journalist and BBC London DJ Gary Crowley said:
“How impressive is that! My producer Ollie nodding along approvingly there – and why wouldn’t you – it sounds so accomplished! New music from the very talented singer songwriter Hannah Clive. That wouldn’t sound out of place on this radio station (BBC Radio London), Radio 2 or any of the others as well!…” [Listen HERE ]
She has since been invited on BBC Radio London’s Gaby Roslin Show to perform as a guest, been interviewed on BBC Sussex and Surrey, BBC Three Counties Radio, Riverside Radio and two appearances on the number one web-show in the world: America’s Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell going out to four million people on radio and webTV.
2018 saw her play Camden’s legendary Nambucca alongside Gary Numan support acts Nightmare Air, Iamwarface, Tim Muddiman and The Strange, and multiple festivals plus another gig in Leeds. Quickly snapped up by music publishers Wardlaw Music, 2019 is set to see Hannah bring further new releases and summer appearances including a return to The Hanwell Hootie – London’s largest free one-day music festival.
An influential voice has emerged on the British indie music scene and her name is Hannah Clive…seriously, is this a contender for song of the year? Hannah Clive’s ‘Remember To Breathe’: About Encouragement, Advice and Compassion… – Music Interview Magazine, New York.
Her long awaited new single REMEMBER TO BREATHE released at the end of 2017 to critical acclaim – about the themes of hope, survival and mindfulness – received yet more airplay from BBC Introducing London with DJ Crowley remarking:
“It’s songs like that that are winning Hannah Clive friends all over the world.”
The track ‘won Track of the Week’ and was included in ‘Top 40 for 2018’ and ‘Tip For The Top’ Charts for various indie radio stations and is still receiving global airplay and accolades from all quarters of the indie music scene. Summer 2017 included a successful clutch of British festival circuit gigs and her final 2017 performance – a homecoming performance to a sell-out crowd at Twickenham’s Cabbage Patch for Teenage Cancer Trust, supporting Iamwarface, and raising over £1200.
2017 also saw Hannah win Artist of the Year at Canada’s Starlight Music Chronicles magazine in a Judge and fan-based vote, further extensive global radio play including BBC Introducing and an interview with Limehead Radio, as well as runner-up in Radio Wigwam’s Best Female Artist music awards.
Music matters to Hannah Clive. Whether it’s her songs, her tweets as a music and media Commentator (#HCHQ ☞ @hannahclive), or her music articles as a Music/Band Interviewer – Hannah strongly believes in supporting good quality fellow artists. Influenced by songwriting greats such as Carole King, Kate Bush and Elton John, she weaves a web of truth with alluring lyrics and soulful vocals, her voice has been described as:
A cross of soul and country and rock, as if Dolly Parton had a child with Marvin Gaye and the result was the new Janis Joplin!” – Beard, G. MusicTalks, 2017
Hannah Clive is a multi-genre singer songwriter, performer and musician from an established family background in British television and film, writing and recording from an early age. Mentored by the foremost musicians and creatives in the business, she’s either sat in on or performed with the cream of British recording talent since the nineties including: Elton John’s The Circle of Life, Kylie, Robbie Williams, Bjork, Jools Holland, Bryan Ferry, Alison Moyet, beginning with Right Said Fred and Chris de Burgh – then touring America with The Who aged just eighteen. Encouraged by her peers, Hannah’s first EP in 2012 was produced by Brian Tench (Bee Gees, Kate Bush) whom she still works alongside and mastered by The Who’s Jon Astley.
Her influences are wide ranging – so are her songs! Whether it’s a catchy Americana, Sheryl Crow, country-like pop tune; a soulful, blues-ey Adele meets Springfield torch song; Lana Del Rey melancholia or Morisette’s rock female angst you’re after – a simple Janis Ian-style acoustic ‘Seventeen’ or Hannah’s smoky vocal, song writing prowess on The Herbaliser’s jazz hip-hop hit ‘The Lost Boy’ (BBC Radio 6) – Hannah’s your go-to! Described as: “A cross of soul and country and rock, as if Dolly Parton had child with Marvin Gaye and the result was the new Janis Joplin”.
Her father – noted British screen and television actor John Clive’s work included A Clockwork Orange, The Italian Job and Lennon’s voice in The Yellow Submarine. The latter proved a seismic catalyst for Hannah, quickly adopting music as her career and begun singing in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita in London’s West End aged ten. Honing her craft further with backing vocals for Ronnie Wood, Dave Gilmour and Ray Charles on live performances or releases. OMD’s Andy McCluskey certainly wasn’t deaf to her talent either – liberally using the secondary vocal hook Hannah wrote, for his global smash hit ‘Walking On The Milky Way’ and now won’t play the song live without it.
Hannah’s love and encyclopaedic knowledge of music, television and the filmmaking process stretching from the Warner Brothers films of the thirties, through sixties Bond and beyond to today – uniquely places her. It gives her an innate sense of what fits best for today’s modern music and TV/film market – and she’s only forty! Notwithstanding her extensive multi-genre back-catalogue, featuring notable contributions from a veritable coterie of British session musicians and production talent from the last three decades across multiple styles.
Recognising a changing market, she returned to education doing a Degree in Media Skills, promptly winning her Outstanding Adult Learner for London, presented at The House of Lords 2012 having broken all national course records and is precisely why she turned a bespoke, Pink-style, rock track out in just 24 hours, alongside The Herbaliser for Unilever’s Persil campaign across South America.
It’s why she’s held in such high esteem, consistently winning awards voted for by music fans and makers around the world – regularly featuring on one of America’s most popular radio shows with it’s 4 million viewers – in addition to regular inclusions on Gary Crowley’s BBC Introducing London and guesting live on Gaby Roslin’s BBC Radio London show alongside Busted. Respected by many on new music social media as “One of London’s leading lights on the contemporary grass roots music scene” and why John Giddings describes her as ‘Someone who can actually sing and write!’ Hannah Clive is now a confirmed member of his ‘Kitchen Sessions’ alongside Ed Sheerhan. Follow @hannahclive