BASTILLE - Eve & Paradise Lost

BASTILLE
TRAILBLAZING BRITISH ACTRESS, SIMONE ASHLEY FEATURES IN 'EVE & PARADISE LOST' VIDEO
DIRECTED BY BAFTA AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR DOMINIC SAVAGE

TAKEN FROM THE NEW ALBUM '&' (AMPERSAND)

As part of the ongoing “&” (Ampersand) album project, Bastille’s Dan Smith releases a short film to accompany ‘Eve & Paradise Lost’, a song that explores the fundamental unfairness and imbalance in the love between Eve and Adam. ​

Taking centre stage, trailblazing British actress, Simone Ashley (Bridgerton, Sex Education) gives a breathtaking performance as she embodies the first woman, Eve. Capturing the sentiments in the song, she is consumed by love and loss, deep in her thoughts expressing feelings of sadness, betrayal, vulnerability, and then ultimately strength and power.   Directed by BAFTA award-winning director, writer and actor, Dominic Savage, Smith was excited to see the video come to life. 

“Eve & Her Paradise Lost” is amongst several tracks on the critically acclaimed “&” (Ampersand) album inspired by the stories of people who have been wrongly framed and misunderstood in myth, culture and society. Amongst others, the record features the songs, Emily & Her Penthouse in The Sky (about the revolutionary internal life of 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson) and Marie & Polonium (about the Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie, a woman rejected by the country she was born in and her adopted France, who saved many millions of lives with the work that ultimately killed her).

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