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There Were Bears

About Me

there were bears are a group of friends who make music together. sometimes it has words and sometimes it doesn't but it's always telling a story in one way or another. sometimes there's just the six of us and sometimes our friends help us out. it feels indescribably good to be making music the way we are.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/06/2007
Band Members: almost always:

matt whelan
(piano, guitar and vocals)

peter oliver
(guitars)

tom pritchard
(guitar, clarinet and vocals)

jade taaffe
(vocals)

david simmons
(drums)

kirk gigg
(bass)

if we're lucky with friends who play strings, percussive things, harmonica and all sorts else.
Influences: we stole our name from and as such one day hope to sound exactly like: polar bear, bear vs shark, volcano the bear, minus the bear, if bears were bees, bears repeating, bear in heaven, bear claw, grizzly bear, bearsuit, seabear and bear grylls.
Sounds Like: sifting dirt and finding gold.
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

2 things.

1) Kirk has finally bought a new bass, it is astoundingly lush and looks a little something like this - 2) A friend of ours and the shop where we work (myspace.com/davids-music) has travelled the coun...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:45:00 GMT

The ep, shows, other projects and collaborations.

Ahoy! We're getting so, so bad at keeping anything up to date but some things have finally occured, so here goes:Our debut EP "mornings" is finally sorted and available either direct from us (send us ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:37:00 GMT

What I did on my summer holidays.

Yo yo! Things are happening - we have finally got a track up, there are a couple of local shows on the horizon with some bands (and band members) that we're very excited to be playing with and the ep ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:53:00 GMT

Mixomatosis

I thought i'd best post a blog as it seems we're finally getting somewhere as far as recordings are concerned, and blogging such information is the done thing. We've taken our first set of mixes hom...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 06:40:00 GMT