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Like Bears

Like Bears play lo-fi Aussie rock/folk

About Me

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO BUY A COPY OF OUR NEW E.P. www.soundmass.com OR THIS ONE www.youloverandom.com

OR head into Polyester Records (Brunswick St, Melbourne) to pick one up.

Like Bears make good music that tries to make you think and rock at the same time. Lots of lo-fi sounds that grab at a range of influences from the last 40 odd years of good tunes, and lyrics that mostly come from books that they've read. They kinda sound like a rocksy-folksy version of your favorite Milan Kundera book read by some guy who wants to be joe strummer tom waits and Daniel Johnston at the same time. They play the odd gig around their beloved melbourne town and are just about to release their debut e.p. "The grand march." hope you dig it...

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Member Since: 9/28/2005
Band Website: likebears.blackguild.com
Band Members: Like bears are: Sam - Vocals, Guitar, harmonica ::: Phil - Drums ::: Nick - Hammond, Guitar ::: Lachie - Bass, bgv's :::
Influences: Pedro the lion, The Flaming lips, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, M.Ward, Nick Drake, Art of Fighting, Fugazi, Wilco, Daniel Johnston, Nick Cave and the Bad seeds, Cat Power, Sublime, mercury rev, Avail, Headphones, David Bazan, Dirty Three, Me without you, Augie March.


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My Blog

ep launch with aldous and split-sombre

things sometimes just work out huh. This was a strange show, sunday night at the arty. We figured we wouldent get much of a crowd being a sunday night and all, so we called it the ep launch -  mo...
Posted by Like Bears on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:28:00 PST

1st July at the Rob Roy and a bit before

sorry i've been slack lately. i got a new job, you know how it is.anyway, we played a gig last night at the Rob Roy with Aldous, Cinema She, and rusted. Being a sunday night (and the fact that we hadn...
Posted by Like Bears on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:03:00 PST

Cmon Cmon 1st birthday with shooting at unarmed men and good intensions

well this was a sweet gig to play, but in my opinion the evelyn never "works" as a venue unless its packed. that being said it was still a good show. Tom "the rev" was back on keys for the first time ...
Posted by Like Bears on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:25:00 PST

the espy 8th of feb

well i just got home from the show and i have to say that it feels great to be back at the espy. such a great venue to play. Having not rehearsed for this show, all things considered i think we played...
Posted by Like Bears on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:58:00 PST

we just got a manager

tim clare from upstairs mate records and the main guy behind the music website wirelessbollinger.com is going to be our manager...at least for the next month. we're doing a trial thing. tims cool you ...
Posted by Like Bears on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:14:00 PST

like bears and tic toc tokyo at bootleg last sat (27th of jan i think)

it was a cool show. i had fun. we played a brand new song (at the moment called driving away - until we come up with a better name)  and the other newy that we played the week before. everyone at...
Posted by Like Bears on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:09:00 PST

19/01/07 goodbye motel, Good Intensions and Like Bears

19/01/07 Goodbye Motel, Good Intensions and us Our first show since we did our recording and it was such a good night. Lots of people came down early to hear us play (THANKS!). we played probably the...
Posted by Like Bears on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:55:00 PST

The New EP is finnished!

hey all, We just finnished the new EP and i have to say that i'm super happy with it. At the moment I think the title will be "The Grand March E.P" Paul Fox (who mastered it) thought it should be cal...
Posted by Like Bears on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:17:00 PST

We're about to record a new E.P!

Hey dudes, We're all super excited because on Sunday we're heading into the Bakehouse studios to record our first proper E.P with all the band members yay! Looks like we'll do 6 songs, probably &nbs...
Posted by Like Bears on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:49:00 PST

Justin Grounds - Rob Draper - Like Bears @ The Public Bar - 03/08/06

Our second show at the public bar and it was a lot of fun. After Justin Grounds and Rob Draper did their sets combined we took to the stage. Although I was feeling mighty sick the subtle combination o...
Posted by Like Bears on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:00:00 PST