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A Bear

About Me

A BEAR!

We hope to make Bruce Willis proud.

If you want a proper bio, click here.

GIGS?! TOURS?! PARTIES?!

We're booking a tour with PHARAOHS at the moment for July.
If you fancy booking us for that, or anything else for that matter, email [email protected] or message us on here.

So far we've very much enjoyed playing shows with: Tubelord, Blakfish, Shapes, The Old Romantic Killer Band, Shoes and Socks Off, That Fucking Tank, Copy Haho, Grammatics, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Secondsmile, Aucan and Atomic Garden amongst others.

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Member Since: 15/02/2008
Band Website: http://thisisabear.blogspot.com
Band Members: Luke

Naf

Jake

Booking: [email protected]
Photography: Ixographic.com
Influences: The records that we've bought.
Sounds Like: Danny Glover having a fight.
Releases:
Dapsone Records Vs Yr Letter Records - Volume 1 (Free Download-only Compilation Available HERE! )
Recording Credit: Joe Penny

Some Of Our Friends Are Animals EP - Limited to 100 copies. (Available at gigs)
Recording Credit: Ding
Mixing Credit: Lloyd Gabriel
Merch: www.abear.bigcartel.com

T-shirts are a limited press. 50 bad boys. Only a few left now.
Links:
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YOUTUBE
TWITTER
Press: "Heartfelt & Youthful stopstart Art Pop" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Introducing

"Grizzly, growling and occasionally hairy, A Bear live up to their name. It's tumble-round stuff, the kind that finds you upside down and grinning at the bottom of a mosh pit. Packed with ideas, they constantly take sharp turns and lead off in dazzling directions before returning to their rough-hewn yet gleaming choruses. Free-thinking and forward-moving, A Bear are everything rock needs to be." - Chris Long, BBC Introducting Manchester

"Manchester's lovely A Bear, who, like their name suggest, are manly. So manly in fact that they play harder than some professional bands I have seen, and generally their shows end in some sort of destruction, which is usually the best sign." - Over, Under, Sideways, Down

“Their songs have the unpredictable twists and turns of Tubelord, but more tense and angry.” – Not Ed’s Blog

"Soft vocals beside shouting, screaming over well crafted riffs, near epic breakdowns and sharp changes of pace - the songs are agitative yet casually unconstrained" – Not Ed’s Blog

"You guys were swell!" - David Gest, Celebrity Man (Yes, really. No, we couldn't believe it either.)
Record Label: Dapsone Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

July Tour w/ Pharaohs - PROMOTERS, HAVE A READ!

Basically we're planning on doing a little stint around the UK with Pharaohs some time between the 7th and 14th of July and we're looking for dates bloody anywhere!So far we've got the following:7th J...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 03:59:00 GMT

Reportin' In: Day something (Manchester + Barrow)

So we all got a bit lazy as a band and didn't actually do anything with this blog for Manchester and Barrow. Basically it can be summarised up in this picture.No, the neck on that guitar shouldn't be ...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:31:00 GMT

Reportin' In: Day 5 (Leeds)

So we played at Royal Park Cellars in Leeds and we had a well fun time! Brown Paper Aeroplane were a very enjoyable bunch - quality guys too!Hair traffic control were tasty as ever. It was Ben McTrump...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:01:00 GMT

Reportin' In: Day 4 (Return To Castle Wolfenstein)

I've attempted this blog before, but the internet connection I use is a fickle mistress. (Mobile Broadband - trust me, it's not for you.)Gig 4 was supposed to be in Nottingham but I woke up to a text ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:49:00 GMT

Reportin' In: Day 3 (Worcester)

Right... yesterday, give me a sec to remember what happened.We set off from Chris' house after crumpets, tea, Chinese coffee and a session of Mario on the NES. The drive up to Worcester was lllloooonn...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:26:00 GMT

Reportin' In: Day 2 (Norwich)

So it's day two of the tour. Technically it's day 4 but we had two days off after day one. Actually I'm writing this on day 5, but is that really day 3?!Swallow that one...RIGHT. NORWICH.We had an epi...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:49:00 GMT

Reportin' In: Day 1. (Sheffield)

Halloo!So.. Sheffield last night!? Oh my shit. Crossing the pennines when its gone dark is the scariest thing I have ever experienced in my whole life! Seriously. We made it to the venue with 0.5 seco...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:18:00 GMT

TOUR: 31st March - 12th April! (Show info!)

Booked a tour from the 3rd April - 7th April with Hair Traffic Control (HTC), a brilliant Math Pop Band from Norwichwww.myspace.com/hairtrafficcontrolThen there's a few dates with other bands too, all...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:14:00 GMT

BBC INTRODUCING REVIEW.

Hi all. Hope all is cherries your way. We got lots going on as you can see on our page but we've just received this from the BBC check it out.Heres the lovely link to the BBC's review of A Bear http:/...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:27:00 GMT

2008 Gig listy.

A Bear - 2008 Gig listing from the very start!..........14 Mar 2008, 20:00 - The Cavern ...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:05:00 GMT