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BEAR CAT are two good friends. Dan discovered some time ago he was in fact, half panda, half human. Deciding to write a song to his ancestors, he freestyled "Panda I Love You" to Jocee , who promptly harmonised and somehow made a throwaway of a throwaway tune into something vaguely cute.
So BEAR CAT was born, but before anyone could recognise them they put on masks, and are today a mystery band that sing about the mysterious creature known only to the ancient Chinese as the BEAR CAT, and only the mysterious creature known only to the ancient Chinese as the BEAR CAT.
This cheap gimmick has seen them share stages with such artists as Chicago's Andrew Bird and Sufjan Stevens-labelmate Halfhanded Cloud.
While Dan has the guitar skills of a four year old coupled with a limited Johnny Cash-getting-way-too-excited set of vocal chords, he proudly claims to have completed book one of the Suzuki method violin course at around age ten, Jocee is teaching him book 1 of piano, and has recently started to cut his own hair without using a mirror. His biggest inspiration is "everything" and also celebrity crushes, bands that sing out of tune and Cyndi Lauper. The musical finesse of the group, Jocee Tuck, is an innocent young girl with a voice that makes you want to shout from a mountain. Jocee has previously studied to be a sign language interpreter and can dance like crazy to anything. Despite excellent musical training, Jocee still manages to knock over an instrument or hit the wrong button at least once a show. This drives Dan wild but he just can't stay mad at her. Awww.
.. if you'd like to be the first to know any news about the Bear Cat recording, or their upcoming activities - then message them and they'll add you to a super-cool mailing list. Said mailing list is 100% certified fun and promises not to contain more than 3.4% spam or be sent out in more than 5% of the weeks in any given calender year. Honest. These statistics were worked out on an actual calculator watch.
ps. amongst 25 other up-and-coming bands, we have a song on the Awesome Feeling compilation, which comes with the May issue of Real Groove.

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Member Since: 4/19/2006
Band Website: THIS ONE
Band Members: Jocee Tuck, Dan Trevarthen
Influences: Ramones, Ronettes, pandas
Sounds Like: three chords, overblown melodrama, oohs and ahhs, cheap dynamic shifts in lieu of considered construction, hamfisted metaphors, boys and girls, two bedroom studios + one good engineer (Dave), swooning, singing, shortcomings
Record Label: Wanna release our cassingle? :-)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Bear Cat mini tour

... this is technically the closest to Bear Cat ever having been on tour. We are playing four shows over two weeks and three of them are on a different island. the first one of these is this... ... Po...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:08:00 PST

vote for our song 9 on Kiwi FM

update! we are number 9 on the Kiwi FM charts. if you happen to be hanging out on the internet and can spare five minutes from scrabulous on facebook then you should register as a user at www.kiwifm.c...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:14:00 PST

video preview of friday

we just got sent this promo piece for Friday, when we will try and trick mtv into giving us ten grand of flights overseas. HA.by our profile pic just click on "videos" and you should be able to watch....
Posted by BEAR CAT on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:16:00 PST

romantic devonport

ummm, I just have to tell you I have a big crush on you. do you wanna go on a date? how about picturesque Devonport? I'll buy you an ice cream and we'll ride there and back on the ferry. the ferry is ...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Fri, 23 May 2008 05:52:00 PST

Bear Cat = pop stars?

Ok, so I was out at drinks after a long hard day at the library, lots of grumpy patrons, too many books to check in, etc... and headed home feeling kinda tipsy and despondant at working as a library a...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Wed, 14 May 2008 06:51:00 PST

yeah, you could get the tshirt, or...

nz music month, right? you could just buy one of those terrible tshirts that they sell with the nz music month logo on it (hey, I've never seen a cent)....or you could support someone that's actually ...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Sat, 10 May 2008 02:56:00 PST

Bear Cat interviewed on Mammoth

Some cool kids in Hamilton have started up a gig guide there... and it's a website with writing, gig listings and a nice layout. I have a little bit of a crush on it. Shane Dudfield kindly interviewed...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:34:00 PST

low bit-rate previews up

I just uploaded three new preview songs from the forthcoming Bear Cat album/EP. it’s unmixed/mastered/really low quality mp3 so these versions will sound crappy... but all the tracking’s b...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:26:00 PST

this sat feb 23 @ whammy: us, situations, actualities, o’lovelys and maybe more!

the Actualities and The O'Lovelys are coming to town on the 23rd, at Whammy Bar. we will be there. they are real great, the Actualities will be touring their flash new EP. also playing will be THE ...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:52:00 PST

come to Andrew Bird Jan 16 at Classic

at the Classic on Queen Street (near the corner of Mayoral Drive) we're opening for Chicago's Andrew Bird on January 16. 8pm, $32 presales I understand.Here's some info/vids below. He'll be a heck of ...
Posted by BEAR CAT on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:21:00 PST