• Cerian Hamer - violin, cornet, percussion
• Lisa Horton - vocals, keyboards, accordian, percussion
• Matt Hutchings - drums, percussion
• Matthew Moss - bass
• Jan Robertson - flute, guitar, percussion
• Iain Ross - vocals, guitar

Brief band history:
We were shit, but the we got signed, then we got arrogant, then we practised.

Influences:
... are secret

Life Changing Records:
Difficult to say ... we talked about it for 3 hours and came to no conclusion. Amongst the many were: Cerian - Hunky dory - Bowie 3ft high rising - de la soul; iain - fantasma - cornelius; jan - crucify - tori amos...

Contact Details:
the band@bearsuit.co.uk or (band member's name)@bearsuit.co.uk

Future plans:
pay the bills - the debt collectors are coming round soon

[ available now from www.sickroomgc.co.uk : hey charlie, hey chuck debut 7“ 'drinkink' on blip-anomaly 7“ ]

Releases

• Foxy Boxer - single, out 03/12/2007 on Fantastic Plastic. 1 review (read/post)
• OH:IO - album, out 10/09/2007 on Fantastic Plastic. 1 review (read/post)
• More Soul Than Wigan Casino (EP) - single, out 20/08/2007 on Fantastic Plastic. 2 reviews (read/post)
• Steven F***ing Spielberg - single, out 10/04/2006 on Fantastic Plastic. 1 review (read/post)
• chargr / what, you've never seen snow before? - single, out 15/11/2004 on Fortuna Pop!. 1 review (read/post)
• Cat Spectacular! - album, out 19/04/2004 on Fortuna Pop!. 1 review (read/post)
• Hey Charlie, Hey Chuck - single on Sickroom Gramophonic Collective. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• A Day At The Races '08, Tue 06 May at Manchester New Century House. (post review)
• Fri 14 Dec at Norwich Arts Centre. (post review)
• Sun 09 Dec at Cambridge The Portland Arms. (post review)
• Sat 08 Dec at Chichester Chichester Inn. (post review)
• Fri 07 Dec at London The Enterprise. (post review)
• Sat 01 Dec at Manchester Night and Day Cafe. (post review)
• Sat 01 Dec at Newcastle upon Tyne The Cumberland Arms. (post review)
• Fri 30 Nov at Edinburgh Teviot Union. (post review)
• Fri 30 Nov at Glasgow Stereo. (post review)
• Wed 21 Nov at London Metro. (post review)
• Sun 07 Oct at London Corsica Studios. (post review)
• Fri 21 Sep at Coventry Taylor John's House. (post review)
• Thu 20 Sep at Liverpool Barfly. (post review)
• Wed 19 Sep at Manchester The Bay Horse. (post review)
• Tue 18 Sep at Bristol Louisiana. (post review)
• Thu 13 Sep at Bath Moles. (post review)
• Wed 12 Sep at Winchester Railway Inn. (post review)
• Tue 11 Sep at London Camden Dublin Castle. (post review)
• Mon 10 Sep at Cambridge Barfly at The Graduate. (post review)
• Sun 09 Sep at Cardiff Barfly Club. (post review)
• Sat 08 Sep at Bolton dog & partridge. (post review)
• Fri 07 Sep at Birmingham Sunflower Lounge. (post review)
• Thu 06 Sep at Brighton Audio. (post review)
• Fri 31 Aug at Coventry Taylor John's House. (post review)
• Sat 25 Aug at Norwich Arts Centre. (post review)
• Fri 24 Aug at Derby Five Lamps. (post review)
• Wed 22 Aug at Newcastle upon Tyne Head of Steam. (post review)
• Thu 16 Aug at London Buffalo Bar. (post review)
• Wed 08 Aug at London Buffalo Bar. (post review)
• Indietracks Indiepop Festival, Sun 29 Jul at Ripley Midland Railway Butterley. (post review)
• Indietracks Indiepop Festival, Sat 28 Jul at Ripley Midland Railway Butterley. (post review)
• Fri 27 Jul at London Buffalo Bar. (post review)
• Sat 23 Jun at London Kilburn The Luminaire. 1 review (read/post)
• Fri 13 Oct at Norwich Arts Centre. (post review)
• Fortuna Pop!'s Tenth Birthday Party, Tue 29 Aug at London The Luminaire. (post review)
• NPUC Festival: Day 1, Thu 03 Aug at Norwich Arts Centre. (post review)
• Fri 23 Jun at London Camden Barfly. (post review)
• Sat 15 Apr at Manchester The Klondyke club. (post review)
• Jukebox at the red rooms, Fri 14 Apr at Newcastle upon Tyne The Blackett arms. (post review)
• Undereducated night, Thu 13 Apr at Northampton The Racehorse. (post review)
• Sat 01 Apr at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. (post review)
• Fri 31 Mar at Cardiff Dempsey's. (post review)
• Sat 29 Oct at Cardiff University Howard Gardens. (post review)
• Wed 18 May at London Metro. 1 review (read/post)
• Sun 07 Nov at London The Betsey Trotwood. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 21/11/2007: Bearsuits you, sir? See 'em on tour then...
• 30/08/2007: Barfly to land in Cambridge
• 10/08/2007: Fact Of The Day: Bears can't tour
• 07/08/2007: Special free show to mark Chow Chow singer's passing
• 05/07/2007: Bearslut: band emerge with orgy of news
• 18/01/2007: Bearsuit to play album preview show
• 21/09/2006: Bearsuit fans! Check out The Aprons
• 11/08/2006: Fortuna Pop! is Ten. Come celebrate!
• 16/06/2006: DiS Barfly June - Bearsuit! Dev!
• 09/05/2006: DiS Gigs: London, Edinburgh update

Features

• 21/05/2007: Dot To Dot Festival: DiS's preview of Nottingham's biggest music marathon of the year
• 02/05/2006: A Month in Records: April 2006
• 28/05/2005: Bearsuit: “If only we sounded more like Busted…”
• 17/09/2001: "Young Girls Let Us Special Poke Them..."

Links

• Bearsuit - official site

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