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New digital single Pushover is out now backed with Robot Arms!
BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL - A Fortuna POP! compilation.
Featuring BEARSUIT, Finlay, Sodastream, Tender Trap, Cannonball Jane, The Chemistry Experiment, The Butterflies of Love, Fanfarlo, The Lucksmiths, Airport Girl, Comet Gain, The Aislers Set and MANY MORE!
To buy, Paypal £5 to ministryoffinance@fortunapop.com or send a cheque, postal order or IMO made payable to ‘Fortuna POP!' to 4 Mayfield House, Rushcroft Road, Brixton, London. SW2 1LD. UK. If you're in the UK postage is included. For Europe add 50p and R.O.W £1.
Germany - Rough Trade
Australia - Inertia
Benelux - Deconstruction
Scandinavia - Dot shop
Italy - Self
Ireland - Vital
USA - released on Happy Happy Birthday To Me records Japan - watch this space...
More Soul Than Wigan Casino - Pick Of The Week in The Guardian Guide 11/08/07:
Fresh out of hiding, six piece Bearsuit have a whole heap of brand-spanking-new shonky pop songs replete with glitter, knives, smiles, shouts and catchy choruses to make you feel happy sad and slightly scared at the same time.
Subjects include terrible bloodthirsty gangs of tiny children, getting jiggy with dinosaurs, fist-fighting your younger self, signing up for intergalatic warfare, finding love, the colonisation of the solar system, the search for tangible proof of a 'soul', and a dirty old crow: you know: the usual shit.
Already championed by the likes of Steve Lamacq, Huw Stevens, Phill Jupitus, XFM, the NME, Artrocker and Plan B, the six piece release their new album OH:IO on Fantastic Plastic on September the 10th. With a live show including flute, guitars, keyboards, samples, cornet, singing, bells, accordion, theremin, drums, oh and a keytar plus a variety of outlandish stage gear - blood soaked prom dresses, marching bands, 'nurses of death' outfits, spacemen and silver bear-bot wear to name but a few - Bearsuit are certainly a band to catch live!
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Stop-start boy-girl cutie-killer six-piece with everything from cinematic waltzes to catchy electro disco and hard punk screaming riot grrl noise. A mix of Belle and Sebastian, Huggy Bear, and Sonic Youth with electronic twists and turns, and screamy art punk.
The band first captured the imagination of the late John Peel, notching up four Radio 1 sessions for the legendary DJ and scoring three top five hits in his Festive 50, including scooping the number 2 slot in his post-humous chart.
They have since gone on to become darlings of the indie-art-rock scene and are now signed to Fantastic Plastic Records (known for kickstarting the careers of bands including The Guillemots, Ash, the Wannadies, the Futureheads, Ikara Colt).
“Colourful, wacky… pop hotchpotch…Imagine Do Me Bad Things having a good fight with Belle and Sebastian at a fairground…on ‘shrooms…in the dark. Yes, really.” NME
“Louder than an explosion in a fireworks factory, …often within the space of a single number, accordion, flute, cornet, violin, theremin and a number of percussion instruments are banged, blown, squeezed and thrummed. It’s an uproariously joyful noise.” Artrocker
“The critical convention of pasting ready-made pigeonholes on to passing bands rocking the same old sounds is shot to absolute shit by the six piece’s technicoloured tomfoolery.” Rock Sound
"Frantic, retro space age, riotously cute disco-punk with the odd throwback to early B&S dropped in, all casual like, lollipop-innocent and coy glances like they hope you won't notice." Everett True, Loose Lips Sink Ships
“Peculiar indeed but abnormally captivating all the same” The Fly
"In an era when almost everything is quite like something else, Bearsuit are not quite like anything." John Peel
"Cinematic doodlings, screamy art punk, and many twists and turns, condensed into less than half an hour of fine, left field pop." The Independent
Buy ar rekkids! these are the labels we've got stuff out on:
Fantastic Plastic Fortuna POP! (UK & Europe) Microindie (US)
and early singles - Sickroom Gramaphonic Collective
yeah!...really!! i like so much your music, is fantastyc..n.n is amm....good wave jeje..amm i don't know other band with your style :)is very am..funny,,,,very original...n.n!yeah! of course !lalala(8)your songs are good:)...i love you!hahahahaha xD!good luck!
Hello Bearsuit, really enjoyed your set at Rhythms of the World yesterday! Did you get a chance to look around the rest of the festival? We waited a little while to buy some merch but didn't see you. See you next time!
Nearly there and tickets are moving pretty fast. A few left in Rounder, Resident and Ape in Brighton and Phonica in London. and online here www.etickets.to/buy/?e=2308
Inmiddels zijn 200 boeken verkocht en de pers is positief over Muziekreis door het Berlijn van toen en nu - van jazzhel tot technohemel.
Duits.de: ‘Ik vind dat Jonker … die klus heel goed geklaard heeft.’ ‘Het boek is over de gehele linie - algemene geschiedenis en muziekgeschiedenis - toegankelijk geschreven en bevat talrijke anekdotes.’ ‘Alles wat langs moet komen komt dan ook langs: de jazzgekte van de jaren '20, de Schlagers van de jaren '30 en '40, Rock'n Roll, Punk, Techno - alles.’
Festivalinfo.nl: '... geeft het boek een zeer goed en uitgebreid beeld van de muziekcultuur in Berlijn.'
FONK: 'Al met al is het werkje een leuke alternatieve reisgids voor wie binnenkort naar de Duitse hoofdstad gaat. Kort, krachtig en vlot opgepend.'
Trajectum: '... is vooral voor Berlijn- én muziekfans een must voor in de trein richting Berlin Hauptbahnhof (waar je na het lezen van de eerste pagina's meteen op wilt stappen).'
Het boek is t/m 31 juli met korting online te bestellen voor EUR 14,-. Daarna geldt de normale winkelprijs van EUR 15,95. En ook in de winkels gaat het hard. Velvet Music moest al bij bestellen, nadat ze uitverkocht waren. Bestel jouw exemplaar nu!
hey guys, how's it going? we've a new EP out, made it ourselves... by the way, been listening to Muscle Belt on repeat lately - to our hive mind, up there with the best you've done.. hearts x
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