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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.

Comparisons have been made to bands including Architecture in Helsinki, Deerhoof and I’m From Barcelona.

The band first captured the imagination of the late John Peel, notching up four BBC 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 UK 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).

The band have been championed across BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music as well as London’s XFM by DJs including Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, Phill Jupitus, Gideon Coe, Collin Murray and Rob Da Bank.

The six-piece lat year released their third album ‘Oh:io’ in the UK to rave reviews in the music press including Q, The Clash, and Dazed and Confused, as well as ‘Single of the Week’ in The Guardian, ‘Vinyl of the Week’ in the NME, and ‘Album of the Fortnight’ in Artrocker.

Oh:io has just been released in the States on Happy Happy Birthday To Me records.

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!

“Entirely Brilliant” The Guardian

"In an era when almost everything is quite like something else, Bearsuit are not quite like anything." John Peel

“In what's shaping up to be a solid 12 months for arty indie-pop and schizophrenic noise-pop alike, English sextet Bearsuit lend the inspired innocence of the former to the joyous chaos of the latter…A fine spectacle, indeed.” Pitchfork

“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

"Cinematic doodlings, screamy art punk, and many twists and turns, condensed into less than half an hour of fine, left field pop." The Independent

formed in

2001

genres

Indie
Alternative
Electro

diskografija

Albums

Cat Spectacular! (Fortuna Pop!, 2004)

Team Ping Pong (Fantastic Plastic, 2005)

oh:io (Fantastic Plastic, 2007)

Singles

Hey Charlie Hey Chuck (Sickroom GC, 2001)

Drinkink (Sickroom GC, 2002)

Stop What You're Doing What You're Doing Is Wrong (Sickroom GC, 2002)

Itsuko Got Married (Bearslut recordings, 2003)

The Bearsuit Jesus Will Spear You Through The Heart EP (Fortuna Pop!, 2003)

Chargr! (Fortuna POP!, 2004)

Steven Fucking Spielberg (Fantastic Plastic, 2006)

More Soul Than Wigan Casino (Fantastic Plastic, 2007) #24 UK Indie

Foxy Boxer (Fantastic Plastic, 2007) #13 UK Indie

members

Lisa Horton - vocals, keyboards, melodica
Iain Ross - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Jan Robertson - guitar, flute, keyboards, vocals, samples
Cerian Hutchings - keyboards, cornet, vocals, violin
Richard Squires - bass
Matt Hutchings - drums

website

www.myspace.com/bearsuit