Interviews
Interview (2007)
Bearsuit have been making gradual dents on mianstream culture with their distorted indie pop. Mark Rowland talks to the group about their forthcoming third album, ikts recording and and appearing on Top Shop's music video screens
Interview (2004)
One of the leading lights in the indie pop genre. Norwich-based group Bearsuit recently released their debut album, 'Cat Spectacular !' Back for second interview with us,they talk to Tommy Gunnarsson about its success and where they plan to go next
Interview (2002)
Described by John Peel as "the pop sensation that's seeping the nation", Norwich band Bearsuit are one of the rising stars of indie pop. In one of their first interviews, Gary Wollen catches up with the group on a North London stairwell
Live
London Toynbee Arts Centre, 22/2/02
Norwich's Bearsuit are "musically unprincipled and inadvertently messy", but new writer Gary Wollen finds a recent London show to be "gorgeous, sublime and damn fine !"
Reviews
Princess, You're a Test (2011)
Short, yet brilliant garage rock on latest single from Norwich-based indie rock group, Bearsuit
The Phantom Forest (2011)
Wacky and messy indie pop on latest album from stubbornly unfashionable Norwich band Bearsuit, which while not introducing them to a wider audience will continue to appeal to their fanbase
Please Don't Take Him Back (2010)
Exciting techno and keyboard-based latest single from Bearsuit, their first in a rejigged line-up
Muscle Belt (2009)
Bouncing indie pop on new download only single from the ever brilliant Bearsuit
Oh : Io (2007)
Ambitous third album from increasingly popular noise popsters Bearsuit
Chargr! (2004)
Latest single from the ever chaotic and reliable Bearsuit
Cat Spectacular (2004)
Long-awaited, but almost totally satisfying debut album from chaotic Norwich-based indie popsters, Bearsuit
Itsuko Got Married (2003)
Debut "unique blend of indie rumble" on their own Bearslut Records from former Sickroom Collective stars, Bearsuit
Stop What You're Doing What Your Doing Is Wrong (2002)
"Compulsive energetic pop " on third single from Bearsuit
Drinkink (2002)
"Astounding' guitar feedback laden second single from the unpredictable and always thrilling Bearsuit
Hey Charlie Hey Chuck (2001)
Magoo run their own studio and label in East Anglia and Bearsuit their most talented pupils are causing a bit of a storm right now. 'Hey Charlie Hey Chuck' has been aired by John Peel already a few t
Related
Profiles
Sickroom Gramophone Collective
Interview with Rhys Harper and Benjamin Watson
Norwich's the Sickroom Gramophone Collective has met with major success with Bearsuit and is one of the up-and-coming labels in Britain. Owners Rhys Harper and Benjamin Watson talk to Gary Wollen about its spectacular rise
Live
Fortuna Pop! Fifteen Years of Fun
Scala, London, 1/11/2011...3/11/2011
At indie pop label Fortuna POP's fifteenth birthday celebrations, Anthony Strutt enjoys sets from among others Bearsuit, the Primitives, Tender Trap, Darren Hayman and Allo' Darlin'
Help ! She Can't Swim, Bearsuit and the
Metro, London, 30/3/2006
Jamie Rowland watches twee Casio rockers Help ! She Can't Swim, Bearsuit and the Retro Spankees all play fresh and inventive sets at the Metro in London
Features
John Peel
Ten Songs That Made Me Love...
In 'Ten Songs That Made Me Love...', Jamie Rowland writes of ten songs that he first heard listening to John Peel's late night Radio 1 show