Bearsuit

Bearsuit are a British indie band from Norwich, whose music started out as art-punk, with instruments ranging from violins, flutes and horns. The band was formed in 1998 by members, who met each other at the University of East Anglia, who then slowly met others while at Norwich. After several line ups, the band in 2007 changed their musical direction and went onto an indie electronic style. Some members of the band have also been involved in other projects including a semi Japanese group called Hyper Kinako, whose track Tokyo Invention Registration Office reached number 44 on the 2003 Festive Fifty. Bearsuit have been championed by BBC radio DJs including John Peel, Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, Zane Lowe, Rob Da Bank, Phill Jupitus, Marc Riley, Tom Ravenscroft, Tom Robinson, Colin Murray, Gideon Coe and John Kennedy on XFM.

Links To Peel
The band got their attention of Peel, when they sent their demo tape in 1999, which Peel liked so much, that he played it on his show. Lisa Horton, a member of Bearsuit, recalled sending the demo tape to John Peel and mentioned: ''“We just sent a demo in that we’d recorded ourselves at home. It was really bad, but he played it anyway and invited us in for a session. We couldn’t believe our luck – it was a really exciting time. He went on to play pretty much everything we sent him and even offered to restart Dandelion Records to put out our album. We probably wouldn’t still be together now if we hadn’t had that support right at the start."'' The band recorded four sessions for Peel and their songs were regularly featured on the Festive Fifty.==Festive Fifty Entries ==
 * 2001 Festive Fifty: Hey Charlie, Hey Chuck #04
 * 2002 Festive Fifty: Drinkink #30
 * 2003 Festive Fifty: Itsuko Got Married #05
 * 2004 Festive Fifty: Chargr! #02
 * 2006 Festive Fifty: Steven Fucking Spielberg #17
 * 2007 Festive Fifty: Steven Fucking Spielberg #30
 * 2007 Festive Fifty: Foxy Boxer #03
 * 2010 Festive Fifty: Please Don't Take Him Back #34

Sessions
1. Recorded: 2001-06-20. Broadcast: 11 July 2001 2. Recorded and Live at Maida Vale: 26 September 2001 3. Recorded: 2002-06-16. Broadcast: 01 August 2002*I Feel The Heat Of The Light From Heaven / Tiny Barnes / Come Around / Disembowel The Demonkind / Disco For Rodents 4. Recorded and Live at the Boat Club: 31 October 2002*Hey Charlie Hey Chuck / Stop What You're Doing What You're Doing Is / Going Steady / I Thought You Said / You Were Blind / Rodent Disco / Drink Ink
 * Stop What You're Doing What You're Doing Is / Hei Jaska Hei Jokunen / Minerals Made Me / Poor Prince Neal
 * A Plea / Hovercar / Truly Sheri / Hey Charlie Hey Chuck / I Thought You Said You Were Blind / Drink Ink / Poor Prince Neal

Other Shows Played
(The following list was compiled only from the database of this site and Lorcan's Tracklistings Archive. Please add further details if known.)

1999
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