Bear Song Sessions CD + Download

Hey everyone, just a few details about our final release.

As you are aware we was in the studio a few months ago demoing a bunch of songs. The plan was to release a new single in early 2011 but we never got that far. We thought it would be a shame for us to not release these tracks so we have decided to release them as they are. 100% raw not 100% finished.We never got to give the songs real names.

These will be made available for Free download on February 21st via http://www.hereticsandlovers.bandcamp.com. One of the tracks is already up and available to listen too and download so go hit up that link!

There is also going to be CD version of the release along-with our Lungfish EP. The CD's will be LTD to 30 copies, each individually Hand numbered, custom artwork, handwritten lyrics and whatever else we feel to include and all handmade by ourselves. These will only be available at our last ever shows. If you would like a copy of the CD then please get in touch before hand and we will save you a copy. Each copy will be unique in its own little way.

CD tracklisting:

Side A. Lungfish - 1. Alter Epos 2. Feral Children 3. Happy Doomsday
Side B. Bear Songs - 1. Bear Demo_1 2. Polar Bear 3. Grizzly Bear 4. Sun Bear

An Update.

So most of you already know about our current situation but we haven't really made our reasonings public. Only to those of you who've asked. So here it is...

After the recent issue we had with our drummer Chris, we tried to continue on with the writing of the record. We played with a couple of different drummers, changed our sound and worked on a few different ideas. The new material we were working on was totally different to how Bear Songs were sounding. A lot more minimal but still grew into a big sounding climax. We wrote this way for a few weeks. However, just before Christmas Rob made the decision to take a break from music. His reasoning was something we fully understood and respected. For the past five years we have put everything into this band, all our time and money. We all have full time jobs and it has been Work > Band > Work > Band > Work constantly and at times can be really exhausting. He just wants to clear his head and do other things in life. Being in such a driven band can, more often than not, prevent this. We have left the door open in case we decide to pick it up again in the future but as it stands we are 100% done.

We are playing two last shows. February 24th at Taylor John's House, Coventry. This is We Are Revival's record release show. We are good friends with We Are Revival, who we toured with back in November, and they kindly asked us to play their release show. It was an offer we simply couldn't say no to. It will be a pleasure to play with our friends one last time and Taylor John's is one of my favourite venues throughout the UK! Then Saturday, February 26th - The big one, our last ever show. The Two Pigs, Cheltenham. We are hoping to see a lot of familiar faces there and hoping for a fantastic night. Feel free to come and party with us afterwards.



We did ask Chris to come rejoin us for our last shows to which he said yes but unfortunately, he is committed to other projects and unable to make the show. He is currently involved in a new project called 'I, the Lion' with members from Rookie/Error. They are currently recording tracks and should have something for your ears in the not too distant future. Be sure to check them out on Facebook, YouTube etc.

We will have our two T-Shirt designs on sale, CD's, posters, stickers so be sure to come hassle us for some of that suff because we will, more than likely, have them on sale for less than normal and if we really like you or you keep pestering us we may even throw in something for free.

A big Thank You to everyone who us supported us over the past five years. We have some of the best memories and hopefully we can add to those with whatever we do next.

Love x

Snaps. November Tour w/ We Are Revival

This is without a doubt one of the hardest situations we have ever been in. We have collectively decided to remove Chris out of the band, We hope this decision will benefit himself as much as it would us writing our new record. We feel that to write this record we need to put everything we got into it and treat it as the one most important things in our life. We have never doubted Chris feeling any different to us or his love for the band/music etc. Without any disrespect to Chris we felt he would not be able to contribute the level of input or time we need to put into this record.

This by far has been both the worst and scariest decision we have ever had to make. Chris is a huge part of our history, being in the band from day one. We love him as a brother and would like to Thank him for everything he has done for the band. Most notably Lungfish, That was a turning point for us.

On the back of this there as been some rumours floating around, to put things straight we are still a band. We are going to continue with writing our record, and we will try to honour any of our upcoming shows.

Thank you for everyone's support to date. It really means a lot. x

Rob, Tinny & Andy.

November Tour

Hey everyone, we are heading out on the road in just under a couple of weeks with our firends in We Are Revival. These will be our last major run of shows before the end of the year and before we head to Bandit Studios in December to record some new tracks.

Dates are:

Nov 22nd - The Sound, Birmingham
Nov 23rd - Meze Lounge, Newport
Nov 24th - Carpe Diem, Leeds
Nov 25th - The Hobgoblin, Bicester
Nov 27th - The Two Pigs, Cheltenham

We have tickets available for the Cheltenham show and can be purchased through our webstore: http://www.hereticsandlovers.bigcartel.com - We hope to see some familiar faces there.

Also our friends in Medik (FOD Represent) have a record coming out and we are stoked to be part of their record release show in December.

We do have a few other dates booked here and there including a couple for 2011, check them out on our Myspace: http://www.myspace.com.hereticsandlovers

Hopefully see you on tour!

LOVE

Today, whilst showing my mother our new songs we recently recorded it gave me the opportunity to listen to each of the tracks as if it was an album - Which is our overall goal. I sat there and thought about how great the songs were sounding, how these demos are already sounding huge. I imagined how they would sound once they were double tracked, had additional parts and being a polished version of what i was listening to. It made me realise how close we were to having an albums worth of music. Song wise we only have five complete tracks but it works out about 35 minutes worth of music. An album usually clocks in around 40/45 minutes on average and even though to me it still feels we are just starting with this album, we have way more content then I thought. In my head it seems we still have months of writing/playing shows and recording demo's at every possible chance before we even think about structuring album.

Again we are heading into the studio this week to record another track. It's a new track, one we only wrote during our last practice session, but it gave us a great excitement. It's strange how we can sometimes work for weeks on a track before its a finished product and others we work on for a couple of hours before it feels right and then have the urge to use it. I wont say any of our songs are finished but there are at a stage to were we feel comfortable playing them live.

We have one song confirmed for our next release and we just need to decide on one more, which is going to be the hard part...

Love.

Bear Song Sessions #001

So we have wrapped up in the studio, four brand new demo recordings. The tracks will be used to help shape our next record as we continue the writing process for Bear Songs.






Two of the songs will be recorded again in December and will be featured on our next release. I'm sure these demos will be floating around soon so keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Recording Details

As we have previously mentioned, we were hoping to record a couple of new tracks at the end of the year. Well we can now confirm we will be entering Bandit Studios in December and will be working with Johnny Renshaw of Devil Sold His Soul fame to record two new tracks. We are excited by this opportunity as we are fans with most of the bands he has worked with in the past including his own. We are also going to demo a bunch of other new songs in the next few weeks to help us decide which two we will record in December and will feature on our next release...

RIP Bernie 2007 -2010

Vans! Tours! Recording! Fuck with me! (A Catch Up).

A few recent and upcoming happenings -

Vans. Recently we had the shit news that 'Bernie' our van of just under three years failed it's MOT and there is just to much wrong with him to fix. We have had some awesome times in that van and on the odd occasion had almost died. We are currently without a van but this wont affect any of our upcoming shows as we found out we can fit all our gear into three cars. Hopefully it won't be too long before we have a new van to travel the country in.

Tours. We have a few upcoming shows, please check out our Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/hereticsandlovers for our updated listings. Our friends We Are Revival have welcomed us to join them on a mini tour in November of the South West area so we are currently taking bookings for that, if can help us out on any of the following please email myself - tinny@attic-room.co.uk or contact though our myspace page. Dates are as follows:

Nov Mini Tour w/ We Are Revival
25th - TBC
26th - TBC
27th - The Two Pigs, Cheltenham
28th - TBC

Recording. We are making arrangements to head into the studio at the end of the year to record a couple of new tracks. Not sure what two songs we will be recording as of yet, we are going to continue to write and re-work songs up until the end of the year and will likely choose the two we feel are strongest, and then a double A Side Single release? Maybe...

Also, we were invited along with a few others to hang out and be apart of Medik's upcoming record. If your a fan of Forest band's or Post-Hardcore/Screamo bands make sure you check that out. It sounds killer from the bit's we heard in the studio and can't wait to hear the finished product. It is due to drop sometime in November.

Love.