Follow The Bear!

When I was a kid one of my favourite adverts was for Hofmeister beer. No, don’t worry I wasn’t early drinker (I don’t think I’ve even tasted the beer) but the advert was - and still is - a classic!

A bit of a tenuous link this one but in the 1980s when the ad was on our TVs the Bear Pub was a cool place to hang out. Comedy nights run by the then unknown Chris Collins, who went on to become a huge star as Frank Skinner, were really popular and the pub was always busy.

Over the years it went a bit ‘pete tong’ and The Bear got a bad reputation as somewhere to go if you wanted a fight...not just a pint. Thankfully this has all changed. The pub’s recently gone through a huge refurbishment and seems to be turning over a new leaf. The Bear serves great ale, is very cheap (£6 for 3 pints of cider – I know!) and is keen to get a new name for itself.

So, if you follow that Bear down to the Bear Pub hopefully you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

Good music coming to a Bearwood venue near you!

Do you wish sometimes you could just wander down Bearwood High Street of a night to see a really good local band play, meet up with some other locals and enjoy a pint or two?  

Well, this kind of night might be on its way in early July.  A group of Bearwooders got together last week to see what ideas we could come up with.  Our plans so far are listed on the 'Bearwood Gigs' page on this blog (see tabs above), have a look and let us know what you think.

Here's a list of bands we thought might be cool to approach, to see if they'd be interested.
Thanks to Daron for additional suggestions and Swanny for highlighting bands (in red) that might be good as headliners.  ANY VIEWS?  Please comment!

Folk
Goodnight Lenin
Malpas
Boat To Row
The Young Runaways
The Toy Hearts (Bluegrass)

Singer/Songwriter
Tara Chinn
Dan Whitehouse
Barnsey

Indie/Pop
Tantrums
Calories
Laura Bowen
LP45
Arcadian Kicks
I Thee Lothario
Black Market Empire
Little L
10 Guitars
Poppy and the Jezebels
Vix n'the Kix

Alternative
Misty's Big Adventure
Kate Goes
The Courtesy Group
The Destroyers
Tom Peel
The Au Pairs...would be great to get them to reform...
Victories at Sea
Seams

Spoken Word
Jodi Anne Bickley
Polar Bear
Leon Burke
Matt Windle
Kim Trusty

Rock
The Black and Reds
Einstellung
Old School Tie
Das Bastard
Beestung Lips

Ska

360

The Heels

Tempting Rosie

Other Stuff (that Sally doesn't know which genre it fits in)

Fever Fever
Mighty Mighty
The Lights
The Destroyers
Lydia Glanville

Joe and Charlie's stuff
Joe's main band - over the line
Charlie's main band - purplephish
Project called over the top - "ridiculously epic"
Charlie's jam band
Charlie's own stuff - http://www.myspace.com/gazchaz

More suggestions?
Comment with some Links for us to add to this post.

Want to get involved?
We need people to help with various things - comment below or email us at welovebearwood@gmail.com!