Music

Brainlove Festival 2011: Bear Driver

John Rogers | Saturday 14 May, 2011 15:45

1. Hello! We’re really happy you’re playing Brainlove Festival. Could you introduce yourself?
Yup, we’re Bear Driver. Ol and Harry play guitar and sing, Cassie sings too, Jon plays bass, Rich hits drums and Joseph is very tall and has keyboards.

2. Tell us a bit about the song you’ve given us.
This is a brand new demo of a song we added to the set for sxsw earlier this year. We’ve been giving away a series of free downloads since January and this is the latest – it’s called Colours Run. 

Bear Driver – Colours Run by snipelondon

3. Do you have a favourite festival performance? Both from a festival you’ve played, and a show by another artist…
Favourite that we’ve played… We played Reading & Leeds when we’d just started out so that was awesome, although I think our set at SXSW this year was my favourite to date.
Favourite that we’ve seen… Yo La Tengo at End Of The Road last year was amazing. Raised the bar by a long way. 

4. How about a few words for curious readers wondering what to expect from your performance at BRNLV Festival this year?
Well we there’s 6 of us so we’ll be squeezed onto the stage and be bumping into each other a lot, Harry will probably fall off altogether as he usually does sooner or later. But I’m not going to guarantee that – you’ll just have to wait and see. We love playing shows, hopefully that comes across! 

Brainlove Festival is on May 28th at Brixton Windmill. Get your tickets for here.

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