#bearswithguns

Bears With Guns - Let Go

In their own words:

1. Please introduce yourselves and tell us how you met Hey, we are a Sydney based band called “Bears With Guns”. We all grew up in the small country town of Parkes, in western NSW, so we’ve known each other from an early age, with the exception of Lachlan. After high school we parted ways for a year, all doing different things, trying to figure out what to do with our lives, and by some cosmic coincidence we all decided to move to Sydney together and study music. All we wanted to do was play music. That’s when we met Lachy, and this musical adventure really started rolling forward. 2. What/who would you say are your biggest influences? It seems as though it’s just a melting pot of different flavours, because every person in the band comes from a different music background. Over time we’ve come to appreciate each others musical taste, which has led to us influencing each other. 

Music that is constantly being played in the van is; Alt J, Bonobo, City and Colour, Incubus and Death Cab For cutie, just to name a few. But influence is always evolving, and our music evolves with it. 3. How would you describe your sound Being so close to it, we find it very hard to define, so we like to others describe our music to us. It’s funny - everyone seems to have a different answer. If I had to describe it; gentle, intertwined melodies, driven by strong worlds rhythms. We like to keep our music raw too.  We feel it makes the music more alive and more real.

4. What kind of scene would we find at a typical BWG rehearsal? In an old fishing shack by the river - this is where the magic happens.  Tea is made or beers are opened and we open up the song vault and lose ourselves in creative jams. Dream catchers with big feathers, our favourite band and festival line up posters, swags and miscellaneous instruments are the furniture that lines the walls.  The lounge room has really become the home and cave for the creation of our music.

5. Can you give us a hit at what you’ll be getting up to for the rest of the year We’re going to play as much as possible in various places around Australia and visit as many new places and faces.  You’ll find us in your local bar/street corner in Sydney, Parkes, Broken Hill, Byron Bay, Brisbane, Melbourne, Ballarat, Adelaide and Mildura…just to name a few.  Keep an eye out on our Facebook for new dates.