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Fight The Bear describe themselves as 'six years old, over 500 gigs hardened, over 75,000 miles travelled, six countries explored'. Sounds like some sort of prehistoric beast featured on Planet Dinosaur. First meeting at a primary school in rural Shropshire these boys really have got themselves out and about. They've also got themselves a brilliant logo that just begs you to ask the question on everybody's lips; how did that bear lose its eye?

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During the summer they added 'Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing Stage - T in The Park' to their massive list of gigs, and an excellent job they did as well. You would think after 500 gigs as a band you might start getting fed up of each other, but not these guys (well, they didn't show it at least).

This trackÌý does exactly what I like indie rock to do to me. To suck me in with some slow minor chord guitar picking, to make me question the relevance of my existance and the state of the human race with cryptic melancholic lyrics like 'as humans we might live to rule the soil, as we fight to burn the remaining midnight oil, some may stand up high while others crawl, but it's only from the grass that they stand tall'. Then it holds my attention with the slight change of pace, building slowly but surely adding more layers and texture and volume, next comes the drum roll of anticipation and then BANG into some rock! It's on the Radio 1 playlist all week y'all. Enjoy.

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