Fruit Eating Bears - Gentle Creatures Despite Their Fierce Appearance (2002)



The Fruit Eating Bears were Neville Crozier (vocals/guitar), Gary Croudance (bass/vocals) and Chris Crash (drums) who came from the Croydon area and were originally known as The Bicycles Turds before highjacking the name of a little known 60's beat group, who's drummer Kenny Mundye was the band's original drummer before Chris Crash joined.
Both the band's singles were produced by Vic Maile, 'Chevy Heavy' / 'Fifties Cowboy' (Lightning, 1978) is the weaker single and was originally to have come out on Raw Records on green vinyl, but Lee Woods hated it and passed it on to Lightning.

"...but not before they'd put us in a photo shoot laying flat out completely covered in fruit!...and I mean covered, except our heads." Chris Penhale

Both sides of the follow up 'Door In My Face' / 'Going Thru The Motions' (DJM, 1978) is much better though still basic pub rock'n'roll. Their publishers Jackson Music bizarrely entered 'Door In My Face' in 'A Song For Europe', the UK heat for 'The Eurovision Song Contest'. The 'Bears performed the track on national TV, introduced by Terry Wogan. Unfortunately they finished joint 11th (out of 12). Terry Wogan, in this first encroachment of punk into Eurovision, described the bandas "gentle creatures despite their fierce appearance"

source punk77.co.uk

tracklist:
01 - Door In My Face
02 - Indian Giver
03 - Fifties Cowboy
04 - Flirt In A Skirt
05 - 1.30 2.30 3.35
06 - Love Comes In Spurts
07 - High School Lover
08 - Shop Door Squeeze
09 - Chevy Heavy
10 - Green Love
11 - Egyptian P.T.
12 - I Don't Wanna Be The One
13 - Going Thru' The Motions
14 - Remand Wing
15 - Seven and Seven Is
16 - Flies
17 - Heaven (In The Palm Of My Hand)
18 - I Met Her In Her Magazine
19 - Croydon Girls
20 - High School Lover
21 - Remand Wing
22 - Disco Bop
23 - Love Comes In Spurts
24 - Flie
25 - Egyptian P.T.
26 - I'm Down
27 - Chevy Heavy
28 - North Is Dying
29 - Bearocker
30 - Numbers
31 - Green Love
32 - Door in My Face

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