Known for their power packed stage performances (and the occasional free beer give-aways during gigs 😛 ) Bevar Sea from Bangalore are a force to reckon with. Having released an impressive debut record, the band is set to play their first gig of the year at the inaugural Doom Over Bangalore. Here are 8 things you probably didn’t know about Bevar Sea:
1. Bevar Sea is an anagram of Save Bear.
2. Bevar Sea is banned from playing IIT Madras.
3. Nobody in Bevar Sea has a 9-5 job (at this point in time).
4. The Smiler is the only song from the debut album that still uses its original working title.
5. At one point of time (before their first live gig), instead of a 2-guitar lineup, Bevar Sea had one guitarist and one keyboard player.
6. Bevar Sea was one of the suggested names for one of Srikanth’s earlier sludgier projects. Eventually, it lost out to Dirtbucket, but after that project slowed down, Bevar Sea was chosen for the next project, which managed to maintain some traction over the years.
7. Bevar Sea has a couple of songs like ‘Melvin’ and ‘God’s Wounds’, which we used to play regularly when jamming as an instrumental unit, but soon after Ganesh joined the band, they scrapped them from the
setlist since they didn’t work as well with vocals.
8. On some of the early demos, vocals were provided by Indy from the US psych/drone band Queen Elephantine, who was briefly in the country at that time.
