Bears in Trees

Bears in Trees

Bears in Trees are a London band formed in 2014, originally from Croydon in South London. Three of the four members were previously in The November Criminals. The group includes George Berry, Iain Gillespie, Callum Litchfield and Nicholas “Nick” Peters.

Band identity and members

The band describes its music using the term “dirtbag boyband”. Their line-up is George Berry, who plays drums and is also known as Berru; Iain Gillespie, who plays bass and sings and is also known as pet yeti; Callum Litchfield, who plays ukulele and sings; and Nicholas “Nick” Peters, who plays guitar and is also known as dinosaurfightclub.

Releases

Their first album, Let’s Sleep On It, is released in 2015 and is only available on Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Their first release on major streaming services is the single “Good Rhymes for Bad Times”, which appears in 2017, followed by their second album, Just Five More Minutes. Between 2017 and 2021 they release several singles and EPs.

One of those EPs, I Want To Feel Chaotic, includes “Ramblings of a Lunatic”, which remains their most popular song. Their third album, and everybody else smiled back, appears in 2021 and is issued with three singles and a pre-release ARG. In 2022 they release “Precipitation” and the EP Every Moonbeam Every Feverdream.

In 2023 they issue four singles, including one with NOAHFINNCE. They also release the EP before you got here, which is sold with a raffle entry for Bears in Trees-related memorabilia, including lifetime tickets. The EP is later no longer available for purchase, and its tracklist contains revisited songs from earlier in the band’s history, including two from Let’s Sleep On It. Their fourth album, How to Build an Ocean: Instructions, appears in 2024 and is their first album after leaving Counter Intuitive Records. Like and everybody else smiled back, it is accompanied by an ARG.

Later activity

The band enters a new era with the release of “Left, Right, Goodnight!” in 2025.