User talk:AntoApostrophe

Armoured Bear
Armoured Bear are an Ireland based band that take their name from the iron clad warrior bears of Philip Pullmans successful trilogy 'His Dark Materials   : Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass'.

Current Releases
 'Imagination', the debut single by Armoured Bear was released on the 20th of October 2006. Imagination features two tracks from the album 'Honeycomb Moons' (schedlued for release in 2007), a bonus track and a cd-rom for the animated music video for the single.

The album and single was recorded in 2005 by Herbie Macken (Juno Falls, Neill Finn, Bic Runga), mastered by Callum Malcolm (Blue Nile) and has been a long awaited follow-up to the debut album Faster by Anto'.

Background
Armoured Bear is the moniker under which Anto' now makes music. Anto', being born in West Cork was steeped in music and legends. Starting his musical career at only thirteen began playing drums and within a year was playing session drums seven nights a week, not to mention gaining experience from legends such as Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix) and Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy).

In 2003 after touring and recording, Anto retired back to West Cork to begin his own recording project and within six months released his debut album Faster. Since its release Anto' has toured Ireland extensively, toured with acclaimed Roesy, played at the return of Lisdoonvarna in the RDS, and Witness. Also toured in America and UK in 2006/07 and will be touring Ireland with full band in Summer 2007.

Anto is Armourd Bear as he plays virtually all the instruments on the album except for the keyboards (played by Herbie Macken). Currently Armoured Bears live act features four members, many back projected multi-media visuals and videos, and atmospheric and mood setting light arrays.

Other Projects
Anto' is currently the drummer for Mick Flannery, Lerner, Ian Whitty and Chucklehead and also plays session drums nationwide.

Links
Band Website - www.armouredbear.com Band Myspace - www.myspace.com/armouredbear