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Polarbear
12+ albums
rockalternativeexperimentalspoken wordengland
about
There are, at least, two artists named Polarbear (none to be confused with Polar Bear). 1) A spoken word artist / poet (b. Steven Camden, Birmingham, UK, in 1979 - with an overly large cranium). In 2008, he remixed Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip's Letter From God To Man & in 2010, released Accidental Powercut 1. He has ideas / writes them down & moves around whilst relating them. He likes peach cobbler & Maradona. He's apathetic, as regards, costume drama & salt-fish. Soon after birth, doctors - considering his cranium - gave the diagnosis of ‘water on the brain’, but the young boy seemed to respond well to stimuli & was sent home, with his mother. Over the following seven years the boy developed a style of living which incorporated certain allowances, for his oversized head, inc: standing at the back in group photographs, not standing in the line of the sun whilst around sunbathers & avoiding running downhill. All seemed normal until in the summer of 1986 the young boy witnessed two events, that changed his life: the artistic expression of Diego Armando Maradona & a four hour Arctic Circle documentary (narrated by David Attenborough). He became obsessed with two things: polar bears & majesty of, a perfectly executed, pitch-long dribble. Then his mother noticed an interesting phenomenon - her son’s specially constructed balaclava seemed to be less tight & he seemed to leave his horizontal TV-watching position, with greater ease, on Saturday afternoons (after A-Team). She took
