News - Updated 10/7/2006

BREAKING NEWS - REVIEWS OF BERNARD'S ALBUM BY KERRANG, BURN & CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE

Classic Rock magazine says:
"With a sound like early Mudhoney fronted by Shirley Manson, get this album instead of waiting around for Courtney Love's next disaster".

Burn magazine says:
Bernard / Trail Of Tears / Spinach Records
3 stars
"Holy fuck where has Donna Dowling been hiding? Like a tortured Janis Joplin, Donnas vocals make this album something outside of the ordinary that it might have been. Thats not to take anything away from the rest of the band who are tight as the proverbial ducks derrière but its Donna who rises as the star here.

Liar is anger fuelled, A Welcome Home gently teases before bashing your head in, Spider Web has her at her haunting best.

In an age where the record industry cant seem to cope with female artists who aren't out to be pop clones, Bernard are a breath of fresh air and have got the hooks to prove it to the world as well. Name's a bit of a fucker tho... "
KJ

Kerrang magazine says:
BERNARD / TRAIL OF TEARS (SPINACH)
KKKK
NICE BAND SHAME ABOUT THE NAME.
"For a band with a name that conjures images of soppy great dogs and Nursie from Blackadder II", BERNARD have a seriously dark, skittering sound. Fronted by Donna Dowling - a lady who looks like a cross between Courteney Love and Lulu in the press shots but whose rasping delivery sounds more like Janis Joplin - the quintet churn out a dense, twisting noise that draws as many elements from psychedelia and blues as it does from punk rock. The lyrics veer from the poetical ('One Last Breath', the haiku-like simplicity of 'Your Song') to the political ('Red Jacket Seneca'), while the songs themselves are never less than darkly engrossing."

DOWNLOAD: Spider Web'.
FOR FANS OF: Queen Adreena, PJ Harvey.
BY - PAUL TRAVERS

Bernard's video to the track 'One Last Breath' that can be found on the trail of tears album has been added to TV channel SCUZZ