Irish Mirror 🎺Written by David Coughlan.

Emerging Irish act are making waves with gritty electro sound

Dark, gritty, angsty pop with paranoid androids and great electro hooks. Welcome to the world of Mischa and The Bear.

And no, the Drogheda duo’s name has nothing to do with the old kids’ cartoon Masha and The Bear.

“No, everyone asks that, it’s actually from our middle names,” says Bear (AKA Fírinne McIntyre).

Danny’s middle name is Mischa and my middle name is Berneen. My parents have always called me Bear at home, so it kind of just seemed obvious. I didn’t realise the cartoon was so popular. We’ll have to put in our bio that we’re not affiliated!

Mischa is Danny Rooney, formerly of the band Modern Love, and together the pair have been working on music for the past year.

“It just kind of happened naturally. I’m constantly producing music and Fírinne would jump in at times when I’m working on something, ‘Oh I’ve a suggestion, you should do this…’” says Mischa.

It just spawned from there. We wrote loads of stuff and there were some angsty-er tracks, stuff that I’d never really done before.

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Mischa And The Bear ♫ Whole New World For Retro Duo

Irish Mirror 🎺Written by David Coughlan.

Emerging Irish act are making waves with gritty electro sound

Dark, gritty, angsty pop with paranoid androids and great electro hooks. Welcome to the world of Mischa and The Bear.

And no, the Drogheda duo’s name has nothing to do with the old kids’ cartoon Masha and The Bear.

“No, everyone asks that, it’s actually from our middle names,” says Bear (AKA Fírinne McIntyre).

Danny’s middle name is Mischa and my middle name is Berneen. My parents have always called me Bear at home, so it kind of just seemed obvious. I didn’t realise the cartoon was so popular. We’ll have to put in our bio that we’re not affiliated!

Mischa is Danny Rooney, formerly of the band Modern Love, and together the pair have been working on music for the past year.

“It just kind of happened naturally. I’m constantly producing music and Fírinne would jump in at times when I’m working on something, ‘Oh I’ve a suggestion, you should do this…’” says Mischa.

It just spawned from there. We wrote loads of stuff and there were some angsty-er tracks, stuff that I’d never really done before.

Continue @ Irish Mirror.

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