Tom - Lead Vocals, Guitar
Paul - Guitar
Jay - Guitar, Keys
Chris - Bass, Ukelele
James - Drums

•  20th May - BBC Introducing @ Oakford Social Club, Reading
• 18th July - Rising Sun Arts Centre, 30 Silver Street Reading

Heartwear Process are a beautiful destructive 5-piece hailing from Reading. Their music is a multi-car pileup featuring a truckload of lo-fi punk, a van full of chunky guitars and three cars full of great songs.

They are the sound of introspection set free from the bedroom to stalk the streets. Heartwear?s brand of chaos is quickly gaining recognition that?s hard to come by. They ended last year playing with punk legends S*M*A*S*H and have an upcoming support slot with The Fall in March ?06. On top of that, Fergal Sharkey from The Undertones has been spotted getting down at one of their recent gigs.

Their debut single, Mean Season, is out on Velocity Recordings 24th April. The track is a pulse racing stomper that screams with a brand of imagination that is hard to resist. With production duties handled by hot shot producer Adam Whittaker (The Rakes, Julian Cope, Dustin?s Bar Mitzvah, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, New Rhodes, The Race) the single is already being touted to do big.

If you happen to be looking for a new gang to fall in love with, Heartwear Process will be happy to look after your soul for you.

"Disturbing, near psychotic"
Spill

"You need this!!"
Losing Today

"Intriguing, atmospheric and refreshingly different"
R*E*P*E*A*T

?Heartwear Process project an immediate camaraderie on stage that is at once appealing and full of explosive character.?
BBC

?Nick Cave punching Frank Black at the gates of hell?
Drowned In Sound

A fantastic slice of well-written pop-rock Swallow My Tooth comes in at just over two minutes and is one of those songs that you find yourself rewinding as soon as the last note peters out. Stop-start guitars and excellent howling vocals - all-in-all a pleasure to listen to. Heartwear Process have a knack for writing just-plain-fun dancefloor-fillers and aren't unlikely to cause air guitars everywhere to come out of their cases.
Riley - http://www.tastyfanzine.org.uk/albums60mar07.htm

Heading in completely the other direction with a fist full of guile and attitude is Heartwear Process with 'Swallow My Tooth'. Stuttering and backed with a punk ethos, 'Swallow My Tooth' is a frenetic journey into a world full of shouty vocals that screech and wail as they playfully swirl around an infectiously catchy melody and irresistible beats to unveil a vibrantly energetic stomp.
Jodie Woodgate - http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/cd_view.cgi?CDID=5104

Reading's Heartwear Process skank a positively roots feel with "Mean Season", their debut for Velocity. Like the 22-20's if they'd been raised on garage punk ska & not the blues, "Mean Season" shimmers with intent. The dusky vocals of Tom Purcell are shrouded in 60s intrigue & the group's 3 guitar attack provides that 'Nuggets' authenticity. The Heartwear Process deserve a suitable artery for their endeavours & are well worthy of both your attention & your time.
Asger Yawn - www.trakmarx.com/2006_02/22_reviews.htm

Playing in front of The Fall's audience is no easy task, but it is one that The Heartwear Process are more than equipped to cope with. They play with humour, enthusiasm, and are more than a little unhinged and dishevelled. I can hear definite references to Nick Cave and The Pixies with a touch of Slint, in that they share a fondness for skewed arrangements, dark melodies and disturbing, near psychotic lyrical content... Closing song 'Humble Pie' really is absolutely breathtaking and mildly scary. One of 'those' songs that every truly great band has, and thatcould do battle with just about any song on the planet...
Andrew Bennett - Reading Fez

With hard stares that could suck the soul from your body before emptying your liquor cabinet and running off with your other half, Reading's Heartwear Process are five intense looking blokes who could have stepped from the sun-beaten desolation of a Sergio Leone movie. Indeed, the tremoloed guitars that slice and punctuate Heartwear Process' debut release like a six-inch gold blade, recall the haunting twangs of Ennio Morricone as if they had collided with The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce, but this isn't an exercise in formulaic posturing. Tom Purcell's anguished vocals perfectly distil the hint of menace, voodoo and dread that they do so well and it isn't long before you're forced to look over your shoulder with a mixture of fear and exhilaration. 7/10.
Julian Marshall - Yahoo dotmusic

A vibrant slice of hip hugging, knee buckling, skull twatting frenetically hued belching pinball pop.
Mark@Losing Today

Heartwear Process just shouldn't work - on paper there's too much contrast in their individual styles... yet they somehow meet spectacularly in the middle as a prime example of a band greater than a sum of its parts. The songs share their creators' contrasting quirks... (8 out of 10)
Water Rats, London, Ben Marwood, Drownd in Sound.

.... The lyrics are eloquent, poetic and polished, sounding almost as if they've been penned by William Blake on his darker days. Clich?d they are not, .... Heartwear Process take brutal self-analysis to another level. The final song, "Humble Pie", has a skin-pricklingly good, Metallica-inspired build-up, with melodic guitars and imperial drums that get you edgy with anticipation. The excitement is all too much for guitarist SARTIN, who frantically tries to get naked, while writhing around the stage with his compatriots in a heady combination of raw emotion and psychosis. The crowd can't get enough.
Water Rats, London www.the-mag.me.uk

A twitchy, caffeine-fuelled ride to a coronary, with frontman Tom singing as if he was simultaneously chain-smoking his way to a nervous breakdown. Beautifully layered and shimmering guitars sit on top of the staccato drums like a blanket over a man in the throes of death through hypothermia - it's comforting, but probably futile. You can't accuse the Heartwear lads of not evoking any deep imagery! Tom's lyrics are pinpoint, precision, laser-guided barbs stabbing in each and every direction, too; not random enough to draw criticism, not specific enough to be able to pin him down to an exact point - just let the man vent his spleen and cry himself out.
Alex Kaupa - Josaka.

Heartwear Process just get better and better. The skinny-hipped singer stands upright like a ruby-eyed asp, spitting and hissing lyrics above a melee of rapacious guitars. The anarchic vibe of The Clash, Dinosaur Junior and Sonic Youth jumps out at the crowd, inspiring one inebriated young lady to kow tow before the five buzzing young men. Single Brian Jones is a clear stand-out song, all tinny upbeat guitar riffs and lolling loucheness, while Pretty Ladies [Room of Little Ease], with it's 'ra pa pa' chorus and Playschool melodica, sounds like a sea shanty written by David Lynch. In last song Humble Pie, inspired by Vladmir Nabokov's classic novel Lolita, they lay on their power thickest and most murky, delivering a barrage of intensely punctuated lyrics that stalk about like a predatory vulture.
Phatz Bar - Maidenhead - Linda Serck, BBC Berkshire

??So fresh you can eat it?Excellent band alert!?
Shoot From The Lip