The Bear That Wasn't – a name derived from the children's book by Frank Tashlin from ’46 - is the alter-ego of Nils Verresen. Armed with an acoustic guitar and angelic vocal chords, he has already impressed at the AB as opener for Kimya Dawson. He often cites Gravenhurst, Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver and Elliott Smith as influences. His debut ‘And So It Is Morning Dew' is to be released this spring, on which – true to tradition – he invents fine song titles like ‘The Little Witch And The Brave Boy Are Going To Venus’ or ‘The Exciting Adventures of A Bad Bet, A Bad Alliteration And Mister Consequences’. But more importantly: it's an album full of fantastic Duyster-music with gems like ‘Winterwandering’ that you immediately want to put on endless repeat. Before and after his visit to Domino, this bear will be rounding up a Belgian tour entitled ‘365 days’, in which, armed with an acoustic guitar, he travels by bike to drop in on 365 households willing to provide him with accommodation for a night. In exchange Nils provides a living-room concert. A film about this project will later be released by the people behind ‘Part of the Weekend Never Dies’, Soulwax's tour documentary.