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Namba Bears is a hole-in-the-wall live house which has spent the past 40 years championing the kind of nonconformist sounds that could only come from Osaka. Set up by Seiichi Yamamoto, formerly of Osaka noise legends Boredoms, Bears is DIY through and through. The entry fees are low, the drinking policy is BYOB (there’s a cooler box filled with Asahi if you arrive empty-handed) and the acoustics are so deafeningly loud that earplugs are an indispensable item.