Bear’s Den Full UK Tour Dates Announced
announce Red Earth & Pouring Rain
The New Album – 22nd July (Communion)
Plus Full UK / European Tour Dates
Including O2 Academy Brixton Show
ICA Album Preview Show – 7th June (Sold Out)
WATCH – Preview Video for the Album
Bear’s Den have announced the release of their new album, Red Earth & Pouring Rain, on 22nd July. The follow up to 2014’s Ivor Novello-nominated debut, Islands, the album sees a group ready to take great leaps forward, with full UK and European tour dates also announced today including their biggest headliner to date, at O2 Academy Brixton on Tuesday 8th November.
Tickets for the tour officially go on sale this Wednesday 6th April, however presale tickets are available now frombearsdenmusic.co.uk with fans able to pre-order the new album at a discount when they order tickets. The album will be available to pre-order digitally and on CD, Vinyl and numbered “Bootleg” vinyl (limited to 500 copies) with packaging hand-made by the band themselves. Additionally, all copies of the album ordered directly via the band’s website will be signed.
Bear’s Den have just released a teaser video to give a small taster of what fans can expect from the new record. Watch it HERE
UK tour dates are as follows (for full European dates, please see www.bearsdenmusic.co.uk)
Tue 1 Nov BRIGHTON, The Dome
Wed 2 BIRMINGHAM, 02 Institute
Thu 3 GLASGOW, 02 ABC
Fri 4 MANCHESTER, Albert Hall
Sun 5 NORWICH, UEA
Tue 8 LONDON, 02 ACADEMY BRIXTON
Wed 9 BRISTOL, 02 Academy
Bear’s Den will also give a lucky handful of fans an early preview of the album with a show at London’s ICA on 7th June. Tickets for this show sold out within minutes of its announcement last Friday.
A little more about Red Earth & Pouring Rain…
Red Earth & Pouring Rain was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales with the band’s long term producer Ian Grimble, in sessions following a six week European and UK tour that had culminated in an ecstatically received sold-out show at The Roundhouse last October. This capped a year’s campaigning for Islands that saw the group take their evocative, passionate music to audiences across the UK, Europe, America, Canada and Australia and rack up legions of fans in the process.
Following the amicable departure of guitarist Joey Haynes, Bear’s Den now comprises a six piece touring unit built around a nucleus of singer-guitarist Andrew Davie and multi-instrumentalist Kev Jones. And it’s how all of their experiences – personal and as a band, both the ups and the downs – have affected them that informs their extraordinary second album.
Inspired by – among other things – the paintings of Edward Hopper, the novels of Raymond Carver and film director Robert Altman’s Short Cuts – Red Earth & Pouring Rain is both erudite and intensely personal, defying trends and easy labeling.
Musically, it also sees a startling progression. Because while the band’s folk roots are still evident, they now come cloaked in the lush alchemy of ‘70’s and ‘80’s FM rock: Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, and in particular, the nocturnal ambience of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town. More contemporary influence, meanwhile, comes from artists including The National and Sufjan Stevens.
Brutally honest, brilliantly realised and spiritually uplifting, Red Earth & Pouring Rain is a masterful album from a band confident enough leave their past in the rear view mirror.
The tracklisting for Red Earth & Pouring Rain is as follows: Red Earth & Pouring Rain, Emeralds, Dew On The Vine, Roses On A Breeze, New Jerusalem, Love Can’t Stand Alone, Auld Wives’, Greenwoods Bethlehem, Broken Parable, Fortress, Gabriel, Napoleon.
Bear’s Den : AGAPE : Backstage Club, Munich 2016