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Bear's Den
Blue Hours [Personally Signed]
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The highly anticipated fourth full length album from the excellent alternative folk-rock duo Bear's Den. Following on from their 2020 collaborative re-imaginings album 'Fragments'.
Blue Hours is a kind of imaginary space you get into at night, a place where you process difficult things or where you try to figure everything out.”
Themes on the album include both self-reflection and mental health after both struggled with the latter in recent years. “It’s the main over-arching theme with this record,” Davie explains. The group, who have worked with mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) previously added: “It probably speaks to our struggles and hopefully many other people’s too. Men are not very good at talking. We’re not really taught how to – men have no idea how to talk about this stuff, certainly to each other.”
The pair describe the conceptual blue hours headspace that gives the new album its title as being “somewhere between a hotel, a mental health hospital, a bar that stays open later than anywhere else, a paradise, a dream, a nightmare and an endless sea of corridors and staircases leading you to rooms that represent memories – good, bad, happy or difficult.”
Despite the album’s challenging themes, it’s an album drenched in hope too. “We wanted this to be a celebration of music,” Jones continues. “I think that informed some of the bolder decision making on this record. At a time when music was so distant, it felt important to make an album that sounded hopeful, celebratory, ambitious and beautiful in spite of the heavy subject matter in some of the songs.” Jones adds: “It was almost like we needed to shout louder than before because we felt that there were more barriers between the audience and us. We needed something to transcend that.
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Bear's Den
Thursday 19th May at St John's Church, 7:00pm
Admission will be via e-ticket. Your e-ticket will be delivered to your email address in time for the show (typically the day before the event).
To celebrate the release of their fourth full length album titled Blue Hours, Bear's Den return to Kingston to play an acoustic set at St John's Church.
Blue Hours is a kind of imaginary space you get into at night, a place where you process difficult things or where you try to figure everything out.”
Themes on the album include both self-reflection and mental health after both struggled with the latter in recent years. “It’s the main over-arching theme with this record,” Davie explains. The group, who have worked with mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) previously added: “It probably speaks to our struggles and hopefully many other people’s too. Men are not very good at talking. We’re not really taught how to – men have no idea how to talk about this stuff, certainly to each other.”
The pair describe the conceptual blue hours headspace that gives the new album its title as being “somewhere between a hotel, a mental health hospital, a bar that stays open later than anywhere else, a paradise, a dream, a nightmare and an endless sea of corridors and staircases leading you to rooms that represent memories – good, bad, happy or difficult.”
Despite the album’s challenging themes, it’s an album drenched in hope too. “We wanted this to be a celebration of music,” Jones continues. “I think that informed some of the bolder decision making on this record. At a time when music was so distant, it felt important to make an album that sounded hopeful, celebratory, ambitious and beautiful in spite of the heavy subject matter in some of the songs.” Jones adds: “It was almost like we needed to shout louder than before because we felt that there were more barriers between the audience and us. We needed something to transcend that.
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Times TBC but we expect doors at 7:00pm with Bear's Den on stage at 8:00pm
This show is 14+, under 14s must be accompanied by a ticket-holding adult.
St John the Evangelist, Grove Lane, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2SU
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Entry conditions will include whichever Covid-19 safety measures are advised by government at the time.
PLEASE NOTE: date is subject to change pending government / NIHP guidance around the coronavirus outbreak.
If this event is postponed, we will let you know - please do not contact us until a rescheduled date is announced. Once announced, if you cannot make the rescheduled date refunds will be available.
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Bear's Den
Friday 26th April at All Saints Church
On the day that their new album is released, Bear's Den return to Kingston to play at All Saints Church. The hugely anticipated third full length album from the wonderful Bear's Den is titled 'So that you might hear me'. They play an absolutely stunning mix of indie-folk with electronic elements to add an ethereal feel. They were last in Kingston in 2016 at The Hippodrome and their live shows are spellbinding, we can't wait to hear this new offering and see them in the beautiful All Saints Church. A need for connection lies at the heart of the band’s third album. Both bold and exposed, intimate yet expansive, the first two tracks are a perfect example of this: ‘Fuel On The Fire’ pulses and blossoms from the visceral throb of drum machine beats and electric guitars into an orchestral beauty that showcases the more electronic side of the band. This is juxtaposed with the bewitching “Blankets Of Sorrow" that demonstrates the more intimate Bear’s Den sound and explores themes of familial love and of trying to reach someone who can no longer be reached. With the band beloved by their fans for the way their songs have woven themselves into the fabric of some of the most bittersweet chapters of their lives, ‘So that you might hear me’ continues in that vein, pairing soaring melodies with poignant and at times unsettlingly personal lyricism. Times TBC but we expect doors to be at 7:00pm with Bear's Den on at 8:00pm. This show is 14+, under 14s must be accompanied by a ticket-holding adult. All Saints Church, 14-16 Market Place, Kingston, KT1 1JP (next to / opposite John Lewis) Albums + Tickets will be posted separately unless you selected 'Collect in shop'.
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