Bear's Den (band)

Bear's Den
Bear's Den in Tabernacle, London (2014)
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Folk rock, alternative rock
Years active	2012-present
Labels	Communion Records, Caroline International
Associated acts	Mumford & Sons, Cherbourg, Daughter, Smoke Fairies, Ben Howard
Website	www.bearsdenmusic.co.uk
Members	Andrew Davie Kevin Jones
Past members	Joey Haynes (2012–2016)

Bear's Den are a British folk rock band from London, formed in 2012. The band consists of Andrew Davie (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar) and Kevin Jones (vocals, drums, bass, guitar). Joey Haynes (vocals, banjo, guitar) left the band in early 2016. For their 2016/2017 Tour in Europe and North America Joey is replaced by Dutch artist Christof van der Ven, not as an official member but as session musician.

Bear's Den have released two studio albums: Islands (2014), their second studio album Red Earth & Pouring Rain was released on 22 July 2016. Islands peaked at number forty-nine on the UK Albums Chart. The band has also issued two EPs: Agape (2013) and Without/Within (2013).

The band have been nominated for several music awards throughout their career, with "Above the Clouds of Pompeii" earning the band a nomination for the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2015. The band received two nominations at the UK Americana Awards in 2016, Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for "Agape".

The band's first tour in which the band travelled across the USA in Volkswagen Campervans with Ben Howard, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Staves, was the subject of a 2014 documentary, "Austin to Boston" by James Marcus Haney, which premiered at the 58th BFI London Film Festival.

Since then the band has toured the USA several times, in support of Mumford & Sons and Daughter and as headliners. They also toured Australia supporting Matt Corby in October 2013.

In June 2014 the band received the £2,500 Momentum Deezer Award from the PRS for Music Foundation.

On 20 October 2014, the band released their debut album Islands on Communion Records, the label founded in 2006 by Bear's Den member Kevin Jones with Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons and producer Ian Grimble.