Imorgon kommer det brittiska bandet Bear’s Den för första gången till Göteborg för en spelning på Pustervik. Vi har snackat om när de blev jagade av ett galet fan och mycket mer.

Hi Bear’s Den! What are you guys up to right now?  
– We’re currently just about to play our first show on this month tour of Europe – we couldn’t be more excited!

Do you have any different roles in the band? Like, who brings the coffee and who’s the boss?  
– Haha, I guess you do slot into roles but it’s less who’s the boss and more playing to each others’ strengths.  The busier you get the more you have to delegate jobs – on the coffee front it’s still fairly even.

How would you best describe your music?
– For us Bear’s Den has always been about songwriting first and foremost, we then build the instrumentation and production around it all. There are definitely folk elements, but also synths and electric guitars in there too.

What would you say is the typical British sound?  
– I don’t know if there is one these days! I guess there is an indie band sound that has been around for quite a while, Catfish and the Bottlemen for example, but we are much more influenced by American music, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bon Iver, anything that tells a great story.

Earlier this summer you released the album Red Earth & Pouring Rain, tell me a bit about that record!
– We wanted to make a record that you could drive at night to, that was one of our main aims. There’s a romantic nostalgia to 1980s music and film soundtracks that we also wanted to incorporate, we wanted to make it feel very cinematic.

What’s the best thing about being on tour?  
– There are so many great things, I guess seeing so many new places all the time and travelling with your friends. It doesn’t get much better than that – we are very lucky.

What’s the craziest thing that happened on tour?
– Crazy things happen all the time, hard to pick one. We got into a carchase in Troy, Ohio, once because someone thought we were Mumford and Sons and wouldn’t take no for an answer – we had to run a red light in the end to lose her!

What can we, as an audience, expect from your gig?
– Lots of bearded guys giving it their all …

Bear’s Den spelar imorgon, den 19/10 på Pustervik!