Bear’s Den celebrate tenth anniversary of debut album with “Above the Clouds of Pompeii” rework featuring Dermot Kennedy

To commemorate this important anniversary, Bear’s Den has teamed up with Dermot Kennedy to breathe new life into “Above the Clouds of Pompeii”. Talking concerning the authentic recording of “Above the Clouds of Pompeii”, the band’s Andrew Davie stated, “It is a few journey I took with my dad, once I was a child, to Pompeii. And my dad’s mum had simply handed away and my mother and father have been going by a divorce…it was a really unhappy time and I bear in mind, as a younger boy wanting as much as my dad and attempting to make him happier, that was kinda the story of the music and the thought of the music got here from that”.

Including about Dermot Kennedy becoming a member of them, “While it is a music with plenty of feelings for us as a band, listening to Dermot sing it, you get to take heed to the music in a complete new means once more and it is a actually highly effective feeling and that is the factor that is probably the most thrilling about doing this to us, is getting to listen to our music by the voice of Dermot but additionally by his perspective and his means of telling a narrative, by his unimaginable and it is simply type of blowing my thoughts.”

“Once I assume again, I feel the primary time I ever heard this music I used to be in Switzerland and I used to be enjoying some exhibits at a pub each night time kinda enjoying for 3 hours, 4 hours, it was this relentless kinda covers gig and despite the fact that I used to be completely happy to be doing it I realised I used to be fairly, I would not say I used to be hopeless, however I used to be very removed from doing what I wished to be doing after which I heard this music, and it simply kinda hit me in a means that no different music had beforehand,” provides Dermot Kennedy. “I really feel it is a fantastically poignant music concerning the concept of grief or loss or simply craving and it is certainly one of my favorite songs of all time, and so to be right here singing on it, it feels unimaginable to me.”

The tenth-anniversary version of Islands might be accessible in a number of unique codecs together with an unique color vinyl, restricted version double disc CD and vinyl which features a disc of B-sides and rarities, in addition to a field set for collectors which incorporates the double disc vinyl, a photobook, and a tiny 4-inch vinyl file. This ‘tiny vinyl’ options Dermot Kennedy’s model of “Above the Clouds of Pompeii” and “Laborious Life,” initially from the band’s very first bootleg CD launch, the Cardigan EP, plus this launch will mark the primary time a totally playable 4″ vinyl is accessible within the UK.

Bear’s Den have additionally introduced a string of stay exhibits throughout Europe, set to start out in March 2025 and together with an evening at London’s Royal Albert Corridor on 13 March.

Tracklist:

Islands B-sides disc tracklisting (for the double disc vinyl, the double CD and the field set vinyl):

SIDE A:

1. Above the Clouds Of Pompeii (Cardigan EP Model)
2. Dangerous Blood (Cardigan EP Model)
3. Sophie (Demo)
4. Writing on the Wall (Demo)
5. Horses Revisited (Demo)

SIDE B:

1. Maintain On, We’re Going Residence
2. Keep With Me
3. Espresso
4. Do not Let The Solar Steal You Away (Stay)
5. Sophie (Stay)
6. Isaac (Stay)

4″ TINY VINYL

1. A facet – Above the Clouds of Pompeii that includes Dermot Kennedy
2. B facet – Laborious Life