Dave hosking boy and bear biography sample

Four years on from their #1 ARIA charting album Limit Of Love, Boy & Bear return with another warm take on 70s-tinged indie folk.

Usually when artists take a few years “off,” it comes out of excessive touring, working on new tracks or even just riding out the fame from a previous release.

In this case, it was illness that kept the band from hitting new musical highs.

In 2011, Dave Hosking - the face and voice of Boy & Bear - started feeling a bit off, noticing he was having periods of weakness, fatigue and confusion that continued sporadically for months.

After many doctors’ appointments, with no obvious diagnosis, he reached a point of self-doubt. Maybe it was all in his head?

“I think at some point I just assumed it was,” he admitted to Richard Kingsmill on 2019. “That’s what doctors were saying to me, that it was psychological.

“It was probably 12 months later when we were touring overseas, and I remember a gig in Paris where I could feel a definite lag effect happe