It's not the sort of thing that happens here.

Sometime in the last few years, in the middle of the night, in the middle of a storm, a call went out to the local police station. The woman on the end of the line claimed she'd seen something terrifying in the dark.

Given the location of the town on mainland Britain, one could be forgiven for being sceptical about her report and understandably, the attending officer was. But there was something in how emphatically the woman gave her account that kept them there, squinting their eyes into the rain to try and catch a glimpse of the alleged animal.

Full disclosure : we weren't there.

Thus, in the construction of this work we've relied heavily on contemporaneous accounts of the incident from the parties involved. Neither of them took, or attempted to take, any photographic evidence. "Fear stops you reaching for your phone in the usual way", the officer remarked.

So, in the absence of any first-party media, we've written you a song to document this dramatic incident.

It's called 'The Bear' and it's out on streaming platforms on October 2nd.

But you can listen to it now here -