Bear's Bar & Venue

14/09/2026

🔥 THREE SHOWS. THREE DAYS. ONE BIG WEEK AT BEARS! 🔥

We’ve got an absolutely stacked run of live music coming your way this week:

🐻 THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
Junkyard Drive bring their Squeeze Tour to the Bear Cave, with support from LEVEE.
Doors 7pm | 18+ | £15 advance

🐻 FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
Space Pistol return to Bears Bar after their badass set at Dorset Doomsday '26
This show is FREE ENTRY

🐻 SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
NEVER BE QUIET 4 — a full day of punk, rock and acoustic music across two stages, featuring The Mistakes, Drongos for Europe, Riot City Radio, CHARLIE HARPER of UK SUBS and loads more!
1PM START - £30 on the door for 13 bands/acts

Three completely different shows and something for everyone. Grab your tickets, bring your mates and support live music in Bournemouth.

Which days are we seeing you? 👇

08/09/2026

🥈 WE CAME 2ND🥈

What an incredible result in The Underdog Awards🖤🐻

A massive THANK YOU to every single person who voted for us, shared the posts and showed Bear's Bar & Venue some love. Coming 2nd means so much to our little independent venue, and we genuinely couldn't have done it without you lot! 🤘

Huge congratulations to The Feathers, taking the top spot with an amazing 507 votes👏🍻 Very well deserved!

We might be the underdogs… but we've got one hell of a community behind us. 🖤

THANK YOU BBV FAMILY! 🐻🤘

🏆 THE UNDERDOG AWARDS 2026:YOUR WINNERS

🖤 BEST ALTERNATIVE CLUB NIGHT
Bunker 13 — Leeds / Whitby - 193 votes

🖤 BEST SMALL VENUE
The Feathers - Lichfield - 507 votes

£250 each which will be paid straight to them as soon as I have that all organised with them.

1,726 votes were cast. Every single one confirmed by email, every single one from someone who cared enough about a room or a night to go and say so.

Thank you to every one of our twenty nominees, especially those who really put the legwork in sharing. Thank you to our judges - Dani Divine, Alexander Milas and DJ Karl "Yentonian" Darkson - who gave their time to help shape the shortlist. And thank you so much to everyone who nominated, voted, and shared it.

Full results for all twenty, plus a write-up of exactly how the voting worked and what we checked before announcing, are on the site now.

🔗 katesclothing.co.uk/pages/the-underdog-awards-winners-2026

05/09/2026

🔔 REMINDER – CLOSED TODAY 🔔

Just a quick reminder that Bears Bar & Venue is CLOSED today (Saturday 5th September) for a private function. 🐻🖤

We'll be back open tomorrow from 2pm 🍻

Have a cracking Saturday and we'll see you Sunday! 🤘

31/08/2026

🚨 REMINDER - THIS WEEK’S OPENING HOURS! 🚨

Just a little heads up that things are looking a bit different at Bears Bar this week! 🐻🍻

🍺 Mon 31st - Open from 5pm
🍺 Tues 1st - Open from 5pm
🍺 Wed 2nd - Open from 5pm
🔒 Thurs 3rd - CLOSED
🎸 Fri 4th - Bear Cave OPEN for the The Damn Truth + Crobot / Main Bar CLOSED
🥳 Sat 5th - CLOSED for a private function
🍻 Sun 6th - Open from 2pm

Thanks for bearing with us this week! 🖤🤘

We'll be back to normal from Monday 7th! 🐻

29/08/2026

☀️🌴 END OF SUMMER PARTY DAY 2! 🌴☀️

Huge thanks to everyone who made Friday night such a good one! 🤘🔥

📸 Did you snap any pics? Drop them in the comments or tag us, we wanna see them!

Tonight we’re doing it all over again…

🎧 DJ Cactus Jack from 10PM
🤘 Rock • Pop Punk • Alternative Anthems
🍹 Summer cocktails flowing all night
🌺 Hawaiian shirts encouraged
🌙 Open ’til 4AM!

Summer might be nearly over… but we’re not letting it go quietly. 🍹🔥

See you tonight! 🤘

28/08/2026

🌴☀️ IT’S SUMMER PARTY TIME! ☀️🌴

We’re seeing summer out the only way we know how… LOUD, LATE & ACROSS 2 FLOORS! 🍹🔥

🔊 BEAR CAVE FROM 10PM
MUSIC IS THE ANSWER
⚡ Electronic • DnB • Jungle ⚡

🎸 MAIN BAR FROM 10PM
DJ DAN bringing the Alt • Indie • Rock bangers 🤘

🍹 Summer Punch flowing
🌺 Hawaiian shirts at the ready
🎶 2 floors of music
🆓 FREE ENTRY

Dig out the loudest shirt you own, grab a punch and come give summer the send-off it deserves 🌴🍹

SEE YOU TONIGHT! 🤘☀️

27/08/2026

🚨 TEMPORARY OPENING HOURS UPDATE 🚨

We’ve got a slightly different week coming up, so here’s when you can catch us 👇

🍻 Monday 31st - Open from 5pm
🍻 Tuesday 1st September - Open from 5pm
🍻 Wednesday 2nd September - Open from 5pm
🔒 Thursday 3rd - CLOSED
🎸 Friday 4th - Bear Cave OPEN for The Damn Truth / Crobot 7pm🤘
🚫 Main Bar CLOSED
🥳 Saturday 5th - CLOSED for a private function
🍺 Sunday 6th - Open from 2pm

🐻 Monday 7th onwards - OPEN AS NORMAL! 🤘

Apologies for the slightly unusual hours this week, and thanks for bearing with us! 🖤

We’ll be back to business as usual from Monday 7th! See you at the bar! 🍻

25/08/2026

☀️🌴 END OF SUMMER PARTY 🌴☀️

Summer’s nearly gone… so we’re giving it one last send off
RIP SUMMER - you were fun while you lasted!

🍹 SUMMER COCKTAILS
🏖️ Beach Bum Punch
🍷 Sun of a Beach - our summery sangria inspired cocktail

🎧 FRIDAY 28TH
REAL LIVE WIRES
Alt • Classics • Rock 🤘

🌵 SATURDAY 29TH
DJ CACTUS JACK
Rock • Pop Punk • Party Anthems 🎸

🌺 WEAR A HAWAIIAN SHIRT = FREE SHOT! 🌺
The louder the shirt, the better.

🍹 Cocktails flowing
🎶 DJs all weekend
🌴 Questionable tropical shirts encouraged
☀️ One final taste of summer

Come say goodbye to summer the Bears way🤘🌴🍹

20/08/2026

🏆 VOTE FOR BEARS – BEST SMALL VENUE! 🏆

We’re absolutely buzzing to be in the running for Best Small Venue! 🤘🐻

If you’ve ever joined us for a gig, discovered a new band, danced until stupid o’clock, or just enjoyed a pint with us, we’d LOVE your vote! 🖤

Independent venues like ours wouldn’t be what they are without the bands, promoters, staff and, most importantly, all of you who keep showing up and supporting live music.

Every vote means a hell of a lot to us. Thank you for supporting your local music scene! 🤘🐻🖤

PLEASE SHARE & GET VOTING!

Link in comments 👇👇👇

02/08/2026

Well so much for a 6PM announcement... better late than never, apologies folks!

And here we have your WINNER ANNOUNCEMENTS for the The Kraken Rum merchandise!

*drum roll* please....

in no particular order, a huge congrats to Ruby, Phil, Bailey, Anya and Sean!

The team will be in contact with you via the details you left with us; we can't wait to give you your goodies!!

If your number got pulled, a huge well done to you and a big thanks to everyone who took part