MTV Meets: Bear Hands

By Tamara Roper

The Bear Hands boys have been making music for years now, but this summer you might have caught them playing a slew of festival dates in the UK, you lucky things. We caught up with Dylan Rau as he slept off a season of onstage antics…  

MTV UK: Hello Bear Hands. Where are you right now and what are you doing?

Bear Hands’ Dylan Rau: I'm at my parents’ house in the woods, about two hours outside of New York City. I just got off a month of touring and I think I've slept about 75% of the two days I've been off.

MTV UK: Tell us the most unexpected lesson that you've learned since being in the music industry…

Dylan Rau: You only fail if you stop. 

MTV UK: You've been in the UK recently. What are your favourite and least favourite things about our fair isle?

Dylan Rau: I love London, obviously. You've got a smart island. Better educated folks than America on a whole. The things I maybe don't love are some of your meat products and the weather (shocker).

MTV UK: You guys are from New York. Where's the best place to take someone on a date in the city?

Dylan Rau: Oh dear I'm not sure. I've had a good time eating bagels and reading in Central Park. Walk along the Hudson River, maybe? Go out drinking in Brooklyn late night…

MTV UK: Your track Giants is almost on a million views on YouTube. How will you celebrate when it gets to a mill?

Dylan Rau: Haha if only you got paid for that kinda thing. Ted and I will probably cheers our cell phones or something in the van.

MTV UK: If you could have written any song, ever, which would it be?

Dylan Rau: It's All Over Now Baby Blue by Bobby D.

MTV UK: What would be your death row meal?

Dylan Rau: Fruit Roll-Ups and Cheez-Its.

MTV UK: What are your band plans for the autumn?

Dylan Rau: A bunch of American touring and then trying to finish writing the next record.

MTV UK: How would you describe your music to an old person?

Dylan Rau: Hippie bulls**t.