Is Hamfatter Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for Hamfatter on AmazonFull story →Jamie Turner's band brought something the Den had never really seen before into series 6, episode 1: a guitar act asking for money to fund recording and touring rather than a gadget, a food line or an app.
Nearly two decades later, the band is still playing.
Backing music instead of a product
The band asked for £75,000 in exchange for 30% of the business, essentially pitching the Dragons as a substitute record label, and Peter Jones took the deal at those terms after outbidding interest from elsewhere on the panel.
It paid off fast. Within an hour of broadcast the single had racked up 500 paid downloads, with another 1,000 selling before the night was out, enough momentum that the song landed at number 71 on the official chart the week after.
A band, not a product line
Records and touring schedules do not need warehousing, packaging runs or a supply chain the way a physical product does, so the usual reasons a Den company quietly disappears, cash flow gaps, manufacturing costs, retailer delistings, mostly do not apply here.
That difference matters, because most acts that get a single chart moment off the back of a television appearance never turn it into a lasting career. Music is notoriously bad at converting one spike of attention into years of paying fans.
Still touring, still recording
A working band website, an active Bandcamp page and Ents24 listings showing recent UK tour dates all point the same way: this is a genuinely rare Den outcome, a music pitch that outlasted almost everyone's expectations for it.
The Bandcamp catalogue has kept expanding well beyond what existed at the time of broadcast too, which suggests a band that has kept writing rather than one simply touring on the strength of a single chart week from 2008.