Jon Boden has announced his ‘Last Mile Home’ launch show which will take place, globally, at 8:00pm BST / 3:00pm ET / 2:00pm CT on April 10th. Jon will be joined by the Remnant Strings and Edith the phonograph player when you can hear ‘Last Mile Home’ in full, along with some tracks from ‘Songs from the Floodplain’ and ‘Afterglow’.
It was filmed in the factory where the story first began!
Tickets are £15 / $21 (+ booking fee)
You can buy tickets here – https://boxoffice.mandolin.com/collections/jon-boden
Jon is our current Artist of the Month and, in his review (read it here), Billy Rough concluded: “The Last Mile Home is a genuinely heartfelt and beautifully structured listen. An exquisitely moving conclusion to Jon’s trilogy. This one will stay with you.”
We also interviewed Jon here, where he talked in more detail about the album…
“Well, Last Mile Home, is the final part of a trilogy of albums that are all set in a kind of post-climate-change future, and the first of those three, Songs from the Floodplain, was sort of a general exploration of the ideas and the setting. But then, with Afterglow, I got into actually having quite a specific story to tell over the album, quite a small little story, just the story of one night in a city street carnival, and so I’m kind of following on that approach with Last Mile Home.
“So this is the story of the journey from landlocked moors in the middle of England, somewhere, not dissimilar to Sheffield, where I live, and to the coast, by an older couple who have spent their lives kind of hidden away and watching from a distance as the landscape gradually empties of human life as people migrate over the sea, over to the continent, for whatever reason, and so it’s a sort of final farewell by them to this landscape as they head to the sea.
“I guess both albums, in a way grow out of the first. Both Afterglow, and Last Mile Home, have grown out of threads from Songs from the Floodplain. There’s quite a lot in Floodplain about nature taking over what has been abandoned by mankind. There’s this song, ‘Going down to the wasteland’, which is all about sneaking into the ruins of the city down the valley, and Afterglow takes that idea and explores it a bit further. With Last Mile Home, the initial impetus was to go a little bit deeper and closer, looking at the ivy growing over the barbed wire, sort of thing.”
Last Mile Home is out now on CD/LP/Digital now – http://smarturl.it/lastmilehome
Photo Credit: Tim James