Jon Boden Shares New Single
- Written by Marky Edison
The 12-time BBC Folk Award winner and ex-Bellowhead frontman, Jon Boden has just shared his new single ‘All The Stars Are Coming Out Tonight’. This comes in advance of his new solo album Afterglow which arrives on October 6 via Hudson Records. Speaking about the new track, Boden says: “Without easy access to electric light and with a shortage of oil, our lives will again become bounded by the astronomical cycle of the universe, and our relationship with the stars will become closer, uninhibited by artificial light pollution. I wanted the stars to have a big presence in the album, particularly Orion who, as a 'hunter', is someone who our hero identifies with as he searches the city for a girl he knew once but hasn't seen for many years.”
Afterglow is Boden's first album since disbanding Bellowhead, a project which saw over a quarter of a million album sales, seven singles on the Radio 2 playlist and worldwide sell-out shows including the Royal Albert Hall. Jon recently curated the Cambridge Folk Festival where he debuted tracks from the new album, & he'll be taking Afterglow on tour as a solo artist and with his band The Remnant Kings this autumn.
There's a touch more below, but Afterglow (Boden's first release for Hudson Records) is the second part of a post-apocalyptic album trilogy from Jon, following 2009's Songs From The Floodplain, which explored life in a post-peak oil future.
Tour Dates
Jon Boden - Solo - November
Mon 6th Pocklington Arts Centre
Tues 7th The Core at Corby Cube
Weds 8th OPEN, Norwich
Thurs 9th Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
Fri 10th Connaught Theatre, Worthing
Sun 12th Theatre Royal Winchester
Mon 13th Number 8, Pershore
Tues 14th Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings dates - November
Fri 17th Sage Gateshead
Sat 18th The Leadmill, Sheffield
Sun 19th Victoria Hall, Settle
Mon 20th Haverhill Arts Centre
Tues 21st St. Mary’s in the Castle, Hastings
Weds 22nd The Scala, London
Thurs 23rd The Lighthouse, Poole
Fri 24th The Globe, Cardiff
Sat 25th The Cheese & Grain, Frome
Sun 26th Lincoln Performing Arts Centre
