BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2010 Folk Singer of the Year
For this his second UK 'solo' band tour Jon will be enlisting the help of two Edison phonograph wax-cylinder machines to provide sound effects, bespoke voice-overs and additional musical backing.
Jon will once again be joined by the extraordinary 4-piece Remnant Kings featuring the amazing simultaneous drums/fiddle playing of Sam Sweeney (Bellowhead, Kerfuffle) and concertina virtuoso Rob Harbron (English Acoustic Collective, Kerr:Fagan:Harbron).
The show explores a great range of material, from the post-industrial themes of Jon's remarkable 'Songs from the Floodplain' song cycle, to interpretations of traditional material, to Bach played on concertina and fiddle, to underscored wax cylinder recordings of Victorian post-apocalyptic literature, plus the occasional rousing grunge classic from Jon's first album, Painted Lady.
"A post-apocalyptic, wax-cylinder wielding, folk-grunge spectacular"
Jon is also performing at Towersey 2010 with Bellowhead