Jon Boden 2009
From concept album ‘Songs from the Floodplain’, which creates a vision of a post apocalyptic future when industrial architecture is decaying and people are returning to a more rural way of life. Boden draws inspiration from his home in the Loxley Valley near Sheffield and its post-industrial decay.
Jon Boden: Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings – Dancing in the Factory – Cheltenham 11.2.11 1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJectXSO0
The news was on the church house door and all over the valley A storm cloud brewing in the east and wild fire in the cities And all night long the hammers rang, and those who could were leaving And those who stayed have gone to ground, and talk is harsh and fleeting Chorus: And all that I can think about is wood smoke in the valley Kisses in the fall-out shelter, dancing in the factory That closed so long ago And no-one ever goes there now We cling to words like children and seek for hidden meaning Long after sense has ceased to be and reason is receding But words have torn this world apart, and left us stooped and pleading We shovel dust and hide our hope, and wrap ourselves in dreaming Tonight the curfew bells ring out across the shrouded valley And all the candles flicker out and shadows claim their quarry But I will take the blackthorn path across the parish boundary Where ivy and barbed wire entwine and leaves fall all around me