While currently out on a U.K./European headline tour, Dirty Honey have made time to share a brand new music video for “Coming Home (Ballad of the Shire).” The track comes from the band’s recent album, Can’t Find The Brakes, which came out in November 2023. Head into the article below to catch the new video and more from Dirty Honey.
Said vocalist Marc LaBelle, “Being musicians that live on the road, ‘home’ has become wherever it is that we’re playing music, rather than a particular place. We wanted to showcase our separate journeys, knowing full well that the music will always call us back home.”
The “Coming Home” video offers an unexpected element from a band best known for its high-energy, sexy, bluesy rock’n’roll and reflects the song’s message about navigating through the peaks and valleys of life. With lyrics by LaBelle, the song is a deeply personal, heartfelt tale of love and life’s everyday challenges: the insecurities, the misunderstandings, the words spoken that you wish you hadn’t, and the hurt inflicted that you can’t magically erase. But, in the end, the realization is that no matter the challenges, home is where your heart is, home is where you belong, and home is just a few more miles ahead.
Directed, shot, and edited by cinematographer Mark Christy, the “Coming Home” video was filmed in January, taking the band to various U.S. locations. Explained LaBelle, “We went to Snoquamish for the snow and to Durango and Flagstaff for the train scenes. And we knew Monument Valley was an epic, very American West-looking landscape symbolic of both America’s beauty and the struggle of and vastness of traveling through the American West.” The video is also in heavy rotation on MTV Live, MTV U, and MTV Spankin’ New.
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Having kicked off in Glasgow, Scotland on February 7, heading to Australia in March for their first-ever “down under” concerts, and performing at two major summer U.S. festivals in May, Dirty Honey’s upcoming U.K./European/Australian/U.S. dates are below:
February:
28 Hybrydy, Warsaw, Poland
29 Columbia Theater, Berlin, Germany
March:
01 Futurum Music Bar, Prague, Czech Republic
03 Analog, Budapest, Hungary
04 Simm City, Vienna, Vienna
05 Backstage Halle, Munich, Germany
07 Kulturfabrik Kofmehl, Solothurn, Switzerland
08 Alcatraz, Milan, Milan
09 Dynamo Zürich (Dynamo), Zürich, Switzerland
11 Apollo 2, Barcelona, Spain
12 LA Paqui, Madrid, Spain
13 Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao, Spain
15 La Machine Du Moulin Rouge, Paris, France
March 28 – April 01 Bluesfest Byron Bay 2024, Byron Bay, Australia
May:
09 Welcome to Rockville, Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, FL
17 Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival, Columbus, OH
Lineup:
Marc LaBelle – Vocals
John Notto – Guitar
Justin Smolian – Bass
Jaydon Bean – Drums