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Bonobo Brings the Distance in Static Live Tour to Mission Ballroom on November 19
Twenty five years into his career, Simon Green is still finding new shapes for electronic music. Bonobo brings the Distance in Static Live tour to Mission Ballroom in Denver on Thursday, November 19, with a new album, a full band and one of the most celebrated live shows in dance music.
Bonobo plays Mission Ballroom on Thursday, November 19 at 8:00 PM, in a show open to ages 16 and up. The Denver date is part of the Distance in Static Live North American Tour, which runs through November and early December, and he plays Belly Up in Aspen the following night, Friday, November 20.
The tour supports Distance in Static, his eighth studio album, released on September 11, 2026 through Ninja Tune. The record was made across Los Angeles, London and Japan, with sessions at Neil Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch, and it features a guest list that includes Arooj Aftab, Joy Crookes, Nilüfer Yanya and Ichiko Aoba. Its first single, Me and You, arrived in June 2026 ahead of the album announcement.
Green has spent more than 25 years as a recording artist, building from his early work on Ninja Tune into a live act that has headlined the Sydney Opera House and played a five night residency at the Royal Albert Hall. His shows are known for translating electronic records into full band performances rather than DJ sets, which makes the Mission Ballroom date the thinking fan’s dance show of the Denver fall.
Mission Ballroom, at 4242 Wynkoop Street in the River North Art District, is built for exactly this kind of night, a purpose designed room where a live electronic show can land with both force and detail.
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Darren Jessee has been the drummer behind Ben Folds Five and the songwriter behind Hotel Lights, and his new single sounds like a man deciding not to put the pen down. “Shoulder Season,” recorded by Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman, previews a forthcoming solo album due in 2027.
North Carolina-based singer-songwriter Darren Jessee (Ben Folds Five, Hotel Lights) is proud to present “Shoulder Season,” the acclaimed multi-instrumentalist’s brand new single lifted from his forthcoming solo album that will see a 2027 release. Recorded by GRAMMY-winning musician and producer Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman and mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Kurt Vile), “Shoulder Season” traces the paths people chart in and around our lives over the years. The track also invites close listening, which in turn draws attention to Jessee’s evocative lyrics as well as the nuanced instrumental performances he and Kaufman captured on tape. “‘Shoulder Season’ … I liked the words by themselves,” Jessee says. “They suggest perseverance and resilience during a season of time. The term shoulder season means a transitional time of year.” Watch the music video for “Shoulder Season” on YouTube.
Darren Jessee was in a period of personal upheaval. His mother had recently passed away after a short illness. He was also touring as a drummer for the Americana act Chatham County Line, a gig that he enjoyed but one that kept him from performing much as a solo artist. And then his label rep at Bar/None, home of Jessee’s last seven albums, retired. In the wake of it all, Jessee found himself wondering if it was perhaps time to set aside the burden of managing a songwriting career and simply lean into his work as a drummer. “But then I just kept finding these songs and enjoying them,” he says of his forthcoming solo showcase that symbolizes a new beginning for the veteran musician — an organic, hushed and transcendent sound very much inspired by the blizzard that the album was recorded in.
Stay tuned for more music and information on Darren Jessee’s forthcoming solo album to be announced in the coming weeks. Jessee will be making the following appearances in November:
November 12 — Wake Forest, NC — Wake Forest Listening Room
November 18 — Greensboro, NC — Flat Iron (with Natalie Jane Hill)
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