Noiserock band, The Dead Layaways are trapped on a dystopian world ruled by demons. The band commit to fighting their way through the different levels of this stifling purgatory, and back hopefully to reality. Nat and her bandmates in The Dead Layaways want to go on tour, but the demonic entities who run their city have other ideas, not to mention the dark cloud hanging over everything stifling their creativity. This ruined place is not their home, they have no idea how they ended up here, or where 'home' even is. Is there really nothing but endless wasteland beyond the city limits as the demons claim? Much like the author's previous work, The Last Band On Earth draws on themes of mental illness and attempted recovery. It is about being in your 20s and still not feeling like a Real Adult, and the fear that time is running out. 'The Last Band on Earth is really about processing your emotions, surviving trauma, our tendency to internalize guilt, and doing your best to realize that your mental health struggles are not a personal failure, they are often caused by factors, both internal and external, that you can't control. It s also about the difficulties of navigating the world as any sort of oddball creative person in the arts, in our current late-stage capitalist hellscape.'
