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United Kingdom (2004 – present)

Frank Turner is a solo artist based in the United Kingdom. He has toured all the Western world (and beyond!) extensively since the demise of his former band Million Dead.

Frank Turner started solo shows prior to Million Dead’s break up. The first official performance was at the first Small Town America all dayer at 93 Feet East on September 18th 2004. The solo performances were, in a sense, a sideline to Million Dead. They did allow Turner to display some of his own songwriting capabilities (without a band) as well as some covers of songs and bands he enjoyed, in some cases the songs were much re-worked to fit an acoustic atmosphere. Solo performances were also used to help bolster or expose Million Dead to new individuals as well, with some acoustic in-store and radio performances of Million Dead songs.

At the end of February and start of March (2006) Frank went to Oxford to record the “Campfire Punkrock” EP with Dive Dive as the backing band for three of the songs. This EP was released on May 15 2006 on a limited run through Xtra Mile recordings. It sold out after only a few weeks on sale and had to be re-pressed to meet demand.

With Jonah Matranga doing some touring in June 2006 in support of his CD/DVD album “Jonah Matranga” there was some discussion of Frank doing supports with Jonah, this only ended up with one show featuring both at The Peel in Kingston. The discussion however lead to the creation of the Jonah Matranga and Frank Turner split 12” vinyl.
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  • sweatbloodtears

    @xSmoochyx your comment was made even better with your picture haha

    yesterday morning

  • lfsc25

    criminally underrated

    9 days ago

  • xSmoochyx

    Lol the guy who said he sucks listens to Hollywood Undead and Skrillex.

    12 days ago

  • SeaDogMariner

    Just discovered this guy. Wow! English Curse and Rivers are fantastic

    13 days ago

  • LongLiveTheD

    @Harliquensfly: Amen to that. (Oh, the irony of using religious vocabulary in Frank Turner's shoutbox).

    15 days ago

  • luziawe

    B92W: I can't believe you got that impression about Frank. On my blog you can read my thoughts after having seen Frank Turner live. And I think most people feel that way about him! www.keep-calm-and-listen-to-music.blogspot.com

    22 days ago

  • matt5672

    Hollywood Undead suck Frank is a ton better!

    25 days ago

  • Harliquensfly

    B92W if he's good or not is all a matter of taste. If you like him then he's good and if you don't he's not. I personally love his stuff and so to me he is good. As for him thinking he's bigger than he is, Frank is one of the humblest musicians I've ever heard with a sizeable fan base. He undeniably has a huge commited fanbase (otherwise how could he fill Wembley Arena when he's on a tiny label and doesn't do many interviews). As for yelling, yeah he sometimes yells on stage but so do lot's of musicians. And he obviously doesn't suck, because if he did people wouldn't listen to his music.

    25 days ago
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