AllRespect.com // Frank Turner headlines Wembley Arena, announces UK tour

Posted on 2012-04-18 03:00:34
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Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/46989

The evening of Friday the 13th of April, 2012, saw English folk-punk troubadour Frank Turner play to a 12,000 strong sell-out crowd at London's Wembley Arena.

With Essex-born folk-punk legend Billy Bragg on main support, Turner and his band, The Sleeping Souls, have garnered excellent reviews from across the British press in the subsequent days, with notable write-ups in The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian.

The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan summed up her review as follows:

Though the rise of the anti-capitalist movement has undoubtedly sent many new followers Turner's way his current album, England Keep My Bones, nearly went Top 10 his set finds a surprising amount of room for the personal as well as the political. For every rasped-out call to arms such as Love, Ire & Song ("Let's be heroes, let's be martyrs, let's be radical thinkers," it commands hopefully), there's a nostalgic Wessex Boy, whose Mumfordian jauntiness is heightened by female backing singers. Yet the show is laced with reminders that Turner a sweary bundle of energy in waistcoat and jeans is as committed as ever. A duet with Bragg on The Times They Are A-Changin' feels like the anointing of a new generation of protest-rockers. It will be interesting to see if Turner can make a difference.

Turner has also announced an eighteen date UK tour.

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