Frank Turner is a burgeoning solo artist based in the United Kingdom. He has toured the UK extensively and gone on a few forays into Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of his former band Million Dead.

Frank Turner started solo acoustic 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.

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. Released in the USA on Welcome Home Records and in the UK via Xtra Mile Recordings.

The good sales of “Campfire Punkrock” meant good news as this allowed Frank to record his debut album “Sleep Is For The Week” in August and September 2006. In April 2008, his second album Love, Ire and Song was released to critical acclaim.

His third full-length album, Poetry Of The Deed, was released September 7th 2009, and includes the singles The Road, Try This At Home and Isabel. An accompanying DVD, Take To The Road, was released in March 2010 the week after his biggest show to date, at the Roundhouse in Camden. The show sold 3000 tickets and was part of the worldwide tour, which has visited New Zealand, all over Europe and will be playing a show in Haifa (Israel) in June 2010.

He has also recently acted as the support act for the stadium tour of Green Day which included playing Wembley Stadium.

Photo by Christopher Dible