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Let's be Frank: debut album & mega tour in January

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Former Million Dead frontman Frank Turner releases his solo debut long-player Sleep Is For The Week on 15th January. The album will be preceded by the single ‘Vital Signs’ on 25th December 2006, available as a download-able Christmas gift!

All you have to do to get the track is e-mail your Christmas wish to santa@frank-turner.com, and Santa will do the rest!

The full tracklisting for Sleep Is For The Week is as follows:

'The Real Damage
'Vital Signs'
'Romantic Fatigue'
'A Decent Cup Of Tea'
'Father’s Day'
'Worse Things Happen At Sea'
'My Kingdom For A Horse'
'Back In The Day'
'Once We Were Anarchists'
'Wisdom Teeth'
'The Ladies Of London Town'
'Must Try Harder'
'The Ballad Of Me And My Friends'

He will also be partaking in a mammoth tour accompanied by Dive Dive during January and February, calling in at the following venues:

January
24 Leeds Josephs Well
25 Preston 53 Degrees
26 Carlisle The Brickyard
27 London XFM All-Dayer (solo show)
28 Nottingham The Social*
29 Manchester Night & Day*
30 Aberdeen The Tunnels*

February
2 Liverpool Korova*
6 Bristol Thekla*
7 Cambridge The Loft*
8 Bath Moles*
11 York Fibbers*
12 Birmingham The Bar Academy*
13 London The Borderline*
14 Southampton The Joiners*
15 Oxford The Zodiac*

*with Beans On Toast



  • Is he supporting Dive Dive?

    or the other way round?

    • Dive Dive may be his backing band

      maybe?

      • No Thatcher Fucked The Kids?

        :(

      • both support AND backing band.

        crazy bitches.

        • awesome

          looking forward to this!

          • no 'dancing queen'?

            still, ace.

            and Dive Dive to boot.

            • Dammit...

              No Glasgow date. Trip to bloody Aberdeen it is.

              • no 'sunshine state'?

                boo!

                but anyway, bath here i come.

                • No "Nashville Tennessee" either

                  or is that the same song?

                  • these will be good gigs

                    if you haven't heard Beanz on Toast, if you like him if you like Frank.

                    I'm looking forward to the southampton gig LOTS

                  • they're different songs

                    but that's on Campfire Punkrock, no?

                    • Ah, I didn't realise he'd released stuff already

                      I only heard him for the first time at the STA alldayer. I'm a MD/FT n00b.

                      • i want to be frank

                        :(

                      • Tour dates

                        There are more dates on their way, including Glasgow - check the site. DD are indeed both main support and my band. It's going to rock.

                        Frank

                      • i thought this was about

                        the all-girl band from totally frank :(

                      • yeah theres an ep

                        and its a bit pointless releasing an album stuff full of songs from the other release.

                        unless you happen to be get cape, who recycled nearly his whole ep without really altering the songs (boo!)

                      • i saw

                        this beans on toast character perform stood on a bar at a posh hotel in manc. it was quite funny, the staff seemed a bit furious.

                      • He was amazing

                        At the Tunnels in 'bloody' Aberdeen last month. Much enjoyed. One of the most charismatic characters I've seen onstage in a long time.

                        Roll on the album release!

                      • ooh

                        my mate justin is in his new video!

                        • I thought this was

                          about that channel 4 band thing. Oops.

                      • ahh, fair enough

                        yeah, it came out in may (i think), 5 track EP. he also did a split with Reuben and had an exclusive track on an STA compilation a while back JAG JAG JAG

  • Booo

    Bring back Million Dead.
    Although, that said, I love Frank Turner all the same. But c'mon, MILLION DEAD!

  • Let's not forget....

    The new dive dive album is out in january too, wicked

  • Million Dead were fucking amazing

    But I'm willing to sacrifice them if Frank's going to continually be as into his solo stuff as he has seemed to be up until this point.

    The new Bob Dylan I heard. Fuck your Willy Mason ^_'