Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls to play O2 Academy Liverpool

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Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls to play O2 Academy Liverpool

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Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls have announced details of a headline tour of the UK later this year. The ‘Get Better Tour’ will take in 20 cities throughout November and December. Turner has partnered with Plus 1 so that £1 from every ticket sale goes to War Child, a charity supporting children and families affected by conflict and striving for a world where no child’s life is torn apart by war www.warchild.org.uk.

Turner said, “I’m very happy to be working with Plus 1 on this tour. £1 from every ticket goes to the good people at War Child, supporting children and families in communities affected by war all over the world. It feels right to use part of what I do to support such a good cause.”

The dates are:

November

Fri 18th Salisbury City Hall

Mon 21st Liverpool O2 Academy Liverpool*          (*ticketweb.co.uk)

Tue 22nd Carlisle Sands Centre

Wed 23rd Doncaster Dome

Fri 25th Coventry The Empire

Sat 26th Cardiff The Great Hall

Sun 27th Oxford New Theatre

Mon 28th Exeter The Great Hall

Wed 30th Reading Hexagon

 

December

Thu 1st Leeds University Refectory

Fri 2nd Aberdeen The Garage

Sat 3rd Edinburgh Usher Hall

Mon 5th Scunthorpe Baths Hall

Tue 6th Warrington Parr Hall

Wed 7th Newcastle Northumbria Uni

Fri 9th Nottingham Rock City

Sat 10th De La Warr Pavilion

Sun 11th Norwich UEA

Mon 12th Guildford G Live

Wed 14th Portsmouth Guildhall

The tour caps off another year of relentless gigging for Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls who, in 2016 alone, have played to over a quarter of a million people. This year marks the record-breaking tenth consecutive year Frank Turner has performed at Reading & Leeds festival, where he opened as special guest on the Main Stage. Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls will head to the US in September and October for their fourth run of dates there this year before returning home for the ‘Get Better Tour’.

‘Get Better’ is a track from Frank Turner’s 2015 album ‘Positive Songs For Negative People’. This July, House of Vans gallery hosted Get Better: 8 Years on the Road with Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, a retrospective photo exhibition by director and photographer Ben Morse. Across 120 unseen, intimate photographs, the exhibition chronicled Ben’s time on the road with Frank Turner and his crew, providing some invaluable insights into what a rock star’s life on tour is really like.


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