Frank Turner has announced his new single Brave Face, which is available now through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records. Taken from Turner’s recent album Be More Kind, Brave Face feels, he says, “like one of the most important tracks on the album to me. It brings together the twin themes of the record, the romantic and the political, which feels ever more apt - the world keeps getting crazier, and I just got engaged!” 2018 has been a busy year, even by Turner’s standards. Following the release of his seventh studio album, he embarked on the eponymous Be More Kind World Tour playing to over 200,000 people across the UK, the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and covering 120 dates. Turner will return to the UK to play a seven-date arena tour between January 22nd and February 3rd next year, culminating in a show at London’s prestigious Alexandra Palace. Turner recently announced details of his award-winning festival Lost Evenings III, which will take place at Boston’s House of Blues over four nights in 2019 (one date has already sold out). The winner of the AIM Best Independent Festival Award in September 2017, this is the festival’s third year, but first with an American destination. For Turner, Be More Kind represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for the 36-year-old. “I wanted to try and get out of my comfort zone and do something different,” he says. "Brave Face took the most work of any on the record. We cut it three separate times over the course of recording. In the end, the final arrangement was heavily influenced by being on the road with Jason Isbell (A Star Is Born) and hearing him play his latest material from Nashville Sound. I also reworked the lyrics a few times; I was always happy with the central metaphor, but the details needed tweaking. I like the idea of facing down the end of the world with your significant other, it's a sort of Thelma-and-Louise image, in a way." Reflecting on what has been a hugely successful 12 months, both professionally and personally, Turner concludes, “I’m so thankful of the support I’ve had since Be More Kind came out in May. Here's to lots more music and shows to come in 2019!”
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Frank Turner Announces 2019 Tour Incl. Manchester ,Victoria Warehouse

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Frank Turner Announces 2019 Tour Incl. Manchester ,Victoria Warehouse

Frank Turner today announces details for the Be More Kind 2019 UK Tour – a string of arena dates running through early 2019, which will also take in Alexandra Palace on February 3, 2019.

The details arrive ahead of Turner’s new album Be More Kind, due out May 4 through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor and featuring the 6Music playlisted new single ‘Blackout’.

There will be a fan pre-sale for the 2019 dates via the official Frank Turner Store – head here for details:  https://store.frank-turner.com/ – with tickets on general sale on Friday April 27 at 10am from here: https://FrankTurner.lnk.to/BMK2019PR. To celebrate the tour announcement, Frank is today also launching a special tour edition of Be More Kind, featuring alternative cover art and a fold-out tour poster.

Be More Kind represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for the 36-year-old. “I wanted to try and get out of my comfort zone and do something different,” says Turner. After the stripped-down, live-sounding previous album Positive Songs…, Turner wanted to try a new approach for the record. With this in mind he recruited producers Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block, formerly of psychedelic-rock Texans White Denim, and Florence And The Machine and Halsey collaborator Charlie Hugall and the idea of recording a more rock-led album with tints of electronic-pop took shape. Be More Kind was made over a period of seven months, giving Turner the opportunity to turn songs on their head, try different versions and shake up the dynamics within his band.

Be More Kind was inspired by a Clive James poem called Leçons Des Ténèbres: “I should have been more kind. It is my fate. To find this out, but find it out too late.” “It devastated me the first time I read it,” he says. “A lot of older, wiser people tend to say things like that, that the things that come out in the wash at the end of a human life are the way you treated the people around you. In the modern world, that’s a lesson that all of us, myself included could do to learn.”

Turner is currently amidst the first leg of the Be More Kind World Tour, which sees him playing 120 dates to over 200,000 people across the UK, the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

BE MORE KIND 2019 – WORLD TOUR
JANUARY
22nd Birmingham Arena
25th Manchester Victoria Warehouse
27th Leeds          First Direct Arena
29th Glasgow      02 Academy
FEBRUARY
1st  Bournemouth Windsor Hall
2nd Cardiff           Motorpoint Arena
3rd London           Alexandra Palace

REMAINING UK & IRELAND 2018 DATES
APRIL
24th       Sheffield        O2 Academy SOLD OUT
25th       Liverpool        O2 Academy SOLD OUT
27th       Bristol        O2 Academy SOLD OUT
28th       Exeter Uni        Great Hall SOLD OUT
30th       Cambridge        Corn Exchange
MAY
1st        Southampton     Guildhall 01/05/2018 SOLD OUT
2nd        Southend Cliffs  Pavilion 02/05/2018
4th        Leicester             O2 Academy 04/05/2018 SOLD OUT
5th       Oxford             O2 Academy 05/05/2018 SOLD OUT
8th        Hull                    City Hall
9th        Norwich             UEA 

     Purchase Tickets From 10.00am Friday April 27 Here:
     Pre-order the Album Here:

 


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