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Travelling folk superhero Frank Turner has announced details of a fresh 20-odd date tour of the UK in the coming weeks, plus a new EP.
The Real Damage EP is released on May 7th on funky-fresh record label Xtra Mile. Tracks confirmed are:
‘The Real Damage’
‘Sea Legs’
‘Back To Sleep’
‘Sunshine State’
‘Heartless Bastard Motherfucker’
Even better, tour support (dates below) comes from fragile-voiced superstar Jay Jay Pistolet, gravel-voiced dirty-mouthed motherfolker Beans On Toast, highly-humorous indie-jazz-every-other-genre trio Blah Blah Blah and Captain Scarlet’s Mysteron-aiding foe Captain Black, as follows:
April
20 London Oh! Bar (Camden Crawl)
22 Manchester Night & Day (w/Jay Jay Pistolet, Blah Blah Blah)
23 Newcastle Global Room @ Newcastle University (w/Beans On Toast, Blah Blah Blah)
24 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire (w/Beans On Toast, Blah Blah Blah)
25 Inverness Ironworks (w/Blah Blah Blah)
26 Glasgow Nice N Sleazys (w/Beans On Toast, Blah Blah Blah)
27 Liverpool Korova (w/Blah Blah Blah)
28 Leicester Charlotte (w/Jay Jay Pistolet)
29 Stoke Sugarmill (w/Jay Jay Pistolet, Blah Blah Blah)
30 Sheffield Neutral Room @ The Plug (w/Beans On Toast, Blah Blah Blah)
May
1 Cambridge Junction (w/Jay Jay Pistolet, Blah Blah Blah)
2 London Bush Hall (w/Captain Black, Jay Jay Pistolet, Beans On Toast)
4 Nottingham Social (w/Captain Black, Jay Jay Pistolet)
5 Northampton Soundhaus (w/Captain Black, Jay Jay Pistolet)
6 Birmingham Bar Academy (w/Captain Black, Jay Jay Pistolet)
7 Bristol Thekla (w/Jay Jay Pistolet, Blah Blah Blah)
8 Exeter Cavern (w/Beans On Toast, Blah Blah Blah)
9 Penzance The Acorn (w/Beans On Toast, Blah Blah Blah)
11 Tunbridge Wells Forum (w/Jay Jay Pistolet, Blah Blah Blah)
12 Oxford Zodiac (w/Captain Black, Jay Jay Pistolet)
13 Norwich Arts Centre (w/Captain Black, Jay Jay Pistolet)
16 Bournemouth Green Room
Mr Turner has recently spent three days being followed by a documentary maker at his solo shows in Swindon, Devizes and Winchester, which presumably will see the light of day later in the year.
‘The Real Damage’ video, meanwhile, can be found on his MySpace page, so go! The song itself is also available on Frank's debut album Sleep Is For The Week.
Photo by George Steel
