Frank Turner has announced a new album – and an accompanying UK tour, including a North East date. The 36-year-old will play at the O2 Academy in Newcastle on Sunday, April 22, as part of the tour for Be More Kind, which will be released on May 4 through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records. It comes just months after the release of Songbook, a career-spanning retrospective which also saw reworked versions of tracks from across the past decade. The record represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for Turner, with the intricate folk and punk roar trademarks of Turner’s his imbued with new, bold experimental shades. “I wanted to try and get out of my comfort zone and do something different,” said Turner. The singer and his band, the Sleeping Souls, were on tour in the USA in 2016 “when the world decided to go collectively nuts” and the songs that make up Be More Kind started to come together. “Somewhere in the record, there’s a convergence of the ideas of personal and political, which is a central theme of the album,” Turner says. One of the driving themes of the album is empathy, even for your enemy. “You… Read full this story
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