Frank Turner

Frank Turner has already had several lives. Who would have thought that this banker's son, grandson of Sir, born in Barhein and living next to Prince William at the prestigious Eton College, would end up on the road to play a folk tinged with nostalgia? No one would have put a piece on this trajectory and yet it was music that young Frank clung to.
 

With a rebellious soul, rage in his stomach and hair in the wind, he started his career with Million Dead, a post-hardcore band with explosive sounds. Screaming vocals against a background of saturated guitars, they enjoyed a small notoriety before exploding in flight, each chord having become a source of conflict. This is the moment Frank Turner chose to unplug the electricity. All he had left were his six strings and the will to soften his music.

 
No return to his roots for him, he almost discovered folk music at the same time as he wrote it. Tinged with rock and punk, his albums with their melancholic accents are proof that the style is reinventing itself, far from the image of American singers wearing leather boots and jackets. But what Turner does not give up, faithful to his values and the rage of his beginnings, is his strength of protest, his willingness to be a witness to a changing era. Between sensitive folk and devastating rock, he evokes the artist's loneliness, the impoverishment of England, homesickness and the need to escape.
 

Always on the edge, his songs instantly make you want to follow him on the road he loves like an old friend you can't get rid of. With more than 2,000 concerts, he himself admits: "there is an unresolved conflict between my homesickness and my thirst for travel [...] I am very happy when I get home, and a week later I want to get back on the road". What is certain is that we will be hearing for a long time to come his claims and his refrains that some people tattoo in their skin.