Bounce Magazine May 2018
Featuring the lovely Nadine Coyle, former Girls Aloud Star, Singer Songwriter Frank Turner. We also have a food and drink special, feature the bury Festival and have plenty of summer recipes, competitions and interesting columns from our usual contributors.
Featuring the lovely Nadine Coyle, former Girls Aloud Star, Singer Songwriter Frank Turner. We also have a food and drink special, feature the bury Festival and have plenty of summer recipes, competitions and interesting columns from our usual contributors.
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MAY <strong>2018</strong> MAY | <strong>2018</strong> ISSUE | #67 ISSUE | #67 FRANK TURNER<br />
FRANK TURNER<br />
<strong>Bounce</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>’s Rachel Ducker speaks to singer songwriter,<br />
Frank Turner, about his new album and tour...<br />
A singular artist and songwriter of<br />
considerable talent, Frank Turner is able to sell<br />
out arena tours, Alexandra Palace and four<br />
consecutive nights at the Roundhouse but still<br />
walk down Holloway Road untroubled.<br />
Turner recently announced the Be More Kind<br />
World Tour, which will begin in April, with<br />
its first leg playing to over 200,000 people<br />
across the UK, the USA, Europe, Canada,<br />
Australia and New Zealand, taking them<br />
through to Christmas.<br />
The first batch of<br />
announcements covers<br />
120 dates.<br />
Rachel Ducker catches<br />
up with Frank to find out<br />
more about the singer<br />
songwriter and his<br />
upcoming tour.<br />
R: Hi Frank, how’s it<br />
going?<br />
I’m great thanks!<br />
R: I would love to know a little more about<br />
your background before you got on the<br />
music scene and how you first started<br />
playing music?<br />
Well, I was raised in Hampshire by my folks,<br />
and had a relatively middle class upbringing.<br />
My parents are quite conservative so their<br />
experience of music was generally classical<br />
music and church music, which never did<br />
much for me. I got into music around 10 years<br />
old and I was at a mates house, and I will<br />
confess to the fact we were playing games,<br />
and he had an Iron Maiden poster on his wall,<br />
which I thought was very cool. My friend told<br />
me it was a band and it never really occurred<br />
to me that music could be that cool. So I ran<br />
off and I got a copy of ‘Killers’ by Iron Maiden<br />
on cassette and since that day I have not<br />
looked back! It was a light switch day, do you<br />
know what I mean?<br />
R: Touching on your education,<br />
is it true you went to school with<br />
Prince William at Eaton?<br />
I was there on a scholarship, yes.<br />
I took an exam when I was a kid, I<br />
can’t tell you what the exam was<br />
about, but I did it and passed. I<br />
am grateful for the education that<br />
I received but felt extremely out<br />
of place socially there. It was all a<br />
very long time ago, I am 36 now so<br />
its not something that crosses my<br />
mind all of the time.<br />
R: Your real name is actually Francis, how did<br />
you become Frank?<br />
Somebody at school one day called me<br />
Frank and given the fact the other kids at<br />
school used to beat me up for having a ‘girls<br />
name’, it was kind of an escape from that, so<br />
I went along with it. At the time I was quite<br />
impressed about being referred to as Frank!<br />
R: Does your mum still call you Francis?<br />
Oh she certainly does! Particularly if I have<br />
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