thought-provoking and even controversial
this singer-songwriter brings his
personality to his performances hi I’m
Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Frank Turner
tell us a bit about you know your
upbringing and how you originally got
into music I’m was brought up in the
countryside in the UK many miles away
from all of the civilization was about
ten I found out about Iron Maiden and
everything kind of got different after
then she sort of slightly feel like they
were kind of like first in last out kind
of Angie I mean it’s like i think i’ll
probably fall out of love with all other
types of music before i stopped loving i
made and i fully intend to bury the nine
made and coughing and you heard it here
first
toward in punk bands for a very long
time and then kind of got bored of the
medium but wanted to stay on tour and
started playing an acoustic guitar
any songwriting icons I mean Bruce
Springsteen’s a really big deal for me
and Townes Van Zandt has always been
kind of for me the absolute fun
undisputed master of kind of economy
with words and music like he says
everything with so little to you what
makes a good lyric for me a great lyric
uses something very small to say
something very big picks up on a tiny
detail and with it says everything about
the world if you had to describe your
music to let’s say my grandmother how
would you do so I would say that it was
angry folk music a lot of people believe
that the word folks would refer
exclusively to traditional songs and I
have to say I have a bit of time for
that opinion by that measure Bob Dylan
wasn’t a focusing her because he wrote
his own material so if you just put that
slaves once idea i call myself a facing
it the fact that i grew up with heavier
music shines through what i do and
despite my best efforts
would you say you’ve transitioned
stylistically from you know some of the
harder bands that you’ve been in like
million dead it also felt organic to me
I mean a lot of people when I left my
old band were like you’re totally out of
your mind I know at the time I thought
that they just didn’t get it but looking
back at it now acting they might have
met had a point more than I realized it
was a pretty radical left hand turn
and it’s funny because in recent years
the whole kind of like folk punk
crossover thing has become more kind of
common I think that’s nothing but a good
thing but i do get slightly defensive
just in the sense it’s kind of like it
wasn’t kind of a beaten path I was
turning and I’m quite proud of the fact
that I stuck it out
you
this singer-songwriter brings his
personality to his performances hi I’m
Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Frank Turner
tell us a bit about you know your
upbringing and how you originally got
into music I’m was brought up in the
countryside in the UK many miles away
from all of the civilization was about
ten I found out about Iron Maiden and
everything kind of got different after
then she sort of slightly feel like they
were kind of like first in last out kind
of Angie I mean it’s like i think i’ll
probably fall out of love with all other
types of music before i stopped loving i
made and i fully intend to bury the nine
made and coughing and you heard it here
first
toward in punk bands for a very long
time and then kind of got bored of the
medium but wanted to stay on tour and
started playing an acoustic guitar
any songwriting icons I mean Bruce
Springsteen’s a really big deal for me
and Townes Van Zandt has always been
kind of for me the absolute fun
undisputed master of kind of economy
with words and music like he says
everything with so little to you what
makes a good lyric for me a great lyric
uses something very small to say
something very big picks up on a tiny
detail and with it says everything about
the world if you had to describe your
music to let’s say my grandmother how
would you do so I would say that it was
angry folk music a lot of people believe
that the word folks would refer
exclusively to traditional songs and I
have to say I have a bit of time for
that opinion by that measure Bob Dylan
wasn’t a focusing her because he wrote
his own material so if you just put that
slaves once idea i call myself a facing
it the fact that i grew up with heavier
music shines through what i do and
despite my best efforts
would you say you’ve transitioned
stylistically from you know some of the
harder bands that you’ve been in like
million dead it also felt organic to me
I mean a lot of people when I left my
old band were like you’re totally out of
your mind I know at the time I thought
that they just didn’t get it but looking
back at it now acting they might have
met had a point more than I realized it
was a pretty radical left hand turn
and it’s funny because in recent years
the whole kind of like folk punk
crossover thing has become more kind of
common I think that’s nothing but a good
thing but i do get slightly defensive
just in the sense it’s kind of like it
wasn’t kind of a beaten path I was
turning and I’m quite proud of the fact
that I stuck it out
you
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