Sleep Is For The Week - Frank Turner

There seems to be a rare new breed of musicians appearing on the World music scene mixing the gentle world of folk with the much faster punk genre. Originally these bands were by and large coming out of America with Dropkick Murphy's and Flogging Molly but in 2007 the first British punk/folk acted released his debut album. I am of course talking about former Million Dead singer Frank Turner and his transition into a solo artist. Following the breakup of the band Turner decided his own musical career would continue as a solo artist and in 2007 he released this album, Sleep Is for the Weak. I'd been aware of turner under his previous guise of the Million Dead ...  Read the complete review

One of the best things about going to gigs, is discovering new bands and artists that you would otherwise have never paid any attention to, this has happened to me a number of times, discovering bands like The Horrors when I saw the Fratellis but one time, seeing Biffy Clyro, I had this happen big time, I discovered someone who would shoot straight to the top in my books, aka. Mr. Frank Turner. I saw him at the Junction with my friend, neither of us knew who Frank Turner was, and when he came on stage we assumed he was the guy tuning the guitars, that was until he said "Hello, I'm Frank Turner". Standing before us was then 25 year old Frank, with his ...  Read the complete review

Sleep Is for the Week is the debut album by Frank Turner, the former lead-singer of punk rock band Million Dead, and released on January 15th 2007 via Xtra Mile Recordings. Those that know of Million Dead, or even those who don't, would know that the term 'punk' was just what they were - fast, distorted angst, but now frontman Frank has returned on his own in a style best suited as 'folk' with an acoustic guitar and a stunning ability for song-writing. The 13 tracks on show never have a weak spot or show an achilles heel. In the opening track "The Real Damage" Frank sings about the experience of the morning after a heavy night before. ...  Read the complete review

Frank Turner - this album is the amazing debut album from Frank Turner, former Million Dead front man. I was a fan of Million dead and went to see them a few times which is where i'd heard of Frank Turner before. After I read they had split and Frank was to be doing some solo stuff I got straight on the interenet and eagerly awaited his first album. Now being a fan of Million Dead, this was not what I was expecting as they were a really fast, ferocious punk band that dominated the stage! I put it on and what I found was brilliant... the songs have so much depth and feeling and the lyrics are far more personal than I have heard from any other solo artist. Ever since, ...  Read the complete review