Former Million Dead man Frank Turner has taken to Facebook today, to announce that he and his band The Sleeping Souls will be opening for Blink 182 on their UK tour. In the Facebook post, Turner said that he was ‘very pleased’ to be the guest of the ‘mighty’ Blink 182. The full details of the tour are at below.
Blink 182’s 7th album California was released last summer, and was the first project from the band since Tom Delonge’s departure, being replaced by Alkaline Trio vocalist/guitarist Matt Skiba. Meanhwile, Turner himself released his sixth album Positive Songs For Negative People back in 2015, but recently told NME that he has “A mountain of new material” to put towards a new album.
Turner did concede that he had a few reservations about the follow-up to Positive Songs For Negative People, saying that the LP “Felt like a sort of conclusionary statement. It wasn’t written that way, but looking back on it feels like that’s me wrapping up a certain era of my songwriting.” Turner elaborated by saying “Another way of saying it is I feel like I have the opportunity to go somewhere new and somewhere different at this point, so I’m thinking about doing something reasonably radically different next time round, but we’ll see. And of course, [since Trump won the election] I’ve been thinking about trying to react to the world as it is in 2016 perhaps a bit more openly in my art.”
Later this year, Turner will also oversee the release of his first film, titled Get Better- A Film About Frank Turner. The film was directed by Ben Morse, and documents a year on tour with Frank and the Sleeping Souls, although the band quickly came off the road, due to Turner ‘drinking, drugs and self-destruction’ during a ‘difficult’ year of his life. You can watch the trailer below.
Motorpoint Arena- Cardiff- July 3, 2017
Motorpoint Arena- Nottingham- July 4
First Direct Arena- Leeds July 5
Barclaycard Arena – Birmingham- July 7
Metro Radio Arena- Newcastle- July 9
The SSE Hydro- Glasgow- July 11
Arena – Manchester- July 14
Echo Arena- Liverpool- July 15
BIC- Bournemouth- July 17
The O2- London- July 19-20
