ARTiST: Frank Turner
TiTLE: Sleep Is For The Week
LABEL: Xtra Mile Recordings
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 47:16 min
SiZE:  68,7 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jan-03-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jan-15-2007
WEBSiTE: www.frank-turner.com

Track List:

01. The Real Damage                            03:35
02. Vital Signs                                03:39
03. Romantic Fatigue                           02:58
04. A Decent Cup Of Tea                        03:09
05. Father's Day                               04:50
06. Worse Things Happen At Sea                 03:44
07. My Kingdom For A Horse                     04:52
08. Back In The Day                            02:07
09. Once We Were Anarchists                    03:51
10. Wisdom Teeth                               04:17
11. The Ladies Of London Town                  04:06
12. Must Try Harder                            03:35
13. The Ballad Of Me And My Friends            02:33

Release Notes:

If you want to get in touch with me, feel free to
email me after you've read the FAQ page. Anyways,
it's fair to suppose that you got to this part of
the site because you wanted to know some more about
me, who I am, where I came from, and why the fuck
I'm visiting this music on your ears. Fair
questions, one and all, so let's get started.

I was born in Muharraq, Bahrain, in late 1981... ah
fuck it, let's cut to the chase. I started playing
in bands aged about 12 after I got into Iron Maiden
because I thought the posters were cool. When it
became apparent that the music also rocked face, I
got a guitar and started nerding away. My teenage
years were a typically embarrassing [CENSORED]ue of
musical errors (I was seen to play a ska song of my
own composition live on more than one occasion) but
I did play in some bands that some other people
cared about. First there was a school-based hardcore
/ emo outfit called Kneejerk, which came to an
unceremonious end in around 2000.

After that I got involved in a punk band called
Million Dead. We were around for four years, from
2001-2005, and in that time we released 2 albums to
'critical acclaim' and 'underground success' (i.e.
we weren't exactly U2). Nevertheless, we made a lot
of friends and played a lot of shows, wrote a lot of
songs and learnt an awful lot about playing music
and making a living out of it. In the end we decided
it would be best to part ways before we fell out and
while we still had a chance of being a wicked
underground band that no one liked at the time a
decade hence (see: Slint).

Whilst in Million Dead, I'd started to do some shows
on my own - sometimes out of necessity, say for a
radio session - and started rediscovering a lot of
the music I grew up with, like the Counting Crows,
Johnny Cash, Weezer and so on, as well as getting
more and more into my country and folk. I started
out with folky versions of MD songs and graduated to
my own compositions (often bits and pieces that were
a little too light for the band). When the 'Deadz
came to an end, it seemed like the logical thing to
do to try my hand at playing these songs more
publicly and more concertedly than before. I also
didn't want to stop touring, so I kept going.

Thus the 'neverending tour of everywhere' started in
October 2005, and hasn't really stopped since. I've
shared stages with everyone from Getcape via Gabby
Young to The Automatic, clocking up nearly 200 shows
thusfar, much of it done travelling on the train and
sleeping on the floor. Release wise, I kicked off
with a split with my good friends Reuben, moved
through to a CDEP ("Campfire Punkrock") in May,
released through my old muckers Xtra Mile
Recordings, and even found time for a split with
legendary US singer Jonah Matranga. The same team is
coming back together (kind of like in The Blues
Brothers) for the debut album, due for release on
January 15th 2007. Entitled "Sleep Is For The Week",
it features 13 tracks of pure sex and will be
available across the UK (and hopefully further
afield as the year goes on). I'll be touring it with
a backing band (made up of people from Oxford's Dive
Dive) in the first two months of next year, before
moving onto some hardcore world domination. You have
been warned.