Frank Turner releases the incredible new single ‘Long Live The Queen’ on 20th October 2008 through Xtra Mile Recordings.
‘Long Live The Queen’ is a heartfelt, poignant story of a close friend passing away from breast cancer. Though a hard subject, Frank has written the song as a way of celebrating his friend’s life and the legacy she has left behind. Lexi tirelessly campaigned and fundraised for breast cancer charities and it’s with this inspiration that Frank and Xtra Mile Recordings will be donating proceeds from the sale of the single to the Breast Cancer Campaign charity.
As October is Breast Cancer Awareness month – this single couldn’t be released at a more important time and together with Breast Cancer Campaign, Xtra Mile will be working towards raising as much money and awareness as possible.
Already, the single has been picked up by XFM, 6Music, and by long time supporters Mike Davies and Zane Lowe on Radio 1. Jo Whiley (and now Sara Cox who is covering Whiley’s maternity leave) is also a recent Frank convert, playing previous single ‘Reasons Not To Be An Idiot’ a couple of times on the Radio 1 daytime show leading to plays of Long Live The Queen over the next few weeks.
The video is also gaining some attention. It went in at Number 3 on MTV2’s Myspace Chart and it getting played on NME TV, TopShop and other places.
Frank goes on his biggest tour to date the day after the single is released – and will be playing to over 6000 people. The dates are:
OCTOBER
Support from CHRIS T-T, Emily Barker.
* plus Jonah Matranga
21The Cockpit, Leeds
22 The Duchess, York
23 Oran Moor, Glasgow
24 Academy 3, Manchester
25 The Barfly, Birmingham
26 The Phoenix Arts, Exeter
27 Wedgewood Rooms, Ports
28 The Ansom Rooms, Bristol
29 The Scala, London *
30 Tower Arts, Winchester
31 The Rescue Rooms, Notts
NOVEMBER
2 The Barfly, Liverpool
3 Roisin Dubh, Galway
4 Cypress Avenue, Cork
5 Auntie Annies, Belfast
6 Crawdaddy, Dublin
Frank Turner’s rise to superstardom is picking up pace…
As October is Breast Cancer Awareness month – this single couldn’t be released at a more important time and together with Breast Cancer Campaign, Xtra Mile will be working towards raising as much money and awareness as possible.
Already, the single has been picked up by XFM, 6Music, and by long time supporters Mike Davies and Zane Lowe on Radio 1. Jo Whiley (and now Sara Cox who is covering Whiley’s maternity leave) is also a recent Frank convert, playing previous single ‘Reasons Not To Be An Idiot’ a couple of times on the Radio 1 daytime show leading to plays of Long Live The Queen over the next few weeks.
The video is also gaining some attention. It went in at Number 3 on MTV2’s Myspace Chart and it getting played on NME TV, TopShop and other places.
Frank goes on his biggest tour to date the day after the single is released – and will be playing to over 6000 people. The dates are:
OCTOBER
Support from CHRIS T-T, Emily Barker.
* plus Jonah Matranga
21The Cockpit, Leeds
22 The Duchess, York
23 Oran Moor, Glasgow
24 Academy 3, Manchester
25 The Barfly, Birmingham
26 The Phoenix Arts, Exeter
27 Wedgewood Rooms, Ports
28 The Ansom Rooms, Bristol
29 The Scala, London *
30 Tower Arts, Winchester
31 The Rescue Rooms, Notts
NOVEMBER
2 The Barfly, Liverpool
3 Roisin Dubh, Galway
4 Cypress Avenue, Cork
5 Auntie Annies, Belfast
6 Crawdaddy, Dublin
Frank Turner’s rise to superstardom is picking up pace…
"Both uplifting and heartbreaking, these 12 tracks are the sound of Turner sitting down, taking stock and edging steadily further towards greatness. Godspeed, sir." KKKK Kerrang!
“Frank is truly a unique British talent to be cherished and acclaimed with good reason.” 8/10 Rocksound
“Frank’s second album is as defiantly brilliant as ever.” NME 8/10
