Frank Turner Reveals New Track, “Make America Great Again”, From Upcoming Album, Be More Kind, Out May 4
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Frank Turner Reveals New Track, “Make America Great Again”, From Upcoming Album, Be More Kind, Out May 4
09 April 2018 (Toronto, ON) - Frank Turner is sharing “Make America Great Again”, the latest new track to emerge from his forthcoming album Be More Kind, which was today’s “World Record” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Available through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, “Make America Great Again” is a wry riposte to the poisonous invective of Trump’s White House, with Turner’s knack for an irrepressible hook bolstered here by the hints of electronic pop which tinge Be More Kind.
“Make America Great Again” arrives alongside a new video which Frank recently shot on the streets of Austin, Texas whilst performing at this year’s SXSW Festival, conducting his own vox pop on what Americans feel truly makes their country great. Watch the video HERE. Speaking about the new track, Frank says, "This is obviously one of the more provocatively-titled songs I've released in recent years, but in a way, I'm not kidding. America is bloody great, one of my favourite countries in the world. Much like back at home, they've had a politically fraught time of late, and I wanted to say something about it. And for the video, I thought I'd make some new friends (in Texas!) to help out with the suggestions."
Be More Kind – out May 4 - was inspired by a Clive James poem called “Leçons Des Ténèbres”: “I should have been more kind. It is my fate / To find this out, but find it out too late.” “It devastated me the first time I read it,” Turner says. “A lot of older, wiser people tend to say things like that, that the things that come out in the wash at the end of a human life are the way you treated the people around you. In the modern world, that’s a lesson that all of us, myself included, could do to learn.” Pre-order Be More Kind HERE.
Turner recently announced the Be More Kind World Tour which will begin in April with its first leg playing to over 200,000 people across the UK, the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. See the full list of Canadian dates below.
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Frank Turner – Be More Kind
- Don't Worry
- 1933
- Little Changes
- Be More Kind
- Make America Great Again
- Going Nowhere
- Brave Face
- There She Is
- 21st Century Survival Blues
- Blackout
- Common Ground
- The Lifeboat
- Get It Right
Canadian Dates:
Jul 8 - Imperial Bell, Québec City
Jul 9 - Festival D’été International, Québec City
Sep 8 - The Vogue Theatre, Vancouver
Sept 9 - Alix Goolden Performance Hall, Victoria
Sept 11 – Winspear Centre, Edmonton
Sept 12 – MacEwan Hall, Calgary
Sept 14 – O’Brians, Saskatoon
Sept 15 – Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
Sept 18 – London Music Hall, London
Sept 19 – The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto
Sept 20 – The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto
Sept 22 – Corona Theatre, Montréal
Sept 24 – Bronson Centre, Ottawa
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