In a society where times are uncertain and people seem divided and uneasy with one another, here comes lanky Englishman Frank Turner and his backing band The Sleeping Souls to make you forget about your personal issues for a couple of hours. Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls brought their energetic set to a capacity crowd at The Paramount in Huntington on this Mother’s Day Weekend.
Frank Turner urged the capacity crowd to have fun and to not be an asshole, and the crowd certainly had a great time and there were no assholes to speak of in the capacity crowd, or so I noticed. In “Make America Great Again”, Turner made his viewpoints of President Trump loud and clear as the crowd roared in approval. Turner also gave an anti-racist public service announcement as well to let the crowd know that we are a loving and accepting community. There was also a three song mini-set within the set list where it was just Frank Turner and an acoustic guitar. This provided for a more intimate evening.
Based on the mix of Frank Turner classics and new cuts, this was surely a night to remember at The Paramount. Frank does an outstanding job of getting his messages across while making his music danceable.
Setlist from the night on the “Be More Kind” tour:
- Four Simple Words
- Get Better
- Plain Sailing Weather
- The Next Storm
- I Am Disappeared
- Long Live The Queen
- Make America Great Again
- 1933
- Once We Were Anarchists
- Polaroid Picture
- Glorious You
- Mittens
- Don’t Worry
- Dan’s Song (acoustic)
- The Way I Tend To Be (acoustic)
- Be More Kind (acoustic)
- I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
- Photosynthesis
- Recovery
- I Still Believe
- Eulogy
- Bar Staff
- Little Changes
- If I Ever Stray
- The Ballad of Me and My Friends
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls will be touring Europe this summer. Check out the tour dates:
Wed. 6/5 Winter Palace of Sport in Sofia, Bulgaria (w/Dropkick Murphys)
Tue. 6/11- Fernan Gomez Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid, Spain
Thu. 6/13- Greenfield Festival in Interlaken, Switzerland
Sat. 6/15- Fete de la Musique in Dudelange, Luxembourg
Sun. 6/16- Traumzeit Festival in Du, Germany
Fri. 6/21- Hurricane Festival in Scheessell, Germany
Tue. 6/25- INmusic Festival in Zagreb, Croatia
Fri. 6/28- Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, United Kingdom
Thu. 7/4- Empire Coventry in Coventry, United Kingdom
Fri. 7/5- Ashton Hall in Lancaster, United Kingdom
Sat. 7/6- Electric Fields in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Wed. 7/10- The Lexington in London, United Kingdom
Thu. 7/11- 2000 Trees Festival in Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Sat. 7/13- Wasteland Festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Sun. 7/14- Folk By The Oak in Hatfield, United Kingdom
Sat. 7/20- Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden e.V. in Wi, Germany
Thu. 8/1- szeneopenair in Lustenau, Austria
Sat. 8/3- Wickham Festival in Wickham, United Kingdom
Sun. 8/4- Tunes in the Castle in Exeter, United Kingdom
Tue. 8/6- Punk Rock Holiday in Tolmin, Slovenia
Wed. 8/7- Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary
Thu. 8/8- Rocco del Schlacko Festivalgelande in Puttlingen, Germany
Fri. 8/9- Cropredy Festival in Cropredy, United Kingdom
Mon. 8/12- Bayfest in Rimini, Italy
Fri. 8/16- Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Sat. 8/17- Pukkelpop in Hasselt, Belgium
Sun. 8/18- Highfield Festival in Klein Leipzig, Germany
Tue. 8/20- Festa di Radio Onda d’Urto in Brescia, Italy
Thu. 8/22- Cottingham Folk Festival in Cottingham, United Kingdom
Sun. 8/25- Greenbelt Festival in Kettering, United Kingdom
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