A shout-out of respect to Frank Turner (above photo from Bruckenforum 2016). Turner has laid claim to a World Record 15 shows, in 15 different towns, in 24 hours. Clad in a T-shirt proclaiming “Whose stupid idea was this anyway?” The hero of the day (literally) began his grueling schedule in Liverpool at 12.30 pm on 4 May and finished at midday on 5 May in Southampton by way of Huddersfield, Leeds Sheffield, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Birmingham,Leamington Spa, Leighton Buzzard, London, Kingston, Aldershot, Portsmouth and Winchester.
His right forearm has a tattoo of Elvis punching the air in the 50’s, his left a tattoo of Freddie Mercury doing the same in the 80’s. Right here and now, at 8.15pm on 29 June 2016, at the Brückenforum in Bonn Beuel, Frank Turner has his own arm raised, hand balled into a fist. And it’s only the second song in the set…