Frank Turner
Just over a week left to enter The Road To Blissfields
Time is running out for local acts who want to enter this years Road To Blissfields competition. You have until the end of January if you want to enter to win a slot at one of the countries best small festivals. The annual competition will this year be visiting three new areas (Reading, Basingstoke and Brighton) [...]
review: Frank Turner- The Second Three Years
This is the second collection of offcuts Frank Turner has released; preserving 22 tracks which might have otherwise slipped out of view in my hard drive b-sides slushpile. I chatted to Frank before 2008′s ‘The First Three Years‘ was released and he was eager to point out that these musical anthologies are a way of [...]
mINtSOUTH Writers’ Highlights of 2011 & Tips for 2012
2011 was a great year for new music – personally, there was so much good stuff I literally couldn’t keep up. We asked a few of our writers to put together a few words on their new music highlights of 2011. We also asked them for their top tips for 2012. Joel Ransom (Express FM) [...]
Blissfields announce 2012 theme and Christmas Ticket details
Following their biggest, most successful and creative year yet in summer 2011, Blissfields Festival returns in 2012 to Winchester, Hampshire on the weekend of 29th June to 1st July, while organisers are now pleased to announce that tickets are on sale via www.blissfields.co.uk priced at £70.00 for an adult and £47.00 for a youth weekend / camping ticket. [...]
Review: Against Me! and Crazy Arm at The Talking Heads
Closing Southampton’s premier punk themed festival WTFEST, the audience turned up in great anticipation for Against Me! Florida’s finest punk rock outfit. We find the band in the middle of an extensive European headlining tour and main support for Frank Turner on his latest UK Tour. The band are no strangers to supporting big acts [...]
Frank Turner + Emily Barker Release Tour Duet As Free Download
Ahead of kicking off their UK Tour tomorrow night at Bournemouth’s O2 Academy, Frank Turner and Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo have this morning made a newly recorded duet available for free download. Called ‘Fields Of June‘, and taken from Emily Barkers’ 2008 ‘Photos. Fires. Fables.’ album, they will be performing the duet [...]
Review: Ed Sheeran at Bournemouth O2 Academy
If you’re looking for the breakout performer of 2011 the name on top of the list is without a doubt Ed Sheeran. Number 2 single, sporting a massively selling album and having your song covered by an X-Factor contestant Sheeran is having a hell of a year. But having seen him perform at the Joiners [...]
Frank Turner announces Wembley date
Rounding off an exceptional year that has included headlining festivals (including Blissfields) Main Stage sets at Reading and Leeds and a chart bothering album, Frank Turner will release his new single ‘Wessex Boy’ on 28th November through Xtra Mile Recordings. Frank Turner has also confirmed his biggest headline show to date at London’s Wembley Arena [...]
Review: Blissfields from the eyes of a performer
After a few days of dull and demoralising normality I can truly say that the last remnants of ‘Bliss’ have finally left my body. The fact that they remained so long can only play testament to the success of Blissfields 2011. The festival remains pretty small, but it certainly is living proof that big things [...]
Review: Blissfields Festival – 2011
Blissfields Festival move to a new home has been hailed as a massive success after the annual bash went Out of this World this weekend. After 10 years based at the family home in the village of Bradley, this year the Blisses moved a few miles around the corner to the village of Woodmancott – [...]
Review: Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
It’s fair to say no-one could ever accuse Frank Turner of being lazy. A year spent almost exclusively on tour and he’s still found time to put together his fourth, and probably strongest, album. It’s no real surprise either that the main theme of the album is a reflection on being away from home. Not [...]
Festival 2011 Round Up
With the festival season virtually upon on, we have taken a glance at what is happening on the South Coast and the surrounding areas. We’ll be covering most of these (some more extensively than others!). If we have missed any out, just send a message to festy@mintsouth.com What? Ejector Seat Arts Festival When? Saturday June 4th [...]
Frank Turner streams his new album
Frank Turner is streaming his fourth studio album via NME.COM ahead of its official release. The album isn’t out until next Monday (June 6), but you can hear it in full now by scrolling down and clicking below. Frank is playing to a sold out audience at The Railway Inn, in his home town of [...]
The Cabin Fever, Oresteia and more confirmed for Blissfields
Along with Road To Blissfields winners LST and The ManDem, Flight Brigade and Bear Cavalry, Blissfields organisers have today announced details of more acts for this summers bash. Southampton’s next big thing The Cabin Fever, who recently made their hometown debut, have been confirmed to play the main stage. Whilst Oresteia, who impressed at The [...]
Chris T-T and Dive Dive announce UK tour
Xtra Mile Recordings label mates and friends with benefits, Chris T-T and Dive Dive are heading out on the road in March in an exciting co-headline tour. They’ll be calling in at The Railway in Winchester on March 16th. In some rare downtime afforded to three quarters of the group who are normally found accompanying [...]
Review: Frank Turner at Southampton Guildhall
If there is a venue on the south coast that is colder than Southampton Guildhall I’m yet to find it. Coats, hats, scarf’s and layers are the choices for the majority tonight, and after a mid afternoon tweet from tonight’s headline act apologising for the state of his voice and cursing the mid tour illness [...]
Review: Frank Turner – Rock & Roll EP
I’ve never been one to shy away from my love of Winchester’s Frank Turner. From his days fronting the ear splitting Million Dead through the ‘Folk Troubadour’ times when armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar, a train ticket and bucket loads of charm he would play to any who would spare an ear to [...]
Frank Turner releases video for I Still Believe
Winchester’s Folk/Punk hero Frank Turner has just released a video for his new Single ‘I Still Believe’. Watch it here.
Imelda May and Frank Turner to play Southampton Guildhall later this year
Imelda May and Frank Turner have both been announced to play Southampton Guildhall in October and December respectively. [mappress mapid="2"] Having already announced his biggest headline show to date at Brixton Academy, confirmed support for Green Day at Wembley Stadium this month and another Roundhouse performance for the iTunes Festival in July, folk-rock hero Frank [...]