Frank Turner announces huge UK arena tour

Frank Turner today announces details for the Be More Kind 2019 UK Tour – a string of arena dates running through early 2019, which will also take in Alexandra Palace on February 3, 2019. The details arrive ahead of Turner’s new album Be More Kind, due out May 4 through Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor and featuring the 6Music playlisted new single ‘Blackout’.

There will be a fan pre-sale for the 2019 dates via the official Frank Turner Store – head here for details:  https://store.frank-turner.com/ – with tickets on general sale on Friday April 27 at 10am from here: https://FrankTurner.lnk.to/BMK2019PR. To celebrate the tour announcement, Frank is today also launching a special tour edition of Be More Kind, featuring alternative cover art and a fold-out tour poster.

Be More Kind represents a thematic and sonic line in the sand for the 36-year-old. “I wanted to try and get out of my comfort zone and do something different,” says Turner. After the stripped-down, live-sounding previous album Positive Songs…, Turner wanted to try a new approach for the record. With this in mind he recruited producers Austin Jenkins and Joshua Block, formerly of psychedelic-rock Texans White Denim, and Florence And The Machine and Halsey collaborator Charlie Hugall and the idea of recording a more rock-led album with tints of electronic-pop took shape. Be More Kind was made over a period of seven months, giving Turner the opportunity to turn songs on their head, try different versions and shake up the dynamics within his band.

Be More Kind 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,” he 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.”

Turner is currently amidst the first leg of the Be More Kind World Tour, which sees him playing 120 dates to over 200,000 people across the UK, the USA, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

BE MORE KIND 2019 – WORLD TOUR
JANUARY
22nd Birmingham Arena
25th Manchester Victoria Warehouse
27th Leeds          First Direct Arena
29th Glasgow      02 Academy
FEBRUARY
1st  Bournemouth Windsor Hall
2nd Cardiff           Motorpoint Arena
3rd London           Alexandra Palace

REMAINING UK & IRELAND 2018 DATES

APRIL
24^th      Sheffield       O2 Academy SOLD OUT
25^th      Liverpool       O2 Academy SOLD OUT
27^th      Bristol            O2 Academy SOLD OUT
28^th      Exeter Uni      Great Hall SOLD OUT
30^th      Cambridge     Corn Exchange
MAY
1^st        Southampton     Guildhall 01/05/2018 SOLD OUT
2^nd       Southend Cliffs  Pavilion 02/05/2018
4^th        Leicester             O2 Academy 04/05/2018 SOLD OUT
5^th        Oxford                 O2 Academy 05/05/2018 SOLD OUT
8^th        Hull                     City Hall
9^th        Norwich              UEA