{"id":2179,"date":"2010-07-14T23:42:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:33:35","slug":"frank-turner-follows-that-fire-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/expedition-updates\/frank-turner-follows-that-fire-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Turner Follows That Fire Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Turner: &#8220;I&#8217;m a big fan of the road, so this trip has me jealous, but much\u00a0more importantly, this is an amazing project to raise money for some of\u00a0the best causes out there. Get involved!&#8221;<br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank Turner is a living legend &#8211; think front cover of NME Magazine and Kerrang.\u00a0 He headlined the Radio 1 stage at Reading Festival and has played in front of audiences of 50,000 plus in the\u00a0US this year.\u00a0 He really has done it all and has a massive following.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/450px-Frank-Turner-XFM-session.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[g2179]\"><\/a>Frank is thrilled at the prospect of what FTFE are doing, and impressed by the amount of time we are spending on the road &#8211; he loves the open road and touring!\u00a0 He lost a good friend of his to cancer a few years ago, and one his most popular songs (Long Live the Queen) was written for her&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RbNdwY4ujw\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RbNdwY4ujw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look him up on Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#!\/pages\/Frank-Turner\/6416249137?ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#!\/pages\/Frank-Turner\/6416249137?ref=ts<\/a> <br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia on Frank: Frank Turner (born 28 December, 1981) is an English <a title=\"Folk music\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_music\">folk<\/a>\/<a title=\"Punk music\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punk_music\">punk<\/a> singer-songwriter from <a title=\"Meonstoke\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meonstoke\">Meonstoke<\/a>, <a title=\"Winchester\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winchester\">Winchester<\/a>. Initially the vocalist of <a title=\"Post-hardcore\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-hardcore\">post-hardcore<\/a> band <a title=\"Million Dead\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Million_Dead\">Million Dead<\/a>, Turner embarked upon a primarily acoustic-based solo career following the band&#8217;s split in 2005. To date, Turner has released three solo albums, a rarities compilation album and two <a title=\"Extended play\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extended_play\">EPs<\/a>. His most recent album, <a title=\"Poetry of the Deed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poetry_of_the_Deed\">Poetry of the Deed<\/a>, was released on September 7, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Turner: &#8220;I&#8217;m a big fan of the road, so this trip has me jealous, but much\u00a0more importantly, this is an amazing project to raise money for some of\u00a0the best causes out there. Get involved!&#8221; Frank Turner is a living legend &#8211; think front cover of NME Magazine and Kerrang.\u00a0 He headlined the Radio 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expedition-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}