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Frank Turner @ Rosies

April 25th, 2011

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Date: April 16, 2011
Venue: Rosies, Brisbane
Acts: Frank Turner

Frank Turner is screaming against the void. With a few strummed chords, his powerful, no-bullshit voice and lyrics that cut to the quick, he helps us rail against stupidity, against mortality, against the ridiculous transience of our all-too-brief existence.

Yet it’s not despair. It’s life-affirming. And that’s why, tonight, several hundred voices are working as one in joyous singalong.

And I’m definitely going to hell
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Revival Tour @ The Zoo

May 9th, 2010

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Venue: The Zoo, Brisbane
Date: April 22, 2010
Event: The Revival Tour
Acts: Chuck Ragan, Frank Turner, Tim Barry, Ben Nichols

Anyone even dimly aware of the acoustic collaborative event known as The Revival Tour would have heard the word “organic” thrown around in the street press with a fair degree of abandon.

For the cynical, it’s an invitation to dismiss the concept as pretension piled upon a cliché: how do you top the seemingly inevitable punk rocker desire to — sooner or later — wail away with only an acoustic guitar for backing?

Answer: you grab your best punk rock buddies and play swapsies all night long.

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