Rockist Git Frank Turner and the horror of the live version of "I Still Believe"

id never heard of him until today idk

i hadn't heard of him until last night.

great days.

rockist git is a thoroughly unamerican pejorative it's like calling him an infernal bounder or sthing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFEa7pRO1o

Infernal bounder would be taken as boosterism by any red blooded English person. Like, ah, gangsta for instance.

if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state
We enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape

so he sticks to the anarcho-syndicalist bits of the NHS, that's cool.

This is my new most-hated music. Looking forward to my gf's tween daughter's inevitable move from her current Ed Sheeran fixation to this git. I accept that youth has to make its own mistakes.

Most I can say is that enjoy the awkwardness of the hmhb cover not coming off or making any sense to the audience, except one bloke at the back. Haven't punished self by watching shellac one yet.

For a start, you can't bang on about "fuckin' rock'n'roll" and then pump out that kind of limp guitar pop

Yeah, I thought of that Mr. Show sketch about the rap musical with no rap.

btw what's the deal w/ M@tt using the phrase "rockist git" in the title of this thread

― We All Had Guess Papers (DJ Mencap), Friday, October 21, 2011 6:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i thought about asking if i was using it right! i mostly just wanted to convey that he was from the UK and get UK ppl to comment since i had never heard of this choad before and i figured he was a big deal over here...

basically i wanted stuff like that eton background and all that

upper mississippi sh@kedown tomorrow: "'Ere, what's this geezer up to? 'E's avin' a larf, innee?"

― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Friday, October 21, 2011 8:20 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oi mate....full stop.

you should just have called him a cunt in the thread title then we would have got it

had assumed this guy was american. guy in my work who listens to flogging molly and shit likes him. has a t-shirt with the black flag logo and frank turner written on it. eugh.

also this is the only "i still believe" worth listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3MO4E9gVA

You know I was WAITING for someone to reference that. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title.

OI MATES SOME PLAID SHIRT PONCE IS ALL OVER THE NEWSY WEWSIES, COVERING RISE ABOVE BY BLACK FLAAAAAG, I"M GONNA MAKE ME A 'ORRIBLE POST ABOUT IT TO ME ILXOR CHUMS, ALSO BLOOD SAUSAGE IS DELICIOUS.

^ Luke Haines lyrics

I for one, would not be surprised if Mr Haines formed a band called Blood Sausage Taliban.

up the irons!

damn jam in glasgow and Ned mindmelding sweaty sax guy...

Frank Turner would be a great name for a grillmaster.

Jesus what a fucking horrible voice that man has

as you were

This is me speechless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfvPk4_hBdc

Keyboards
The Hold Steady

ahahahaha

I now realise that the most stuck-up, pretentious dickheads I meet on my way through life are far more likely to achieve success than anyone else, because that's what audiences respond to. Why, I don't know, but there it is.

somewhere - somewhere that's definitely not Wembley - New Model Army are crying :-(

The keyboards part of that rant is funny because he pauses for half a beat, because he really doesn't believe in keyboards but he quick realized he has some sclump playing keys for him and he has to say it.

if the guy that comes out to play harmonica with the cutoff sleeves and trucker hat is english I don't even know what to say

I've not seen the clip but there's every chance that's Ben Patashnik editor of Rock Sound, who is, for the record, an extremely nice guy, as much as we have differing views on music.

Tutor on a music course I was in this morning told students "I'm really into Frank Turner at the moment". Chewed lump out of my lip.

Frank Turner would be a great name for a grillmaster.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 21 October 2011 18:55 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol missed this booming post

this Voice of the Youth thankfully seems consigned to the backwater of public radio over here, along with most of our own homegrown "roots" doofuses.

but i'm still a little worried.

yeah hopefully he'll be like sub-shooter jennings big

THIS MACHINE WAS SUPPOSED TO KILL FASCISTS BUT IT'S JUST MAKING THEM SNARKY

lol

man I was really really hoping this would be a Brenda K Starr cover

wow. really wish I could un-see that video.

http://www.huckmagazine.com/features/frank-turner-interview-short-stories/

This is pretty old but... wau.

How comfortable are you having your name next to Relentless Energy?
It’s fine. To be honest with you, I’m more comfortable with having that than having something that was state funded. As of my personally ideology, I’m much more comfortable with private companies than I am with something that basically backs up its funding with the threat of imprisonment. So I’d rather do this than something at the BBC.

In the film you say that you’re punk rock and you’ve come from DIY background. Do you think some people might question their enthusiasm for you when they see your face next to the Relentless brand?
They might do. I can measure out in one hand exactly how much I give a shit. It’s their problem, not mine really. Delving into political philosophy here, but I get very frustrated with people who publically have issues with private companies and then have no problem at all with the state funding stuff. The bottom line is the British Film Council [sic] gets its money out of threat of violence towards citizens, which is why it’s infinitely worse than money that comes from some fizzy drink. At the end of the day, I don’t actually give a shit, but if you made me choose between those two methods I think that state funding is much more of a greater evil on society.

boil this motherfucker alive

I know I certainly consider Sex Lives Of the Potato Men to be a cultural threat of violence, but not as much as Frank Turner's terrible music or thoughts.

What a surprise, rich "anarchist" actually libertarian douchebag shocker

what does he mean about the violence?

He means wah wah I don't like paying taxes

Except for defence!

I don't know why e.g. Billy Bragg is so tight w/ this fellow

What the actual fuck?! What a dick

I can measure out in one hand exactly how much I give a shit

why is he holding units of shit in his hand

u know what isn't violent neoliberalism that's what.

well it's not violent on his family's country estate, that's for sure.

Only £37.99 for this

https://www.kingsroadmerch.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/265x/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/f/r/frank-turner-jchc-hoodie.jpg

I assumed it was going to be this
http://www.backstreet-merch.com/images/products/bands/clothing/frnkt/bsi_frnkt17.gif

More "anarchist" fun.

http://moonandbackmusic.com/archives/1323

FT: Something that I find increasingly as i get older is that, ironically enough, there’s a real mainstream political opinion within the music world, which is broadly left wing and if you’re not left wing you really better not mention it, because people will get real fucking shirty with you. To start with, most people don’t seem to understand what the difference between left and right is. For example, the BNP are a hard left party. I consider myself a libertarian, I consider myself to be pretty right wing and I get shit for saying that out loud. I was thinking about it the other day, I was thinking about how, quite often, I do keep myself to myself on the subject because I can’t be fucking bothered to have some guy look all shocked at me because I think socialism’s retarded. Then I actually thought hold on a minute here, one of the many things that everybody preaches, which I sincerely agree with, is fucking stand up for what you believe in. I strongly believe that Che Guevara was a racist, homophobic, murdering thug and I strongly believe that people who wear U.S.S.R. t-shirts are as offensive as people who wear Nazi t-shirts to me because, in fact, they killed considerably more people and I’m fucking passionate about that kind of thing. So I was like I should actually write a song about this, because I do firmly believe it. I do firmly believe that leftist politics lead to the misery of many, the crushing of the little guy and all that kind of thing. I mean, it’s important for me to say that in public because I believe it strongly and that sometimes in life you’ve got to fucking put your foot down.…

IC: Who’re you gonna vote for?

FT: Well, I don’t know. I don’t want to vote for the Coservatives because I think David Cameron’s a shit and the reason he’s a shit is as statused as New Labor. I think New Labor are one of the fucking worst things to happen to this country ever, pretty much. I think, arguably, particularly with the signing of the Lisbon treaty it’s actually the end of about 800 years of continuous parliamentary history. I think the people responsible for the signing of that fucking treaty without asking the people of Britain need to burn in fucking hell.