Spending more than 25 years on the road touring is an impressive feat for any artist, but to be on your way to your 3,000th gig by your early forties is nearly incomprehensible. Punk-folk musician Frank Turner started raking up the miles in his spirited, teenage days when he began gigging aged 16 at local venues.
“What I like about the word undefeated is it doesn’t necessarily imply that you’re the world champion, it doesn’t mean you’re the best, it just means that has knocked you flat yet and I think that’s how I feel”, he explains. “I don’t want to spend too much time blowing smoke up myself, but surviving to the point of doing 10 albums, 26 years on tour in total now and all the rest – it didn’t just fall out of the sky. “There’s moments when it’s been tough to do this.