Frank Turner at the Roundhouse

So, I went to see Frank Turner last night, at the Roundhouse. I've been listening to him since his first album was out, which last.fm tells me was in 2007 - so three years. But it wasn't until December last year when I'd been listening to Poetry of the Deed (his third album), non-stop, that I saw he was touring and decided to get tickets, luckily the tour was during my Easter holidays.

I'm going to point out now that this is by no means going to be a good gig review or anything, I don't have a set list (although I may now scour the web for one) and I can't remember all of the details. But I enjoyed myself very much and I think that last night was quite possibly one of the best live performances I've ever seen.

Supports
One of the supports was the brilliant American folk/country (and ex-punk) Chuck Ragan, who I was well aware of before and so was even happier to find he was supporting. Frank has played with him in the US (and The Gaslight Anthem!) so they're friends. The first support was a band called Crazy Arm who I thought were pretty good too. I'm definitely going to listen to them again.

Crazy Arm

The chap in the middle left is Chuck Ragan, coming on stage to do a song
with Crazy Arm at the end of their set. I love how all the bands were

friends with one another. Frank comes on with Chuck later on!

Chuck Ragan

And here's Frank!

Frank Turner

And so on and so forth, there's a lot of samey photographs. I took a lot.

But I'm well aware none of them are particularly good, I just wanted to record

the moment a little.

This is the "real Dan" from Dan's Song.

The heads (at the front) have gone!

Yes, you are amazing Frank.
He played well over 20 songs, non-stop, barely stopping for abreak,
and then came back with Chuck and co.

And sporting a I am the real Frank Turner t-shirt.

Frank loved the gig so much that he even came back for a second encore!

oh, ahem, shirtless.

It was his largest ever headline tour, so far. Plus, last night, in London, was the last night of the tour – so that's always special. And he made sure we knew it. I'm sure we got more songs than any of the previous dates on the tour would have, including many of my favourites.

Frank was just overall brilliant. Best birthday gig (three days early) I could have asked for.