I caught up to Frank Turner on an eventful week in his life — for better and very possibly worse.
On the upside: The folk-punk singer-songwriter and veteran road dog was enjoying himself while touring the U.S. and Canada for his 10th studio album Undefeated — and putting the finishing touches on plans for his ambitious multi-night festival Lost Evenings, which was being held in Toronto for the very first time. On the downside: His wife Jessica Guise was about to announce that she plans to end their 10-year partnership over what she cryptically referred to as his “actions” on the road. So I guess maybe he was enjoying a few too many lost evenings.
Thankfully, because that unfortunate news didn’t break until a couple of days after I caught up to him over Zoom before a show in Ohio, we didn’t discuss it. But we did talk about Undefeated, politics, touring, what qualifies as a show in his books and plenty more. Here’s what he had to say.
