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Frank Turner : l’interview en V.O du phénomène rock anglais

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Partagez l'article ! Frank Turner‘s photography by Greg Nolan/ Interview PUTSCH.MEDIA – Audrey Johnson: Your last album is entitled Poetry of the Deed. Could you explain to our French Readers what it means? Frank Turner : Yes I would like try to reply in French but my French is not as good as it used […]

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Frank Turner‘s photography by Greg Nolan/ Interview PUTSCH.MEDIAAudrey Johnson: Your last album is entitled Poetry of the Deed. Could you explain to our French Readers what it means?
Frank Turner : Yes I would like try to reply in French but my French is not as good as it used to be. It’s actually a reference from a Russian philosopher called Mikhail Bakunin who wrote about propaganda of the deed and his whole idea was instead of writing pamphlets on how you think the world should be organised, you should go out and be that way. And that in doing things rather than sitting around theorising about them, that’s the best propaganda. I’m not really interested in propaganda at the moment but was always taken by the idea of action over words, so Poetry of the Deed is an idea that instead of sitting around and reading poetry or writing poetry and wishing one’s life was more poetic; one should go out there and live as adventurous and as poetic a life as possible.

A.J: There is an evolution in your first solo albums from personal to more universal, from sometimes melancholic to something a bit more uplifting and energetic – Is that a conscious decision?

F.T: It’s not a conscious decision, I mean the only conscious part of it is that musically, when I started out the first solo album was basically just me and then hiring people in to play extras when I wanted them, whereas now I have a full live touring band. I think that musically the things are a bit more expansive, although I still write everything. There are now five players on the record rather than one.
But what I write it’s important to me that I don’t analyse the process too hard because I …

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