Frank Turner @ Live4ever Media Lounge, SXSW 2018 (Photo: Paul Bachmann/Live4ever Media)
If the great uninitiated ever feel the need for a crash course in what South By Southwest is all about, they could do a lot worse than sit down with Frank Turner.
Here they’ll find a British artist with a story for every SXSW occasion; whether it be struggling to get into the country in the first place, sleeping on a fellow musician’s floor, or persevering through to sold-out showcase gigs, an Englishman trying to unite using a campaign slogan that has divided a nation, Turner has been there and done it.
“We bought our own plane tickets, and we didn’t have the right documentation,” Turner remembered of his first Austin visit when talking with Live4ever at the 2018 Media Lounge.
“I seem to remember we flew in somewhere else because if you fly into Austin they check your visas. And then we were sleeping on this punk kid’s floor and we managed to sort out one show, and we played to about 15 English people who were all the people we already knew who were in Austin.”
Check out the full interview below or on our Youtube Channel, where Turner goes on to talk us through the inspirations and influences behind his latest solo album Be More Kind, as well as the countless other projects which he always has on the go.
This interview was made possible with the kind support of Loco Distro and Pirate Studios
