FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS NO MANS LAND

About

Frank Turner returns to DLWP with No Mans Land, his most original project to date.

Frank will be playing this show in two parts, half intimate solo performances and half smash hits and fan favourites with the band.

The woman who invented rock'n'roll. A serial killer from the Deep South who plucked her victims from lonely hearts pages. The jazz-obsessed heiress who fought for the Free French. A rowdy coach house landlady from 17th century Camden Town accused of witchcraft. The Wild West vaudeville star shot by a small town outlaw. These are just a few of the fascinating characters to feature on No Man's Land, Frank Turner's most original project to date.

"It's bringing together my two main interests in life, which have always been separate from each other – history and songwriting," explains Turner, who can be found seeking out long-forgotten historical sites on self-guided psychogeographical strolls when he's not packing out arenas or headlining festivals.

With 2018 Producer of the Year Catherine Marks at the helm, No Man's Land is dedicated to the women whose incredible lives have all too often been overlooked by dint of their gender. "These stories should have been told already," says Turner of the album and its accompanying podcast series. "And I suspect if they were men they would be better known." Certainly there are a couple of names here that will already be familiar, such as the unparalleled Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Sister Rosetta) and the mysterious Mati Hari (Eye of the Day), but by and large the women who feature have long been ignored by the mainstream.

With support from Emily Barker

Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC's hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road (with whom she released a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed "flawless" by The Sunday Times) and has written for film, including composing the soundtrack for Jake Gavin's lauded debut feature Hector starring Peter Mullan and Keith Allen.

As a performer, Barker is captivating and accomplished, with an adept understanding of audiences that finds her equally at home touring with punk troubadour Frank Turner as she is with American multi-Grammy-winning musician Mary Chapin Carpenter.