Bowling for Soup Talk With Rock Sound

Bowling for Soup and Frank Turner talked with Rock Sound:

Jaret: I think longevity and relatability are big factors for both of us, as well. It was really easy for people to hate on us early on because we were funny and silly, and, from an outsider’s perspective, weren’t taking ourselves seriously enough. But then, when they go, ‘Oh my God, they’ve been doing this 32 years, and you listen to the songs, okay, there’s actually substance to that. Also, if you think you can write a funny song that can stand the test of time and still be listenable in 25 years, fucking try. Because I’m telling you, it’s not as easy as you think. But also, both of us lyrically have something relatable to just an audience member. You don’t have to be a punk, you don’t have to be cool, you don’t have to be uncool. You have to be you.

New Frank Turner Interview

Jason Tate 5 months ago

Frank Turner recently say down with PunkNews:

At the actual start of my solo career I really didn’t fit anywhere: I didn’t really want to be the token acoustic guy in the British punk scene. At the time all of my friends were part of the kind of Libertines thing, bands like the Holloways and the Pidgeon Detectors. And then there was the folk thing with Munford & Sons and Laura Marlin. I was on the edge of three different scenes: I did shows with Munford & Sons, with Gallows, with Baby Shambles but I didn’t quite fit in any of these worlds. There were days when that was pretty frustrating to me because, if you fit in a certain scene and that scene blows up, life is easy. For a time anyway. I remember Jamie T, who was a good friend of mine, we played open mic shows together and then he just exploded while I stayed small.