FRANK TURNER RELEASES NEW TRACK AND LATEST PODCAST EPISODE STREAM ‘THE DEATH OF DORA HAND’: 

FRANK TURNER RELEASES NEW TRACK AND LATEST PODCAST EPISODE

STREAM ‘THE DEATH OF DORA HAND’: 

LISTEN TO THE NEW EPISODE OF ‘TALES FROM NO MAN’S LAND’:

https://frankturner.lnk.to/NMLPodcastPR

NEW ALBUM ‘NO MAN’S LAND’- OUT AUGUST 16^TH 2019

Preorder album here: https://FrankTurner.lnk.to/NoMansLandPR

FRANK TURNER is today airing the latest new track lifted from his forthcoming eighth album, ‘NO MAN’S LAND’ (out August 16^th on Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records), produced by Catherine Marks and featuring an all-female cast of musicians. ‘No Man’s Land’ – dedicated to the fascinating stories of women whose incredible lives have all too often been overlooked by dint of their gender – is accompanied by a new 13 part podcast series, ‘Tales From No Man’s Land’, created in collaboration between Frank and production company Somethin’ Else. Digging deeper into the lives of the thirteen women featured on the new album in conversation with special guests, ‘Tales From No Man’s Land’ hit #2 on the Apple UK podcast chart upon launch. Today’s latest episode focuses on 1800s Dodge City vaudeville star and philanthropist Dora Hand, the titular subject of this latest track, ‘The Death Of Dora Hand’.

The women featured on ‘No Man’s Land’ come from across wide geographical and historical lines. They include Byzantine princess Kassiani (The Hymn of Kassiani), Egyptian feminist activist Huda Sha’arawi (The Lioness), and Resusci Anne (Rescue Annie) an apocryphal drowned virgin whose face was used as the model for the medical CPR mannequin across the world. There’s the serial killer from the Deep South who plucked her victims from lonely hearts pages (Nannie Doss), the jazz-obsessed heiress who fought for the Free French (Nica Rothschild) and a rowdy coach house landlady from 17th century Camden Town accused of witchcraft (Jinny Bingham).

“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.

The ‘Tales From No Man’s Land’ podcast is available from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and all other podcast platforms.

NO MAN’S LAND features thirteen tracks:

1. Jinny Bingham’s Ghost
2. Sister Rosetta
3. I Believed You, William Blake
4. Nica
5. A Perfect Wife
6. Silent Key
7. Eye of the Day
8. The Death of Dora Hand
9. The Graveyard of the Outcast Dead
10. The Lioness
11. The Hymn of Kassiani
12. Rescue Annie
13. Rosemary Jane

FRANK TURNER will be performing in the UK throughout the summer:

JULY

11^th  2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham

12^th  Wasteland Festival, Newcastle

14^th   Folk By The Oak Festival, Hatfield

AUGUST

3rd  Wickham Festival, Fareham

4th  Tunes in the Castle, Exeter

9th  Cropredy Festival, Cropredy

22nd  Cottingham Folk Festival (Solo Show)

25th  Greenbelt Festival, Kettering