FRANK TURNER

Folk-punk singer-songwriter on his 10th studio effort

What film could your new set soundtrack?

Rocky.

If you could revisit any of your albums, what’d you change? Balthazar Impresario is not on England Keep My Bones. That makes no sense. Sorry!

Have you done anything that fans may not know about?

Guitar on two songs on Alanis Morrissette’s The Storm

Before The Calm.

Who’d you like to produce?

I just did Grace Petrie’s Build Something Better, and I’m mixing a second album for The Meffs.

What was your first record?

Iron Maiden The Number Of

The Beast.

What record made you want to go pro?

Iron Maiden Killers.

Is anyone in your family a musician?

My mum plays flute and piano, and she taught recorder.

What’d you ask your music hero? Nick Cave, a million questions about the creative process.

Have you ever collected anyone?

I have four days’ worth of bootlegs of Regina Spektor, and tons of Black Flag off-cuts.

What’s your most prized music item?

Loudon Wainwright III’S 1942 D’angelico guitar.

Who’d you like to cover one of your songs?

Taylor Swift.

Which album, on first listen, is the most startling that you ever heard? Lingua Ignota Caligula blew my mind. Do you plan a book?

Yes, a music history.

What’s your favourite songwriter’s best lyric?

John K Samson: “As I stand before an unresponsive automatic door, it’s just another door that won’t open for me anymore.”

Did you ever have a life-changing Sliding Doors moment?

When Million Dead broke up,

I could’ve quit but grabbed an acoustic guitar.

What unfulfilled ambitions do you have?

To tour South America.

Dying peacefully on your deathbed, what’d you like to hear?

Radiohead, Exit Music For A Film.

Frank Turner Undefeated purple LP is on Xtra Mile, 3 May.