Frank Turner at Aye Write
18th Mar 2019 • 6:30PM – 8:00PM • Mitchell Library
Folk-punk icon Frank Turner discusses his new book
Songwriter Frank Turner discusses his new book Try this at Home.
In Try This at Home, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his song-writing process by taking apart 36 songs from his back catalogue.
Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the hedonistic years of the mid-2000s, the ones perfected in Nashville studios, and everything in between. Some of these songs arrive fully-formed, as if they’ve always been there, some take graft and endless reworking. In exploring them all, Turner reflects with eloquence, insight and self-deprecating wit on exactly what it is to be a song-writer.
Frank brings the book to life with a few songs on his guitar, and is in conversation with Ian Winwood, author of Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the ’90s Punk Explosion.
Tickets: Ticket Price £25 (including a copy of the book), subsequent tickets can be purchased for £10 (no book).
0141 353 8000
The Mitchell Library, North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN
This section: Aye Write Book Festival 2019, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events
Prevous page or post | Next page or post
Written by : Pat Byrne
Related Pages
- Storytelling For Adults, Alexandria
- Heritage Festival West Dunbartonshire- Speakeasy
- Connected Community Talk: Stolen Stories
- Old Kilpatrick Graveyard, Walk and Talk
- Book Launch: The History of Working-Class Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in Scotland, 1855-1939
- Responding to Alasdair Gray’s ‘Lanark’ University of Glasgow
- Glasgow: Michael Pedersen in conversation with Fern Brady, Waterstones
- It’s A Fine Thing To Sing – Songs and Singers of Inishowen Peninsula Documentary
- Hope – Fundraiser for Scottish Writers Centre
- Pam Hogg: Style, Defiance and the Art of Being Seen
- Mackintosh House, The Hunterian – Guided Tours
- An Evening With Jim Carruth, Waterstones Sauchiehall Street
- The Arlington Baths Club – Talk: The Alhambra and Owen Jones
- tell it slant at Locavore
- Solving Scotland’s Housing Crisis #Urban Bites University of Glasgow
- Telling Stories at The Mitchell Library
- Caroline Lucas in conversation at Cottiers
- Autumn Voices Online Reading Anna Levin plus workshops
- GRAY DAY 2026 AT ÒRAN MÓR
- Rachelle Atalla, Creative Writing Hillhead Library
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.