Frank Turner's renewed fight to save the 'magic of live music'
"Drinking a beer and watching some live music is a magic, magic thing and I miss it terribly," says Frank Turner
Music venues across the UK have remained largely silent for the past nine months as the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to keep their doors closed. As the unwanted anniversary of a year without live music approaches for some, musician Frank Turner is once again picking up his guitar to help.
"If you had told me back in March last year that this issue was going to go on for this long I would have been very depressed," says Turner.
When amplifiers and microphones fell silent in 2020, the folk-punk singer livestreamed 14 free gigs from his home in aid of small independent venues he has performed at in the past - raising nearly £200,000 in donations.
Now, as the third lockdown bites, Turner is restarting his weekly shows in support of the Music Venue Trust's #Savethe30 campaign to help UK venues identified "at imminent danger of permanent closure".
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Turner performed to a socially distanced audience at the Clapham Grand in July 2020