Frank Turner

Did anyone else go to see the above last night? 

If so was it just me who didn't think he was totally fantastic?

To me he's like an English Springsteen backed by a pre castration Mumfords.  His songs are decent, their sentiments all worthy or at least poignant and he can certainly get a crowd going as he proved last night.  Why therefore did it feel a bit sort of uninteresting?  

I have to admit one reason could be that I've never liked that 'I want you all to clap along to this', or 'Come on I want to see those hands in the air' or "I'll leave all you guys to sing the words to this'.  Turner did a hell of a lot of that sort of thing and unbelievably 95% of the audience did as they were told. I know that is called getting the audience involved but I don't want to be told what to do I want a performer to impress me by HIS performance.

Not that Turner isn't impressive.  He has a natural stage presence and affinity to the audience talking to them as if they are old friends and inviting some on stage.

Frank Turner, judging by the reaction inside the City Hall, will probably go down as one of the best gigs in Hull this year but for me it was all a bit predictable.  However, apart from that I can't really explain why it didn't do it for me.  If anyone else was there an really enjoyed it let me know why.