Frank Turner - The Booking Hall, Dover 19.01.2018 Live Review
Frank Turner has been to Dover many times before, he's even "got pi**ed in the pub next to the (Dover Priory) train station", but he's never played for an audience here. For gig 2,128, Frank took up the invite to come down and, for only his second gig of the year, well and truly raised the roof on one of the smaller venues he's likely to play. In the former Harbour Station Booking Hall, that's also doubled as a WWII morgue, Frank played his heart out to a very appreciative, capacity crowd of 280.

Frank's locally based touring buddy, Will Varley, made the journey to "the easiest gig I've ever had to get to" to play a brilliant supporting act ahead of FT. Both men were solo throughout each of their sets, aside from a minor duet to close out Frank's last track of the night.
Varley, who's new album 'Spirit Of Minnie' is due out in February, passed on the chance to showcase much of his new work and went for a much-loved, crowd-pleasing, all-request style performance of his greatest hits. Apart from 'Statues', a relatively new release, Will casually took us through some of his impressive back catalogue. Having got the evening off to a great start with 'As For My Soul' he didn't look back through 'Seize The Night', 'Advert Soundtracks', a sing-a-long with 'We Don't Believe You' and the ever essential, 'King For A King'. Varley gave us "A history of the world" with 'Weddings And Wars' and dug deep into his memory bank for the not often played classic, 'Blood And Bone' (complete with pause to crowd surf himself a Jameson's from the very noisy bar). Will capped it all off with his tongue-in-cheek humour, giving us a lyrically adjusted (to take into account of the current Tory government) 'I Got An E-Mail'.
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