We’re delighted to be taking part in “Inspirations: in aid of Barretstown” at the Olympia on Thursday 11th April. We’re joining a bill of great Irish talent including The Coronas, Lisa Hannigan, The Strypes, The Walls and Maud in Cahoots.
Hosting on the night will be superstar DJ Ian Dempsey so it promises to be a great night. Make sure you pick up your tickets here and support this great cause.
Inspirations in aid of Barretstown 2013 in the Olympia
We’re really enjoying Twitter’s new toy Vine!
Recording and tweeting backstage messing has never been easier!
While we were away on tour in Japan a Twitter friend Keith Stoker sent us this old poster!
A big thanks to Keith for tweeting us. If any of you have an old Frank’s poster or t-shirt we’d love to see it! Simply Tweet us at @Frankandws or email info@frankandwalters.net.
The classic debut album from The Frank and Walters, Trains, Boats And Planes, will be played in it’s entirety to mark the 20th anniversary of it’s release. The band will also include selected highlights from their illustrious 23 year career. Stuffed full of hits, After all, Fashion Crisis Hits New York, This is not a Song, Walters Trip and Happy Busman to name a few, they obviously thought they were Michael Jackson back in those heady days of 1992. The recently released and highly acclaimed Greenwich Mean Time is available now in all good record stores and direct from the bands own shop (link below) where you can also obtain purple flares, orange polo necks and ceramic pudding bowls to re-create that haircut!
Friday October 05th Molotow, Hamburg, Germany
Saturday 27th October, The Louisiana, Bristol
Friday 2nd November, HMV Institute, Birmingham
We’re delighted to show you the Frank and Walters’ brand new single “Loneliness and Sweet Romance” Video. “Loneliness and Sweet Romance” is the second single to be taken from the warmly received album “Greenwich Mean Time”. Enjoy!
So what’s the greatest thing about touring in an Indie band?
The great food? Meeting cool new people? Playing nice venues in different countries?
Nope. Reenacting statues is what it’s all about. Different city, different statues to reenact.
Franks Statue Reenactment: Bessie Braddock, Lime Street, Liverpool
Frank and Walters Statue Reenactment: Gogarty's Temple Bar
Frank and Walters Statue Reenactment: The London Lion
We’d like to think the Frank and Walters’ Statue Reenactments had a certain amount of class up until that last one. We have a few live dates coming up over the Summer so if you can think of a statue that’s begging to be reenacted then drop us a line on Twitter @FrankandWs or on Facebook.
It’s been a media frenzy in The Frank and Walters world this past weekend. On Friday we were guests on TV 3′s Ireland AM which you can view above. It was an acoustic session playing our new single “Loneliness and Sweet Romance” which is available for download on May 18th.
We left the TV3 Studios and headed straight for Galway where we had a great night playing in The Roisin Dubh. The crowd were fantastic as they always are in Galway and we partied on late into the night.
On Saturday morning we made it to the Limerick Strand Hotel where we chatted to Sile Seoige on Newstalk FM.
And then we raced across Limerick to Spin 102′s studio. And all before Breakfast!
Hey Folks,
We just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who’s come to see us on the “Greenwich Mean Time” tour so far. One of the highlights of our set has been playing our cover of Kraftwerk’s “The Model” so we thought we’d share it here, enjoy!
x The Franks
Well folks it’s nearly two weeks since we started our UK tour supporting our new album “Greenwich Mean Time”. We’ve been blown away by the support we’ve gotten from people in Leeds, Liverpool, Portsmouth and London.
While we were on tour we decided that the next single from Greenwich Mean Time will be “If I’d known” which has been getting a great reaction at gigs. It’s also been featured as song of the week Today FM’s Ian Dempsey Show so tune in and let us know what you think!
We spent Sunday visiting Greenwich Village, which we’re told was named after a Frank and Walters album. And what did we do there? We rolled Rory down a hill.
The tour has been hugely enjoyable so far and we’re only half way through! Hopefully there’ll be some more hills around these venues where we can roll Rory.
With only 3 days to go before the release of the new Frank and Walters album songwriter Paul Linehane tell’s us what his inspiration was behind the new songs.
“Grenwich Mean Time is essentially an album about time. Over the past few years I’ve become obsessed with time and trying to understand it. I don’t like the way that it has so much control over our lives, pulling us with it at it’s pace. I’ve been thinking that we probably spend too much time planning the future or thinking about the past. In that way we are wasting so much of our lives because I feel we need to live for now, otherwise we are not really living. If now is not a good place well then it is good to think of a brighter future or about the good times of the past. However I think that finding a balance leaning more to the present is what real living is all about.”
Frank And Walters new album "Greenwich Mean Time" released March 9th
If you want a sneaky preview of the songs click here!
You can catch The Franks promoting “Greenwich Mean Time” at the following live dates:
