Frank Turner Plans Wembley Show DVD

Frank Turner has revealed there will be a special DVD of his upcoming Wembley Arena show.

The ex-Million Dead man is set to play the venue on April 13th. Posting on his website, Turner writes:

‘Yes, we are shooting a DVD at the show, and the lovely Greg Nolan is on board right now making a documentary about the run up, all of which will go towards a package including the show, the film, loads and loads of extras and so on, which will be out as soon as humanly possible after the show.’

Turner also revealed that, with more tickets going on sale, plans for a second stage at the event have been cancelled.

‘We’ve had to abandon plans for a second stage,’ he explains. ‘I’ve learned an awful lot about arena shows since we booked this gig, and some of it is pretty eye-opening. The health and safety regulations about where we could put a second stage were very restrictive, so in the end we opted for putting it by the main stage. However, we then learned that Wembley opens its doors at 6pm. If you want to open earlier than that, it costs something like £30k an hour. With the ticket prices being as low as they can, I can’t afford to do that; that meant that we were faced with a choice – either stage times were going to be disaster tight and I’d only be able to play for just over an hour myself, or we had to lose the second stage. I’m pretty annoyed about it all, and I hope people don’t feel too let down on this score, but hopefully this explanation goes some way to showing my reasoning with it all.

The fact that we’re not doing the second stage did mean we could release some more standing tickets, as mentioned. I know some people are wary of getting seated tickets for the show. Having spent a day wandering the venue and checking it all out, I just wanted to say that the seated tickets will be getting an equally awesome show (and arguably better sight-lines and so on); and I can’t imagine everyone in them is going to stay sat down for long!

Back to the good news! I have the great pleasure of announcing that my good friend Jay, a.k.a. Beans On Toast, will be opening the show. If you don’t know his music already, check it out. That now is the full line-up for the show – Jay, Dan and Scroob,Billy, and me.’