This is Softcore: Turner, Matranga and friends hit the road.

Ex-shouty man turned folk-dude Frank Turner is to team up with the thoroughly-polite Jonah Matranga – ex of influential emo-core types Far and previously to be found under the name onelinedrawing – for a seventeen-date tour this September.

Rather clumsily entitled UK Softcore 2k7 the tour, also featuring Jacob Golden and Joshua English, calls at:

September
10 Brighton Audio
11 Leicester Charlotte
12 Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
13 Glasgow Cathouse
14 Middlesbrough Cornerhouse
15 Wolverhampton Civic Bar
16 Inverness Ironworks
17 Aberdeen Tunnels
18 Newcastle Trillian's
19 Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
20 London Spitz
21 Leeds Cockpit
22 Nottingham Social
23 Liverpool Barfly
24 Wrexham Central Station<
25 Bristol Croft
26 Peterborough Park

As if that’s not excellent enough, a CD of the acts doing hardcore punk covers in an acoustic will also be available exclusively on the dates above.

In Other News, Jonah Matranga looks set to release a solo album on Xtra Mile before the year is out, the first to be released under his own name. Mr Turner, meanwhile, has recently busied himself demoing material for his second album, and is currently rumoured to be celebrating his one trillionth year on the road.