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Indie Band from Cork, Ireland. celebrating 30 Years of making music 🎶

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1 year
30 years ago today The Franks appeared on Top of the Pops. How would a few anniversary gigs sound? #AfterAllturns30
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6 years
‘After All’ has had over 29,000 Spotify streams since Thursday! Looking forward to that 25c in royalties
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31 years ago now :) #TOTP 🕺
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1 year
30 years ago today The Franks appeared on Top of the Pops. How would a few anniversary gigs sound? #AfterAllturns30
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Big thanks to Cillian Murphy for featuring us on @BBCRadio4 ’s Desert Island Discs 🙌 You can listen back here 👉
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6 years
Lovely seeing "After All" climbing back into the top 3 this morning :)
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10 months
So saddened to hear of Sinéad’s passing. We watched her from the side of the stage at Féile Classical 2019 and were incredibly moved by her talent. #RIPSinead
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6 years
Still laughing at someone updating our Wikipedia page to include Billy Murphy #youngoffenders
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6 years
Well played, @thetimes .
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6 years
Throwback to touring with @inspiral_carpets and some roadie named Noel #tbt
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6 years
Throwback to meeting @paulmccartney on #totp #tbt
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Honoured to be chosen as 2023 Cork Persons of the Year 2023. Thanks everyone ❤️
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Drum roll please! 🥁The 2023 Cork Person(s) of the Year are… The Frank and Walters! Congratulations to the winners!🥂 #CPOTYAwards #Cork @frankandws
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7 years
Thanks for the kind words on winning the German Presidential election. We'll do our best.
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3 years
30 years ago today we released our first EP ‘Walters Trip’ 🎉
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3 months
Such a great day being Grand Marshals of the Patrick’s Day Parade in Cork today!
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Go on the Franks! @frankandws Enjoying the adulation :)
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6 years
Loved rehearsing with the orchestra last night for @FeileClassical . Can you guess the song?
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6 months
‘The first album I bought – probably in Golden Discs on Patrick’s Street in Cork – was Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout. Hearing ‘When Love Breaks Down’ spurred me to want to do music.’ Paul shares some 🎵 insights in today’s @irishexaminer
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We’ve been getting the tube to gigs for over 30 years! So when do the limos show up?
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7 months
Some very kind words from Cillian Murphy in @theirishtimes 🙏
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5 months
Happy Christmas from The Franks! Thanks for all the support for the 30th Anniversary of Trains, Boats and Planes this year ❤️
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Honoured to be asked to act as Grand Marshals for the Cork St Patrick’s Day Parade ☘️ We promise big smiles and no snakes 🐍
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4 years
We should be backstage at @EPfestival getting ready to jump on @VivaJerryFish ’s stage. Missing our festival friends but we’ll dance again soon ❤️
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6 years
We’ve always considered ourselves Young Offenders too
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3 years
The Franks about to go onstage at Finsbury Park, 1993 🕺🏼
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1 year
Hello from Greece 🇬🇷 Kickstarting the Trains, Boats and Planes 30th Anniversary tour in Athens tonight 🚂 ⛴️ ✈️
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Hello from Greece 🇬🇷
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4 years
Before, during and after our final #Franks30 gig in Cork. Thanks for 30 years of support and love, it keeps us going xxx
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Imagine telling these 3 lads that 30 years later we’d be celebrating their debut album 🙌 Join the Franks in @whelanslive for the Trains, Boats & Planes 30th Anniversary show Saturday 16th December 🎫 👇
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6 years
Sketch, Twitter’s lighting up! #youngOffenders
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4 years
Happy birthday Pauly! He doesn’t look a day older than this photo from The Franks first ever gig in 1989
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6 years
What has 8 thumbs and is more popular than Bob Geldof? Us.
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. @whelanslive always lives up to its reputation, thanks to everyone who came to the Christmas show last night! 🎅 🕺 Thanks to @KEELEYsound for kickstarting the night too!
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4 years
Best of luck to the #LeavingCert students getting their marks tomorrow. Don’t worry if you didn’t get want you wanted - you can retake the leaving cert in regular nightmares throughout your life.
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So well deserved 🙌
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‘30 years ago today the Franks played their first ever gig at DeBarras, Clonakilty. The photo and set-list are taken from Jack Lyons fantastic book A renewed interest in Reading. The set-list was - Covers: They Walked in Line, Transmission (Joy Divisi…
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4 years
Any ideas?
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4 months
Very honoured, thanks everyone ❤️
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4 months
Our winners from today’s @Cork_POTY awards! Congratulations to @daithi_ose , Alice Taylor, and The Frank and Walters! #CPOTYAwards #Cork @frankandws
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6 years
The original running order from our first gig in @connollysofleap #1990
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1 year
Thanks to @NoelGallagher for the kind words 🙌
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The Trains, Boats and Planes 30th Anniversary show kick off in March with the first stop in Athens 🇬🇷 #TBPturns30 🕺
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6 years
It’ll take a while to come down from that gig, thanks everyone for giving us such a special night x
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Franks Zoom Call. Cian was cranky nobody else wore the uniform.
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Billy did a great job on After All #youngoffenders #happybusman
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25 years ago these three were onstage at Feile. Tonight they’ll do it again at @feile_classical
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Delighted to be on the @johncreedon show tonight to celebrate the 50th anniversary of @RTERadio1 Radio Centre 📻 🎂
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2 years
Ten years ago today we released ‘Greenwich Mean Time’ 🕰 Do you have a favourite track off the album? 💿
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Ha! Welcome to the band, Billy!
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6 years
Someone’s fast on Wikipedia. Billy Murphy’s in Frank & Walters. #YoungOffenders
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6 years
The Franks open the show for @FeileClassical Friday and Saturday at 7pm! See you there!
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3 years
Right… where were we?
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4 years
Just found the poster from our gigs in Japan in 2012 🇯🇵
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3 years
Looking forward to playing with these fine folks tomorrow night @thetriptotipp 😃
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2 years
Island Living 🏝 Huge thanks to @wild_atlantic_glamping for having us over to play in Bere Island. Can’t get over how beautiful the island is 😍
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Angry Ash on the set of @RTELateLateShow
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We’ve been inspiring dictators for over 30 years now
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6 years
Ray D’Arcy Show tonight at 9.30pm :)
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4 years
Popping up on @RTELateLateShow tomorrow night. Funnily, this pic was taken 8 years ago - the day after the last time we were on The Late Late 💃
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Whelans, you never disappoint! Happy Christmas x The Franks
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Good to be alive on such a beautiful spring day #nature #Currabinny #Cork #sunshine 🌞
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Time for our Christmas Bath 🛀 Happy Christmas all x
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Finally got to see #oppenheimer ! Amazing performance by Cillian Murphy. Pretty cool that the greatest actor in the world is from Cork 🙌
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Cheering on the lads, from a comfy Irish pub in Athens 🏉 #SCOvIRE
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Happy New Year! May your 2022 be full of bass
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A gig this day 29 years ago influenced this lady’s t-shirt. Credit to the talented Mr. @findac 👏
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Hands up if you’re 30! Thank you @whelanslive , you’re a beaut. Cork, we’ll see you soon x #Franks30
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Such a great night last night playing @johncreedon ’s special show celebrating 50th anniversary of @rte ’s Radio Centre. And a pleasure having the special guest star vocals of @TimWheeler1977 on Stages 🙌 Listen to the show here
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Can’t we all just be Billy Murphy? Great stuff from @hairybabytees #youngoffenders
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Backstage warm-ups ⚽️ @CyprusAveCork
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1 year
Nice job! 🙌
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1 year
This amazing bunch only picked up a guitar for the first time with @BarryCondron last September! Congratulations to the class of 2023 from Canovee N.S, Carrigadrohid, Macroom. Playing #AfterAll by the best band in the world @frankandws #legends
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Special Guest brought his own shirt! #ep2018
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Thanks for listening 🔊 👂 #2020artistswrapped
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4 years
You can imagine our excitement of waking up to the news we won $986K. And then the disappointment of realising it's a guy called Frank Walters. And the further disappointment that they misspelled "Winner".
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6 years
One week ago convicted felon, Billy Murphy, stole the show at @EPfestival #ep2018
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8 years
"Stages" is the brand new single from The Frank and Walters, featuring Cillian Murphy.
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1 year
We were very saddened to hear of the passing of Christy Dignam. We were always inspired by his talent and passion for music. A true trailblazer for Irish music. RIP Christy
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Happy Paddy's Day everyone! 🇮🇪 @SpotifyUK tells us that today's the day we get most plays of 'After All' so here you go 🍀💃🕺
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1 year
Hopefully this is a complementary tweet 🤞
@ykbass0611
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1 year
The Frank And Walters / This Is Not A Song (1992) おはようございます🥷 アイルランドのIndie Pop, フランク&ウォルターズからスタート🎸 #掘レコ
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Angry Ash soundchecking at @CyprusAveCork
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4 years
May your 2020 be as optimistic and rewarding as the 1990 Frank and Walter 5-a-side football team
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The Bez and Walters #tbt #happymondays
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5 months
Huge thanks to everyone who came along to last nights sold out show at @cyprusavenuecork . And we get to do it again tonight! Tonight’s gig is also sold out but please be wary of anyone selling tickets - a lot of scammers all over social media pretending to sell tickets.
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All set for a sold out @whelanslive tonight! #tbpturns30 🚂 🛥️ ✈️
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3 years
Happy Christmas everyone! We really missed you this year but we're looking forward to playing for you in 2021. Have a safe and happy Christmas!
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3 years
John B Keane waving us off at Listowel. Great night at @MikethePies , thanks again for having us 🙌
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6 years
Off to Germany to play some Pop!
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Backstage at @corkoperahouse . You ready? #rhrn18
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Up bright and early to play at @ShiiineOn_ in Minehead (which sounds like a German complaining about a headache). What a line up, it’s going to be a great weekend 🕺
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Who’s counting us in so?
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4 years
Lads when it comes to doing those everybody singing out the windows solidarity videos in a few weeks time, can we agree that it not be The Fields Of Athenry? Let's go from After All by the Franks or something.
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3 years
9 years ago getting ready to release ‘Greenwich Mean Time’.
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We were just sent a video of @TheAcademic performing ‘After All’. Nice job, lads! 👏
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Guess who turns 30 this year?
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Angry Ash ready for Birmingham 🏃‍♂️
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Ash in Asha’s, Birmingham
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What a weekend on the @ShiiineOn_ Mini Cruise to Amsterdam! Thanks to those who came to see us x
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We run a tight dressing room. #frankandwalters
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