Musician Frank Turner Discusses Wrestling CM Punk In His “The Next Storm” Music Video

Acoustic punk/folk singer Frank Turner has has had quite an interesting career. From his start in the post-hardcore band Million Dead, Turner pivoted to mostly acoustic music following the split as embarked on his solo career with the help of his new backing band The Sleeping Souls.

Turner’s 2015 album “Positive Songs for Negative People” featured the single and an accompanying music video for The Next Storm. The video featured CM Punk, and Turner actually spoke with the Last Minute Wrestling podcast about his experience with Punk and how it originally wasn’t supposed to be him in the video. It actually was supposed to be Daniel Bryan.

“I’ve been told Daniel Bryan was wearing one of my shirts. Had no idea who he was but it seemed cool and I think we had a conversation about it on Twitter. Ben Morse, who makes all of my videos, called me and pitched a video where I wrestled Daniel Bryan. We got in touch with him but he had contractual obligations with WWE and he couldn’t do it, then, at the time, he had his neck injury. He still comes to my shows when we play in America and still wears my t-shirts from time to time.”

The video wound up featuring Turner and Punk get physical, and Turner revealed how some of it actually left him scared despite the training he had received to help with the in-ring portion of the video.

“Some of it was cool, some of it was terrifyingly scary. There were a couple of moves that were really horrid. One was when I was on the ground and he was grinding on my face. It didn’t hurt but it was psychologically intimidating. The other one hilarious and terrifying was when Phil (CM Punk) said to Ben ‘why don’t we do the running knee strike to the face?’, Ben said that ‘sounds great!’, I said ‘that sounds awful!’ I had to stand on one corner post. He stood me there and said ‘stay 100% still, if you move you’ll get hurt’. Just the image of him running towards me, I had no idea what he was gonna do and I was like ‘FUUUCK!’ (laughs), then we did it again and I had to sell it.”

While he talked about that, Turner also spent time talking about learning how to do the spear properly, his music, and working on music during the pandemic during the podcast. You can watch clips from the podcast related to wrestling below, in addition to the music video as well.

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