Spending more than 25 years on the road touring is an impressive feat for any artist, but to be on your way to your 3,000th gig by your early forties is nearly incomprehensible.
Punk-folk musician Frank Turner started raking up the miles in his spirited, teenage days when he began gigging aged 16 at local venues. He later graduated to playing festivals and arenas, becoming notorious for his relentless touring schedule and high-octane performances, often alongside his backing band The Sleeping Souls.
'It's the one thing I'm absolutely sure that I'm reasonably good at,' the 42-year-old says with confidence about his shows.
'Being a writer, there's this bizarre mix of extreme self-confidence and crushing self-doubt in a cement mixer forever.
'I wake up in the middle of the night and think everything I've done is awful and I should just stop as a writer from time to time. But I know how to put on a gig.'
He is due to perform his milestone 3,000th show at London's Alexandra Palace next February.
'I'm aware that quantity does not equal quality', he jokes over a video call from his home in Essex during a short break in his hectic schedule.
'But I'd hope I'd be reasonably good at playing shows after 3,000 of the bloody things.'
The singer-songwriter, from Meonstoke, Hampshire, first released two albums with the post-hardcore band Million Dead before he decided to go-it-alone in 2005. His 2007 debut Sleep Is For The Week and 2008's follow-up Love Ire & Song helped circulate his name among fans and critics, but after further success with his third and fourth albums, he started securing more prestigious festival and concerts spots.
The Recovery singer has continued to scale the charts, with his last five albums all making it to at least number three, and his newly-released 10th album has followed suit.
'I spent a fair amount of time thinking about the double figures', he says about his latest release, titled Undefeated.
'I'm proud of that and also slightly surprised by it.
'I'm just like 'Huh, it's still working? What's going on?'. Forty-two is not an inherently punk or sexy age, I think.'
Turner has faced his own share of trials over the years, with the scrutiny of social media and battling severe addition issues being significant challenges in his life.
He speaks openly about his struggles with substance abuse, which he feels is summed up by The Hold Steady lyric 'it started recreational / ended kind of medical'.
'People use the expression 'partying' to refer to taking drugs', he muses. 'And the more that I've lived through, the more bitterly ironic that sounds to me.
'It wasn't much of a party when you're selling shit you own, and going to hospital and bleeding a lot, and not sleeping for days and days, and f****** up your relationships.'
He is pleased to say those days are behind him after seeking help and finding cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), but he remains conscious that addiction can rear its head again.
'Asking for help is a sign of strength rather than a sign of weakness, in my opinion,' he says. 'Or at least, I think that's how we should frame it as a society.
'For the longest time I was like 'Music is my therapy and I don't need anything else',' he says.
'It took me a long time to realise this, but music is a necessary but not a sufficient part of my mental health toolkit.'
He recorded the new album, and self-produced it, from his home studio in Mersea Island, Essex, where he lives with his wife when he is not travelling the country.
As he shifts into his fifth decade, his writing is evolving from youthful outspokenness to surviving middle-age challenges like fading friendships, mental fallout and persistent backache.
Turner has also been working and producing for up-and-coming bands, which he says has offered him inspiration when writing his new music.
What pearls of wisdom does he have for the groups?
'It's okay to go to bed is one thing', he says from experience, before adding: 'I would say trust your gut.
'There's no point in doing all of this shit if you're following somebody else's creative instincts.'
Frank Turner's album Undefeated is out now and his UK tour dates kick off on July 6.
