Why Alex Murdaugh was spared the death penalty, 'Trump or bust' - grassroots Republicans are still loyal. Because of a series of health conditions his weight has ballooned to around 30 stones which made it impossible for him to get there. This is about political polarity and how the working classes feel, or how I felt, abandoned by a lot of the left wing. In a brutally honest interview ahead of his stunning second album, the Tyneside chart-topper discusses politics, family, fame and mental health. Fender began writing songs at 14 and playing guitar at 10. But then I ended up loving the sound of the guitar in that key, so started writing songs in C# that were still at the top of my range! Pauls great to bounce things off because hes a lyric writer himself, he really engages with that. "It just built and built and built and became this huge orchestral track. The closing song, The Dying Light, is sad. That resonated. I cant go anywhere round here, he says. I was coming back home after being started on by a bunch of lads but not doing anything about it because I was on my own. Im finally at a place where I can understand it, and the things that I hated about myself are what I should be celebrating the fact that Im an empathetic little softie is probably the best thing about me. Its a fighting song. Sprawling home where JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in 1996 is listed for sale for $7 MILLION by current Royal Mail increase price of first class stamp by 15p to 1.10 in record-breaking hike. But I wouldnt have had the knowhow or the confidence to try and write that sort of stuff had I not had that. 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You dont know how to communicate these things when you grow up in Shields. And you do absorb that when youre young, Fender says. He remains silent when it comes to sharing his personal life. I feel like Ive got my integrity back, Im more honest with myself about who I am, about my weaknesses and strengths. "And then as I got older, I realized at school there was always a couple of kids that could shred, and could really, really play. They frequently drip with Springsteen-isms, and not just in the occasional parping saxophone. 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But if someone's playing I can get up and play lead on any song theyre playing, just by hearing it.. No, there are no records mentioning Sam Fender has an illness called cancer. On the album's cover, a photograph shows Sam sitting on a brick stoop. Blyth Valley up here went Tory. This track would later see him interviewed on Channel 4 News, Fender suddenly a spokesman on the topic. 1 album in the U.K. when Seventeen Going Under came out in October 2021. WebSEVENTEEN GOING UNDERTHE ALBUM!! The rest of 2022 he'll be headlining arena tours, as well as supporting the Killers on four dates in London and Dublin. Bruce Springsteens Born To Run was a life-changing album for him. I was bawling my eyes out [when she died] Id never seen him like that. 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By the time I was 10, I was starting to get quite proficient," Fender shares. Here we are back in 1994 ? Four years ago I was on benefits playing live in August. I wouldnt be able to write the stuff I write right now had I not got the finger strength to play the major scales and stuff , he continues, because I like to make quite interesting chords where my fingers are in very awkward positions. Because I didnt have things to point at and write about during lockdown I started looking inwards, thinking: theres enough stuff from my own life. They all went on to explode, while I didnt. Not all the songs chew over familial dynamics. Sam Fender is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He spent years on the pub circuit before landing a deal, and when that deal did come, he refused to collaborate with co-writers as is the norm for many of todays singers and wrote his own songs by himself. This is a woman whos worked for 40 years of her life as a nurse. The songs are a baring of the heart, a showcase of human struggle. You dont realise these things affect you until youre older and you dont know why youre walking around with a pit in your stomach or why you push partners away. His rescheduled appearances at UK record stores are also affected. Premier Guitar features affiliate links to help support our content. It got to the point to where I was in my 20s I just snapped, and I did start trying to fight people. "It's got 164 tracks of audio," Fender says of the latter. While he has previously brought this to public attention, he suggests he isnt yet ready to discuss its details. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sam Fender to host new BBC documentary on These are from the title track of Seventeen Going Under: After hooking up with Davies, Fender doubled down on gigging and writing, gaining fans and traction, and eventually won the 2018 BRIT Critics' Choice Award before releasing his first album, Hypersonic Missiles, in late 2019. I felt like now Im famous and in a rock band Ive got to play the part but I just realised that I was paying attention to arseholes. It proves that you dont have to be rich to make it, proof that you can still do this organically.. I have so many ideas that have spawned from writing this one. Is Sam Fender sick with cancer? Illness Diagnosis And Girlfriend [Later] I overcompensated by lifting weights and going to the boxing gym and all these things to try and become something closer to the resemblance of my father. The hit-maker - The song peaked at ", About a mile from that stoop is the Low Lights Tavern, where Fender tended bar after high school, and it's also where he played his music in the early days. He host many of his friends to suicide last year and he had also the same thoughts to attempt suicide during the lockdown period. 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"The first record was a hodgepodge of songs written over six years. Last To Make It Home is his favourite track on there., Wellers choice is an acoustic-style ballad, its simple Aadd9/E/Dadd9 chord structure nodding to the Americana/folk vibe of Ryan Adams a Fender influence circa his 2001 album, Gold. As a teenager, he lived with his mother, a nurse who had to stop work because she suffered from fibromyalgia, a condition that causes pain and fatigue. But I grew up with pretty low self-esteem, though I had enough ego to want to do [music], and I used it as therapy. Ive bought my first ever daft guitar, he says with a cheeky grin. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). When my brother gave us Jeff Buckley, I was like alright, he does that, and it's rock 'n' roll, and it sounds cool. But I hate the Tories with a passion. The pandemic also exposed the struggles and poverty faced in towns such as North Shields, and his ire at the governments handling of COVID and Brexitas well as his dismay at an opposition party that seemed to have abandoned working-class communitiesburns through Aye and Long Way Off. Forthright in message and poetic in delivery, his words are set to a sound that continues to explore Americana and indie rock, funneling everything through big-hearted choruses. He had the looks, and the Top Man pout proved malleable. There was a lot of riots there back in the '90s. Throughout the course of 2013 Fender played a series of gigs across the country supporting a number of artists including Ben Howard and Willy Mason, until He was so angry at himself but he couldnt express it, so he just booted the wall under the staircase. The 'Poundshop Kardashians' star revealed on the red carpet that the bakery chain provided him with a stack load of the savoury snacks to wash down after his boozy celebrations. Id not heard anything like him before, Fender says. They ended up disappearing and getting charged for things, but I wasnt involved in anything illicit, I was on the sidelines. Sam Fender Both his albums, 2019's Hypersonic Missiles and 2021's Seventeen Going Under topped the UK charts, with the latter shortlisted for the Mercury music prize. Its completely autobiographical. Ive been a loser hundreds of times. They do sometimes say, Sam stop being so fucking miserable, write us something a bit happier! But I do yearning and hopeful, not happy, because happy is boring. I think Im a vulnerable narcissist at worst. I didnt look after myself Sam Fender. Celebrate the loves and friendships that you have over the journey of your life and celebrate those who arent here anymore. Read on as he talks us through all of the albums tracks. Its insane: the whole town recognises me, everyone wants selfies. SAM Fender is looking for love after enjoying a string of dates with singer Raye. Youve also written about politics Aye, from the new album, is probably the angriest song youve ever written. Fender has won two Brit awards, both of which have been turned into beer hand pulls at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields, where he worked and was discovered at the age of 18. "My friends and colleagues have been worried about me for a while and it's not going to get better unless I take the time to do so," he wrote. Fender's sound has a tinge of throwback and noticeable nods to his influences (cough, cough, sexy saxophone solos), but the magic lies in how he connects on so many levels with cinematic arrangements, bull's-eye lyrics, and sincere delivery. Fender often uses a guitar tuned to C# standard (C#/F#/B/E/G#/C#), something he says happened by accident. As cringe as this sounds, it became my earliest form of therapy. A quarter of the kids in working families in my region are in poverty. Besides, he also suffered from various mental illnesses since his childhood. Sam Fender is a happy man. Spit Of Yous killer feedback solo is a Jazzmaster through a Red Llama pedal: Its this big, fuck-off overdrive Tom Petty said he liked, he says, so I got one. Sam Fender Those dead boys are always there, theres more every year, but ends with a celebration: Im damned if I give up tonight / I must repel the dying light.