In 2021, Sam Fender released his second album Seventeen Going Under. Arriving amid COVID lockdowns in the U.K., the record tapped into the nation’s reflective mood, and saw the high-flying ...

Roasted Canadian maple neck, rolled fingerboard edges, high-output humbuckers with coil-splitting, locking tuners and a ...

That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of ...

In an effort to make everything sound as massive as possible, the team obscures some of Fender’s more pointed moments. On the title track, he returns to his hometown to see his elderly mentor ...

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By Kate Mossman Sam Fender’s giant success could be explained, not just by his similarity to Bruce Springsteen, but by the fact that he is the UK’s first politicised blue-collar solo rock act. How can ...

Sam Fender‘s new album ‘People Watching’ is heading towards the Number One spot and it has currently outsold the rest of the UK Top 10 combined. According to the Official Charts, the North ...

Sam Fender is fighting the good fight on behalf of the lost art of the music video. In January, the Brit- and Mercury-nominated English songwriter and 2025 Glastonbury headliner recruited the ...

Sam Fender has hit out at the current state of the music industry, describing it as “rigged” with “90 per cent kids who are privately educated”. Speaking in a new interview with The Sunday ...

The album name, and its lead single of the same name, is in honour of the late Byker Grove actress Annie Orwin, who Fender called his "surrogate mother" and spent time with until she died.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is a big year for Sam Fender. Stadiums await in the summer, confirmation of his rise to the heights of ...