If Sam Fender’s debut album, 2019’s Hypersonic Missiles, introduced a smart, streetwise young British songwriter with a penchant for euphoric, hard-hitting guitar anthems, it was 2021’s peerless Seventeen Going Under that sent the Newcastle artist stratospheric.
An acute observer who turns the mirror not only on the streets that he grew up walking, but to himself too, the record was a tough-talking but tender account of Fender’s childhood and finding his feet in the North-East of England. It’s also a classic coming-of-age story, marrying relatable family themes and broken friendships with colossal choruses.
The album’s subsequent success took Fender across the globe, playing to bigger rooms and wider stages. And having been invited to support the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, and Neil Young, Sam has since become not only an effortless festival headliner in his own right, but a stadium one as well.
Seventeen Going Under reaped a clutch of awards, including BRITs, NMEs, an Ivor Novello, and a prestigious Mercury Prize nomination too.
In February 2025, Sam Fender releases his third album, People Watching. Now solidified as one of Britain’s most accomplished songwriters of his generation and the next, if Seventeen Going Under was Sam’s “coming of age” record, People Watching is his next step forward – colourful stories and observations of everyday characters living their everyday, but often extraordinary, lives.
SAM FENDER TOUR
02 Dec 24 Dublin 3Arena
04 Dec 24 Leeds First Direct Arena
06 Dec 24 Manchester Co-Op Live
07 Dec 24 Manchester Co-Op Live
10 Dec 24 London The O2
12 Dec 24 London The O2
13 Dec 24 Birmingham Utilita Arena
16 Dec 24 Glasgow Ovo Hydro
17 Dec 24 Glasgow OVO Hydro
20 Dec 24 Newcastle Utilita Arena
11 Feb 25 New York Webster Hall
04 Mar 25 Paris Olympia
05 Mar 25 Tilburg 013 Poppodium
08 Mar 25 Zurich Halle 622
10 Mar 25 Cologne Palladium
12 Mar 25 Munich Zenith
13 Mar 25 Bergamo ChorusLife Arena
16 Mar 25 Berlin Uber Eats Music Hall
18 Mar 25 Amsterdam Afas Live
19 Mar 25 Brussels Forest National
05 Apr 25 Vancouver Thunderbird Sports Centre
07 Apr 25 Seattle The Paramount Theatre
09 Apr 25 Portland Roseland Theater
11 Apr 25 Oakland Fox Theater
21 Apr 25 Tempe Marquee Theatre
23 Apr 25 Salt Lake City The Union Event Center
24 Apr 25 Denver The Fillmore
05 Jul 25 Festivalpark Rock Werchter
