Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk. I feel like Ive got my integrity back, Im more honest with myself about who I am, about my weaknesses and strengths. Its for them, all them people who have messaged me, that guy whos stopped himself from killing himself theyve realised there is purpose to this, and theres beauty to be had. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. My throat was fucked, and I was riding a BMX through Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, going: what has happened to my life? Hitting the stage: Sam took to the stage at London's The O2 arena to perform his hugely popular hit Seventeen Going Under. I think it's quite a unanimous feeling in a lot of places at the moment. I handled it as well as anyone else did: absolutely horrendously. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Fibromyalgia is a condition where one's pain is widespread. Sam Fender: Hypersonic Missiles review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Witch, Harridan, Harpy, and new insults like Karen and Terf. Theyve fucked the country completely. Small Clone just sounds like a chorus. It was when he started bleeding from his mouth. "I like a Jazzmaster through a Fender Twin. Lets explore his health condition before or after the coronavirus pandemic. But its also about how much I love him, how I saw him as a son. I feel like it is a celebratory record, he says. Why arent I writing about any of that? That's when I started singing properly, is after hearing Jeff Buckley. The hit-maker - Tonight, these streets are heaving with young hearts on the chase, he sings on Youre Not the Only One. And it's one knob. My theory is shit, though, really. "I can't express how grateful we are to have such an awesome fan base.". This is a sequel to Dead Boys [2018 track examining male suicide]. 2023 BBC. At the beginning, Im talking to the Virgin Mary, a Mary pendant. Seventeen Going Under by Sam Fender on Apple Music "It's impossible to do this work on myself while on the road, and it's exhausting feigning happiness and wellness for the sake of business.". In a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge concert in early 2020, Fender did a solo performance of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," fingerpicking the melody and bass line, while nailing a rather ambitious vocal. He revealed that music has been boon to his life. 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. Sam Fender: A High Tenor from North Shields, Rig Rundown: Mt. During her acceptance speech, Adele told the audience: 'I understand this award has changed but I love being a female artist! It was the arrogance and incompetence of politicians thinking that they could sail through [Brexit]. A music journalist for over 20 years, Grant writes regularly for titles including Classic Rock and Total Guitar, and his CV also includes stints as a radio producer/presenter and podcast host. Leftie is now a slur in working-class towns what happened there? It's about political polarity and how I feel a lack of identity with any of the political parties currently in my country. Safety pin embellishments have become synonymous with the work of Versace (who could forget the iconic dress worn by Elizabeth Hurley circa 1994?!) Sam Fender is a happy man. 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Acclaimed by Elton John and Paul Weller, Fender's new album Seventeen Going Under is a masterclass in songwriting he walks us through his process and looks back on his guitar journey so far. I didnt feel safe in a loving relationship. A quarter of the kids in working families in my region are in poverty. And the fact that I never fought back against these kids that used to push us around, or constantly berate us for years on end, it wears you down. Tell me in your own words. Its just a few days after his triumphant sets at Reading and Leeds Festival and hes still a bit groggy, but when he brandishes his brand-new acquisition a beautiful 1959 Fender Jazzmaster he visibly perks up. Sam Fender has announced he is to take a short break from touring to look after his mental health. Not just that, all of it other musicians Theres just loads of pricks in this industry, a lot of divas, and also others who want to grab on to your coat-tails. WebHealth. Id not heard anything like him before, Fender says. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. 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. Prince Andrew has 'offered to manage prestigious Royal estates including Balmoral but King Charles has told PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Yes, Madonna toyboys are fun but not if you value your dignity. Getting Started In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. I just drank, over-ate, and played a lot of video games. As cringe as this sounds, it became my earliest form of therapy. He is most known for his work with Polydor Records, which included the hits Leave Fast and Dead Boys.. We laugh about it now; things have really turned a corner. Its one of my mates sayings: Ive armed myself with a grin. Ive always played the happy-go-lucky joker. I knocked one of my best mates out. The title song documents a dark time when Fender's mother was battling health issues and couldn't make ends meet. And its still a great guitar I play it from time to time. I was bullied in school because I had long hair and I was sensitive. I'm like, "ooh, that's a lot of money." You can learn as much from ABBA as you can from The Beatles. The hit-maker - who scooped the Best Rock/Alternative act gong hours earlier - clutched a can of beer as he headed inside with songwriter Raye. Youve also written about politics Aye, from the new album, is probably the angriest song youve ever written. 'Our story is one of hope': Conjoined twins who made history as first EVER pair survive to separation As Charles Bronson faces a parole hearing on Monday Will Britain's most violent prisoner soon be painting Is this Britain's most despicable man? The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. When I started getting angsty and heartbroken about girls, that was when the real songs started, he says. Its a shipbuilding town. ", 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. Ive bought my first ever daft guitar, he says with a cheeky grin. Thats why I started doing therapy. The only time you get it in popular British music is in the grime and hip-hop side. You dont know how to communicate these things when you grow up in Shields. A lot of those more emotionally challenging parts of my childhood drove me to learn something, so I could have an outlet.. Im on a path of self-discovery and trying to heal a lot of that. Fender has ADHD, which he believes helped him focus on music. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, 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. His second album Seventeen Going Under, a superb record that channels the sound of Bruce Springsteen and the War on Drugs into an examination of his family, youth and frailty, is out in October. Sam Fender looked a little worse for wear when he made his way into his BRIT Awards afterparty at Four Quarters in Peckham on Tuesday night. 100 per cent'. He lived there with his mother on a council estate, a type of British public housing. Put it this way: there was a time when I was 18 and working for some pretty suspect characters. 11 Songs, 45 minutes She suffered from fibromyalgia, which affected her mental health and her ability to work. And you sometimes worry that maybe that means you are too. When the first lockdown descended, an existing health condition required him to isolate and shield inside his home for three months. The overall effect is as compelling as it is thrilling, and unusually widescreen for a debut. Its a fighting song. That resonated. Their impact on how he approaches crafting song parts can be heard in "Last To Make It Home," particularly the expansive guitar solo on the outro. Sam Fender has canceled a selection of upcoming tour dates, citing the need to look after his mental health. Sam Fender "I've neglected myself for over a year now and haven't dealt with things that have deeply affected me. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org. 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. You always feel like you dont belong, and that led me to hanging around with people who, regardless of their class, were just sociopath losers. His father and older brother (nine years his senior) are also musicians who gigged around town, obviously influencing Fender's journey down the troubadour road. My family members who voted for it voted for it because they thought that they were going to get money for the NHS. I was kinda making life hard for myself.". OUT NOW!! On Mary, Fender sings: You were online and the sociopathic part of me hit the Like/In the hopes Id coax you out of my derelict fantasy.. Sam Fender has come home. But with pop music now, a lot of ballady songs are, I love you, you dont love me, or I love you and you love me and its very nice. The song was released as a digital download on 2 July 2019 by Polydor Records as the second single from his debut studio album Hypersonic Missiles. 23rd Nov 2021, 2:11pm - 2 min read. However, the North Shields star said he was "super excited" for Australia in late November and "everything to come in 2023", including June's homecoming gigs at Newcastle United's St James' Park, for which tickets sold out within minutes. ), "I like Springsteen for the lyrics, and I love War on Drugs for the sound," Fender shares. He host many of his friends to suicide last year and he had also the same thoughts to attempt suicide during the lockdown period. "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. You may feel alone currently but you will realise that your stories, when put to music, open up a side of you that actually helps people. He liked the place, but always craved more. Sam Fender: Leftie is now a slur in working-class towns. Sam Fender is preparing to tour his number one debut album Hypersonic Missiles (Photo: Chalk Press) By Nick Duerden November 7, 2019 8:27 pm (Updated July Some of my favourite Springsteen lyrics are purely descriptions, he says. The parents who fear their 11-year-olds will be scarred for life by the graphic sex education lessons that Two Insulate Britain protesters are jailed for contempt of court after they defied a judge's orders not to 'Derek fights on, it makes me fall in love with him all over again:' Kate Garraway reveals there are days French authorities fear 'narco-tourists' could flock to Normandy beaches after 'more than two tonnes of Hopes for cervical cancer vaccine after trials in mice showed it reduced tumours 80 per cent of the time. Will We Talk? - Wikipedia In September 2019, his debut album Hypersonic Missiles debuted at No.1 on the UK chart, winning the Critics Choice Award at the Brits, Fender garnering wide acclaim for his direct, indie-style rock and earthy, meaningful lyrics. Life-changing things like becoming famous and having money happened all at once and I didnt feel like I deserved any of it. I used to do that all the time in my early twenties. Its about insecurities, how jealousy and feelings of emasculation and low self-worth can really, really destroy a relationshipand had done with my relationships. It was a divorce Christmas present, Fender says now. Jangly Jazzmasters and epic, chorus-drenched solos play a lead character through it all. Not at the pub I worked at I had a different job which led to us meeting some very charming but very naughty people. The 27-years-old singer prefers to make his personal life stay out of the public eye. Sam Fender The new Jazzmasters yet to make its studio debut, but there are other ones, plus Strats and Teles, on the record. She was a hard-working, fantastic, empathetic, incredible woman. Sam Fender will be taking a break from his career after becoming concerned about his mental health. But right now, here he is, in a caf in his home town of North Shields, taking refuge at a corner table, and speaking with all the coiled intensity of one whose life has undergone a radical transformation and is still trying to make sense of it. I loved the theatricality of it all, how dramatic he was. On Mantra, you write about another kind of malaise: fame. Unfortunately for us mere mortals this piece isn't yet available to buy, but you can click the catwalk image to shop Versace's current collection at Mytheresa. This track would later see him interviewed on Channel 4 News, Fender suddenly a spokesman on the topic. 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. No metaphor, no meaning, just, Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain [from Jungleland]. Music is the passion and pain killer of his all sorrows and frustrations. Sam Fender Cancels Upcoming Tour Dates to Look "It's mainly about self-esteem, growing up, and the political landscape of England, and how that affects the Northeast and how the Tories basically alienate my hometown and the people that live there," he says. The tour for that album was cut short by the pandemic, and over the enforced lockdown hiatus Fender hunkered down at his home in North Shields, and wrote the material for his second album. And funny enough, it's his favorite song.". Sam Fender has announced he is to take a short break from touring to look after his mental health. Sam Fender // Seventeen Going Under // Live from Brixton, London You might be wondering to know what happened to him. I had to shield, so for the first three months I was on my own. Grant Moon is the News Editor for Prog magazine and has been a contributor to the magazine since its launch in 2009. 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. He was spotted by his manager when he was 18. A lot of things that you pass off as insignificant parts of your life end up becoming very significant parts of your character. I had a sense of helplessness. From its yearning title track, to urgent cry from the heart Aye, to dark, seventh-chord heavy The Leveller, Seventeen Going Under is a remarkable record, delivered with Fenders earnest, keening vocal not unlike that of The Killers Brandon Flowers and packed with melodies, ear-catching guitar riffs, and the kind of sensitive, poetic lyrics rarely heard in the poppier sphere these days. A lot of working-class people in England feel displaced by it all, and in my hometown as well. We recognised Raye's dress a mile off! This is about depression and rising out of it. I think its a really powerful moment. Organisers divided opinion and some were left outraged by the decision to switch to gender-neutral gongs for the first time in its history, in calls led by non-binary singer Sam Smith. Sam Fender "I've got a health condition, which affects my immune system, so I had to stay in the house. The Seventeen Going Under singer says he has "neglected" himself for more than a year, Fender will play at St James' Park in Newcastle in June, fulfilling a "childhood dream", Fender said he was grateful to have such an awesome fan base, 'Trump or bust' - grassroots Republicans are still loyal. His songs are full of yearning and serious earnestness. They frequently drip with Springsteen-isms, and not just in the occasional parping saxophone. Sam Fender tours the UK from 22 November. He had some exemplary artists to learn from Joni Mitchell, Adam Granduciel of The War On Drugs and Jeff Buckley. Mantra As a songwriter, he cut his teeth while playing with his teenage rock trio. Back in 2014, he suffered from a life-threatening illness, a vocal cord illness. Wow:Raye, 24, turned heads as she went under-wear free beneath a shimmering orange Versace gown. Its really an anthem for losersbecause weve all been a loser once. The star took to social media to tell fans he and his band were ', Incredible:It was a big night for Sam, who won the Rock/Alternative act award. Im going to focus on not feeling like a bag of shit every day. But I wouldnt have had the knowhow or the confidence to try and write that sort of stuff had I not had that. He kissed her. Sam Fender, an English singer, is all set to host BBC four documentary on Lindisfarne legend, the late and great Alan Hull. 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. But she got sent to court three times to prove that she wasnt fit to work. The BRIT Awards sparked controversy last year after ditching the traditional male and female categories and switching to gender-neutral gongs for the first time in its history, causing naysayers to brand the event 'woke'. Its insane: the whole town recognises me, everyone wants selfies. Theyd seen their family members on wards suffering. When the first lockdown descended, an existing health condition required him to isolate and shield inside his home for three He gives us an example of one such claw-like chord, used in Hypersonic Missiles tune Dead Boys. It's all in the new album, but 27-year-old Sam had this to say to 17-year-old Sam: "Art is the purest remedy for all internal conflict and you're taking a career in it. It was written around the time when all the Trump supporters were storming the capital building. But more deeply, its in Fenders novelistic eye for local colour, those vivid, real-life details, as on the melancholy Dying Light: This town is a world of waifs and strays, comedy giants, penniless heroes/Dead men at the bar, I drank with them all. But Ive got fantastic people around me who really care and who pulled me out of my pit. Got too much empathy for that one. The British songwriter traversed the bleak thoroughfares of his past while writing his autobiographical sophomore album, Seventeen Going Undera tale of growing up down-and-out, set to an epic chorus of Jazzmasters and soaring sax. I really connected to the lyrics, all these songs about wanting to escape a rundown seaside town. Sam has alluded in previous interviews to a health condition that hes not yet ready to fully disclose, and tells NME that he spent three months shielding at the beginning of the pandemic: I was alone for three months and that was very tough When youre completely alone and isolated, its impossible. I cant go anywhere round here, he says. Spit of You He wrote daft comedy songs at first (he was a Tenacious D fan), but these got him into the habit of sitting on the sofa with his guitar, putting chords together and singing. It was a big night for Sam, who won the Rock/Alternative act award. Then I realised that if Im going to fail, then I may as well fail on my own terms, with songs I really believed in.. Sam Fender (@samfendermusic) November 15, 2021. Send a photo of you and your loved one(s) to [emailprotected] by midnight tomorrow and selected photos will be featured in my live shows over the next couple of weeks. Then when you come to play anything youve learned, or any song you want to learn, you realise how much all of these things are just incorporated into it naturally. It's absolutely stunning. Fender has a homespun grit much like his idol Bruce Springsteen, whose working-class ethos and songs from the heartland resonated with Fender at an early age. Dont get me wrong, nothing wrong with that, he says, some of the best songs in the world are co-written, but Im proud to say that Ive done all this by myself. Sam Fender: When you write And Ive not taken anything in yet., Hypersonic Missiles is out now. Because of the polarity between the left and the right, I dont feel I have an identity with politicians on either side. Adele won the first ever genderless Artist Of The Year gong after the male and female categories were scrapped. As a subscriber enjoy big savings off the shop price! 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. My parents got divorced, I got a TV offmy mum and a guitar from my dad: a Peavey Strat copy with a Peavey practice amp. Blyth Valley [a constituency a few miles from North Shields] went Tory [in the 2019 general election]; its been a Labour seat since its inception. 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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. so me and the boys are thinking about doing a stint out there for six months, and try and write a third record. Because you have such fear of losing them. These stories, theyre mine, but that frustration with the DWPhow youre trapped as a person whos fallen on a hard time by your governmentis a unanimous story for so many millions of people in this country. The performances are now available to watch on demand. In spring 2020, Sam Fender had nowhere to go. I was old enough to understand what was going on, but I wasnt old enough to be able to do anything about it. 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. That's why I'm quite chorusy-soundin'I love that sound. 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. Thats one thing Id say to a kid just starting out get your guitar set up, so its not like youre battling bits of cheese wire! Sam teamed his tops with black trousers and edgy lace-up boots. I was chewing my face off in frustration, I was that desperate to make it like they had, to write pop songs because I thought people might like them. But the 25-year-old considers a lot of todays earnest singer-songwriter types to be privately educated nice boys who have only been able to invest the necessary time in pursuit of pop stardom thanks to their parents benevolence and bank balances. Musically, this insistent tune rides on Fenders trademark three-part indie-rock guitar arpeggios (played on the record by him and his co-guitarists, Dean Thompson and Joe Atkinson), which give movement to the main E/F#m/D/C#m/F#m/D progression. One early song, Poundshop Kardashians, took to task those who seek shallow fame via reality TV shows such as Geordie Shore, while a later one, Dead Boys, focused on high suicide rates among young males in the North of England. His thumb bounces between the 5th and 6th strings, while his other fingers create a harp-like effect on the melody. Present-day Sam's social media is light and carefree, with videos of him explaining how to make the best cuppa, eating jellied eels, and mini movies of strangers on the street with improvised voiceovers. It's literally the soundtrack of his adolescence. Sam Fender 'raging' after ill health and bereavement My dad put boxing gloves on me to teach me how to punch. Fender grew up in this small village, which he calls "a drinking town with a fishing problem."
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