Presented by SXSW DAY PARTY Bud Light Dive Bar Sessions

Sam Fender at Nuevo Leon

Mar 14, 2019

5:30pm – 6:10pm CT

Nuevo Leon

In the midst of a sprawl of council estates and terraced houses that snake down the high street on the way east to the Tynemouth coast, there’s a square patch of parched grass with goalposts at each end. Before his guitar offered an escape route from North Shields, Sam Fender would roll around its cracked pavements with nothing much to do and nowhere to go. Invariably, he’d be kicking a ball around or smoking cigarettes, always with a song in his head.

“I love my hometown, but when I was growing up I did feel trapped,” he begins. “I felt suffocated, it was claustrophobic.” Fender couldn’t stand the inertia, and turned to his guitar rather than his A-Levels to find a way past it. A sense of abandon informs his urgent, heartfelt, already essential rock‘n’roll songs, which tell stories of a life on the fringes.





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From: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK-ENGLAND
Subgenre: Rock
Type: Showcase