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Dire Straits v Sam Fender


jacko100 said:
He’s playing a massive gig here in Dublin (and elsewhere). Nobody gives a shit or prob even knows he’s a mag.

He’s just living rent free in a lot of heads on here.
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It's a bit silly. Mind, the pre-gig report on the local news last night looked like there were more NUFC shirts than you would see at a match. Reminiscent of John Hall's 'Geordie nation' so I can see why it winds some people up. I
 
Fender seems to be alienating a lot of potential fans due to this whole Geordie wank fest. Sold his soul for a quick few quid, I expect he’ll fade away quickly and we’ll see him next on the Sunday for Sammy DVD.
 
Stupid comparison but Dire Straits for me.

As for Sam Fender, I’m not a fan of his music but good luck to the lad. One of my mates knows him and he sounds really down to earth and remembers the fans he had when he started. When he played the arena he got the locals from his favourite bar in North Shields where he used to play, front row seats at the gig. They then went back for a lock in at the bar with the band after it.

Obviously the ‘Nashun’ have latched on but that’s what they do. Even when Chinny Hill died they tried to make it about them

The documentary he did on Alan Hull was superb too
 
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S.S.R.. said:
Music used to be about the songs on the record and the characters on the sleeve being mysterious. Now it's knowing every banal detail about the musicians and not being able to recall more than the chorus of one tune and being utterly baffled by the hype and plaudits surrounding them.
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Top post, how the world of music has changed since the 70's.
 
Dire Straits was shit, homophobic dad rock loved in the 80s by the same kind of lads who liked the Quo. Never heard any Sam Fender.
 
king of the road said:
Dire Straits was shit, homophobic dad rock loved in the 80s by the same kind of lads who liked the Quo. Never heard any Sam Fender.
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Homophobic? Is that because of the lyric where the object of the joke is the narrow-minded loser that has to schlep fridges for a living?
 
I couldn’t tell you a single one of the plastic mags tracks, let them enjoy their geordie nationhood while everyone normal mocks them.
 
Is the comparison being made because they both are from places near Newcastle?
I don’t recall Mark Knopfler touting his Newcastle football connection on stage ( I may be wrong) and Local Hero is his score from a film set in Scotland, not Shearer etc he is not responsible for it being their run out music.

I really believe that Sam Fender has been swept up with the new wave of “jawdeeism” and he ( or his management) have just gone with it.
Cut him a bit of slack, it’s the audience at SJP that we really are objecting to.
As stated earlier, it won’t be the same at other venues, and his Alan Hull doc was excellent.
 
He wouldn’t sell out an indoor arena anywhere else in the UK.

Obvious why the mags love him, but he’s got hardly any songs to back it up.
 
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