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Sam Fender

chriswallace85 said:
I know lads who went to the arena gig just as he and the takeover were taking off. Said it was unbearable. Like being at a scum game.


The daft thing is, he'd be big without all that shit.
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Yeah the st James park gig was total overload.

It’s his decision to alienate potential fans I suppose
 

Ruleigan said:
Happy to sell out SJP and nowhere else. Small time thinking.
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He is much bigger than some people think.
Sold out the Manchester Co-op Arena (20+ thousand capacity) in minutes.
If this new album sells as well as the previous one, he will be looking at playing football grounds next year around the UK.
But, doubt if it will be as black&white obsessed as his previous gigs...
 
Harry Angstrom said:
If he (or his people) have any sense they will distance him from it. He might not care though.
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Dead right. It’s a mistake in my view to nail your colours to this mast.

Football is very partisan as we have seen on this thread. He may well alienate other potential fans.
 
Rhyd59 said:
He is much bigger than some people think.
Sold out the Manchester Co-op Arena (20+ thousand capacity) in minutes.
If this new album sells as well as the previous one, he will be looking at playing football grounds next year around the UK.
But, doubt if it will be as black&white obsessed as his previous gigs...
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Yeah. There's an overriding feeling on here that's it's just a mag thing, but it's not like. Them bastards have just latched onto it, and he's played right up to it in return.

To be absolutely fair to the lad, I can understand the dream of playing your local stadium. Who wouldn't wanna do that. The whole Sunday for Sammy on super roids with the whole Keegan era nostalgia thrown in (ridiculous in itself given the soppy twat wasn't even born 'til '94) is just so over the top it's ridiculous.
 
Big Jeff said:
Dead right. It’s a mistake in my view to nail your colours to this mast.

Football is very partisan as we have seen on this thread. He may well alienate other potential fans.
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Can be done in a subtle way without alienating anyone. Have been to gigs where band members wear a football shirt or have a flag draped over a stage monitor etc and it offends nobody...it demonstrates a bit of pride in your roots which is totally fine. It just doesn't need the OTT behaviour or crowd nonsense. But mags just can't seem to help themselves, and the fact he's a massive plastic hypocrite makes it ten times worse.
 
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The Great Soprendo said:
Can be done in a subtle way without alienating anyone. Have been to gigs where band members wear a football shirt or have a flag draped over a stage monitor etc and it offends nobody...it demonstrates a bit of pride in your roots which is totally fine. It just doesn't need the OTT behaviour or crowd nonsense. But mags just can't seem to help themselves, and the fact he's a massive plastic hypocrite makes it ten times worse.
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Well said mate. Totally agree.
 
The Great Soprendo said:
Can be done in a subtle way without alienating anyone. Have been to gigs where band members wear a football shirt or have a flag draped over a stage monitor etc and it offends nobody...it demonstrates a bit of pride in your roots which is totally fine. It just doesn't need the OTT behaviour or crowd nonsense. But mags just can't seem to help themselves, and the fact he's a massive plastic hypocrite makes it ten times worse.
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chriswallace85 said:
Yeah. There's an overriding feeling on here that's it's just a mag thing, but it's not like. Them bastards have just latched onto it, and he's played right up to it in return.

To be absolutely fair to the lad, I can understand the dream of playing your local stadium. Who wouldn't wanna do that. The whole Sunday for Sammy on super roids with the whole Keegan era nostalgia thrown in (ridiculous in itself given the soppy twat wasn't even born 'til '94) is just so over the top it's ridiculous.
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I get that he's basically had no option but to go along with it. in contrast kasabian played at King Power after Leicester won the league FFS and it wasn't exactly a Leicester fest, don't think there was a flag in sight
 
At first I thought he was a bit better than a lot of modern artists. But then the samieness gets to me.
If you’re going to ape Springsteen why have what sounds like a drum machine? Nee Max Weinbergs?
The Boss’s stuff would be a hell of a lot less interesting without the rhythmic varieties.
Fender just seems to have a constant “build to a crescendo” idea. Monotonous.
 
Can't think of any artist who has pushed a football team agenda as much as him. And it doesn't seem to just happen at his Newcastle gigs.

I suppose you could argue Oasis to an extent, but i don't think they ever created an environment where rival fans would feel uncomfortable going to one of their gigs.
 
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