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Sam Fender

S.S.R.. said:
I'm honestly in the "How is he so famous, I've only heard that one so-so song in a few years" camp, but that new track is great, tbf

His voice reminds me of some of the stuff on Brandon Flowers' solo album, which I really like..

If the rest of the album is in that vein, I'll be listening to that quite a bit.

Don't understand the Bruce Springsteen comparisons cos all Bruce seems to do is shout and mumble in a gruff voice.

He should back off on the cringe AM A GEOOORDIE patter, cos it only alienates folk and makes him look like a pleb, when he's clearly a talented lad.
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The lead singer and songwriter for The War on Drugs has produced the album.

Song has finger prints all over it, pretty much just a song they'd record with a different singer.

So bodes well as he already had their sound in songs like the Borders. So hopefully many more songs like it.

I honestly think most on this thread would be wanking themselves daft if he was a Sunderland lad.

I couldn't go see him in Newcastle at it's just a love in for your lot. In terms of famousness, he was played a lot on Radio 1 when Hypersonic Missiles came out. Then since then he's always on Radio X so hitting the right target audiences to be big.

Also on the famous front when he played at the landfill, my Instagram/Facebook was full of people I went to school with that never gave a fuck about football and/or like shite music. All wearing barcodes and brown ale Sam Fender bucket hats.

So playing up to that bollocks has tricked a bunch of morons. that probably hadn't even heard his music into parting with a bunch of money just to say they were there and plaster it on social media.
 
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I like his stuff, shame he's locked into the mag mindset. I took the youngest to see him at Sid James's. He (the bairn, not SF) scored with this lass right in front of me, the cheeky little shit. I also left a Sunlun sticker in the men's bogs up high on the way out. Was a canny gig tbh, Inhaler supporting were choss
 
mackembhoy said:
The lead singer and songwriter for The War on Drugs has produced the album.

Song has finger prints all over it, pretty much just a song they'd record with a different singer.

So bodes well as he already had their sound in songs like the Borders. So hopefully many more songs like it.

I honestly think most on this thread would be wanking themselves daft if he was a Sunderland lad.

I couldn't go see him in Newcastle at it's just a love in for your lot. In terms of famousness, he was played a lot on Radio 1 when Hypersonic Missiles came out. Then since then he's always on Radio X so hitting the right target audiences to be big.

Also on the famous front when he played at the landfill, my Instagram/Facebook was full of people I went to school with that never gave a fuck about football and/or like shite music. All wearing barcodes and brown ale Sam Fender bucket hats.

So playing up to that bollocks has tricked a bunch of morons. that probably hadn't even heard his music into parting with a bunch of money just to say they were there and plaster it on social media.
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The War on Drugs are the most boring band I've ever seen live, and I've seen The National.

Dreadful.
 
Nicky pies said:
I used to like him 2018ish Seen him twice and the second time was unbearable at the arena, an absolutely lifting mag jamboree as somebody else perfectly put it. It was horrific and I’ve been off him more or less since. He has a massive drink and drug problem, that’s why he’s so unreliable with gigs.
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I saw a tweet saying he has serious drug problems, I didn’t know that was the case?
 
S.S.R.. said:
I'm honestly in the "How is he so famous, I've only heard that one so-so song in a few years" camp, but that new track is great, tbf

His voice reminds me of some of the stuff on Brandon Flowers' solo album, which I really like..

If the rest of the album is in that vein, I'll be listening to that quite a bit.

Don't understand the Bruce Springsteen comparisons cos all Bruce seems to do is shout and mumble in a gruff voice.

He should back off on the cringe AM A GEOOORDIE patter, cos it only alienates folk and makes him look like a pleb, when he's clearly a talented lad.
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I've always thought he sounded more Flowers than Springsteen. But then Flowers is a bit Springsteenish himself at times anarl.


He's way of the quality of either anyway.
 
Ruleigan said:
He's far too tied to the small town parochialism to make it really big, which is a shame because he's got the talent to be a global star. His merchandise is properly embarrassing professional geordie stuff.
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Sums the Mags up to a tee. They think of themselves as a cosmopolitan city but they have a small town mentality going on about airports and hot dogs in borga buns.
 
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