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Sam Fender


nelford_safc said:
Their lasses ‘want to go’ because it was the ‘thing’ to do that weekend. The place to be.

If your lass is like that you may as well bin her off and shag someone else.

I think the main issue is that some people do genuinely find his banter and his music a load of shit but you’re just accused of being a salty Mackem.

I think the Futureheads are shit as well. And other than the song Shipyards, ThebLake Poets are shit. Happy to admit Sunderland music acts are shit but if I think anything from Newcastle is shit I’m just salty.

No doubt we’ll get the annual Sunderland is a dump anecdote from Ant and Dec at this years I’m a celeb but we’ll all get told how to feel about. We’ll get told it’s just a laugh.

Go on national TV and call Newcastle a shithole though and the difference in reaction is telling.
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This is what I say. No respect for you if you’re expected to go to that cobblers
 
The way I see it is that the people who attended the gigs fall into 2 categories. 1. People who just want to go to a stadium gig where it could have been some others background music type like The Foo Fighters or Coldplay which is fair enough. And 2. Out and out mags who see these gigs as an extension of a mag game and are able to have a wankathon so they can let the world know how much of a fan they are. Either way I wouldn't want to go anywhere near it, but that's just my opinion.
 
The Great MES said:
The way I see it is that the people who attended the gigs fall into 2 categories. 1. People who just want to go to a stadium gig where it could have been some others background music type like The Foo Fighters or Coldplay which is fair enough. And 2. Out and out mags who see these gigs as an extension of a mag game and are able to have a wankathon so they can let the world know how much of a fan they are. Either way I wouldn't want to go anywhere near it, but that's just my opinion.
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Where do ‘Sunderland supporters’ who go to see Sam fender at st James fall though? I see it as very strange indeed. Must have been forced to go by their lass surely and have no say in anything anymore.
 
OOOSH YEAH said:
Where do ‘Sunderland supporters’ who go to see Sam fender at st James fall though? I see it as very strange indeed. Must have been forced to go by their lass surely and have no say in anything anymore.
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That is strange. I could understand if Sam Fender was an artist who you could get passionate about. But like I say he's just background noise for people who don't go to proper gigs but just want to go to the odd stadium show during the summer.
 
The Great MES said:
The way I see it is that the people who attended the gigs fall into 2 categories. 1. People who just want to go to a stadium gig where it could have been some others background music type like The Foo Fighters or Coldplay which is fair enough. And 2. Out and out mags who see these gigs as an extension of a mag game and are able to have a wankathon so they can let the world know how much of a fan they are. Either way I wouldn't want to go anywhere near it, but that's just my opinion.
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My sister in law has no interest in football but was on Facebook asking to borrow a barcode shirt to wear to the gig so that she could "fit in" with her friends.
 
I saw in Finsbury Park about 3 years ago. He’s decent live and has 3/4 good songs. His new album is shit thought tbh. Anyway, the gig was full of southerners wearing fake/“old school” mag gear and screaming about “King Kev” and “She-Ra”. They’re dumb pricks tbh.
 
TDalt said:
I saw in Finsbury Park about 3 years ago. He’s decent live and has 3/4 good songs. His new album is shit thought tbh. Anyway, the gig was full of southerners wearing fake/“old school” mag gear and screaming about “King Kev” and “She-Ra”. They’re dumb pricks tbh.
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Is this honestly what happens at his gigs outside of the NE?

I find it hard to believe unless they’re Geordies down south.
 
It’s a bit puzzling for an artiste to so closely associate themselves with a football club that even people who aren’t associated with that town/city, or don’t even like football, turn up at gigs in football strips. If that’s true.

I mean, it’s very well known that the Gallaghers are Man City supporters but even then they don’t seem to make such a fuss about it.

But the more puzzling thing is how Fender seems to go out of his way to alienate people from his team’s local rivals.

Lindisfarne, back in the day, were well known as being from Newcastle. Iirc one or two of their number even wore a football shirt onstage at times. They even sang a song about the bloody Tyne ffs. But being keen on your own team and/or town doesn’t mean you have to deride people who happen to be from another nearby town.

It seems a very random way to attract attention. I mean, what if it wasn’t just a local rivalry? Would it make equal sense for, say, a band who come from Bolton to take it into their heads to deride people from Edinburgh, and piss them off for no apparent reason or benefit?
 
BiG said:
It’s a bit puzzling for an artiste to so closely associate themselves with a football club that even people who aren’t associated with that town/city, or don’t even like football, turn up at gigs in football strips. If that’s true.

I mean, it’s very well known that the Gallaghers are Man City supporters but even then they don’t seem to make such a fuss about it.

But the more puzzling thing is how Fender seems to go out of his way to alienate people from his team’s local rivals.

Lindisfarne, back in the day, were well known as being from Newcastle. Iirc one or two of their number even wore a football shirt onstage at times. They even sang a song about the bloody Tyne ffs. But being keen on your own team and/or town doesn’t mean you have to deride people who happen to be from another nearby town.

It seems a very random way to attract attention. I mean, what if it wasn’t just a local rivalry? Would it make equal sense for, say, a band who come from Bolton to take it into their heads to deride people from Edinburgh, and piss them off for no apparent reason or benefit?
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Also sang Sunderland Boys.
 
MackneyHackem said:
Is this honestly what happens at his gigs outside of the NE?

I find it hard to believe unless they’re Geordies down south.
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Lass I know from Manchester came up for one of the gigs, no interest in football, no links to Newcastle, posted pictures of herself at the gig in black and white.
It's like wearing a bucket hat at a roses gig, or double denim at a def leopard gig, just what you do.
 
BiG said:
It’s a bit puzzling for an artiste to so closely associate themselves with a football club that even people who aren’t associated with that town/city, or don’t even like football, turn up at gigs in football strips. If that’s true.

I mean, it’s very well known that the Gallaghers are Man City supporters but even then they don’t seem to make such a fuss about it.

But the more puzzling thing is how Fender seems to go out of his way to alienate people from his team’s local rivals.

Lindisfarne, back in the day, were well known as being from Newcastle. Iirc one or two of their number even wore a football shirt onstage at times. They even sang a song about the bloody Tyne ffs. But being keen on your own team and/or town doesn’t mean you have to deride people who happen to be from another nearby town.

It seems a very random way to attract attention. I mean, what if it wasn’t just a local rivalry? Would it make equal sense for, say, a band who come from Bolton to take it into their heads to deride people from Edinburgh, and piss them off for no apparent reason or benefit?
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Must have imagined the kit Noel Gallagher helped design for Man City
 
Brian Griffin said:
Must have imagined the kit Noel Gallagher helped design for Man City
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I’ve already acknowledged that the Gallagher brothers are well known as Man City supporters. Or did I imagine that?

But does Noel Gallagher make regular pronouncements from the stage deriding or insulting Man Utd fans? If he does, I was unaware. But that’s as daft as Fender doing that for Sunderland supporters.
 
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