Sam Fender has introduced particular celebratory Newcastle editions of his subsequent album by sharing QR codes throughout town.
The announcement comes forward of the singer-songwriter’s long-awaited stay reveals, which can see over 100,000 followers flock to Newcastle’s St James’ Park stadium this weekend.
The primary present of the two-night residency will happen tonight (June 9), and can see the Geordie artist and his band carry out the most important gig of his profession to date. Assist acts for the present embrace Hector Gannet, Holly Humberstone and Inhaler.
The latter of the 2 reveals will probably be held on the identical venue tomorrow (June 10), and can characteristic help from Holly Humberstone, Wunderhorse and Ernie. Discover any remaining tickets right here.
Now, up to now few days working as much as the reveals — which can make him the first-ever native artist to headline the venue — a collection of billboards appeared near the stadium, and piqued followers’ curiosity.
The posters contained three variations of Newcastle United shirts, each representing one of many his albums. The primary confirmed the garment with the primary on it — representing his debut 2019 album, ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ — and the second confirmed the quantity two, referring to his second LP ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’, which arrived in 2021.
It was the third shirt on the poster that caught followers’ consideration, nonetheless, which merely confirmed a QR code subsequent to it.
the billboards outdoors st james park with the qr code go to this web page > https://t.co/2QDNTCWU17
perhaps we’ll have information a couple of third album ahead of we expect 👀 pic.twitter.com/70OJlMKArX
— sam fender recordsdata (@samfenderfiles) June 8, 2023
Whereas followers had been saved in suspense over the previous couple of days, this morning the QR code went stay — revealing itself to be a hyperlink for followers to pre-order a particular version commemorative St James’ Park image discs of the musician’s upcoming third album.
Two completely different image discs will probably be supplied (one for every night time of the present) and each are set to characteristic images from the upcoming gigs, which can undoubtedly be a major milestone in Fender’s profession.
Each of the image disks can be found on the musician’s on-line retailer, and can solely be on provide to followers for one week — shutting off at 6pm subsequent Saturday (June 17). Discover out extra data right here.
Talking to NME about this weekend’s large gigs, Fender has promised performances of a handful of tracks from 2021’s acclaimed ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’ that he and his band haven’t managed to play stay but, in addition to providing that there’ll “in all probability be songs from one other album that hasn’t come out but.”
Describing the brand new music as sounding “very fairly” with a powerful “singer-songwriter” vibe, Fender revealed that he has already written a variety of songs for the subsequent album.
Regardless of stadiums being on the horizon, Fender stated that he wasn’t planning on writing music purely to fill enormous venues.
“If I try to power myself to put in writing stadium songs, we might find yourself fucking it I feel,” he admitted. “As an alternative, I wish to write concerning the tales that I’ve and the place that I’m mentally at in my life at this level. And I’ve had so much to put in writing about.”
In different Sam Fender information, final month the 29-year-old shared his emotional response to assembly his musical hero Bruce Springsteen for the primary time.
This got here after he supported The Boss in Ferrara, Italy on Could 18, then later once more at his present in Rome on Could 21. Following the primary slot, the musician shared an image of himself with tears in his eyes. “FUCK,” he captioned it. “Simply met the boss.”
A follow-up video confirmed Fender and his bandmates reflecting on the expertise as they travelled again from the venue. “I’m gonna fucking whitey, me,” he stated in disbelief. “It was the maddest factor ever.”
Fender can be on account of headline TRNSMT and Studying & Leeds this summer time. Moreover, he’ll make appearances at numerous European festivals together with Rock Werchter, Sziget and NorthSide.
