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Artwork for People Watching

People Watching

5:04

Artwork for Little Bit Closer

Little Bit Closer

3:54

Artwork for Arm's Length

Contains explicit lyricsArm's Length

3:59

Artwork for Nostalgia's Lie

Nostalgia's Lie

4:10

Artwork for Seventeen Going Under

Contains explicit lyricsSeventeen Going Under

4:58

2025

People Watching

© 2025 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for People Watching

People Watching

People Watching

5:04

2025

People Watching

© 2025 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Chin Up

People Watching

3:23

Artwork for TV Dinner

People Watching

4:30

Artwork for People Watching

People Watching

People Watching

5:04

Artwork for Wild Long Lie

People Watching

6:04

Artwork for Arm's Length

People Watching

3:59

Artwork for Remember My Name

Remember My Name

People Watching

3:01

Artwork for Crumbling Empire

Crumbling Empire

People Watching

5:07

Artwork for Something Heavy

Something Heavy

People Watching

3:35

Artwork for Nostalgia's Lie

Nostalgia's Lie

People Watching

4:10

Artwork for Little Bit Closer

Little Bit Closer

People Watching

3:54

Artwork for Rein Me In

People Watching

5:39

2025

Arm's Length

© 2025 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Arm's Length

Contains explicit lyricsArm's Length

3:59

2025

People Watching (Live At The O2 Arena, London)

© 2025 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for People Watching (Live At The O2 Arena)

People Watching (Live At The O2 Arena)

People Watching (Live At The O2 Arena, London)

6:05

2024

Wild Long Lie

© 2024 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Wild Long Lie

6:04

2024

People Watching (Edit)

© 2024 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for People Watching (Edit)

People Watching (Edit)

People Watching (Edit)

4:02

2024

People Watching

© 2024 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for People Watching

People Watching

People Watching

5:04

2022

Wild Grey Ocean

© 2022 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Wild Grey Ocean

Contains explicit lyricsWild Grey Ocean

Wild Grey Ocean

3:57

2022

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

© 2022 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Aye

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:06

Artwork for Better Of Me

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:46

Artwork for Paradigms

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:45

Artwork for Alright

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:26

Artwork for Poltergeists

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

2:35

Artwork for Angel In Lothian

Angel In Lothian

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:10

2022

Alright

© 2022 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Alright

4:26

2021

Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

© 2021 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

Sam Fender, Holly Humberstone

Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

4:31

2021

Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

© 2021 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

Contains explicit lyricsSeventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

Sam Fender, Holly Humberstone

Seventeen Going Under (Acoustic)

4:31

2021

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

© 2021 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Seventeen Going Under

Contains explicit lyricsSeventeen Going Under

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:58

Artwork for Last To Make It Home

Last To Make It Home

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

5:21

Artwork for Getting Started

Getting Started

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:09

Artwork for Good Company

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:46

Artwork for Pretending That You're Dead

Pretending That You're Dead

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

2:59

Artwork for Aye

Contains explicit lyricsAye

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:06

Artwork for Spit Of You

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:33

Artwork for Long Way Off

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:55

Artwork for Get You Down

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:23

Artwork for The Leveller

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:01

Artwork for The Dying Light

The Dying Light

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:57

Artwork for Angel In Lothian

Contains explicit lyricsAngel In Lothian

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:10

Artwork for Mantra

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

4:16

Artwork for Poltergeists

Contains explicit lyricsPoltergeists

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

2:35

Artwork for Better Of Me

Contains explicit lyricsBetter Of Me

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:46

Artwork for Paradigms

Contains explicit lyricsParadigms

Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

3:45

2021

Seventeen Going Under

© 2021 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Seventeen Going Under

Contains explicit lyricsSeventeen Going Under

Seventeen Going Under

4:58

2020

Winter Song

© 2020 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Winter Song

4:10

2020

Hold Out

© 2020 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Hold Out

2:46

2020

Saturday (Instrumental)

© 2019 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Saturday

Contains explicit lyricsSaturday

Saturday (Instrumental)

2:54

Artwork for Saturday (Instrumental)

Saturday (Instrumental)

Saturday (Instrumental)

3:05

2020

Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

© 2019 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Will We Talk?

Contains explicit lyricsWill We Talk?

Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

2:42

Artwork for Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

2:40

Artwork for Will We Talk? (MK Remix)

Contains explicit lyricsWill We Talk? (MK Remix)

Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

3:26

Artwork for Will We Talk? (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

Contains explicit lyricsWill We Talk? (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

Will We Talk? (Instrumental)

2:55

2019

Live At Capitol Studios

© 2019 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for The Borders (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

The Borders (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

Live At Capitol Studios

5:36

Artwork for You're Not The Only One (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

You're Not The Only One (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

Live At Capitol Studios

4:53

Artwork for Will We Talk? (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

Contains explicit lyricsWill We Talk? (live at Capitol Studios, solo)

Live At Capitol Studios

2:55

2019

All Is On My Side

© 2019 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for All Is On My Side

All Is On My Side

All Is On My Side

4:34

2019

The Borders

© 2019 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for The Borders

5:32

2019

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

© 2019 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Hypersonic Missiles

Hypersonic Missiles

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:57

Artwork for Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:58

Artwork for Hypersonic Missiles (Instrumental)

Hypersonic Missiles (Instrumental)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

4:00

Artwork for Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Shields Remix)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Shields Remix)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:58

Artwork for Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Extended Shields Remix)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Extended Shields Remix)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

7:45

Artwork for You're Not The Only One

You're Not The Only One

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

4:35

Artwork for Use (Live)

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:31

Artwork for White Privilege

Contains explicit lyricsWhite Privilege

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:29

Artwork for Call Me Lover

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:21

Artwork for Two People

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:56

Artwork for Will We Talk?

Contains explicit lyricsWill We Talk?

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

2:42

Artwork for Saturday

Contains explicit lyricsSaturday

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

2:54

Artwork for Play God

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:45

Artwork for The Borders

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

5:32

Artwork for That Sound

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:25

Artwork for Dead Boys

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:23

Artwork for Leave Fast

Hypersonic Missiles (Patrick Topping Remix)

3:43

2018

Dead Boys - EP

© 2018 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for That Sound

3:25

Artwork for Dead Boys (Prelude)

Dead Boys (Prelude)

2:01

Artwork for Spice

2:22

Artwork for Poundshop Kardashians

Contains explicit lyricsPoundshop Kardashians

2:37

Artwork for Leave Fast

3:43

Artwork for Dead Boys

3:23

2018

Poundshop Kardashians

© 2018 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Poundshop Kardashians

Contains explicit lyricsPoundshop Kardashians

Poundshop Kardashians

2:37

2018

That Sound

© 2018 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for That Sound

3:25

2018

Dead Boys

© 2018 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Dead Boys

3:23

2018

Friday Fighting

© 2018 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Friday Fighting

Friday Fighting

Friday Fighting

3:10

2018

Greasy Spoon

© 2017 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Greasy Spoon

2:58

2018

Leave Fast (Single Edit)

© 2017 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Leave Fast (Single Edit)

Leave Fast (Single Edit)

Leave Fast (Single Edit)

3:11

2018

Millennial

© 2017 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Millennial

1:46

2018

Play God

© 2017 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Play God

3:45

2018

Start Again

© 2017 Sam Fender, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited

Artwork for Start Again

2:59

Artist bio

In the midst of a sprawl of council estates and terraced houses that snake down the high street on the way east to the Tynemouth coast, there’s a square patch of parched grass with goalposts at each end. Before his guitar offered an escape route from North Shields, Sam Fender would roll around its cracked pavements with nothing much to do and nowhere to go. Invariably, he’d be kicking a ball around or smoking cigarettes, always with a song in his head.

“I love my hometown, but when I was growing up I did feel trapped,” he begins. “I felt suffocated, it was claustrophobic.” Fender couldn’t stand the inertia, and turned to his guitar rather than his A-Levels to find a way past it. A sense of abandon informs his urgent, heartfelt, already essential rock‘n’roll songs, which tell stories of a life on the fringes.

“I grew up in a place where there are lots of kids that came from families that didn’t work, and then they didn’t work,” he says. “There’s a lot of fear involved when you grow up in a town like that, fear that you’re not going to make something of yourself. I mean actually having a life and seeing places, I never wanted to be stuck there. I butchered my A Levels ‘cause I was too busy being an idiot and playing the guitar. I ended up working in the pub for two or three years and I had no direction really, I didn’t know how I could get me music off the ground. It looked almost inevitable that I’d be stuck there…”

Now, Fender has no reason to be afraid. Last year he signed with Polydor Records (building a recording studio close-by the Tyne with the initial outlay) and released the devastating Dead Boys EP. It was a short collection of razor-smart songs that did enough to convince industry heads to vote Sam their BRITs Critics’ Choice for 2019, following the likes of Adele, Florence & The Machine and Sam Smith. This year that momentum has continued to gather apace; bigger shows are selling out, bigger, bolder songs are being written, and with a debut album almost complete, Sam Fender remains the young British songwriter most likely to.

It’s not just his fans and critics that are touched by the tunes, there’s an edge to Fender’s songs that can also make him tremble. The surging, urgent Dead Boys deals explicitly with male suicide and mental health issues, and has caused outpourings of emotion among that growing band of followers. Sam’s song-writing oeuvre is for impassioned observations about the state of the world around us, socially-pertinent, simply relayed. If the happily and blissfully ignorant characters he creates in the essential Hypersonic Missiles sound familiar, and this mythical, destructive world sounds frighteningly similar to our own, well ‘that’s just coincidence’, he grins.

Making his first steps into the US this year, he’s already found welcoming ears. Jimmy Kimmel gave him the floor to perform Hypersonic Missiles for the first time on TV, where Sam sings of American consumers having the wool pulled over their eyes by the master marketeers, whilst the world sits on the brink of destruction. Potent messages aside, the first live shows sold out, replicating the pattern of everywhere else. It takes quite an effort to make a dent out there, but Sam’s primed with a chisel.

“I rant about the stupid stuff we idolise, but feeling helpless because I’m not smart enough to pose an argument for its destruction,” he explains. “I’m panicking all the time. I just don’t understand the world we live in and I think a lot of people feel like that.”

That last point has allowed Sam Fender into the hearts of many. He’s speaking frankly to a confused generation. His vivid stories make his messages loud and clear. This music doesn’t come easy.

“My songs come from a very real place, a lad from the North-East of England writing about what’s in front of his face,” he says. “I never will claim to be an expert about the issues I talk about, but I will try and talk about them.”

One thing Fender can claim to be an expert on is North Shields, the area that has shaped his gnarled, addictive songs more than anything else. “It’s a very proud place. My dad was a club musician, and worked as an electrician and various other jobs. He played social clubs for years, people I grew up with were grafting through the week in different jobs and playing gigs at the weekend,” Fender says. “They were part of a big community and industry that got destroyed in the ‘80s, so I grew up when everything was dismantled.”

With a debut album now receiving its final mixes and slated for unveiling in the Summer, that bleak source material is proving potent inspiration for a blockbuster release.

“This is genuinely all I can do, so I best go and do it.”

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