Sam Fender Releases Title Track "People Watching" Off Upcoming Album
SAM FENDER UNVEILS NEW SINGLE, “PEOPLE WATCHING,” THE TITLE TRACK FROM HIS NEW ALBUM - LISTEN HERE
ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE VIA CAPITOL RECORDS ON FEBRUARY 21, 2025
PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE
FENDER ANNOUNCES 2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
SOLD-OUT UK/IRELAND ARENA TOUR KICKS OFF DECEMBER 2, 2024
MARCH 2025 EUROPEAN RUN ALSO SOLD OUT
North American Dates – 2025
2/11 – Webster Hall - New York, NY
4/5 – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre - Vancouver, BC
4/7 – The Paramount Theatre - Seattle, WA
4/9 – Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
4/11 – Fox Theater - Oakland, CA
4/21 – Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
4/23 – The Union Event Center - Salt Lake City, UT
4/24 – The Fillmore - Denver, CO
UK/Ireland/European Dates 2024
(support from Wunderhorse):
12/2 – 3Arena, Dublin (SOLD OUT)
12/4 – First Direct Arena, Leeds (SOLD OUT)
12/6 – Co-Op Live, Manchester (SOLD OUT)
12/7 – Co-Op Live, Manchester (SOLD OUT)
12/10 – The O2, London (SOLD OUT)
12/12 – The O2, London (SOLD OUT)
12/13 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham (SOLD OUT)
12/16 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)
12/17 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow (SOLD OUT)
12/20 – Utilita Arena, Newcastle (SOLD OUT)
2025 (support from CMAT):
3/4 – Olympia, Paris (SOLD OUT)
3/5 – 013 Poppodium, Tilburg (SOLD OUT)
3/8 – Halle 622, Zurich (SOLD OUT)
3/10 – Palladium, Cologne (SOLD OUT)
3/12 – Zenith, Munich
3/13 – ChorusLife Arena, Bergamo
3/16 – Uber Eats Music Hall, Berlin (SOLD OUT)
3/18 – Afas Live, Amsterdam (SOLD OUT)
3/19 – Forest National, Brussels (SOLD OUT)
Two-time BRIT Award winner Sam Fender shares the title track from his third album, People Watching, today. The anthemic song is the sound of an artist landing squarely on what makes music so joyous and emotionally resonant. “People Watching” was inspired by Annie Orwin, his late friend and mentor. Fender produced the song with The War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, a musician Sam has a long-standing admiration for. Listen to “People Watching” HERE.
If Seventeen Going Under – Fender’s sophomore album and second to debut at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart – was his “coming of age” album, his forthcoming work is his next step – colorful stories and observations of everyday characters living their everyday, but often extraordinary, lives. Sam produced People Watching alongside bandmates Dean Thompson and Joe Atkinson over two years, working first in London in 2023 with producer Markus Dravs, and then earlier this year in Los Angeles with Granduciel. See below for track listing. People Watching will be released on February 21, 2025, via Capitol Records. Pre-order HERE. View the album trailer HERE.
The album and single artwork for People Watching was shot by the renowned social documentary photographer Tish Murtha, who documented marginalized communities and working-class life in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Today, Fender announced a North American leg of the People Watching Tour, which he’ll kick off at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre in Vancouver on April 5, 2025. A special one night only underplay at New York City’s Webster Hall will take place prior on February 11, 2025. The artist pre-sale for the North American dates will begin Tuesday, November 19, at 10:00 AM local time. General on-sale begins on Friday, November 22, at 10:00 AM local time. For more information, visit https://www.samfender.com/.
The North American headline shows will give fans a rare opportunity to see Fender perform in intimate settings. The first leg of the tour, which sold out in less than an hour, will bring Sam to arenas across the UK and Ireland this December (140,000+ tickets). His sold-out European tour will follow in March 2025.
Hailing from northeast England, Fender is a British songwriter with a penchant for euphoric, hard-hitting guitar anthems. Out of the gate, he won the BRITs Critics’ Choice award at the end of 2018 and released Hypersonic Missiles, his debut album, the next year. His sophomore effort, 2021’s Seventeen Going Under, was pronounced “stunning” by Rolling Stone UK, which tapped him for the cover of its first issue. Both albums debuted at Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart and have been certified Platinum in Britain.
To date, Fender has amassed over two billion combined global streams, two million adjusted album sales worldwide and a slew of awards, including two BRITs, two NME awards and an Ivor Novello. Over the past few years, he has headlined two stadium shows in his hometown of Newcastle as well as arenas throughout the UK and Ireland and festivals such as Reading/Leeds and Boardmasters. Fender has also supported The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen across Europe, sold out venues across the U.S. and played Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. Hailed as “one of Britain’s biggest music stars” by The New York Times, Fender turns his own experience into art that speaks to and resonates with all of us, like only a truly great songwriter can.
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