“Are ye’ even in a band if you don’t wish you were in The Clash?” Sam Fender asked the 20,000 strong crowd at London’s O2 Arena last night. With five of his close friends in the band behind him, and ...

A canny piece of marketing that, and pity any Sunderland fans in attendance, hearing terrace chants belted out disparaging their club as people queued for entry. The party atmosphere continued inside ...

Sam Fender doesn't like being compared to Bruce Springsteen. The 'Getting Started' rocker has admitted that, despite being a huge fan of The Boss, 73, he is "not too keen on that tag". Sam, 28, is ...

Of late, Sam Fender has seemed to be 30 going under. As he was rocketed into the head-spinning, highly pressurised sphere of ...

The youngest son of a nurse and an electrician, Sam Fender was born in North Shields in 1994. His dad, who became a music teacher later in his life, played with other tradesmen in social club bands on ...

The 31-year-old is, like his beloved club, now playing at the highest level. It is a transition he has managed with ease, given the North Shields native has always possessed a large sound and adapting ...