Geordie favourite Sam Fender has shared details of an upcoming tour of North America he’s headlining.
The North Shields born and raised singer-songwriter will kick-off a series of gigs in Toronto in July, two days after he plays the Lallapalooza music festival in Chicago. The news comes just days after it was revealed the double Brit award winner is one of six acts who will be supporting Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine on the US leg of her tour to promote her new album, Dance Fever, which comes out in May.
The latter tour will include a date at New York’s prestigious Madison Square Garden on September 16. It will be the second time in just over a month that Fender will have played New York – he finishes his own tour in the Big Apple on August 9 at the Irving Plaza before heading to Budapest in Hungary and Biddinghauzen in the Netherlands for two European dates.
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The North American shows come on the back of a sell-out UK tour which finished with two homecoming concerts at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena in front of 10,000 fans on April 5 and 6.
He had hinted at the US dates on April 24 with a Twitter post showing a Seventeen Going Under billboard in a desert that read 'on tour this summer.' He added a pair of eyes and an American flag emojis.
It won’t be Fender’s first time playing across the Pond. He played a number of North American dates following the release of his first debut studio album, Hypersonic Missiles, in 2019. His trip Stateside included a performance at Lallapalooza as well as on the prime time The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Fender shot to fame following the release of Hypersonic Missiles, and has followed up that success with his latest chart topping album, Seventeen Going Under, which shot to number one in the charts and helped garner him his second Brit award for Best Alternative Rock Act – having already won the Critics’ Choice gong in 2019.
Both his Brit awards have been made into quirky beer hand pulls at the pub where he used to pull pints – the Low Lights Tavern bar on North Shields Fish Quay.
Fender’s North America tour will see him play:
July 30: Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, Canada
July 31: Osheaga Music and Arts Festival in Montreal, Canada
August 5: The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, US
August 6: Outside Lands, San Francisco, US
August 9: Irving Plaza, New York, US
