Brit Award-winner Sam Fender was a star attraction at the Alan Shearer Foundation Ball on Saturday night and while singing about 'going under' he was was going down a storm with the guests.
The North Shields singer-songwriter took to the stage - with black and white-stripe guitar - at the Hilton hotel in Gateshead to whip up the crowd during a lavish night of entertainment and fund-raising. And he had guests on their feet, dancing and cheering during the title track of his second album Seventeen Going Under; the song which also won him an Ivor Novello Award.
Fender was among a number of familiar faces at the ball which is an annual event on the Alan Shearer Foundation calendar. The Foundation was set up by the former Newcastle striker turned manager and now TV pundit to support his Alan Shearer Centre in the city whose mission is to raise at least £250,000 each year to support people with disabilities.
