The Latest Breaking News from Sam Fender

Indie, R&B and folk musicians up for Brits Rising Star prize

Since Sam Fender in 2019, the last five awards have been won by female acts, with the 2025 shortlist featuring an all-male line-up.

Evening Standard · Nov 26, 2024

Sam Fender announces three huge stadium headline shows to promote new album ‘People Watching’

In a record booking that overtakes The Rolling Stones, Sam Fender has announced three huge stadium headline shows for next summer in support of his forthcoming new album ‘People Watching’.

BANG Premier · Nov 22, 2024

Sam Fender set to release new album People Watching in February

Sam Fender has shared the tracklisting and released date for his eagerly awaited third studio album.

BANG Premier · Nov 14, 2024

“An absolutely genius video presentation”: New video for Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single reveals who played what on the 50-guitarist-strong instrumental epic

The cleverly put together clip picks apart the many pieces of the nine-minute track, putting the spotlight on the track's A-list contributors

Guitar World · Mar 22, 2024

“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?

Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities

MusicRadar · Mar 15, 2024

"I think what we’ve had is an embarrassment of riches, really" – Mark Knopfler announces all-star charity band with over 60 members with Gilmour, Ringo, Jeff Beck, Sting, Clapton and Brian May all onboard

They've recorded a new version of Knopfler's Going Home: Theme From Local Hero

MusicRadar · Feb 8, 2024

‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024

Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2024

"People are having big songs, but big artists are not coming through" – former Columbia Records UK boss on the outlook for breaking into the mainstream

Ferdy Unger-Hamilton was Columbia Music UK president and has worked with some of the industry's biggest success stories since the '90s

MusicRadar · Jan 11, 2024

Indie band the Last Dinner Party win Brit awards’ Rising Star category

Award previously won by the likes of Adele and Sam Fender tips new artists for success

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023

On my radar: Hayley Squires’s cultural highlights

The Bafta-nominated British actor on the book that broke her heart, a gig to remember with 50,000 Geordies, and Daniel Kaluuya’s new film

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2023