Sam Fender

[homesick]

8 hours ago, StuwieG said:

Very meh! Album filler track

Incredibly underwhelming 
 

On that note, I’m a Sam Fender fan but this did make me laugh
 

 

[NorthernSoul52]

Just spun it for the first time, and yeah, there's no immediate rush. Is this actually a single, or just a radio play cut? Because if that's considered the second-strongest track to come out of the gates for the new record, it might underwhelm more than we think.

 

Know we had discussion on size - he's a Pyramid headliner or nothing for me - but if the record is mid-tempo country in a not-dissimilar vein to this, I can't see it being exactly too propulsive for the future commercial numbers.

[Sam Y]

Apparently he's said there will be an announcement tomorrow during his gig tonight which lines up with trnsmt's announcement

[Justcalledtosay]

I feel like it's looking less and less likely he's headlining next year.

[NorthernSoul52]

Yeah, I think he's off the table for Glastonbury now. A shame - I know many in the main headliners thread weren't fully enamoured with him, and I cannot say today's new track is exactly the kind of song you'd want to arrive midway through a Pyramid-topping set - but think it would have been a cracker.

[Sam Y]

I could see a secret set now potentially

[efcfanwirral]

Won't post it here in case people don't want to see spoilers but I can't say tonight's setlist has exactly made me excited for Saturday 

[StuwieG]

Seeing him on Friday in Manc. 
 

Just had a quick look. Not too bad, always a weird tour when acts do this just before the album comes out. Can’t believe them 2 song are still on the setlist though 😧

[NorthernSoul52]

And here I thought we'd finally see the death of the Spice-Death Queue combo. 

 

Criminal to keep them and maintain an absence for The Dying Light, personally. 

[StuwieG]

Just been listening to his live album on the way to work. His version of the dying light on that is amazing. Probably just means he hasn’t got a piano for this winter tour. Will be back for the summer 

[NorthernSoul52]

You'd hope so. It's one of those he seems to shuffle out willy-nilly.

 

The first leg of the arena runs around Seventeen Going Under came before the record's release, so I don't think it figured in the setlists. He definitely didn't play it in Leeds, where padding was provided by two different Bruce Springsteen covers.

[aident93]

I'm seeing him on Saturday in Manchester too. Regardless of what day the gig is, to not play "Saturday" is a huge oversight. Its a crowd pleaser! And only 15 songs on the setlist is pretty poor IMO. A shame songs like Dying Light, Play God and That Sound are missing 

[aident93]

A secret set at Glasto for Sam then? Do we think he's above headlining Other Stage? 

[NorthernSoul52]

That's the thing with Fender - he could easily stretch to the eighteen-song mark when the new album hits and not have too much waffle in there.

 

I don't know if it is his health issues, or what not, but a reluctance to push his show lengths beyond the bare minimum at arena level feels a bit cheap, especially at the current climate.

 

Probably spoiled by Springsteen playing three-hour shindigs myself, mind you.

[aident93]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

That's the thing with Fender - he could easily stretch to the eighteen-song mark when the new album hits and not have too much waffle in there.

 

I don't know if it is his health issues, or what not, but a reluctance to push his show lengths beyond the bare minimum at arena level feels a bit cheap, especially at the current climate.

 

Probably spoiled by Springsteen playing three-hour shindigs myself, mind you.

Agreed, 18 songs is the bare minimum in my eyes. 15 songs is about 1hr 10 of music plus chatter in-between songs. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Let's say you don't want to play more than three from the new record on this tour. Fair enough, so swing in on:

 

1 The Kitchen

2 Getting Started

3 The Borders

4 Wild Long Lie

5 All Is On My Side

6 That Sound

7 Spit of You

8 Will We Talk?

9 Arms Length

10 Dead Boys

11 Mantra

12 Play God

13 Get You Down

14 Saturday

15 Seventeen Going Under

 

16 The Dying Light

17 People Watching

18 Hypersonic Missiles

Edited December 3, 2024 by NorthernSoul52

[aident93]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Let's say you don't want to play more than three from the new record on this tour. Fair enough, so swing in on:

 

1 The Kitchen

2 Getting Started

3 The Borders

4 Wild Long Lie

5 All Is On My Side

6 Will We Talk?

7 Spit of You

8 Will We Talk?

9 Arms Length

10 Dead Boys

11 Mantra

12 Play God

13 Get You Down

14 Saturday

15 Seventeen Going Under

 

16 The Dying Light

17 People Watching

18 Hypersonic Missiles

Spot on! Great setlist, apart from 'Will We Talk?' twice... 😉 I'd feel like I'd got my money's worth with that. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, aident93 said:

Spot on! Great setlist, apart from 'Will We Talk?' twice... 😉 I'd feel like I'd got my money's worth with that. 

Noticed as soon as it went live and was mid-crafty edit! 🤣

[aident93]

Just looking back at his St James Park gigs in 2023 - Sam Fender Concert Setlist at St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne on June 10, 2023 | setlist.fm

 

If you take out "Going Home", "Happy Birthday" and the 2 ACDC songs (I'll leave "I'm on Fire" in there), you're down to about 17 songs but that's expected after 2 albums. For me, he should be dropping a couple of them 17 and playing 3/4 new ones on this tour. But as @StuwieG said earlier, it's always a strange tour before the full album is released

[NorthernSoul52]

Definitely. Imagine you get six or seven from the new record, an obvious five from Seventeen Going Under - the title track, Spit of You, Get You Down, Getting Started and (sigh) Howdon Aldi Death Queue - and then probably four from the debut though. Still don't think he'll push much past the fifteen or sixteen song mark.

[StuwieG]

1 hour ago, aident93 said:

Just looking back at his St James Park gigs in 2023 - Sam Fender Concert Setlist at St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne on June 10, 2023 | setlist.fm

 

If you take out "Going Home", "Happy Birthday" and the 2 ACDC songs (I'll leave "I'm on Fire" in there), you're down to about 17 songs but that's expected after 2 albums. For me, he should be dropping a couple of them 17 and playing 3/4 new ones on this tour. But as @StuwieG said earlier, it's always a strange tour before the full album is released

Didn’t Coldplay headline Glasto before an album came out (can’t remember which one?) Remember Chris Martin saying “you don’t know this songs now but you’ll love them soon” 

[aident93]

6 minutes ago, StuwieG said:

Didn’t Coldplay headline Glasto before an album came out (can’t remember which one?) Remember Chris Martin saying “you don’t know this songs now but you’ll love them soon” 

2002 I believe, before A Rush of Blood to the Head came out... although I feel like I have read before that they did replace someone that year as headliners 

[DomDom1984]

They replaced The Strokes. Who were even further away from releasing album 2.

[Dg_vic]

I bloody love Howden Aldi Death queue.  Glad he kept it in (although would prefer Aye to Spice.)

[The life of Pablo]

58 minutes ago, StuwieG said:

Didn’t Coldplay headline Glasto before an album came out (can’t remember which one?) Remember Chris Martin saying “you don’t know this songs now but you’ll love them soon” 

2011  - then started the set with 'Hurts Like Heaven'