Sam Fender announces intimate Boardmasters warm-up show
Sam Fender has shared details of an intimate show, which will serve as a warm-up for his upcoming slot at Boardmasters. Find ticket details below.
Announced today (July 23), the newly shared live show will be held at the Plymouth Pavilions at the start of August.
Scheduled for August 3, the gig comes just a week before the singer, songwriter and guitarist is expected to play a massive headline slot at the UK festival the following weekend (August 10).
It will mark one of Fender’s first live shows in 2024 – arriving nearly a year after he took on the mammoth headline slots at Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2023.
Tickets for the Plymouth gig go on sale this Friday (July 26) at 10am BST. Additionally, a pre-sale will be available to fans who signed up the the artist’s mailing list, and that will go live at 10am tomorrow (July 24). Visit here to buy tickets.
News of the upcoming show comes as the musician is gearing up to release new material, and has hinted that a new project will be released towards the end of the year.
If it turns out to be a full-length album, the release will mark the long-awaited follow-up to his chart-topping, Mercury Prize-nominated LP ‘Seventeen Going Under’, which arrived back in 2021.
Fans have been expecting Fender’s third album since he shared some mysterious QR codes ahead of his 2023 Newcastle homecoming gigs, which turned out to be special edition Newcastle discs of his upcoming record.
He also spoke about his next record in an interview with NME last year, describing his new music as “very pretty” with a strong “singer-songwriter” vibe. “If I try and force myself to write stadium songs, we could end up fucking it I think,” he admitted. “Instead, I want to write about the stories that I have and the place that I’m mentally at in my life at this point. And I’ve had a lot to write about.”
‘Seventeen Going Under’ was given a four-star review by NME, who wrote: “If ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ was the sound of a young boy kicking out at the world, ‘Seventeen Going Under’ sees Fender realise that it can kick back a lot harder, and he counts every blow and bruise. But he seems to have found that time passes and that most wounds – even the deepest – will eventually heal, if he can allow them to.”
Since then, Fender has gone on to release singles including 2024’s soulful ‘Iris‘, taken from the Jackdaw soundtrack, and his Noah Kahan collaboration ‘Homesick‘. He has also teased new music with The War On Drugs frontman Adam Granduciel.
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