Sam Fender has teased more tour dates following his intimate Plymouth show this coming weekend.
The ‘Seventeen Going Under’ singer-songwriter will play at the 2,500-capacity Plymouth Pavilions venue on Saturday (August 3) as a warm-up for his headline set at Boardmasters 2024 a week later (10).
Tickets for the small gig were soon snapped up by fans, but Fender has promised that further dates are on the horizon.
“Wow, that was rapid,” he wrote in response to the Plymouth sell-out, before adding: “More dates coming soon x.” You can see the post below.
This weekend’s show will mark Fender’s first live performance since he headlined Reading & Leeds 2023 last August.
Earlier this year, the musician gave an update on his forthcoming third studio album.
“We have been recording and recording and making loads of stuff but it got to the point where I thought, ‘We don’t need to get this out yet. We need to get it right’,” Fender explained.
“For the second one [‘Seventeen Going Under’], we rushed to get that out and the third one we started rushing and I thought, ‘No, we have got to take the time’.”
He added: “I want to do the best I possibly can. I’d rather it be late and great than early and shite. What we have got so far I am absolutely over the moon with but I want to give it that bit more time and more thought.”
Last summer, Fender announced special Newcastle editions of his next album by sharing QR codes across the city. It came ahead of his huge homecoming concerts at St James’ Park stadium.
Speaking to NME in September 2022, Fender described 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 said at the time. “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.”
Since dropping the Mercury Prize-nominated ‘Seventeen Going Under’ – which was named NME‘s Album Of The Year in 2021 – Fender has shared 2024 song ‘Iris’, taken from the Jackdaw soundtrack, and his Noah Kahan collaboration ‘Homesick’.
He has also teased new material with The War On Drugs frontman Adam Granduciel.
Sam Fender will headline Boardmasters 2024 alongside Stormzy and Chase & Status.