Tag: sam fender
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Every Mercury Prize 2025 nominee, ranked
The Mercury Prize is back, and a new album will be crowned as the UK and Ireland’s best in Newcastle on Thursday 16 October. To celebrate this year’s competition, Undertone listened to all 12 nominated albums. Which is the best, and which has the best shot at winning? The verdict is in…
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Sam Fender: People Watching review – the Geordie Springsteen delivers a classic
Valorised Geordie hero Sam Fender paints a vivid picture of ordinary working-class life in this extraordinary third record. Never has Fender’s trademark brand of melancholic beauty sounded so potent.
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Sam Fender live at Motorpoint Arena review – a well-deserved victory lap
Sam Fender will play cleaner sets than the one that opened his grand arena tour of the UK, but that didn’t ruin an evening of raucous singalongs and pinch-me moments.
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Undertone’s best songs of 2021 – part two
With 2021 drawing to a close, it’s time at last to finish our list of the best songs that I’ve discovered this year.
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Sam Fender: Seventeen Going Under review – arena-worthy classics to feed the soul
Whilst Fender’s expansive, often breathtaking sophomore record may not be flawless, it has more than its fair share of genius songwriting and lyricism thanks to a potent concoction of sepia nostalgia and brave sociopolitical lessons for the here and now.
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