Sam Fender launches Newcastle editions of new album with QR codes across city ahead of homecoming gigs
nme.comSam Fender has announced special celebratory Newcastle editions of his next album by sharing QR codes across the city.The announcement comes ahead of the singer-songwriter’s long-awaited live shows, which will see over 100,000 fans flock to Newcastle’s St James’ Park stadium this weekend.The first show of the two-night residency will take place tonight (June 9), and will see the Geordie artist and his band perform the biggest gig of his career so far.
Support acts for the show include Hector Gannet, Holly Humberstone and Inhaler.The latter of the two shows will be held at the same venue tomorrow (June 10), and will feature support from Holly Humberstone, Wunderhorse and Ernie.
Find any remaining tickets here.Now, in the past few days running up to the shows — which will make him the first-ever local artist to headline the venue — a series of billboards appeared close to the stadium, and piqued fans’ curiosity.The posters contained three variations of Newcastle United shirts, each one representing one of the his albums.
The first showed the garment with the number one on it — representing his debut 2019 album, ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ — and the second showed the number two, referring to his second LP ‘Seventeen Going Under’, which arrived in 2021.It was the third shirt on the poster that caught fans’ attention, however, which simply showed a QR code next to it.the billboards outside st james park with the qr code go to this page > https://t.co/2QDNTCWU17maybe we'll have news about a third album sooner than we think.
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