Sam Fender teases more tour dates “coming soon”
nme.comSam 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.A post shared by Sam Fender (@sam_fender)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.
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