{"id":104465,"date":"2019-08-03T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/03\/sam-fender-i-dont-want-to-cling-on-to-the-class-hero-thing\/"},"modified":"2019-08-03T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:00:53","slug":"sam-fender-i-dont-want-to-cling-on-to-the-class-hero-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=104465","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fender: \u2018I don\u2019t want to cling on to the \u201cclass hero\u201d thing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid pop\u2019s wave of bland, relatable boys with guitars, the North Shields musician offers spikier songs about faceless politicians and the pressures on young men. He discusses life in the north east, poverty, and fighting to be taken seriouslyThere isn\u2019t a taxi driver in Newcastle who doesn\u2019t have something to say about Sam Fender, local lad done good. There\u2019s the one who confides, as if revealing an insider secret, that he\u2019s \u201ca nice kid, and a star for the future.\u201d Another, who says: \u201cWe\u2019ve got him, Ant and Dec and Cheryl Cole who feel proud to be geordie \u2013 not like Alan Shearer, he\u2019s arrogant.\u201d Everyone seems to have seen him play in the Low Lights Tavern, where the singer-songwriter fairytale goes that he was spotted by Ben Howard\u2019s manager, scored a deal with Polydor Records, and then a lot more people were hearing about \u201cboy racers tearing down the Beehive Road\u201d (a line from his song Leave Town). They like that Fender hasn\u2019t forgotten his roots.I\u2019m hoofing it across town because tomorrow Fender is playing his biggest show yet, for 4,000 people at Tynemouth Castle, five minutes from where he lives with his mum in North Shields, half an hour outside the city centre on a cliff edge overlooking the sea. As Fender tells it, these majestic ruins are supposedly where Sting lost his virginity, but they will now also be known as the venue that the 25-year-old singer-songwriter sold out in just 40 minutes. Come the gig, hundreds more people who don\u2019t have tickets snake around the bay with picnics and pints, watching from afar. He makes jokes about egging the local shop and calls out schools (Kings, the private one, gets the biggest boo). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/aug\/03\/sam-fender-interview-hypersonic-missiles-class-hero\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Fender: \u2018I don\u2019t want to cling on to the \u201cclass hero\u201d thing\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid pop\u2019s wave of bland, relatable boys with guitars, the North Shields musician offers spikier songs about faceless politicians and the pressures on young men. He discusses life in the north east, poverty, and fighting to be taken seriouslyThere isn\u2019t a taxi driver in Newcastle who doesn\u2019t have something to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}