The Battle On Medicine’ Adam Granduciel has opened up about working with “musical savant” Sam Fender on his forthcoming album.
Fender will launch his third album ‘Folks Watching’ on February 21 by way of Polydor (pre-order/pre-save right here). The report was produced by Fender alongside his bandmates Dean Thompson and Joe Atkinson, producer Markus Dravs and Granduciel.
The ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’ singer first hinted he had been working with the musician again in March, sharing footage of them within the studio collectively within the US, alongside producers, engineers and different musicians.
In an extra replace from October, he teased that the brand new album was completed and “mastered” with enter from Granduciel, who has since spoken to Guitar.com in regards to the course of.
“I fell in love with him. He’s a savant,” he informed the publication. “Sam and the boys got here out in March for about 5 weeks. We labored on some stuff they’d already began, then we labored on some extra stuff from the bottom up. It was superior. I’d by no means met Sam, however we’d communicated a few times.”
“I fell in love with him,” Granduciel stated. “He’s a savant. Which I wasn’t actually ready for. I didn’t realise how a lot of a musical savant he was.”
He continued: “I’ve this image I’m taking a look at now, above the sink in my kitchen, that I took of the boys. Sam, Joe [Atkinson], Dean [Thompson] and Drew, simply hanging out in my studio. They encourage one another. It’s like my band: everybody can simply sit there for fifteen hours and simply dangle. You don’t have a wildcard, everybody’s straightforward and unfastened, and musical, and good-hearted. It was a blast working collectively.”
As nicely a previewing the album with its title observe ‘Folks Watching‘, final month Fender introduced particulars of three big UK stadium exhibits for subsequent summer time.
Kicking off along with his largest ever headline present at London Stadium on June 6, Fender may even play Newcastle’s St. James’ Park on June 12, 14 and 15. He beforehand performed homecoming gigs on the 52,000-capacity venue in 2023 and these new dates will see Fender break the report for many headline exhibits at St James’ Park, an honour beforehand held by The Rolling Stones.
CMAT will help Fender in any respect three dates and The Battle On Medicine will carry out June 6, 14 and 15. Tickets are on sale for the exhibits right here.
Earlier than that, he’s embarking bark on a UK and Eire tour that kicks off this night (December 2), which incorporates two nights at The O2 in London. £1 from each ticket offered for these dates shall be donated to Music Venue Belief in help of grassroots venues. Discover any remaining tickets right here.
The UK dates shall be adopted by 9 in Europe in March 2025 – discover a full checklist beneath.
Sam Fender’s ‘Folks Watching’ tour dates are:
DECEMBER 2024:
16 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
17 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
20 – Utilita Enviornment, Newcastle
MARCH 2025:
4 – Olympia, Paris
5 – 013 Poppodium, Tilburg
8 – Halle 622, Zurich
10 – Palladium, Cologne
12 – Zenith, Munich
13 – ChorusLife Enviornment, Bergamo
16 – Uber Eats Music Corridor, Berlin
18 – Afas Reside, Amsterdam
19 – Forest Nationwide, Brussels
JUNE 2025:
6 – London Stadium, London
12 – St. James’ Park, Newcastle
14 – St. James’ Park, Newcastle
15 – St. James’ Park, Newcastle
In a four-star assessment of Fender’s live performance in Leeds on December 4, NME wrote: “There’s no radical shake-up of the setlist, however reasonably a way of self-confidence to double down on a dependable method that’s served him nicely.
“Whereas tonight affirms that ‘Folks Watching’ materials should battle for its place, a profitable steadiness of outdated and new might hoist Sam Fender’s profession to unprecedented heights. Glastonbury, anybody?”