Benson Boone has coated Sam Fender‘s ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’ on the 2025 Montreux Jazz Pageant – watch the duvet under.
Final evening (July 15), Benson Boone carried out on the Montreux Jazz Pageant in Switzerland. He was initially to share the line-up with Sam Fender, who finally needed to cancel his efficiency on the Swiss competition and his complete run of European dates resulting from a vocal haemorrhage.
Whereas a substitute for Fender wasn’t discovered, Boone carried on together with his set – now bumped as much as the headliner slot – and gave his finest effort to appease the followers who had been hoping to observe Fender carry out dwell.
“Did anybody come right here to see Sam Fender?” he requested earlier than the duvet, admitting he was “terrified” about stepping in to fill his footwear and that he was “anticipating a bunch of indignant folks” hungry for the Geordie star. He advised Fender followers he hoped they might “get 5 per cent out of this stunning music” earlier than bursting into his cowl of ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’.
Watch the efficiency under.
@bensonboonenation Benson Boone overlaying Sam Fender’s Seventeen Going Beneath at Montreux Jazz Pageant #bensonboone #montreuxjazzfestival #samfender
Benson Boone faz cowl de “Seventeen Going Beneath”, canção de Sam Fender. pic.twitter.com/JczqcfDaoa
— Benson Boone Brasil (@BensonBooneBRA) July 15, 2025
After the duvet, Boone gave Fender a shoutout: “We hope you’re doing properly Sam Fender, all of us love you out right here”. Instantly after concluding his set, Boone raced backstage and dove into Lake Geneva proper behind the primary stage – watch footage of that second right here.
As for Sam Fender, he revealed earlier this month (July 5) that he was being compelled to cancel his European competition run after struggling a vocal haemorrhage. He had been checked by an ENT physician at first of that week when his vocal cords had been “barely swollen”, however was given the all-clear to proceed together with his System 1 British Grand Prix headlining set on July 3 “after just a few days relaxation”. Nevertheless, throughout the F1 efficiency, he “might really feel that issues had been loads tougher than common”.
He went on to inform followers: “I felt I wanted to push loads tougher to sing – that is by no means signal… It’s transpired that I’ve had a haemorrhage on considered one of my vocal cords. That is extremely irritating as I’ve been so cautious with my vocal well being and this 12 months thus far has been the most effective of my profession. I’ve been suggested to be on vocal restriction and to not sing for the subsequent 14 days. If I had been to play at these subsequent reveals I might danger inflicting lasting injury to my vocal cords.”
Fender has but to share an replace on his vocal capabilities as his relaxation interval nears its finish. In August, Fender will play three massive out of doors gigs in Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast, in addition to high the invoice at Eire’s Electrical Picnic. Discover any remaining tickets for Fender’s UK and Eire headline dates right here.
In a four-star overview of his most up-to-date album, ‘Individuals Watching’, NME shared: “Reflective, analytical and susceptible, ‘Individuals Watching’ does precisely what the title could counsel: takes inventory of the characters, mates and family members who’ve made Fender the individual he’s at present. He approaches every observe with sensitivity as he appears again on his life thus far – even perhaps with an inkling of guilt – and contemplates who he could also be subsequent.”
In different information, Fender is at the moment a favorite to headline Glastonbury 2027.