Live From Finsbury Park

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Two years later we made the move to our present address, 35 The Headrow, where we have remained ever since.

Speaking to Rolling Stone U K about the gig, he claimed that he’ll be the first Geordie artist to headline there: such luminaries as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen have done so previously. This one is about our hometown North Shields, and our friends who aren’t with us anymore,” Fender tells Finsbury Park. Both of his albums have been UK number ones, the second one barely leaving the top 40 for most of the past year.

It’s a pretty upbeat track, but I can’t be the only one who finds it a bit emotional with its tale of perseverance?

Tickets for the gig, which will see over 55,000 fans descend on the stadium, will go on general sale at 10am on Friday (September 9). He pauses as the crowd laughs in response, self-awareness suddenly hitting: “That’ll be in a review tomorrow.Long Way Off" did not enter the UK Singles Chart, but peaked at number 82 on the UK Singles Sales Chart. The majority of tonight’s setlist is picked from the musician’s second album and, with just festival dates a few gigs supporting Florence + The Machine and some US shows left, the gig feels like the beginning of the end for that record’s campaign.

The emotionally overpowering song Dead Boys, about a spate of suicides in his home town, is dedicated to “our friends who aren’t with us any more. At various points, he plays a guitar that is also striped in black and white, while after ‘Play God’ he grins at the crowd and notes: “I presume there’s people from Newcastle here. The 'Product' page will show the most up to date info we have with regards to the item and its release date, but this information is subject to change so check in with us if you have any questions. If this is Fender’s lap of honour, then it’s one that lifts up not just the big singles and anthemic songs in his catalogue, but the deeper cuts too.All that began to change when he started releasing his music officially – at first independently and, later, via Polydor – his authentic storytelling resonating with listeners who’d experienced the small town life he sang about or had faced similar hardships and circumstances. For Hypersonic Missiles: "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100: 20 September 2019 – 26 September 2019".