Sam Fender (photo: Paul Bachmann / Live4ever Media)
A year on from the self-release of his debut single Play God, Sam Fender is reflecting on a bold decision: “It all just came to a halt when I was 19,” he tells us at the 2018 SXSW Live4ever Media Lounge. “I just took a big break, just to write because I didn’t feel like I’d found what I wanted to be, and I didn’t feel that I had a strong identity with what I was doing back then.”
“So I just went and sat in a shed for about a year-and-a-half and wrote loads of songs. And I think I found what I wanted. We had an idea to bring out an EP and that didn’t happen. And then I was like, ‘I’ve got this little idea but I don’t know what I’m going to do with it’. The song I had in mind was too different to the stuff that I was originally going to release, and it was Play God.”
Check out the full interview on our Youtube channel or below for the full story of how Fender arrived at his first single as we delve back into the making of Britain’s latest singer-songwriting talent.
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