Sam Fender headlining TRNSMT Festival 2023 (Gary Mather)
Sam Fender joins Noah Kahan’s Stick Season collaboration series.
Sam Fender is the latest artist to team up with Noah Kahan, adding something extra to Kahan’s fan favourite Homesick.
“I was told Noah wanted us to work together, and I’d heard the tune Homesick and thought it was a lush song,” Fender has said.
We then spoke on the phone and immediately hit it off. I loved the idea of the song being a transatlantic call-and-response between two young kids desperate to escape their hometowns. The ‘running away’ theme has been done to death by myself, and many other artists over the last 50 years, but it’s relatable.
“Noah actually came to my hometown of Newcastle when he was on tour, so we met up and I showed him around. I found it canny funny and flattering as he said in his east coast American accent, ‘I wanna see where these songs came from man’, so we hit the Lowlights Tavern for a swift Guinness and walked in the bitter cold of the sea-front.”
“Chatting with him about things in both of our pasts made me realise how universal ‘Homesick’ is. We’ve all been that kid.”