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Topics: Sam Fender, Music, Celebrity, Festivals
Jess Battison
Topics: Sam Fender, Music, Celebrity, Festivals
Sam Fender was forced to halt his Leeds Festival performance after a medical emergency in the crowd.
The Newcastle legend performed the headliner slot at Reading and Leeds Festival this weekend, in a ‘dream come true’ performance.
Even after his iconic 2022 Glastonbury set, Fender still called this gig ‘unfathomable’, after attending the weekend himself as a teen.
And on both nights, he of course banged out tunes like ‘Seventeen Going Under’ and ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ to mega, hyped-up crowds.
Unsurprisingly, the crowds were prepping up for Fender’s mosh pits for his more up-beat hits.
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But the 29-year-old did have to stop the music momentarily to look out for his fans.
The northern lad spotted one festival-goer in need of medical assistance in the mosh pit and said on the mic: “We need some help over here, let’s stop.”
Fender addressed the fan directly as he asked: “You ok? We need help over here, we’re going to have to calm down.”
A source at the festival at Bramham Park told the Mirror: “We’re not sure what happened but Sam acted very quickly and made sure that nothing happened until the medics and security got the fan out of the crowd."
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The Geordie star checked in on his fans multiple times throughout the night, telling them: “Does someone need to get out? Can youse make a pathway to get them out?”
And in a moment that saw the screens go off temporarily, he asked: “Yas getting help? Does somebody need to get in there? What’s the craic? We need to clear a path.”
The ‘Getting Started singer’ posted a thanks to Instagram yesterday (26 August) as he recalled his own experience of Leeds Festival at 18 years old.
In a somewhat typical tale, Fender told of his tent getting set on fire and also hilariously wrote: “Me and Dean launched hotdogs out of tent poles at groups of lads chanting ‘Yorkshire’ just for a bit of fun, and kept up the long standing tradition of northern rivalry between anyone who doesn’t live within ten square miles of you.”
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Looking back on his music journey to now headlining Reading and Leeds, he said: “To headline was unfathomable, me and the lads have always felt more comfortable as the underdogs, we’ve been the underdogs for 7 years - from our first show in Ullapool in Scotland, in that beat up van with doors that didn’t open, all the way to this weekend.
“The imposter syndrome is real, but I suppose that means it’s actually happening.”