Sam Fender pronounces 2025 ‘Folks Watching’ tour in Australia

Sam Fender is heading Down Underneath for the ‘Folks Watching’ tour later this 12 months – see the complete listing of tour dates and ticketing particulars under.

Fender has introduced his return to Australia after a collection of sold-out exhibits in 2022 and 2023, this time bringing his newest album ‘Folks Watching’ to followers Down Underneath. The tour will kick off on November 14 and conclude one November 28, with stops in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth.

For the upcoming run of exhibits, Sam Fender will probably be supported by former NME The Cowl artist Holly Humberstone.

Pre-sale tickets go on sale subsequent Thursday (Might 20) at 11am native time – you can sign up for Sam Fender’s mailing list for pre-sale access here. Common tickets go dwell at 12pm native time on Wednesday Might 21. Get your tickets here.

Sam Fender’s ‘Folks Watching’ Australia 2025 tour dates are:

NOVEMBER
11 – Melbourne – Sidney Myer Music Bowl
19 – Brisbane – Riverstage
21 – Sydney – The Showring, Leisure Quarter
25 – Adelaide – Adelaide Leisure Centre
28 – Perth – Kings Park & Botanic Backyard

Most lately, Fender teamed up with Adolescence actor Owen Cooper for a shifting video for ‘Little Bit Nearer’. It additionally sees the ‘Seventeen Going Underneath’ singer reunite with Adolescence director Philip Barantini. The 2 labored collectively 4 years in the past for the music video for 2021’s ‘Spit Of You’, and the mission additionally included the collection’ co-writer and actor Stephen Graham.

In a four-star evaluation of ‘Folks Watching’, Tilly Foulkes wrote for NME: “Reflective, analytical and weak, ‘Folks Watching’ does precisely what the title could recommend: takes inventory of the characters, mates and family members who've made Fender the particular person he's at present. He approaches every monitor with sensitivity as he appears again on his life to date – maybe even with an inkling of guilt – and contemplates who he could also be subsequent.”

Though Fender dropped ‘Folks Watching’ lower than three months in the past, he has hinted that he already has new music within the works and is “determined” to lean into extra of a punk-inspired sound.

There hasn’t been any official announcement of one other album but, however final month did see the discharge of fan favorite monitor ‘Tyrants’ for the primary time. The tune had beforehand solely been accessible as a part of the ‘Me And The Canine’ vinyl EP and on the seven-inch version of 2024 single ‘Folks Watching’.