Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware - Bonus Episode - Sam Fender

Episode Date: December 18, 2020

Thanks to Jameson, we’re serving you an extra tipple this week – a special bonus ep with the wonderful Sam Fender. Whilst sipping on delicious cocktails, Sam tells us where he’s most excited abo...ut performing when things go back to normal and for one of his Nights Worth Waiting For he is longing for a ‘staff curry’ at his favourite restaurant in North Shields. He tells us about recording his new album in Ireland and why he chose to cover Lindisfarne's’ ‘Winter Song’ for his new single. What a charming guy, Sam – we love you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to Table Manners. I'm Jessie Ware and I'm here with my mum. Hi mum. Hi darling. How are you? I'm great Jessie. I'm really looking forward to tonight's guest though. I know, we have a really brilliant artist on, Sam Fender. He was the Brits Critics Choice of 2019 and he has done a beautiful cover of winter song and it's raising money for the big issue and people that are homeless so it and he's got the most
Starting point is 00:00:31 beautiful voice and also a friend of mine has him on the label and just says he's incredibly charming so I'm very much looking forward to having a drink with him so this episode is being brought to you courtesy of Jameson who are getting us to think about those nights that are worth waiting for once we get out of this hot mess. So darling, what are you looking forward to? I mean, I'm looking forward to being able to gig. I'm looking forward to being able to meet up with my friends for a dinner. I'm looking forward to seeing my friends' kids' birthday parties. I'm looking forward to going to the pub, going for a cocktail.
Starting point is 00:01:06 There's so much I'm looking forward to. I want to know, what's the first gig that you want to go to when this is all over? Well, the first gig is definitely going to be your gig, darling, when you get going again. Everything's being postponed all the time, but definitely it'll be my first gig. And then after that, I'd be going to Glastonbury, because I have been invited now. Not by me, by Emily Evis, yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:28 By Emily Evis, yeah. So I'll be going to Glastonbury. And then after that, do you know what? I postponed a very big party, darling. Oh no, I don't think anybody's heard of this big party. No. Do you want to remind them? My soisant neuf.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Oh my God, you dirty cow. Well, I'm definitely going to have a birthday while I'm still 69, darling, because I'll be celebrating that. Will you be drinking the drink that you're drinking tonight, Mum? What are you drinking tonight? Darling, well, I'm drinking the original because I am original. And don't anybody forget it. Jameson with lime and ginger.
Starting point is 00:02:02 That's quite a good cocktail to have at a Soissons Nerf party. Really delicious. Well, I'm going for the old-fashioned because I am old-fashioned, Mum. And I like to think I'm Don Draper. And Sam and I have always drunk old-fashions. And it's with the Jameson Black Barrel Whiskey. So what goes in an old-fashioned, darling? Well, it is Jameson Black Barrel.
Starting point is 00:02:22 It's sugar syrup. And then my favourite that reminds me so much of you, Mum, Angostura Bitters. You used to have them with your tonic water. Do you remember? Yeah, it's a fabulous flavour. It's very exciting. Yeah, so it's got that in and it's got orange bitters.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Fantastic. So I'm doing it that way and it feels really warming and lovely and wintry and I'm very much into it. I could have about three. And thanks, Jameson, for the fabulous cocktail kit they sent us so we could make all these delicious cocktails. Mum's going to be Tom Cruise by the end of this lockdown.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Definitely. I'm excited to see what Sam Fender's decided to drink from his little care package, courtesy of Jameson. So we'll see what he's drinking, whether he's chosen an original, an old-fashioned, or maybe he's gone for the Irish coffee who knows. Sam Fender coming up on Table Manners
Starting point is 00:03:09 Sam Fender thank you for joining us. What are you drinking? Thank you. I'm having a Jameson's Old Fashioned, but it's not just any old Jamesons. It's Jameson's Black Barrel. It's pretty smooth. Love that.
Starting point is 00:03:37 How are you, Sam? I'm good, aye. I'm good. I'm just kind of actually doing some work again, which is lush, because we've not been doing anything for for ages obviously with everything that's gone on um so we just released a single the other day which was lovely it's beautiful your voice is stunning on it it's amazing and all the proceeds are going to big issue right yeah and all the proceeds are going
Starting point is 00:03:58 to big issue and um and we did a video as well with this amazing organization called people of the streets who um basically give homeless people cameras and they've let them take a roll a roll of film and take a lot of shots and then they collect them all together at the end and then they've just we've made this video with all of the shots that have been taken and it's just stunning like it's so beautiful how did it come about the idea for the song? It's a cover, isn't it? Yeah. Well, I wanted to do a Christmas song because I've never done one before, but I didn't want to do something crass and crap. I didn't want to do anything like no Cliff Ridge,
Starting point is 00:04:33 I don't know, like that. So I thought I'll go for something close to home and close to my heart. And I picked Winter Song, which is a track by a band called Lindisfarne, but primarily the main singer-songwriter of that band is a guy called Alan Hull. And he's a Geordie guy.
Starting point is 00:04:49 He's from, like, my neck of the woods, from my hometown. Used to drink in the pub in the Maggie Bank where my dad used to drink. My dad used to sometimes see him and have a drink with him back in the 70s. And for me, like, he's probably one of the most underrated singer-songwriters of his time. I mean, he wrote that song in 1970,
Starting point is 00:05:06 and I feel like it's more relevant now than it was probably then. Yeah, absolutely. I didn't know the song, and yeah, it felt so relevant to this year, and it's just beautiful. Everyone needs to check it out. So where are you now, Sam? I am in my bandmates' bedroom, but in in my house everyone lives in my gaff where's your gaff in uh in tine mouth up in north shields in newcastle upon time so you're still you're
Starting point is 00:05:34 still in newcastle you haven't become you don't you don't fancy london i kind of always presume everyone moves down to london but that's because i'm a londoner and i'm ignorant yeah well like no i guess i was i mean i was as a kid growing up doing music i always thought that i was gonna have to move to london at some point like do the big dick wedding and move and come to the streets pay for gold and get a record deal and all that but um to be honest actually we're actually thinking about doing a little stint down there but um maybe it's not for not permanently i just because um when i was down there last i got loads of work done just because I bumped into loads of people that I knew and stuff
Starting point is 00:06:07 and I love it up here I think for me it was important to stay here when it all kicked off for the first time because it kept us grounded and I've got a good family and I've got good friends and I know they'd kick my head in if I got ahead of myself so
Starting point is 00:06:23 Can I just say something i saw linda svan at university because i went to university in 1970 and they came and played at birmingham so i saw them they were a bit folky for me at the time because i was more into but it was a big thing she's more of an r&b girl more of an r&b girl but they were fantastic with fantastic voices and harmonies yeah yeah he's he's beautiful i mean alan hull's dead now bless him but i love watching the videos of of them back in the 70s there's loads of great footage this footage of them in australia and stuff and also for me as well they were kind of like for this area as far as singer songwriters go they were kind of like apart from sting
Starting point is 00:07:06 it was obviously stings from here as well he was kind of like the last sort of singer songwriter from a rap from my hometown to get a to get like a number one so i kind of felt like there's like an affinity with it i feel like you know we're a part of the the geordie illuminati or something geordie illuminati um so so growing up in your family who was around the dinner table and what were you eating so my dad was the cook in our house and um me folks well i had best of both worlds because me folks split up when i was a kid so i had two different worlds i used to go to scotland to my mother's and then stay in shields with my dad but my dad is like he's absolutely he's a wizard in the kitchen he's absolutely insane because his dad my granddad was a baker so fresh bread like used to make fresh bread every morning so i was i was really lucky with that that's part of the reason why i became such a chunky
Starting point is 00:08:01 kid like when i was about 12 because i just couldn't stop eating bread but uh he's just amazing he makes everything makes focaccia loaves and stuff and makes loads of you know italian stuff and makes fresh pasta he's just a wizard he lives in france now does he that is a real shame for the old lockdown you being in north shields well when we're allowed to travel i just like i just went straight over to see him because i was like i need to go and eat something proper like i'm sick of eating super noodles you know so i went to go see him and then he's just amazing man like he's genuinely i know it sounds ridiculous and it sounds like i'm very biased but like we've ate wicked amazing food all over the world with touring and stuff and my dad's still like he's still one of the
Starting point is 00:08:44 best chefs i think i've ever witnessed like he's still one of the best chefs i think i've ever witnessed like he's just ridiculous so what's his best dish sam i don't know he makes a mean curry he's fresh pastas insane he just he turns his hand to everything like he does a he does a thing called he does this mad thing it's from i think it's from hungary it's called um goulash langost and it's like um i probably pronounced it wrong but i'm a geordie so i got away with it um and it's like it's like it's a wicked dessert it's almost like a giant donut and it like has this uh it has like um cinnamon sugar on and stuff and then you get like like a hot apple sauce it's kind of like a dirty apple pie oh my god i'm googling it it looks quite dirty
Starting point is 00:09:22 and delicious i'm looking at savory ones but like i don't i don't like the savory ones i rank oh are they the uh the the sweet ones are are insane your dad wasn't a cook though his your granddad was no my grandma was a baker my dad none of them were actual they weren't chefs or anything so what did your dad do as a job my dad was an electrician by trade and then came and cooked at night yeah Yeah, he used to. So he worked on rail yards and everything. He's a jack of all trades. He did everything in the 70s.
Starting point is 00:09:54 And then he was a club musician as well. So he was in a band and used to play on the club bands on the weekends. So you play all the social clubs on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And then you come back and work as an electrician through the week and then be cooking all the time as well. He's an absolute hero. Did you get to go and watch him play in the clubs? Yeah when I was like two, when I was two so that was like 1996. I was like two years old and I was apparently in my high chair like no ear protection, great parents that's why I'm deaf as opposed. I used to go watch him then I used to love it apparently I mean I don't remember I remember being I remember being about you know seven eight but yeah he gigged
Starting point is 00:10:31 right up until I was about 13 and then he sort of stopped after that and 2019 was an amazing year for you it was insane and I'm sure that you probably were going to be playing loads of festivals this year hi and that's a bugger isn't it yeah total what are you most looking forward to once you get back gigging where are you most looking forward to playing honestly that i think anywhere to be honest i'm that desperate to be back on a stage it would like i would happily just go if if a pub down the road said you could do a gig for 100 people or for 50 people or for 10 people I would go and do it now I'm that dying to just play with my band in a room no matter what the size I just want to go out and do it because that's like I worked out I haven't really lost I haven't got a month without
Starting point is 00:11:20 playing a show since I was 14 I think wow and now you know so now to not play for like a year it um you kind of feel like i've lost my identity or you know you feel sort of very lifeless and it's it's a it's a static existence which i'm not used to and i think most as you yourself you're probably not used to it either are you and like by the way can i just quickly say when i first met my manager and it was like a really exciting time i was 18 and uh he met us in a pub in shields like i was working behind the bar and he managed a guy called ben howard who at the time was doing really really good and had a brit awards and stuff and um he came into my bar and took us on it's always like my he's always played my bar manager at the time who looked like winston churchill he used to always tell us off for for playing guitar guitar and then this one day he was like
Starting point is 00:12:08 right boys like go get that guitar out go play in the corner and i went out and played in the corner and i was like why am i playing and then this manager came over took us on and within like two weeks he took me number he's like i love your voice i love your songs and he's like i'm gonna get you some gigs and the first gig he got us in london was uh supporting this last call with grace potter and the nocturnals and straight after that gig it was in shepherd's bush it was after it was in bush hall we left there went around the corner walked over to the shepherd's bush empire got in through the side door through someone who owned you and i had no idea what was going on and i walked into your gig where you were playing at shepherd's bush empire and i was 18 that was years ago then yeah yeah yeah yeah it was like probably what 2013 yeah yeah yeah yeah and i was
Starting point is 00:12:52 there 18 up in the up in the side just watching you and i thought it was it was fucking fantastic oh thank you that's so sweet it was mad i was like remember and i remember my manager being like he says oh he says if you look he says you'll play here one day and i was just like was mad i was like remember and i remember my manager being like he says oh he says if you look he says you'll play here one day and i was just like fuck man i was like i would love to play here one day and then obviously two years ago we we did two nights there and i was like it was the best time of my life because i was like i'm fucking here and this is where jesse was and i was like this is where i first came in so it was mad that's so romantic that's so lovely sam oh wow that's amazing um that was a great gig i loved
Starting point is 00:13:27 that gig and it's such a good venue it was awesome as well it's amazing isn't it yeah i'm sure you'll be playing slightly bigger than shepherd's bush empire once we're out of this though well we had the bloody arena tour sold out oh no you were doing an arena oh my god you're so big we had an arena tour it was mad we had sold out tour. It was mad. We had sold out. We had Newcastle Arena was sold out, obviously. Leeds was sold out. Leeds is like 13,000, I think. It's mad.
Starting point is 00:13:52 And then two nights in Alley Pally were sold out. And then we're going to put on, at the end of it, the plan was to try and put on the O2 as well. And it was just like, it absolutely exploded. And then we were like, fucking get in. And the day before that tour started I started, was the lockdown. Oh, mate. Did you cry?
Starting point is 00:14:08 I didn't cry because in my head, I thought that we're only going to be in this lockdown for a couple of months. We all did. I was like, ah, it's fine. I said, you know, I'll get myself in real good stead. And then when I go back, I'll be top notch and I'll perform the best shows I've ever played in my life
Starting point is 00:14:23 on the biggest shows I've ever played in my life. and yeah it just didn't it didn't happen who knew it be a year so sam you know that jameson are sponsoring this bonus episode and they want to know what is the night that is worth waiting for so once we are sponsoring this bonus episode and they want to know what is the night that is worth waiting for so once we are out of these tears and these lockdowns where is the place that you are going to go and drink your Jamesons with your mates is there a certain pub that you absolutely love in North Shields uh is it the pub that I worked at all the time uh for three years it's called the low lights tavern but I speak about them all the time and they get constant constant love offers so i'm gonna go there but i'll also probably go i love this old blokes pub where like because we've obviously with things kicking off around here i
Starting point is 00:15:15 get hammered for selfies in certain pubs but in the time of lodge they don't give a fuck like they literally could not give a fuck who i am they don't even know they're coming in they got like you'll see one young person be like oh that's it that's that's sam fender and the grandile just got who fucking who i've never heard of him and it's just like it's perfect i'll just sit in the corner there and no one bothers us so i'll probably go there is sam fender your proper name it is because it's a lovely it sounds like the shittest stage name ever but it actually is my name no it doesn't it sounds great do you play a fender guitar i play a fender guitar through a fender amplifier i and my dad my dad's called alan fender my granddad was called don fender so
Starting point is 00:15:56 this is amazing and then i want to know also sam where is where are you most looking forward to going to for dinner? Because you seem like you're a bit of a foodie. I mean, you love your father's cooking, but is there somewhere that everyone should be trying out in Newcastle? There's loads of cracking places, but honestly, mate, I'm just dying for a curry. Really?
Starting point is 00:16:17 And I really want to go to my favourite curry place, which is a place called the Gulshan. And it's... What do you order? Absolutely. It's bang on. I get the? Absolutely. It's bang on. I get the staff curry. It's absolutely amazing.
Starting point is 00:16:28 Staff curry? What is that like staff pick? So the staff curry, it's just what the staff eat. So it's like what the chefs and that. So they make this huge pot and it's all like meat on the bone and stuff. So it'd be like lamb or chicken or whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:41 And it's just sort of like, it's more like a traditional sort of thing. It's lush. It's absolutely lush. That sounds great. It's really, really really good sam you you mentioned that you've kind of been surviving well i can see there's a pringles empty pringles there you said pot noodles or super noodles what what is your dish that you will be cooking for someone special when they are allowed around your house that aren't in your support bubble so basically you're kicking all your band out even you know and who are you going to cook for and what are you going to cook i'll literally
Starting point is 00:17:09 make the curry that my dad taught us how to make because it's immense it's like just a normal sort of madras but his is he's just he's stunning and when i went over to france not long ago because i'm a shit cook i've been a shit cook for ages and my brother's amazing and my dad's amazing but i've never really tried so um i went over to see my dad not long ago like after the first lockdown and um and then i just sort of did a load of cooking with him did some sort of chinese pancakes and things and like made loads of different stuff it was amazing oh just like sort of just the sort of standard you know you're like your duck pancakes but we did them with chicken and that oh but he makes his own pancakes because he's with the bacon family.
Starting point is 00:17:47 He knows how to make everything, so he makes all of his stuff fresh. He makes all the pancakes fresh. He makes all the pasta fresh. We made some pasta as well. It was amazing. What would be your last supper? Before you go on a desert island.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Before you go on a desert island, what's your last supper? Starter go on a desert island. Before you go on a desert island, what's your last supper? Starter, main, pudding and drink of choice. Hmm. I'd maybe take things that I've had. Like, could I just take mains and then starterize them? Is that a word?
Starting point is 00:18:18 Starterize. Yeah, of course. Yeah, I would like, if it was the last meal, I'd just want to go out on a bang. So I'd just like, I'd have what we had in Japan. i had this mad um teriyaki like eel stuff which sounds rank but it was actually the most amazing like eel sounds disgusting because it sounds like i always
Starting point is 00:18:34 imagined it to be like rubbery it's very delicious i thought it was going to be like rubbery and disgusting and it was the opposite of that it was like really meaty and delicious melts in your mouth yeah literally so i'd have like that as we start i like with a little little bit of the awesome rice and stuff and then i would go straight over to texas obviously this is in a this is in my imaginary world where i've got like a super fast sort of concord private jet that gets us across things yeah like really quickly all in good time babe 2021 it's beef ribs you don't really get like you never really get proper beef rib like massive beef rib cuts over in england like i've
Starting point is 00:19:09 noticed that with british butchers but you get that in in america they always have like huge like ribs like the size of your limbs you know what i mean and that's what i live for like every time i go over there there's this place called the ironworks in austin and i'll just pile in there it's it's total like the most texan place ever it's got like just loads of pictures of like republican presidents who visited there it's like real hoedown you go in and get yourself like a bottle of this crap beer i think it's called lone star it's like it's basically like the fosters of the states it sucks you get that and then like a plate full of beef ribs and mac and cheese
Starting point is 00:19:45 and just loads of dirty shit and it's so good and then for a dessert i don't know what would i have has your dad got any good desserts i'd have the lang langoste would you yeah what's the topic what's the topping it's like a it's like an apple pie one so it's like a cinnamon apple stuff oh oh it sounds and i'll whack a bit of ice cream on it as well a bit of vanilla ice cream as well on top a la mode and then after all of that I'd be sick
Starting point is 00:20:08 and then for me drink I'd have this whiskey I'll have a Jameson you've got the black barrel it's good yeah yeah I'll have this it's going down easy
Starting point is 00:20:17 isn't it yeah it's lovely like it's really nice are you all your housemates trying to tap into it no I just give them the standard JMOs and I've come up here
Starting point is 00:20:23 and hid you this one on the one so sam i want to know do you think you've got good table manners no really yeah no i don't think i don't think i do no i mean i did when i used to eat my grandma's house when i was a kid why what did she make you do well she had to sit up straight and all that you know like and you know have the have the utensils in the right hand for a start and then you know like put them put the knife and fork together and that at the end be like i'm done no more please but then that never worked with me grandma because she was just like plowers with like loads of biscuits and choc ices and loads of trash after and she wouldn't stop feeding us that's what grandmas do she go like would you like a biscuit
Starting point is 00:21:13 son i got grandma i'm absolutely stuffed well do you want a choc ice no i don't want a choc ice do you want do you want this do you want some of the shortbread your granddad's just made no i don't want any of that are you sure no no i honestly gran i'm like i can't move but that was that was the crack with her like bless her is she still alive she's not she died this year bless her oh mate i'm sorry lost her at the start of this year she was a legend she was the matriarch of the family margaret fender the biggest biggest well i say the biggest she was absolutely tiny she was a good four foot she looked like willow she was tiny man she was just like this tiny little thing and uh bless her she had dementia and and it got to her in the end but she lived for you know she was 93 oh wow she lived a life but you're kind of relieved that she hasn't had to go through all this shit aren't you if she
Starting point is 00:22:02 had well this is exactly what we said she literally she died in february i think it was just before it all sort of kicked off and i was there with her i got i got back home just in time and i went and seen her and i gave her a kiss just before she died like and she was just tiny bless her she was just this tiny little thing and and um what all of our kids were around uh my dad one of our eldest sons actually passed away my uncle don passed away a couple of years ago which was so sad because he passed away before my granddad my mom he had pancreatic cancer it's just it was shit so i was kind of in a way i was like kind of thankful that she had dementia because she didn't know you know i mean so then when she uh when she passed away everyone was around her and it was
Starting point is 00:22:45 like it was really peaceful she just fell asleep you know so and that's that's what anyone would want that's what I want when I go like just to be surrounded by my family and fall asleep in the night you know that'll be nice Sam I want to know you know you've got you've had to cancel all these amazing gigs it was going to be a kind of incredible year for you to be able to tour um next year can still be your year are you going what i mean you've put out this beautiful song what's next are you are you bringing an album out next year is this what's going to happen yeah i'm gonna um i'm halfway well i say halfway i've recorded like 14 demos and then there's like another 10 songs on top of that
Starting point is 00:23:26 which i need to do we were supposed to go to ireland a couple of weeks ago and start recording things live because i wanted to i want to get a live sound i want it to be less processed because like half of the first record had quite a bit of processing on and i i was quite naive and i don't really want as much of that on it this time i want it to be a bit more organic and a bit more kind of old school and a bit more just sound like a band you know yeah um so i'm going we're supposed to go over to grouse lodge in ireland and record all of that stuff as a live band but um obviously with the covid stuff i got covid so like we had to push that back so i'm hoping i'm waiting to find out if we can travel like next week and then we're going to go out there and finish that off and then maybe i'll have an album at some point next year i think
Starting point is 00:24:08 that's really exciting have you been making the have you been writing with your band or do you do all the writing on your own i write everything me so like because i think i'm a probably a control freak like and i just um i don't want anyone to i don't want i don't want the blame if it goes tits up i'd rather the blame be on me do you know what i mean so i don't co-write or write with anybody else really i just write the songs and then i write the parts for the for the music but sometimes there's the odd time where like if we're if it's if an idea is sort of conceived in a sound check or something it's because sometimes they are sometimes you'll just jam something in the sound check then um then the boys sort of put things in and sometimes it'd be like oh that's
Starting point is 00:24:47 really cool um dino my my he's like my best mate and he's a little guitarist lad who wears a cap he's uh great on the guitar so sometimes i get uh some little parts out of dean and stuff but um no i tend to write it all on my own Are all your band Geordies? Apart from the bass player, the bass player's French. French? He's French, but it's actually an amazing story about my bass player, Tom. So his grandparents are Geordie, right? They're from Newcastle. And they were like a field surgeon or something
Starting point is 00:25:20 and a nurse in World War II in France. And they went to france they fell in love out there had a baby which was tom's mother and then tom's mom stayed in france she was obviously she grew up french and then met tom's dad out there and then had tom and tom grew up in france in annecy in the south and oh it's gorgeous yeah when he hit 19 he was like right he kind of wanted to do music. And his grandparents were like, why don't you come to Newcastle? Because there's a course at the college that does music.
Starting point is 00:25:49 How funny. So he came to Newcastle when he was 19 and then that was it. And then the rest is history. But he doesn't have a Geordie accent. No, he's got like a French Geordie accent. He says Geordie words, but in a French accent. So he'd be like,
Starting point is 00:26:01 where are you, man? He's like, are we going to go and get down to the pub or what? Where are you? he's like are we gonna go and get down to the pub or what uh where so it's amazing um sam do you like karaoke i love karaoke oh good i do too jesse doesn't i love karaoke if i'm doing it i hate it if i'm in a pub and someone's doing karaoke it like kills you what's your song who's your alter ego well i've got well tonight matthew i'm gonna be anastasia i literally like so me and dean my guitarist do a duet of uh left outside alone by anastasia how does that one go you know the one and i wonder if you know how real it is To be left outside alone When it's cold out here And then she's like,
Starting point is 00:26:49 It's a bit, she's like, Why do you play me like a game Or is someone else to blame? That one, it's so good. It's a big song. Wow, you're really good. Well, that wasn't me actually singing. I was, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:03 We do that, like we take a verse each and then we're both coming on the chorus and it's a it's a sight like it's a sounds like a gay man's dream to be able to watch this well that's what that's kind of what i was going for i think i am a gay man's dream um sam fender you're finishing off your jamesons and it's been such a pleasure to have a drink with you, have a chat with you. I wish you all the best. I don't think, I mean, I know everything's been put on ice, good and ch, for you, but I think, yeah, you're amazing.
Starting point is 00:27:36 So good luck with the future when we get out of this mess. Yeah, likewise. Here's to a great 2021 likewise no it was so it was so um thank you so much but it was it was genuinely like it's always been a point in my life that i'll always remember i was walking into shepherd's bush and seeing you play because like i was i was 19 18 actually i was 18 and um it was sort of like my first moment of going like my manager pointed to the stage he was like that could be you one day if you work hard
Starting point is 00:28:06 and I was like and I was like and then when I got there I was like standing in all the stalls when I finally sold out Shepard's Bush being like
Starting point is 00:28:13 I fucking made it now like this is it this is it we're off that's amazing oh look thank you so much well look after yourself
Starting point is 00:28:21 and good luck with the album in Ireland well thank you so much for having us, guys. Pleasure. Oh, it's so exciting. What a lovely bloke.
Starting point is 00:28:44 He's also incredibly attractive. He's gorgeous. God, Sam Fender, what a guy. Love him. That Geordie charm. I'm telling you, gets me every time. He's so nice. He's got such a great voice.
Starting point is 00:28:58 You know what was charming? He was so unpretentious and lovely. And just dead easy. Well, it was lovely to have a drink with him tonight yeah thank you sam fender for joining us for the special bonus episode courtesy of jameson today on table manners we loved you can't wait to see sam in a gig in an arena next year thanks for joining us for this special nights worth waiting for edition of the podcast brought to you by jameson we hope that you soon get to enjoy the nights that you've been waiting to come back to whether
Starting point is 00:29:29 it's a sam fender gig my gig maybe that special meal out or bumping into mum in a muddy field in glastonbury with my damn monti wellies darling darling we know how much you are all waiting to go and be reunited with your friends go and have those memorable moments those nights that are worth waiting for and we want to hear from you let us know what you're most looking forward to doing once this is over tweet us using the hashtag join in and tag at table manners pod and at jameson underscore uk and of course please drink responsibly. If you want to know more, go visit drinkaware.co.uk. We're back next week for a very special festive episode. You won't want to miss it.

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