Performers announced for Mercury Prize 2025 in Newcastle
Sam Fender, Pulp, FKA Twigs, Jacob Alon and five more nominees are set to take to the stage at the Utilita Arena on October 16
Sam Fender becomes first artist to tour with all electric trucks
Four electric vehicles transported stage sets and equipment between cities on the singer-songwriter's 'People Watching' tour
Fans react to Mercury Prize 2025 shortlist: "The only music award I pay any attention to now"
Other fans were more disappointed by this year's omissions, with one writing: "No Geordie Greep?! No Laura Marling?! Mercury prize you’ve lost your head brother"
Mercury Prize 2025 shortlist revealed
This year's ceremony takes place next month in Newcastle
Sam Fender tour ticket money helps save 38 grassroots music venues
"It’s brilliant to see that the money raised from the arena tour is making a real difference to so many venues"
Sam Fender planning to "sort my shit out" and "make another album and fuck loads of new tunes next year"
"I wanna make it the greatest time ever”
Greta Thunberg and other activists join Sam Fender onstage in Denmark to call for a "Free Palestine"
They later took to social media to thank the singer for "standing with Palestine"
Sam Fender, Lewis Capaldi and Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten spotted hanging out together in Mayo
The three of them were seen on a boat tour and later singing together in a pub
Montreux Jazz Festival 2025: icons may flock but the music is king
July 4-19, Montreux, Switzerland: Bloc Party, Pulp, FKA Twigs, Benson Boone and Jamie xx among the legends and rising stars to pay deference to this magical spot where history is made
Watch Benson Boone cover Sam Fender's 'Seventeen Going Under' at Montreux Jazz Festival
The tribute came after Fender was forced to cancel his headline slot and European festival run due to vocal haemorrhage