Sam Fender is gearing up to hit the road on his sell-out UK tour and he won't be the only North East singer on the stage.
And that's because South Shields singer Brooke Bentham has been confirmed as the North Shields musician Sam main support act for the string of dates, which includes FOUR sell out shows at O2 Academy Newcastle.
The South Tyneside raised artist recently released new single ‘All My Friends Are Drunk’ - a song for lost youth and young adulthood and the second with Bill Ryder-Jones who she has been working on a full body of new music with. Bill will also be playing guitar in Brooke’s band throughout the tour.
Her new material sits somewhere between Mazzy Star, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse and early Angel Olsen and captures the frustration of being young and unaware of what you want in the most poetic and compelling manner.
Brooke sings about “ that wishful longing for what was” in the self-destructivity of her and her peers, the beginning of the rest of your lives as young graduates.
For three years Brooke played the gig circuit in Newcastle and often shared a stage with friend Sam who himself is, of course, from just over the water.
