Sam Fender working with Sigrid, Sting

May 20, 20224 yr

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Speaking of collabs, Fender also revealed in the winners’ room how he had been working with Sigrid. He said:

“We’ve done a little bit of writing and stuff, but nothing’s set in stone. I’ve been doing some co-writing on the side along with my own stuff. I’m too much of a control freak to co-write, but I’ve kind of opened up into that world. We’re just on the crest of a wave at the moment. It’s kind of impossible to get time just to record my own next lot of stuff – never mind penning someone else’s smash hit.”

He did reveal that something was in the works with his fellow Geordie troubadour, Sting.

“Sting occasionally Facetimes us. Normally, weirdly, I end up being the bath at the same time. I was supposed to do a gig with him, but that got rearranged. I told him I’d love to sing ‘If I Ever Lose My Faith In You’ with him, because it’s the hardest ******* song on the planet and I’d completely **** it up. There’s another called ‘All This Time’, which is a song about our hometown. We did a track with him and Mark Knopfler. It just some guitar stuff, but that was the most ******* nerve-wracking thing – doing a guitar take on a Mark Knopfler soundtrack. Springsteen’s on it as well, and a million other people. All of the legends and then just me – a stupid Geordie!”