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Once I hit my mid-20s, I felt like I could write about it all in a way that wasnвЂ™t completely dull. They ended up disappearing and getting charged for things, but I wasnвЂ™t involved in anything illicit, I was on the sidelines. Not at the pub I worked at вЂ“ I had a different job which led to us meeting some very charming but very naughty people. Put it this way: there was a time when I was 18 and working for some pretty suspect characters. You mention drug dealing in the opening songs вЂ“ were you having to do that yourself?

#Oblivion has stopped working how to

You donвЂ™t know how to communicate these things when you grow up in Shields. There were things that happened that I used to hold a grudge about, but a lot of it was my own fault because I never said what I needed to say. But itвЂ™s hard to raise a kid, especially when thereвЂ™s divorce and money issues. You give your parents a hard time because of course they will do things that upset and hurt you. I saw him as me, as a son, and saw his loss. I was bawling my eyes out вЂ“ IвЂ™d never seen him like that. ThereвЂ™s a very moving lyric about him kissing his motherвЂ™s forehead when she died, and you imagining doing the same to him one day. WeвЂ™ll have these conversations about toxic masculinity and my dad goes: I didnвЂ™t teach you anything like that, did I? We laugh about it now things have really turned a corner. IвЂ™m sat there crying cos IвЂ™ve hurt my finger, and IвЂ™m crying even more because IвЂ™m watching my dad kicking the house down. He was so angry at himself but he couldnвЂ™t express it, so he just booted the wall under the staircase. One of my earliest memories is of him accidentally jamming my finger in a door. My father and I can drink beer and talk about music until the cows come home, but when it comes to expressing a grievance, it always ends up in a shouting match. You havenвЂ™t got a job, youвЂ™re only 17 a lot of came from that. She suffered from fibromyalgia, which affected her mental health and her ability to work. My mum was a nurse who birthed practically half the babies in North Shields. Because I didnвЂ™t have things to point at and write about during lockdown I started looking inwards, thinking: thereвЂ™s enough stuff from my own life. ThereвЂ™s plenty of loudmouthed Geordie drug dealers, the most unsubtle drug dealers on the planet, and IвЂ™d get plenty of bits from that. Someone at the end of the bar, complaining about their other half вЂ“ I would finish the story. Your new album draws from your own life more than ever.ДЄ lot of my lyrics used to come from pub craic. I just drank, over-ate, and played a lot of video games. I had to shield, so for the first three months I was on my own.

I didnвЂ™t look after myself I wasnвЂ™t one of these people starting up a fitness regime on TikTok. I handled it as well as anyone else did: absolutely horrendously.

His second album Seventeen Going Under, a superb record that channels the sound of Bruce Springsteen and the War on Drugs into an examination of his family, youth and frailty, is out in October. A decade later, heвЂ™s one of the UKвЂ™s best and most successful singer-songwriters: his 2019 debut album Hypersonic Missiles went to No 1, he won a Brit award, and his knack for writing songs about 21st-century disaffections marked him out from cheerier peers such as Ed Sheeran and George Ezra. I n 2011, Sam Fender was, by his own admission, вЂњa little stonerвЂќ who had flunked out of his A-Levels in his hometown of North Shields, living with his mother in a flat with black mould on the walls.