Chords for Interview with Sam Fender @ The Live4ever Media Lounge

[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ I'm from a really musical [G] family.
My dad's a musician.
He's a guitarist, he's a pianist,
[Gm] he's a really, really good singer.
He didn't really push me into any of it.
I think he
kind of wanted us to [C] go to university and [Bb] get a job, _ because he knows how hard it was
to do music as a profession.
But yeah, I think [Ab] via [G] osmosis you're around it all the time.
You can't really get [Gm] away from that.
[Eb] _ My brother [Dm] was constantly smashing the drums upstairs.
He [C] was sat on the guitar, piano.
I was constantly listening to that.
When he was cooking there
was always music [Eb] on.
I couldn't have [C] had the [G] upbringing that I had [F] and not ended up doing
this.
[G] It's the only thing I'm good at, really. _
You go to school and everyone kind of_
[Eb] I
think there's always a great decider for what you want to [F] do.
There's always the kids that
are really good at [G] sport, and then [Dm] there's [Gm] the mega clever kids, and there's the arty
kids and all of that.
[D] I was just kind of like_
I just liked Star Wars.
[Eb] I didn't really know
what I wanted. _ _
Then [Fm] when [Cm] I picked up the guitar properly and started playing it, I was like,
this is what I'll do then.
_ From then on, I think by the time I was about 13, I knew [Gm] that
was the only thing I was going to [C] do.
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _
The school competition, funny enough, [G] the winning prize was like 50 quid or something.
It [C] was an X-Factor, school X-Factor competition.
[G] I totally rigged it.
I just got loads of people
to come down.
I was [Gm] like, all vote for her.
I was like, and I'll just spend the 50 quid
on booze, and then we'll all just go [C] get drunk.
So that worked.
That completely worked.
So
[Eb] I think the first time we ever actually won any [F] money for anything, got any money for
something was [G] probably when I was 17.
I was doing covers in a restaurant.
[Eb] _
People were
[F] eating their food, and I was sat with an acoustic guitar.
That was good, [G] because I actually
got paid_
[Am] I probably got paid 100 quid or something, 150 quid or something.
[D] That was
[Eb] like [Dm] 17, 18.
You're just like_
[B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I met my manager by accident, because I was working in a bar when I was 18.
I'd left [Eb] sixth
form, college, and didn't really know what I was doing with my life.
Then I went to [Bb] work
in this fisherman's bar, this fisherman [Gb] pub in my hometown, which [Ebm] is right next to the
river, the River Tyne.
[Bb] I sat and pulled pints there for a couple of years.
_ [Gb] I was about 18,
and my manager [Ebm] walked in.
He'd just [Bb] _ been at the Brit Awards with his other artist.
[Fm] He
was coming back home to see his [Ebm] family.
My manager at the time, [Bb] my bar manager, _ he just
pointed_
He recognised the guy.
He recognised him, and he went, [Gb] right, get your guitar out
and go and play.
I was [Eb] like, okay.
I didn't know.
I didn't know [C] why, because normally
I was getting [Bb] wrong for playing the guitar.
Then that's how that all happened there.
[Gb] _ _ _ _
[Eb] I cut my teeth with all of them.
I cut my teeth with Hosea and [Ab] Catfish and Ben Howard
and [Gb] Nick Movie.
You learn a lot from [Ebm] _ _ even [Bbm] just going into a soundcheck.
[Bb] I think I always
remember going into the Lexington, and when I [Gb] supported Hosea in London, just [Eb] around the
time when taking it to [Bbm] church was just starting to go [Bb] crazy, just before it went like_
[Gb] I remember
going into that [Eb] soundcheck with my acoustic guitar and then seeing his full [Em] band.
I [E] think
they were doing_
I don't know what track they were doing, but [Fm] I was just [Eb] blown away.
I was like,
whoa.
I was like, that's [Bb] the [F] [Ebm] next level.
It made me [Fm] realise what I wanted.
I was like,
I wanted [N] to build.
[Gb] It was one of them moments where I realised I wanted to build a [Eb] big sound.
_ _ _ [Bb] It all just came to a halt when I was about 19.
[Gb] I just took a big [Ebm] break,
just to write, because I knew that I wasn't [Bbm] really_
I didn't feel like I'd found what [Bb] I
wanted to be, and I didn't feel like I had a [Gb] strong identity with what I was doing back then. _
[Eb] It was just a mishmash of all the things [Bb] I loved.
I just went and sat in a shed for about a year and
a half and [Gb] wrote loads of songs.
[Ebm] I think I found what I wanted.
[Bb] We had an idea to bring out an EP,
and that [Ab] didn't happen.
_ I was like, [Gb] I've got this little idea, but I don't know what I'm going to
do with it.
The song [Eb] I had in mind was too different to the stuff [Bbm] that I was originally
going to release, and it was Play God.
I [Eb] played that, and I was like, I don't even know what I'm
going to do.
They were like, [Gb] my manager, my producer, [Eb] my best friend, they were like,
why [Bbm] don't_
that's the best one.
I was like, [Eb] sometimes you just_
I don't think you_
sometimes you're not the [Gb] arbiter of your_
the best arbiter of your own work.
I [Eb] loved the song,
but I just didn't_
I thought [Bbm] all of the stuff that I was writing was so different,
and I thought [Db] sonically it was a [Eb] complete different thing.
But then I've [Gb] ended up going
down a rabbit hole [Eb] because of Play God, so that's been [Bbm] quite interesting.
[Ab] _ _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Db] It's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek kind of [Gb] response to [Ab] the tabloids view of [Bbm] millennials,
but at the [Db] same time, there's certain things that I [Gb] do agree that millennials [E] are
[Dbm] guilty of, [Ab] like being addicted [Db] to [Gb] social media and reality TV.
[Ebm] I feel like every [Gb] generation has
that though.
I feel like it's an age-old thing, isn't it?
It happens.
I'll [Ab] be_
when I'm later
in my life, I'll be complaining about my kids, I'm sure.
Be like, yeah, you're lazy, just want
to hang out.
[Bbm] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ We've [Ab] _ _ _ [Gb] got like within our set, [Ebm] our live set, there's actually people say [E] that there's
a lot of different genres, but stuff's quite [Ebm] [Db] a bit more kind of dreamy, kind [Gb] of shoegazy,
war on [Ebm] drugs-y, sort of, you know, big [Bb] Springsteen-y sound and stuff, and then [Ab] some
stuff's quite indie and kind of [Ebm] art among these.
So I mean, that's like quite different spectrums
within guitar music.
[E] But then again, indie, [Ebm] I always think the genre indie is such a broad
[Ab] thing anyway.
It's such a massive beast.
There's so many different bands with under the same
genre, so different sounds.
So yeah, I mean, I don't know, we could go somewhere. _ _ _ _
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