Chords for Sam Fender doesn't shy away from our questions!

Hi, I'm Kate Lawler and this little Milky Bar kid next to me has already been described as the look and sound of a future star.
Male is his gender, he loves a good bender, as you can see he's quite slender.
Woah!
It's Sam Fender.
Oh my god!
Could I have come up with any more?
That was amazing.
Well the rap battle you've won.
_ I can't come back from that.
How are you Sam?
I'm good, how are you mate?
I'm very well.
There's been a bit of speculation about your age in the last ten minutes before we started this interview.
I'm going to go 21.
Bang on.
Bang on.
Is that your stage age or your real age?
My real age.
Your real age.
Because there was rumours of like 15, 11.
So you're 21.
You haven't been in the music industry that long.
No.
You started off when you were young because you grew up in a very musical loving household.
I do, I do yeah.
My dad's a singer and my brother is as well.
Was your dad in a few bands?
He was.
He was in some like proper club bands back in the day.
Wedding bands.
And there's like posters of him with mullets.
A wedding band?
And like, you know the wedding singer?
Do you remember that movie with Ben Stiller?
Adam Sandler.
Adam Sandler, sorry.
Great film.
Wrong guy.
Wrong guy, wrong film.
Yeah, you just think that.
Yeah, like 80s vibes.
I love it.
He used to do them on his own as well.
With backing tracks and his guitar.
Would you take your dad on tour with you now?
He's sick.
No, because he'd show me up.
He's really good.
No chance.
What was the first instrument you picked up and learned to play? _
The recorder.
The recorder?
Yeah.
It was in primary school.
It was a recorder group and if you were particularly good at it,
if you could do this one thing which was like two notes and you could go into the JoJo group they called it.
The JoJo group?
If you could play this JoJo song.
Okay.
And you went to the JoJo group.
I remember going home and being like, Dad, check this out.
You're in the JoJo group?
And he was just like, that sucks.
He was like, don't you ever darken my doorstep again with that thing.
He wasn't into the recorder, no?
No, no, no.
I got a guitar shortly after.
That's such a shame.
Maybe that was the catalyst of him buying you your first guitar.
I think it was.
Bringing a recorder in.
Let's talk about your new single.
It's a word I can't relate to because I'm too old, but you can.
Mm-hmm.
I don't know what the age is to qualify for being a millennial.
I think, isn't it early 80s?
You've got to be born in.
I think it's anyone, someone put an official thing which I think was like 83 or 84 or something like that.
Yeah, I've missed right out.
But it's basically anyone who's had their adolescence in the millennium.
Okay.
And you can relate to being a millennial.
That's what the song is about.
Yes.
You're kind of sticking up for Generation Y.
Yes, sort of.
Kind of.
Yeah, it's tongue in cheek.
I'm kind of taking that.
Do you think you're giving a bad rap, you millennials?
I think every generation gets a bad rap one day, yo.
I think it's just kind of standard.
It's a rite of passage, isn't it?
You're just like, you're lazy.
You're asking for handouts. _
You're a lot healthier, you millennials.
You are, no?
No.
I've seen your Instagram, mate.
You're like, smashing it.
I'm just eating Burger Kings.
This isn't about me.
In fact, you know what?
You've got a lot of fans.
People out there know who you are already.
But for those that don't know a lot about Sam Fender, I have a list of questions here that will really give us an insight to the kind of guy that you are.
So just answer.
There's quite a lot of questions.
We'll fire through them.
First song you bought and on what format?
First song?
_ _ I remember mine.
Paula Abdul, Opposites Attract on 7-inch.
What, like the one that I bought with my own money?
The very first single you owned.
Don't tell me it was a download.
I don't _ _ think it was.
Cassettes?
Would it have been a CD?
I think it was something like_
It would have been a CD.
I remember my mom buying the first Arctic Monkeys album, which I think was really cool.
Your mom purchased an Arctic Monkeys album?
Yeah, because I was so used to listening to Celine Dion and stuff in the car.
_ And then one day she came and she was like, I had to listen to this.
You know when you used to have headphones in CD shops?
Yes.
So she went in there, had a listen.
_ Virgin Megastores.
She went in there, had a listen, brought it back to the car and I was like, you're cool.
I went home, showed my friends and they were like, oh, this is a cool band.
That's pretty cool.
I like that.
I don't actually know what I bought first.
I don't really know.
It's probably like Cotton Eye Joe or something like that.
I don't know.
If it was, I'm very proud of you.
In the shower, do you wash head downwards or toes up? _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You sound like you're not the kind of guy who washes his hair first.
Maybe you start with the chest.
I think, yeah.
You start underarm.
I think I'm kind of mid-range.
I _ freestyle it.
Do you?
You freestyle?
Yeah, I freestyle in the shower.
I don't think I have a particular routine.
Oh man, I go head to toe all day long.
I don't freestyle.
Maybe I'll mix it up.
Sometimes head to toe, yeah.
Toothbrush, what are you saying?
Regular or you're an electric toothbrush kind of guy?
Electric all the way.
Are you?
I thought you would sound_
I've got that Colgate, what's it called?
It's got a mad name, like Omni something or other.
I'm shocked.
I thought this guy liked a bit of manual labour.
Electric toothbrush?
I did.
I used to swear by it now, man.
Ever since I got it, it's amazing.
I feel like we get to know Soundfender very well. _
You're going to Nando's.
You're going for cheeky Nando's.
You've been given a black card and you've got three musicians that you can share that free chicken banquet with.
Dead or alive, who are you going to Nando's with to feast out on chicken?
I'm going to take Jeff Buckley because I want to know what he's like.
What a dude.
Amazing vocalist.
First up, those two people at the table, lots of fun.
Soundfender and Jeff Buckley.
Mate, just so many high voices.
_ _ Bruce Springsteen.
Yeah.
[F] [N] Any ladies at the table?
Yeah.
Is it just going to be a guys' night out?
No, it's going to be Jeff, Bruce and Aretha Franklin. _
I did not expect you to say those three people.
Yeah, well, chain of fools, man.
Aretha Franklin.
I just want everyone to sing.
I want everyone to take turns, not even eat chicken, just sing.
You'd just be singing.
Have you ever listened to your own music while laying horizontal next to somebody you really like?
No.
Okay.
Finally, what is your favourite short, clean joke?
Do you have one?
_ _ _ I'm just cycling through all the jokes that we've been saying in the van.
And none of them, you can't tell me.
I'm not sure.
We've got to be careful.
I'm trying to think if we've actually got a clean one.
Well, I've got a short and clean joke for you.
_ What's the Cheezus' favourite music?
I don't know.
R&B?
Sorry.
It's my favourite joke.
It's my favourite short and clean joke.
I come and bear these cheese jokes.
Oh, no, you didn't.
Sam, listen, that's enough.
We've been chatting for ages and I know you've got to get off.
Thank you for recording some session tracks for us. Thank you.
It was your first session.
I wish you all the best for your future.