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SAM FENDER FOODBANK HELPER

“Be careful there,” says foodbank volunteer Pat Bolland, “those lids will cut you.”

“Don’t get blood in our dinners!” warns her colleague, Pat Kane.

Towering over both Pats and doing his best to help out at Newcastle West End Foodbank is one of the UK’s most exciting artists, local boy done good Sam Fender. This morning, Fender announced his biggest headline gig to date – a 40,000-capacity concert at Finsbury Park in London next summer in support of his number one album . He followed up by doing an .

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