Watch Sam Fender give ‘People Watching’ songs their live debut as he kicks off European tour

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Sam Fender has kicked off his 2025 European tour and performed songs from ‘People Watching’ live for the first time. Check out the footage and setlist below.The show took place as part of the European leg of his tour, and began last night (March 4) with an opening night at the Olympia venue in Paris.

It marked Fender’s first show since he took home the Best Rock/Alt Act at the BRITs over the weekend, and his first time playing a headline date since dropping third album ‘People Watching’.He kicked off the show with back-to-back renditions of ‘Getting Started’, ‘Arm’s Length’ and ‘People Watching’, before breaking out the live debut of ‘Crumbling Empire’.

From there, Fender played ‘Will We Talk?’, before introducing another song to the set for the first time, ‘Tyrants’.Other live debuts made across the 14-song-setlist included ‘TV Dinner’ – which was performed between ‘Howdon Aldi Death Queue’ and ‘Spit Of You’ – and ‘Chin Up’, which was the first song of the encore, followed by ‘Hypersonic Missiles’.As well as four new songs being played for the first time in Paris, another highlight from the gig also came when Fender leaned into the crowd to take a Greggs sausage roll from a fan who brought it from the UK for him.