Train car after train car, filled with Wisconsin sand. It’s vital to the Alberta ... Todd Thue is the chief operating officer of Trican Well Service, an oilfield services company with sites ...

Scientists outline the urgency to better identify the significant damage sand extraction across the world heaps upon marine biodiversity. In the delicate balancing act between human development ...

To those who are propping up the afters in a strangers’ living room well after the final whistle ought to have been blown. Here, Fender offers tall tales to keep the party going, but there’s ...

In an effort to make everything sound as massive as possible, the team obscures some of Fender’s more pointed moments. On the title track, he returns to his hometown to see his elderly mentor ...

The themes on this record aren’t new to Fender, but the perspective in which he examines them has shifted. Both his debut, ‘Hypersonic Missiles’, and the Brit-nominated ‘Seventeen Going ...

By Kate Mossman Sam Fender’s giant success could be explained, not just by his similarity to Bruce Springsteen, but by the fact that he is the UK’s first politicised blue-collar solo rock act. How can ...

Of late, Sam Fender has seemed to be 30 going under ... mention “The Cars” to a friend while it was playing – and well you might – you wouldn’t be surprised if the lyrics changed ...

it leans heavily on a well-worn formula: a motorik drum beat, emphatic chord strikes, a soaring chorus, and, of course, a late-arriving saxophone. Rather than signalling any artistic evolution, it ...

The album name, and its lead single of the same name, is in honour of the late Byker Grove actress Annie Orwin, who Fender called his "surrogate mother" and spent time with until she died.

More than 1,000 artists and musicians including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Sam Fender and Annie Lennox have recorded a silent album in protest at proposed changes to copyright law, which they say ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is a big year for Sam Fender. Stadiums await in the summer, confirmation of his rise to the heights of ...

And now, after taking some time away, Sam Fender is back with People Watching ... down by it all while trying to keep afloat - with its well crafted instrumental making the song feel like an ...