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Sam Fender was forced to paused his headline performance at Leeds Festival several times tonight due to multiple medical emergencies in the crowd, with the singer telling the crowd to "calm down".
The Geordie singing sensation, 29, stopped his set earlier this evening as a fan required medical help in a mosh pit, telling the packed audience: "We need some help over here, lets stop." He went on to ask: "You ok? We need help over here - we're going to have to calm down."
A source at the festival at at Bramham Park told the Mirror tonight: "We’re not sure what happened but Sam acted very quickly and made sure that nothing happened until the medics and security got the fan out of the crowd."
The incident took place after the award-winning singer-songwriter performed Spice for the delighted sea of fans hanging on his every word in Yorkshire. "Well we've got the punky ones [ songs ] out the way now," Sam went on to tell the crowd after belting out a few of his anthemic tracks.
Sam Fender stopped his performance at Leeds Festival multiple times throughout the night (Daily Mirror)Later in Sam's set, the Seventeen Going Under hitmaker - who performed in Reading at Leeds Festival's sister event last night -checked in on his fans in the crowd once again, telling them: "Does someone need to get out? Can youse make a pathway to get them out."
Sam Fender says Leeds Festival fan 'saved his life' while attending as a punter
Another incident saw Sam ask: "Yas getting help? Does somebody need to get in there? What's the craic? We need to clear a path." The screens then went off with the Newcastle native returning shortly afterwards to continue his set.
"just left the sam fender crowd after 3 songs because i felt like i coukdnt [sic] breathe and started crying lol," one Leed Festival attendee penned on Twitter earlier this evening, with another excited fan adding: "#lookoutforeachother on a bender for sam fender."
Sam took to the stage this evening, after making his Reading and Leeds Festival as a headline performer at Richfield Avenue in Reading. The North Shields-born musician, 29, first attended Leeds Festival over a decade ago and embraced everything Braham Park had to offer. His time as a punter saw a bloke from Sheffield, South Yorks, save his life after a near-fatal accident involving a fire. The man in question, who Sam doesn't remember used his urine to put the fire out.
At the time of announcing his set, he penned: "Thankfully because of that lad whose name I can't remember, I didn't perish in the flames. Little did he know he'd just saved Reading and Leeds's 2023 headliner. See you down the front." As the headline act, Sam will be performing at 9.50pm - 11.20pm on Main Stage East at Reading Festival (Friday) and then taking to Main Stage East Leeds on Saturday between 9.20 and 10.50pm. The full set times for the weekend can be found here.
Hours before taking to the stage in Leeds this evening, Sam took to X (aka Twitter) to share a video with his fans and tell them: "Me and Dean went to @officialrandl when we were 18, my tent got set on fire when I was asleep in it. Me and Dean launched hotdogs out of tent poles at groups of lads chanting ‘Yorkshire’ just for a bit of fun, and kept up the long standing tradition of northern rivalry…"
In additional posts (tweets), he added: "between anyone who doesn’t live within ten square miles of you. I saw so many bands that I’ve since had the pleasure of sharing the stage with, it was one of the best weekends of my teens. To headline was unfathomable, me and the lads have always felt more comfortable…
"as the underdogs, we’ve been the underdogs for 7 years - from our first show in Ullapool in Scotland, in that beat up van with doors that didn’t open, all the way to this weekend. The imposter syndrome is real, but I suppose that means it’s actually happening. We love you all x."