Sam Fender plans to turn his BRIT Award into a beer pump at his local

North Shields singer-songwriter Sam Fender has grand plans for the BRIT Award he won earlier this week: turning it into a beer pump at the local pub where he used to work and was first discovered. 

Sam Fender won the Best Alternative/Rock Act at the BRIT Awards this week, and plans to donate his prize-winning gong to Low Lights Tavern in North Shields, a pub in which he worked and his musical talents were first discovered by music mogul Owain Davies, NME reveals.

The Best Alternative/Rock Act award will choice the Critics’ Choice gong Fender picked up in 2019, which is also serving as a beer pump in the Low Lights Tavern.

“I came here for the meat raffle, to be honest, and then I came away with a BRIT. Now I’ve got two, I’m going to go back [to the pub] and do the exact same thing.” Fender told BBC Radio 5 Live after this year’s win.

When the North Shields-based singer donated his Critics’ Choic award in 2019, the pub took to Facebook to congratulate him, writing “Congratulations to our own Sam Fender, Deano and the lads including Owain on winning critics choice at the Brits. Sam reckons we can bore a hole in the bottom and use it as hand pull for Fender ale. Dean likes the box! wtf. We knew you were big stars. Now everyone knows. Good job. Well done”.

Low Lights Tavern hailed their hometown hero again this time round, writing, “Well done Sam Fender and the band, Deano, Joe, Drew, Tom and Jonny blue hat. True Rock Royalty born and bred in North Shields”.

So if you want a pint pulled by a BRIT Award, you know exactly where to go.