Sam Fender & Olivia Dean, St. James’ Park, Newcastle, June 2025
Credit: India Fleming
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(June 20, 2025) Sam Fender is pleased to share a new recording of “Rein Me In” featuring BRIT Award and Mercury Prize nominated British artist Olivia Dean.
Watch the “Rein Me In” video featuring footage from Sam’s recent sell-out stadium run in London and Newcastle, shot by Daniel Broadley HERE.
The track, originally featured on Sam’s No.1 UK album People Watching, receives a re-working with a new verse and vocals written and sung by Olivia Dean. It’s the first recorded collaboration for Sam since teaming up with Noah Kahan last year for Homesick.
Sam and Olivia performed the track at the London Stadium earlier this month in front of 80,000 fans to a huge reaction with snippets of the performance flooding social media soon after.
Sam Fender on working with Olivia Dean: “If I collaborate with another artist on one of my songs, I prefer they write a new part and make it their own, rather than singing whatever I’ve already written.
Olivia added a female perspective to ‘Rein Me In,’ and I think it’s all the better for it. Sharing the stage with her over these last few stadium shows has been a joy. I can’t wait for people to have it.”
Olivia Dean on the collaboration: ‘Rein Me In’ is my favourite song on Sam’s album, so it was a pleasure to write a new verse from a female perspective. I’ve been a fan of Sam’s for a while now, so I’m so pleased we got to work together on this duet.”
