Songfacts®:

• "Remember My Name" is a song about love, memory, and the quiet heartbreak of growing old. It's a deeply personal track where Sam Fender, with his signature raw, wailing tenor, steps into the shoes of two grandparents facing the inevitable: one slipping away, the other refusing to let go.
• Fender detailed the song's origins: "'Remember My Name' is a love song I wrote for my late grandparents. When my Grandma was in a home, she had dementia, and my Grandad went in there every day to visit her. He would tell her stories and try to coax her memory out of her, to get her to remember things. They were always so fiercely proud of our family, so I wrote this song in honor of them, from the perspective of my Grandad."
• Written by Fender and co-produced with Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Mumford & Sons, Kings Of Leon), the song features nothing but Fender's voice and the mournful, swelling brass of the Easington Colliery Band - because, really, what more do you need when you're singing about something this pure and sad?
• The music video, directed by Hector Dockrill (Jorja Smith, Lewis Capaldi), doesn't shy away from the song's emotional weight. It stars I, Daniel Blake actor (and fellow Geordie) Dave Johns alongside street-cast Philippa Briggs as a couple navigating the challenges of aging and dementia.
  
  Dockrill emphasized the importance of authenticity in the portrayal, stating that they approached the subject matter with care to create something "real and human."
• Fender has previously written about his parents in songs like "Spit Of You" and "Seventeen Going Under," but this is his first song dedicated to his grandparents.
• Sam Fender wanted to have a miner's brass band on the track because his mother's side of the family all worked down in the pits.
  
  "I went through all these bands and I chose Easington Colliery Band because they were the best ones I'd heard and winners of competitions," he told The Sun. "We recorded them - and f---ing serendipity - there's a high likelihood some of the maternal side of my family worked in Easington as they were in mines all over County Durham."
• Fender originally contacted The Easington Colliery Band in March 2023 and they began recording the song a month later. Band secretary Peter Lawson told BBC News that Fender got so emotional after hearing rehearsals, he asked if he could sing the song live with the band. "He was given one of the band's concert uniforms and he wore the uniform all day," Lawson said.