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On October 25, 2012, in partnership with ABC News on the prime-time TV special All Access Nashville with Katie Couric – A Special Edition of 20/20, Swift announced that she would launch a North American stadium and arena tour in early 2013 in support of her fourth studio album, Red (2012). During a radio interview with WRVW, Swift mentioned that "It's nothing like any other tour before."

Swift told Billboard: "Of course, you know the tour will be a big representation of this record". "I'm so excited to see what songs the fans like the most and which ones jump to the forefront, because that's the first step. We always see which songs are really the passionate songs and the ones the fans are freaking out over the most, and those are the ones that are definitely in the set list. I can't wait for that."

Swift used Tom Petty's "American Girl" as her entrance song on her previous tour but now takes the stage to Lenny Kravitz's version of "American Woman". She sings a cover of The Lumineers's "Ho Hey" nightly, intertwined with her own "Stay Stay Stay".

Supporting Acts [ ]

• Ed Sheeran (North America)
• Austin Mahone (North America) (select venues)
• Joel Crouse (North America) (select venues)
• Brett Eldredge (North America) (select venues)
• Casey James (North America) (select venues)
• Florida Georgia Line (North America) (select venues)
• Neon Trees (New Zealand and Australia)
• Guy Sebastian (Australia)
• Ed Sheeran has a tattoo on his left arm which says Red.
• While on tour, Ed almost accidentally stabbed Taylor Swift with a sword. [4]

References [ ]

• ↑ ABC News Radio - Taylor Swift North American Red tour dates and musical guests.
• ↑ Billboard.com - Taylor Swift announces Oceanic tour dates.
• ↑ Taylor Swift announces European dates
• ↑ MTV Australia - Ed Sheeran admits he nearly stabbed Taylor Swift with a sword
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• 2 Bibia Be Ye Ye
• 3 Bloodstream

Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran’s Friendship Timeline Continues With New Song “Run”

The musicians met in 2012, and their latest collaboration appears on Red (Taylor’s Version) .

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran — two of the most successful musicians in the world — have won eight Grammys separately since they became collaborators and friends in 2012. That’s one powerhouse friendship. Seemingly best friends for almost a decade now, they’re not shy about their mutual admiration for each other. They’re so close, Swift is even partially responsible for helping Sheeran fall in love, as he and his now-wife became close at one of Swift’s Fourth of July parties .

Swift and Sheeran have released three songs together over the years — “Everything Has Changed,” “End Game” and a third collaboration titled “Run,” which is featured on Swift’s new Red (Taylor’s Version) . As fans rush to listen to the latest duet between the artists, take a look back at how they met and what they’re up to now.

2012: Taylor & Ed’s First Collaboration

Sheeran reached out to Swift’s team in 2012 after hearing that she had his “Lego House” lyrics written on her arm when she performed in Australia. It didn’t take long before Swift and Sheeran got together in person, and they started work on music as songwriters are bound to do. That session produced “Everything Has Changed.” which was featured on Swift’s Red that year.

2013: Taylor & Ed Toured Together

After forming a friendship in 2012, Swift and Sheeran would spend much of 2013 on the road together on Swift’s Red Tour. The run of concerts gave them time to strengthen their bond, with the two buying special mugs and riding roller coasters on their days off. In 2013, their duet became a Top 40 hit in many of countries, and in the U.K., it reached the Top 10.

In the middle of the Red Tour, Swift and Sheeran attended the MTV Video Music Awards. She collected Best Female Video for “I Knew You Were Trouble,” and then they partied together afterward. After wrapping his time on the Red Tour, Sheeran was not done performing for U.S. audiences. He quickly headlined his own show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and Swift showed up to support her former opener. They even duetted for the crowd on “Everything Has Changed,” with the pop powerhouse wearing an “I Heart Ed” shirt.

2014: Swift Praises Ed In London

2014 saw Sheeran’s star rise, and he became a global star. At the same time, Swift transitioned to pure pop, and did so brilliantly with her Grammy-winning album 1989 , which won Album of the Year. Though the two were busy, they still found time to hang out, if only in professional capacities (as far as we know), such as at the Grammys , VMAs, and at the house of a U.S. ambassador .

As Swift continued her lengthy Red Tour, Sheeran popped into her London show to perform “Lego House,” even though he was no longer on the bill. “London, the first time that I ever heard Ed Sheeran’s music, I heard this song on the radio,” Swift said during the “Lego House” performance. “And I thought, ‘My god, he has the voice of an angel ... I’ve got to work with him.”

They also were both featured during the primetime staging of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, though they performed their own tunes and didn’t collaborate onstage for that event.

2015: Taylor Mentions Ed At The BRITs

Throughout 2015, Swift and Sheeran continued their friendship, largely in private, with a few moments shared for public consumption: a text conversation between the two , silly Snapchat pictures, and dress-up photos at Swift’s Fourth of July party.

Swift also won her first BRIT Award that year, and in her acceptance speech , she specifically called out Sheeran, telling him she loved him and explaining that he helped her understand the British people and culture during their time together.

2016: Taylor Cheers For Ed’s Grammy Win

Both Swift and Sheeran won several awards at the 2016 Grammys, and they even competed against each other for more than one prize. Sheeran ended up besting her in almost every category they were included in, with him winning Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Thinking Out Loud.” Swift was thrilled for Sheeran’s wins.

2017: Taylor & Ed Release “End Game”

After five years of friendship, the two chart-toppers decided to work together again on a single for Swift’s Reputation album, and for their second collab, rapper Future joined them. The resulting tune, “End Game,” became a top 20 hit in the U.S. The three artists all appeared in the music video, which was filmed without the song playing in order to keep it from leaking.

2019: Ed Supports Taylor — In Private

2019 turned out to be a difficult year for Swift, as the rights to her back catalog were sold , and the ensuing spat between the singer and manager Scooter Braun grabbed headlines for months. Throughout the ordeal, many of Swift’s celebrity friends publicly stood up for her, showing their support for her cause of gaining back the rights to her own songs. Sheeran was surprisingly quiet, and fans noticed this, even calling him out. Eventually, the guitar player commented on the situation via Instagram, explaining , “I’ve been speaking directly to her, like I always do.”

2020: Ed Celebrates Taylor’s Boyfriend

Before the entire world shut down in 2020, Swift and Sheeran found time to have dinner in London . The singers were joined by their partners to celebrate Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn ’s birthday. They reportedly spent hours together drinking champagne and playing games.

2021: Taylor & Ed Collab On “Run”

As Sheeran launched his new single “Bad Habits” in 2021, Swift didn’t waste a chance to show her love, promoting the catchy pop cut on Twitter and Instagram. The superstar shared the music video on Twitter and insisted that she “legitimately cannot get it out of my head.” In an Instagram Story, Swift wrote, “It’s Ed and it’s glitter so it’s a yes for me.”

Later in 2021, in anticipation of the re-release of Swift’s Red , Sheeran confirmed that he and Swift had updated “Everything Has Changed.” Another collaboration between the two — titled “Run” — is featured on Red (Taylor’s Version) .

This article was originally published on November 10, 2021

Ed Sheeran Confesses: Tears, Trauma, and Those Bad Habits

By Brian Hiatt

Brian Hiatt

I n case there’s any doubt, Ed Sheeran is well aware of the fact that he’s … Ed Sheeran.

“I’m not an idiot,” he says, early in our acquaintance. “When you say in your office, ‘I’m gonna go and interview Ed Sheeran,’ you must get sneers. I’ve always been that guy.” 

But Sheeran is convinced that, in certain quarters, his achievements and talents — his elastic voice, his endless trove of hooks, his freaky, human-playlist capacity for cross-genre metamorphosis, lately extended to Afropop, EDM, and reggaeton — don’t seem to register. In those eyes, he’s a ginger-haired interloper, a vaguely hobbit-y mortal who ascended into the realm of pop godhood via some kind of cosmic error, and then refused to leave. “I was the butt of jokes before this,” he says, “and I’m the butt of jokes now, and it’s not necessarily just my music.”

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Lyra, who’s emerged for some snuggle time, is eyeing a blue plastic wading pool on the Shire-green lawn. “As soon as Daddy’s finished the interview, I’ll go splashing with you,” Sheeran promises.

Again, he gets it. “I am a nerd,” he says. “I love Lord of the Rings. I love Pokemon. I love fucking Lego and Warhammer, and yeah, I’m not meant to be considered cool.” But he’s long since ascended to an elite level of geekery. When he was very young, he admits, he saw Pikachu et al. as his “friends”; now he’s the guy who gets asked to write a song (the Coldplay-ish anthem “Celestial”) for a new Pokemon game. He once assembled both a Lego Death Star and a Millennium Falcon with a 1D-era Harry Styles, and cameoed in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, as well as, controversially, in Season Seven of Game of Thrones . He’s been pals with Lord of the Rings auteur Peter Jackson since writing a song for 2013’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The other week, in Wellington, he watched North by Northwest in Jackson’s home screening room, with fellow New Zealand resident James Cameron and family also in attendance.

With Sheeran’s new album, – (pronounced Subtract ), due May 5, he’s in sudden danger of achieving a new brand of musical coolness, thanks to some of his most unadorned and emotive songwriting, paired with the chiaroscuro inventiveness of production by the National’s Aaron Dessner . Sheeran knows there’s a chance critics might actually like this one, which kind of scares him: “I’m worried about that, because all my biggest records, they hate.” 

He’s sitting cross-legged and shoeless on the gray cushion of an outdoor couch, wearing a crisp white T-shirt, black shorts from the Italian brand Stone Island, and white tube socks. His arms are a rainbow riot of tattoos, quotes in Gaelic and Dwarvish among them. He’s got a scruffy, reddish beard going, and his longish hair sticks out of a baseball cap from Lowden Guitars, a high-end acoustic-guitar manufacturer. When he was a kid, he dreamed of playing one; now he’s a collaborator on a signature model.

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In keeping with the album’s themes, Sheeran has “super-heavy” stuff — death, illness, grief, depression, addiction — to talk about this week, in the most extensive interviews he’s done in at least five years. He’ll end up revealing it all, maybe more than he planned, but he’s wary of the world’s reactions. First of all, he imagines people seeing it through the highly unsympathetic lens of “Rich Pop Star Feels Sad.” And then there’s the fact of the particular pop star he is. In his mind, he says, “there is a lot of, like, ‘Why do people care whether I feel this way or that way?’ ” 

Sheeran encounters hostility almost exclusively online these days, when it reaches him at all. But when he first started coming into London as a teenager, toting his acoustic guitar and loop pedal from gig to gig, trying to get signed, he’d hear it right to his face. “I spent so long with people laughing about me making music,” he says. “Everyone saw me as a joke, and no one thought I could do it.” The way he sees it, he alchemized all that contempt and doubt into artistic fuel. “And I think that’s still the drive. There’s still this need to prove myself. And I’m still kind of not taken seriously. If you were to speak to any sort of muso, ‘Oh, I love my left-of-center music,’ I’m the punchline to what bad pop music is.”

At some point long ago, he decided not to worry about it. “I mean, mate, when I wrote ‘Perfect’ and ‘Thinking Out Loud,’ I remember being like, ‘Oh, these are a bit cheesy,’ ” he says. “But at the time being like, ‘I don’t know if I care.’ And they became the biggest ballads in the world that year. And you’re like, ‘Well, people must connect with cheese, then!’ ”

Someone on Twitter recently accused Sheeran of making “sex anthems for boring people,” a critique he needs only a millisecond to contemplate. “ 150 million boring people, by the way,” he shoots back, referring, loosely, to his total album sales, a figure that clearly hovers close to the surface of his mind. “I think I’m quite meme-able. Have you seen the meme of me when I’m queuing up at a record store in my own T-shirt with a bag that says “÷” on it? And it says, ‘Why does Ed Sheeran look like he’s queuing up to meet Ed Sheeran?’ I think it’s because I am quite quote-unquote ‘ordinary-looking.’ I look like someone’s older brother’s mate who came back from college and works in a pizza shop.”

In truth, at this moment, with his 32nd birthday about to hit, he looks less ordinary than ever. The beard lends him a certain glamour, and he’s lean enough these days to expose sharp cheekbones he credits to an hour of weightlifting a day, pointing to a set of dumbbells on the porch. There’s a river’s worth of feeling in his deep-blue eyes, recently lasered out of nearsightedness, a striking contrast to all that red fuzz.

“ Babies love Ed, because he’s got an unusual face,” says Seaborn, who has warm hazel eyes under her caramel-colored eyeglass frames. She exudes intelligence and a certain steadiness, and also happens to be the subject of a worshipful song — “Shape of You” — that’s been streamed billions of times. (She’ll tell some of her story in May 3’s documentary series, Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All, streaming on Disney+.)

Sheeran wouldn’t mind making new fans with Subtract, but he doesn’t need your grudging acceptance. “Someone who’s never liked my music ever? And sees me as the punchline to a joke? For him to suddenly be like, ‘Oh, you’re not as shit as I thought you were?’ That doesn’t mean anything.”

ED SHEERAN IS CRYING AGAIN, and he’s glad. It’s nearly been a year, and he doesn’t want the pain to fade quite yet. “I don’t want to get over it,” he says. “I would hate to talk about it, but not feel …” His eyes and his face are equally red now, and he can’t quite get the words out. 

On Feb. 20 of last year, Jamal Edwards, one of the U.K.’s most prominent young music entrepreneurs, died suddenly at age 31, of a cardiac arrhythmia brought on by cocaine use. He was Sheeran’s best friend, and the artist believes he owes Edwards his career, thanks to cred-establishing appearances on his influential YouTube channel SBTV. Edwards’ final Instagram post was a tribute to his old friend. “Happy Birthday to the OG, Ed. Blessed to have you in my life brother. You know you’ve been mates a long time when you lose count on the years! Keep smashing it & inspiring us all G!”

The two friends had an easy chemistry, as demonstrated in an old YouTube clip where Sheeran and Edwards trade lines from the grime track “Burst Da Pipe,” both of them cracking up. “People assumed that we were lovers,” Sheeran rapped on a recent tribute to his friend, “F64.” “But we’re brothers in arms.” “That was a big rumor in the industry,” Sheeran says. “And I don’t think anyone thought that I knew the rumor. But I get it, man. I lived in his room!”

When he was 18 and had no place to live in London, he crashed for the night at Edwards’ house, and ended up staying for “God knows how long. Like, I get why people would think that. We used to go on holidays together.” The night before he learned of Edwards’ death, Sheeran was out to dinner with Swift and Joe Alwyn, exchanging texts with Edwards about plans to shoot a video the next day. “Twelve hours later,” Sheeran says, “he was dead.”

I don’t know any old rockers who aren’t alcoholics or sober,” Sheeran says. “And I didn’t want to be either.

Edwards’ death shattered him, sent him spiraling. “My best friend died,” he says, tearing up for the first time in our discussions. “And he shouldn’t have done.” He found himself in his latest bout of what he quietly knew to be depression. “I’ve always had real lows in my life,” he says. “But it wasn’t really till last year that I actually addressed it.” 

He first experienced it in elementary school, a period that’s sometimes played for laughs in chronicles of his life, but turns out to have been deeply traumatizing. “I went to a really, really sport-orientated primary school,” he says. “I had bright red hair, big blue glasses, a stutter. I couldn’t play the sport because I had a perforated eardrum. You’re just singled out for being different at that point. I’ve kind of blocked out a lot of it, but I have a real hang up about that. I think it plays into wanting to be on a stage and have people like you and stuff.” 

In the wake of Edwards’ death — and then, on top of everything else, the passing of another friend, Australian cricket star Shane Warne, in early March — Sheeran started experiencing a feeling he’d silently suffered through before. “I felt like I didn’t want to live anymore,” he says, his voice steady. “And I have had that throughout my life.… You’re under the waves drowning. You’re just sort of in this thing. And you can’t get out of it.” Those thoughts were bad enough, but shame arrived as their companion. They seemed “selfish,” he says, “especially as a father. I feel really embarrassed about it.”

It was Seaborn who figured out what was going on, and told Sheeran he needed help. For the first time in his life, he started seeing a therapist. “No one really talks about their feelings where I come from,” he says. “People think it’s weird getting a therapist in England.… I think it’s very helpful to be able to speak with someone and just vent and not feel guilty about venting. Obviously, like, I’ve lived a very privileged life. So my friends would always look at me like, ‘Oh, it’s not that bad.’ ”

As he talks, Sheeran keeps pulling at a loose silver chain on his right wrist. He spent most of last year wearing two rubber bracelets. One was from Edwards’ funeral, the other, bearing the slogan “Don’t fuck up,” belonged to yet another lost friend, the Australian music exec Michael Gudinski, who died in 2021. On Christmas, Seaborn gave Sheeran the new jewelry, with Jupiter’s and Lyra’s names engraved inside. On New Year’s Day, Sheeran made the switch. “It felt symbolic,” he says, “to take off those bracelets and put on one for my family.”

SHEERAN’S OTHER FORM OF THERAPY was his usual one: writing songs. Since 2011, Sheeran has been executing his plan for a cycle of albums with titles based on mathematical symbols, and Subtract, now the last of those five releases, was always in the mix. The idea was a stripped-down singer-songwriter album, returning him to his earliest roots, and he’d spent more than a decade on it, “sculpting this perfect thing.” By early last year, it was ready to go. But the version of Subtract he’s putting out in May isn’t that album at all.

In late 2021, Swift’s matchmaking led to Sheeran and Dessner sitting down for a sushi dinner in New York. Dessner recalls telling Sheeran that he “would love to hear him in a more vulnerable, more sort of elemental way.” Not long after that conversation, Dessner did his thing, sending Sheeran fully arranged instrumental beds that just needed vocal melodies and lyrics.

In the midst of Sheeran’s month from hell, he started writing over the tracks. “I wasn’t really around a guitar,” he says. “But I had these instrumentals, and I would write to them — in the backs of cars or planes or whatever. And then it got done. And that was the record. It was all very, very, very fast.”

The opening track, “Boat,” evokes one of Sheeran’s early heroes, the singer-songwriter Damien Rice, in its starkness, with Dessner’s textured chords swelling beneath acoustic strumming. (Sheeran wrote it over a piano-and-drums bed created by Dessner, but reworked it as a raw guitar song.) “They say that all scars heal, but I know maybe I won’t,” Sheeran sings, sounding more plaintive than you’ve ever heard him. “The waves won’t break my boat.” On another ballad, “Life Goes On,” Sheeran sings directly of Edwards: “Life goes on with you gone, I suppose/I sink like a stone.”

The lovely midtempo track “Dusty,” propelled by ticking synthetic hi-hats, is lighter, capturing an epiphany Sheeran experienced during a morning ritual of listening to vinyl with Lyra — in this case, Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis. “I’m going through that time of turbulence and massive lows,” Sheeran says, “but then waking up in the morning and having a joyous morning with a beautiful girl. It’s such a weird juxtaposition to go to bed crying and wake up smiling with your daughter.”

“Eyes Closed,” the first single, is built around a pinging pizzicato riff that builds to an octave-jumping chorus as big as anything in Sheeran’s catalog: “I’m dancing with my eyes closed/’Cause everywhere I look I still see you.” It’s a rewrite of a more straightforward pop song Sheeran had on hand, a more generic breakup narrative. Now it speaks directly to his traumas and their aftermath: “I pictured this month a little bit different/No one is ever ready.”

Sheeran has five more albums in mind using another category of symbols, one he’s not ready to share, at least on the record. He sees the last in that series as a years-long project, with a twist. “I want to slowly make this album that is quote-unquote ‘perfect’ for the rest of my life, adding songs here and there,” he says. “And just have it in my will that after I die, it comes out.”

THIS IS WHAT ED SHEERAN DOES before he goes onstage in front of 50,000 people: practically nothing. He switches from his usual T-shirt and shorts and watch and sneakers into a modestly sharper stage outfit, and heads out, without so much as a final glance in the mirror or a comb through his hair. No vocal warmup, even. He wakes up on show days feeling no different than on any other days, and talks to the vast crowds the same way he speaks offstage. His persona is no persona. (As for the infamous photo of a glammed-up Beyoncé duetting with a dressed-down Ed: “I think it symbolizes two people being themselves, personally. She is the best performer on Earth. And I am a bloke in a T-shirt.”)

At 5 p.m. the day after our first meeting, just three hours before showtime at Auckland’s Eden Park stadium, Sheeran is back at the house, with the kids eating dinner at a circular wooden table, with summer light spilling in from the open patio doors. “Me and Cherry were talking earlier about how it’s so lovely,” says Sheeran, spoon-feeding Jupiter some rice. “We had an entire day. We did nothing but this. It’s so nice and wholesome having family on tour. On the last tour, I’d party till 7 a.m., sleep till 4 p.m., get up and do the gig. But I was like, 26. It’s very different.”

There’s a wireless sound system in a road case in the corner, and Sheeran uses some idle time before his show to play me some unreleased music. Like, a dizzying, unbelievable amount of unreleased music, in so many styles it almost feels like a prank. “I’ve got loads and loads and loads of shit,” he says. Instead of waiting for inspiration, his method is to just keep the faucet flowing. “I wrote 25 songs the week I wrote ‘Shape of You,’ ” he says. But he’s never had so much finished music piled up that he’s this excited about. It’s years’ worth of releases, in his estimation. “Who’s to say at what point creativity stops,” he says, “and you can’t write any more songs? At least there’s enough banked up.”

Beyoncé is the best performer on Earth,” Sheeran says of an infamous photo of them together. “And I am a bloke in a T-shirt.

He starts out by playing an airy ballad, “Magical,” from his second album with Dessner. “This is how it feels to be in love,” he sings. “This is magical.” Another Dessner song, a likely single, has a bright “Solsbury Hill” feel: “Saturday night is giving me a reason to rely on a strobe light,” he sings, amid more meditations on grief. A third Dessner production is a surging Bruce Springsteen-inspired track called “England.” 

There is, as it turns out, yet another completed album waiting in the wings, a collaboration with reggaeton superstar J Balvin. They knocked the whole thing out last year, after Sheeran randomly encountered Balvin (José, he calls him) in a hotel gym a couple of years earlier. The album is all ready to go, complete with already-shot videos, but again, with no release date in sight. He plays a track that bridges Afropop and reggaeton, with Burna Boy joining him and Balvin . Another Balvin production is a collaboration with Daddy Yankee, with Sheeran singing a hook between rapped verses; yet another is a slower reggaeton song where Sheeran actually raps in Spanish. “I wrote it in English,” he says, “and they translated it in the studio.” There are collaborations with Pharrell Williams and Shakira as well — turns out Sheeran has been writing for her next album, too, because why not?

Sheeran plays a grime track where he full-on speed-raps, trading off with the British rapper Devlin, another friend of Edwards. “Like Kendrick Lamar, this shit ain’t free,” Sheeran spits. There’s a drum-and-bass banger “for the ravers” that he wants to release as a double A side with a David Guetta-produced track where Sheeran praises the power of “summer vibration.” Another Guetta song is even more shameless in its Vegas-EDM feel, but it’s not for Sheeran — they’re trying to figure out who’ll sing it. 

He plays a remnant from time spent in Nashville, a nearly parodic bro-country song he wrote with Florida Georgia Line that Sheeran assumes they rejected as too-on-the-nose: “My neck’s still red, the sky’s still blue, my truck’s still big, my girl’s still you … we live where we live because we love living in Middle America.”

Then there’s a collaboration with Benny Blanco, and, oh, yeah, a lighters-up power ballad duet between Sheeran and Bieber, which Sheeran worked on with superproducer Andrew Watt, slated for Bieber’s next album. 

On top of it all, there’s the big-ass song Sheeran wrote for the new season of Ted Lasso . “Do you want to hear it?” he asks. “Because it’s fucking good.” “We’ll rise from the ashes and write in stars with our names,” he sings in a chorus Chris Martin will envy, complete with whoa-whoa-whoas.  “The joy was worth the pain/Love’s the beautiful game.”

“Sorry,” Sheeran says at the end, unnecessarily. “I know I’ve just, like, song-vomited on you.”

Snow Patrol guitarist Johnny McDaid, one of Sheeran’s most frequent collaborators, has long since gotten used to Sheeran’s genre hopping. “A songwriter is sort of an antenna,” he says. “They pick things up in the ether, and depending on how wide the frequency band of your antenna is, you tend to genre-fy yourself. With Ed, his frequency band is so wide that it really can come from anywhere and be anything.” But it’s a mistake, McDaid argues, to confuse facility with being facile: “He approaches every song he writes as if it’s the first song and the last song. He approaches it with this real tenderness and curiosity.”

It’s nearly showtime, and Sheeran strips from today’s outfit (nearly the same as yesterday’s, with the exception of rare Marty McFly-model Nikes) to his black boxer briefs, and pops on his stage clothes. He has a secret method of transport through the crowd that he asks me not to reveal. Once that mystery journey is over, we’re underneath his yacht-size rotating stage, currently covered by a sort of metal cage that will rise to reveal Sheeran after a countdown on the video screens. There’s about three minutes left, and Sheeran is still uncannily calm, promising a sound guy (known as Normal Dave, in contrast to another Dave in his employ) a celebratory drink soon. As the countdown hits 90 seconds, Sheeran insists that I scamper up to the stage itself, to the spot by his mic stand, and take it in. The vast crowd is visible through the enclosure, all around you, from the rugby field to the upper decks. You’re facing 50,000 people alone, armed with just your loop pedal and guitar. There doesn’t seem to be much to be calm about. 

Finally, Sheeran explains that the noise is coming from his loop pedal, which won’t be working for the rest of the concert. He finishes the show by playing seven songs, several of them not on the set list, all just voice and guitar, unadorned. He’s forced to rework his hits in strummy coffeehouse arrangements, rendering the pyro effects during “Bad Habits” slightly comical. The fireworks bursting from the stage at the very end of the concert are so incongruous that Sheeran can’t help laughing. 

For the crowd, the whole thing is a revelation, and you’ll hear people in Auckland talking about it on the street for days afterward. After all, how many other artists of Sheeran’s generation could even come close to pulling this off? 

He makes it clear his team needs to fix the problem, but there’s never a question of a tantrum, onstage or off. “What can you gain shouting at people?” he asks. “I also think people work harder for you. If someone’s shouting, you’re just like, ‘Fuck you.’ ”

We were supposed to do another interview tonight, but Sheeran bumps it until tomorrow, a decision he says he made onstage. Instead, he eats a steak (again, I get one too), and starts seriously drinking red wine. Some of the old schoolmates who now work for him fill the room, and pour themselves glasses. The lights dim, and any remaining tension eases. “Let’s just forget tonight,” Sheeran says, raising a glass. “Let’s just forget it ever happened.”

BUT HE DOESN’T FORGET. And he doesn’t get much sleep, either. One of his kids has tonsillitis, so he’s up most of the night, and when he wakes up, his first thought is of the previous night’s troubles. “It was a good outcome,” he acknowledges, “but it’s just not what people paid for. It’d be like going to watch Avatar, and it stops halfway through. Then James Cameron comes out at the end and just narrates it. You’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s a new experience!’ But it’s not what you paid for.”

When we meet again in the same backstage area the next day, he’s got on the same shorts and a pastel hoodie, and his energy is a little edgier than usual. His crew spent long hours pinpointing the source of that show-stopping static: Turns out subwoofer vibrations damaged a chip in the loop pedal’s digital brain, and they’re ordering backups.

We sit on the dressing-room couch and start talking about “Bad Habits,” his 2021 smash. He’s mentioned in the past that the song is about “addiction issues,” but it never seems to register with anyone. “If you sing that on a piano really slowly,” he says, “it’s like a confessional song about addiction.” 

Earlier, he told me he “used to be a party boy in my twenties.” But it went further than that. “I was always a drinker,” he says. “I didn’t touch any sort of like, drug, until I was 24.” But beyond weed, he did get into a “few” substances, which he won’t name, because he doesn’t want his kids reading it someday. “I remember just being at a festival and being like, ‘Well, if all of my friends do it, it can’t be that bad,'” he says. “And then sort of dabbling. And then it just turns into a habit that you do once a week and then once a day and then, like, twice a day and then, like, without booze. It just became bad vibes.”

Edwards’ cocaine-related death only cemented his feelings about certain substances. “I would never, ever, ever touch anything again, because that’s how Jamal died. And that’s just disrespectful to his memory to even, like, go near.”

Quitting hard liquor helped him moderate his food intake, and his newish exercise habit has changed his body. But food, too, has been a struggle. “I’m self-conscious anyway, but you get into an industry where you’re getting compared to every other pop star,” he says. “I was in the One Direction wave, and I’m like, ‘Well, why don’t I have a six pack?’ And I was like, ‘Oh, because you love kebabs and drink beer.’ Then you do songs with Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes. All these people have fantastic figures. And I was always like, ‘Well, why am I so … fat?’ ”

He chuckles, with zero humor. “So I found myself doing what Elton [John] talks about in his book — gorging, and then it would come up again.” (John put it this way in his autobiography: “I had developed bulimia.”) “There’s certain things that, as a man talking about them, I feel mad uncomfortable. I know people are going to see it a type of way, but it’s good to be honest about them. Because so many people do the same thing and hide it as well.” 

It’s almost showtime again, but Sheeran is happy to keep talking, with one half-joking request: “If I don’t cry in the next 40 minutes, that would be great.” This time, the show is flawless, with the hit singles at the end going off in their full, loop-pedal glory, the climactic fireworks fully earned. He makes a point of expressing his gratitude for his crew from the stage. 

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“Fuck me,” he says backstage afterward, in an entirely different tone, a white towel around his neck. “Perfect show! That was so good. We should fuck up more often.” He’s thrilled, and so ready to celebrate that you’d almost think it was his first big concert. The wine comes out again.

Sheeran is “very grateful to do what he does,” says McDaid, his songwriting partner. “A lot of people in his position aren’t. He walks into a room to write a song, and tells me how grateful he is to be doing this.”

Lately, he’s found more elemental reasons to be thankful. Earlier in the week, he and Seaborn made the two-hour trip from Auckland to rural Waikato, where Hobbiton — the Shire sets built for Lord of the Rings — still stands, among the impossible verdant beauty of New Zealand’s grasslands. A year after everything blew apart, the couple sat on a bench, sipped red wine, and watched the sun dip down, talking about their kids and their good fortune. “We’re so grateful,” Sheeran says, “to be alive.”

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• 1 Background
• 2 Stage design
• 3 Opening acts
• 5 Surprise songs
• 6 Special guests
• 9 Tour dates

Background [ ]

On October 25, 2012, in partnership with ABC News on the prime-time TV special All Access Nashville with Katie Couric – A Special Edition of 20/20, Swift announced that she would be launching a North American stadium and arena tour in early 2013 in support of her fourth studio album, Red . During a radio interview with WRVW, Swift mentioned that "It's nothing like any other tour before."

Swift told Billboard : "Of course, you know the tour will be a big representation of this record," Swift tells Billboard . "I'm so excited to see what songs the fans like the most and which ones jump to the forefront, because that's the first step. We always see which songs are really the passionate songs and the ones the fans are freaking out over the most, and those are the ones that are definitely in the set list. I can't wait for that."

Swift used Tom Petty's " American Girl " as her entrance song on her previous tour but now takes the stage to Lenny Kravitz's version of "American Woman". She sings a cover of The Lumineers's "Ho Hey" nightly, intertwined with her own "Stay Stay Stay".

Her meet and greet room for the tour was called Club Red .

Stage design [ ]

The stage for the Red tour is when Swift really started getting creative with her stage designs and therefore, add a more evolved look to her live shows. In fact, the shape of the Red Tour stage is very unique, it is in a U shape, with two pits, divided by a catwalk within the U stage. This permitted for fans to feel closer to Taylor during the show and have many interactions.

The main stage catwalk also had a crane that Swift went on during " Treacherous " and " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together " for the show encore.

There was also a B stage at the back of the venue, with a round-shaped platform that lifted up. Swift would perform the surprise song of the set on this stage.

During the shows in Asia, the stage was been modified with several cuts, including:

• The U stage was completely removed and replaced by a standard T-shaped catwalk
• The overhead screen above the stage were removed, and there was only one back screen, not three.
• Many lighting were reduced.
• The crane at catwalk, the lifted platform on B stage and floating constellation during " Sparks Fly " was removed.

Opening acts [ ]

• Ed Sheeran (North America)
• Austin Mahone (North America, select venues)
• Joel Crouse (North America, select venues)
• Brett Eldredge (North America, select venues)
• Casey James (North America, select venues)
• Florida Georgia Line (North America, select venues)
• Neon Trees (Oceania)
• Guy Sebastian (Oceania, select venues)
• The Vamps (Europe, select venues)
• Andreas Bourani (Germany)
• CTS (Japan)
• Nicole Zefanya (Indonesia)
• Meg Bucsit (Philippines)
• Imprompt-3 (Singapore)
• IamNeeta (Malaysia)

Set list [ ]

• " State of Grace "
• " Holy Ground "
• " You Belong with Me "
• " The Lucky One "
• " Stay Stay Stay " / "Ho Hey"
• Surprise song
• " Everything Has Changed "
• " Begin Again "
• " Sparks Fly "
• " I Knew You Were Trouble "
• " All Too Well "
• " Love Story "
• " Treacherous "
• " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together "
• " Stay Stay Stay " was removed from the set list since the second show in Philadelphia on July 20, 2013, but it was performed again during the first show in Kansas City on August 2, 2013.
• " Everything Has Changed " was removed from the set list after the North America leg, which concluded in Nashville on September 21, 2013.
• " Begin Again " was removed from the set list after the Oceania leg, which concluded in Melbourne on December 14, 2013.
• However, the 60s pop remix version of "You Belong with Me" was performed again during shows in London.
• As the result of stage reduction during the Asia leg, " Treacherous " were removed from the set list.

Surprise songs [ ]

• Night one (03/13/13) - " I Almost Do "
• Night two (03/14/13) - " White Horse "
• Night one (03/18/13) - " Should've Said No "
• Night two (03/19/13) - " Cold as You "
• Night one (03/22/13) - " Tim McGraw "
• Night two (03/23/13) - " Forever & Always "
• Night one (03/27/13) - " Starlight "
• Night two (03/28/13) - " The Story of Us "
• Night three (03/29/13) - " You're Not Sorry "
• Night one (04/10/13) - " Today Was a Fairytale "
• Night one (04/11/13) - " You're Not Sorry "
• Night two (04/12/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (04/18/13) - " Should've Said No "
• Night two (04/19/13) - " Fifteen "
• Night one (04/20/13) - " I Almost Do "
• Night one (04/25/13) - " The Best Day "
• Night one (04/26/13) - " Mine "
• Night one (04/27/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (05/04/13) - " Ours "
• Night one (05/07/13) - " Enchanted "
• Night one (05/08/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (05/11/13) - " Never Grow Up "
• Night two (05/12/13) - " The Best Day "
• Night one (05/16/13) - " Fearless "
• Night one (05/21/13) - " Safe & Sound "
• Night one (05/22/13) " Teardrops On My Guitar "
• Night one (05/25/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (05/28/13) - " Haunted "
• Night two (05/29/13) - " Starlight "
• Night one (06/01/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (06/02/13) - " Enchanted "
• Night one (06/14/13) - " Tim McGraw "
• Night two (06/15/13) - " Highway Don't Care "
• Night one (06/22/13) - " Teardrops On My Guitar "
• Night one (06/25/13) - " White Horse "
• Night two (06/26/13) - " Fearless "
• Night one (06/29/13) - " Long Live "
• Night one (07/06/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (07/13/13) - " Should've Said No "
• Night one (07/19/13) - " You Belong With Me "
• Night two (07/20/13) - " Safe & Sound "
• Night one (07/26/13) - " Should've Said No "
• Night two (07/27/13) - " Fearless "
• Night one (08/01/13) - " Ours "
• Night one (08/02/13) - " You Belong With Me "
• Night two (08/03/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (08/06/13) - " Tim McGraw "
• Night one (08/07/13) - " Hey Stephen "
• Night one (08/10/13) - " Fearless "
• Night one (08/15/13) - " Fifteen "
• Night one (08/19/13) - " Ours "
• Night two (08/20/13) - " Fifteen "
• Night three (08/23/13) - " Enchanted "
• Night four (08/24/13) - " Fifteen "
• Night one (08/27/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (08/30/13) - " Enchanted "
• Night one (08/31/13) - " You're Not Sorry "
• Night one (09/06/13) - " Speak Now "
• Night one (09/07/13) - " Tell Me Why "
• Night two (09/08/13) - " Sad Beautiful Tragic "
• Night one (09/12/13) - " Change "
• Night one (09/13/13) - " Our Song "
• Night one (09/14/13) - " Last Kiss "
• Night one (09/19/13) - " Our Song "
• Night two (09/20/13) - " Fifteen "
• Night three (09/21/13) - " Sad Beautiful Tragic "

For the shows in New Zealand and Australia, an acoustic version of "You Belong With Me" was performed in place of the surprise song.

• Night one (02/01/14) - " Fearless "
• Night two (02/02/14) - " Fifteen "
• Night three (02/04/14) - " Ours "
• Night one (02/07/14) - " You Belong With Me "
• Night one (02/10/14) - " Fearless "
• Night two (02/11/14) - " Long Live "
• Night one (05/30/14) - " You Belong With Me "
• Night one (06/01/14) - " Mine "
• Night one (06/04/14) - " Fifteen "
• Night one (06/06/14) - " Fearless "
• Night one (06/09/14) - " Long Live "
• Night two (06/12/14) - " Teardrops On My Guitar "
• Night one (06/11/14) - " Enchanted "

Special guests [ ]

• March 19, 2013 – St. Louis: "Hey Porsche" with Nelly
• March 28, 2013 – Newark: "Everybody Talks" with Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees
• March 29, 2013 – Newark: "Drive By" with Pat Monahan of Train
• April 19, 2013 – Atlanta: " Both of Us " with B.o.B
• July 13, 2013 – East Rutherford: "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" with Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
• July 27, 2013 – Foxborough: "You're So Vain" with Carly Simon
• August 19, 2013 – Los Angeles: "Want U Back" with Cher Lloyd and "Brave" with Sara Bareilles
• August 20, 2013 – Los Angeles: "Closer" with Tegan and Sara
• August 23, 2013 – Los Angeles: "Anything Could Happen" with Ellie Goulding
• August 24, 2013 – Los Angeles: " Jenny from the Block " with Jennifer Lopez
• August 27, 2013 – Sacramento: " The Last Time " with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol
• September 19, 2013 – Nashville: "I Don't Want This Night to End" with Luke Bryan
• September 20, 2013 – Nashville: "What Hurts the Most" with Rascal Flatts
• September 21, 2013 – Nashville: "I Want Crazy" with Hunter Hayes
• February 1, 2014 – London: "Lego House" with Ed Sheeran
• February 2, 2014 – London: "Money on My Mind" with Sam Smith
• February 4, 2014 – London: "Breakeven" with Danny O'Donoghue of The Script
• February 7, 2014 – Berlin: "I See Fire" with Ed Sheeran
• February 10, 2014 – London: "Next to Me" with Emeli Sandé
• February 11, 2014 – London: "Burn" with Ellie Goulding

Gallery [ ]

• While Swift performed " Love Story " in Chicago, Illinois, a bug flew into her mouth.
• In Nashville, TN, Swift performed while sick.
• In San Antonio, Texas, Swift sneezed amid her opening lines in the tour. Shortly afterward, she added "I sneezed, it's a live show, ladies and gentlemen."

Tour dates [ ]

• 1 List of Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriends
• 2 List of songs
• 3 The Eras Tour/Gallery

Taylor Swift Tour Dates: Singer Announces ‘Red’ Concert Schedule

Taylor Swift is hitting the road again!

The singer, whose album Red is expected to sell 1 million copies in its first week, announced her tour dates and shared how excited she was in an statement on her official website .

"I didn't think I could be any more excited about my Red album, but then I start thinking about how I'm going to put the new show together for The Red Tour," Taylor said. "I have so many ideas about how to really bring this music to life, and I can't wait to share the new show with all my fans!"

The 45-city tour will kick off in Omaha, Neb. on March 13. Ed Sheeran, who sings with Taylor on "Everything Has Changed" will join her on the tour dates. See if Taylor will be performing in a city near you in the full list of dates below.

March 13 and 14: Omaha, Neb. March 18 and 19: St. Louis, Mo. March 22: Charlotte, N.C. March 23: Columbia, S.C. March 27, 28 and 29: Newark, N.J. April 10: Miami, Fla. April 11 and 12: Orlando, Fla. April 18 and 19: Atlanta April 20: Tampa, Fla. April 25: Cleveland April 26: Indianapolis April 27: Lexington, Ky. May 4: Detroit May 7: Louisville, Ky. May 8: Columbus, Ohio May 11 and 12: Washington, D.C. May 16: Houston May 21: Austin, Texas May 22: San Antonio, Texas May 25: Dallas May 28 and 29: Glendale, Ariz. June 1: Salt Lake City, Utah June 2: Denver June 15: Toronto June 22: Winnipeg, Manitoba June 29: Vancouver, B.C. July 6: Pittsburgh July 20: Philadelphia July 27: Foxborough, Mass. Aug. 1: Des Moines, Iowa Aug. 2 and 3: Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 6: Wichita, Kan. Aug. 7: Tulsa, Okla. Aug. 10: Chicago Aug. 15: San Diego Aug. 19 and 20: Los Angeles Aug. 27: Sacramento, Calif. Aug. 30: Portland, Ore. Aug. 31: Tacoma, Wash. Sept. 6: Fargo, N.D. Sept. 7 and 8: St. Paul, Minn. Sept. 12: Greensboro, N.C. Sept. 13: Raleigh, N.C. Sept. 14: Charlottesville, Va. Sept. 19, 20 and 21: Nashville, Tenn.

Tickets go on sale Nov. 16.

You can see Taylor this Thursday at the CMA Awards, where she's nominated for three awards and is set to take the stage as well. The show will air live, Thursday, Nov. 1, at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.

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Ed Sheeran is a singer-songwriter from Suffolk, England. Known for his hybrid pop and R&B sound, which mixes his soulful lyrics with his mellow voice, Ed Sheeran has found extensive fame across all corners of the globe.

At the tender age of 14, Ed Sheeran began recording music and independently released his first collection of songs “The Orange Room EP”. It was after his move to London in 2008, though, that his music career really began to take off due to the release of his “Loose Change EP”, which featured future megahit single “The A Team”.

Prepared to graft from the very start, Ed Sheeran played 312 gigs in 2009 in addition to constantly releasing new material on his YouTube channel. These gigs and his widespread social media following caught the attention of Jamie Foxx, Elton John and Example. Further to this, his hard work won thousands of fans, who would show up at any small gigs he was playing. Knowing they were on to a good thing, Asylum/Atlantic Records quickly signed Ed Sheeran to their label after the release of his popular “No. 5 Collaborations Project” EP.

Ed Sheeran’s debut studio album “+” entered at number one in the UK charts after Ed secured four top ten singles in a row from the album. An opportunity to break into the US market soon came about after Ed was given the opportunity to tour with the band Snow Patrol.

Licensing of his music to television shows, and collaborations with One Direction on their song “Moments” and with Taylor Swift on the song “Everything Has Changed” paved the way for Ed Sheeran’s second studio album “x” (pronounced ‘multiply’) to hit the number one position in both the UK and the US charts.

Despite being so early in his career, Ed has already been nominated for three Grammy Awards and was the recipient of a 2012 Ivor Novello Award for “The A Team”. With these successes under his belt, Ed Sheeran’s star can only continue to rise.

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Great show! I bought my wife and I tickets as a gift for her (she was a huge Ed Sheeran fan even before he was famous) and we had a great time. My wife had never been to the venue, and while I had been to shows at Consol Enery Center before this was the first show I saw there since it became PPG Paints Arena. Everything about the production and performances (lights, audio, visuals, crew, musicians etc) went off with nary a hitch and was executed in a very timely manner. Props to all involved.

James Blunt opened, and like many people there (as he joked) I only knew one of his songs: "You're Beautiful". He was funny, charismatic, a good showman, and a good sport. He put on a high quality emotion filled performance, and despite his music being on the sadder side still managed to pump everyone up for Ed Sheeran. "Don't Give Me Those Eyes" was a highlight. He hung out in the Captain Morgan lounge after his performance and invited anyone interested to come hang with him. I came in not really knowing who he was and left checking out his latest music and regretting not grabbing a beer with him.

Than Ed came out (my wife had a pinch me I'm dreaming moment). He was noticeably quieter and a bit more reserved than Blunt when addressing the audience, but quickly dove in. I was always aware Ed was a talented solo artist, but you really appreciate his talent on a different level when you actually hear him perform outside of a studio live with just him and a guitar. Most of his songs were studio quality. A few songs dipped in quality but for charming and understandable reasons like audience involvement and impressive sped-up improv (i.e. the "Don't" and "New Man" mashup). He played nearly all the songs my wife and I were looking for ("Perfect", "A-Team", "Galway Girl", "Nancy Mulligan", "Thinking Out Loud", etc.). Since this was the "Divide" tour he played almost every song off that album (but not all: no "Barcelona", "Bibia be ye ye", etc.) He also played a lot of his older songs, including an audience request for "Cold Coffee" (he stated it was the first time he performed it live since 2010-2011). I also liked how he put on a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey during his closing song "You Need Me and I Don't Need You".

TLDR it was one of the best shows I have seen.

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It is safe to say that Ed Sheeran will be one of the defining artists of our generation. His music transcends any definable genre, combining soft folk with bright pop and grime hip-hop. Sheeran's clever wordplay and soulful lyrics are able to really captivate an audience, both when listening to him live or on a CD. One of the most salient qualities about him though, is his pure, unaltered, truly beautiful voice. It is hard to really visualize how great he sounds until you see him live. I was lucky enough to see him at a small, intimate performance with a crowd of only about 100. The first thing you notice about him is that it is just him up on stage. There is no band, no backing vocals, no track playing in the background or anything. It is him, a guitar, and a loop pedal. From the moment he struck the first chord until the moment he stepped off stage, the audience was enchanted by him. His voice can transport you from an old pub in Ireland to the grimy streets of London without ever missing a beat. A real troubadour, his shining moments are the ballads in which soaring vocals and romantic lyrics backed by the simple strum of his Little Martin cause major swooning.

It was evident to me that Sheeran deserves all of the attention he gets and more; his talent is truly undeniable, even if he isn't your favorite. He is so incredibly down-to-Earth, as well. I was able to meet him after he performed and he genuinely cared about what I had to say to him. He was warm, friendly, funny, and exceedingly normal. He's someone that you would want to hang out and watch TV with.

With his new album "x" (pronounced "multiply") Sheeran shows how much he has grown as an artist since the release of his debut album "+" three years ago. His love is more passionate, his hurt is more palpable, and when he throws shade, it's pretty intense. At the end of the day, he is a performer. You can tell how much music means to him when you see him live. He is a true artist: a beautiful lyricist, a stunning vocalist, and an incredibly entertaining musician.

Let me just start off by saying Ed Sheeran is an amazing performer and speaker. He is comedic and doesn't require thousands of lights and a massive stage to impress thousands. He stayed interactive with the crowd very well. This is my 3rd concert ever and it was both the best and worst I have ever.

Ed Sheeran did amazing, he isn't the issue. As people know in concerts you stand and dance to most songs and sit (under circumstances) when ballads are playing or the performer is speaking. So- I was standing during one of Ed Sheeran's many sings along/dancing songs. I am a 6 foot tall 13 years old there for my birthday. In the area, I was in many people asked me to sit while he talked which I happily obliged to then learning the rules.

It was all fine until one man yelled in a very rude/angry voice yelled at me (during a dancing song) "SIT DOWN IDIOT IN THE BLACK HAT." Which at the very moment I didn't recognize as myself until my father went to lash back (as any protective super concert dad would do). This is something I had never experienced. So for the rest of the concert, I sat having an emotional/mental breakdown.

I'm not sure if it was the music or the people that made me cry so much. This was an experience I will learn from. Unfortunately, it is (probably) because Ed Sheeran reins in a large age group as an audience. This means sometimes people will be cranky, rude, or just plain snarky.

I understand if someone handicapped asked me to sit because they couldn't stand. But this man that yelled at me was about 50 or younger. I hope he ended up enjoying his concert because by halfway through my whole 6' or taller family stood and danced. He sat and everyone around him was asking him to join.

Sorry for my rant. Ed Sheeran is an amazing performer. I just thought you should know that people that (I know) will be everywhere (and we cant do much about them). But it was rude.

Ed was fantastic! He played with no band or backtrack, but instead recorded himself and looped it as he went along to create the illusion of a backtrack or band. With only one person on stage in such a huge arena, there was a lot of opportunity to for the show to grow dry or redundant, especially for those sitting far away. However, he managed to keep me entertained the whole show with an AMAZING graphic show to accompany him. Each of his songs had a unique visual and light show that included scenes from music videos, new visuals, and video to project his performance. There was so much to look at I didn't even mind sitting far away (second level).

He was also very interactive with the crowd, asking us to sing along for most songs, telling stories, and even managing to request and achieve (near) complete silence from the audience during the few songs he deemed needed it. He's got just as amazing of a voice live as on his albums and managed to play all of my personal favorite songs in the span of his set, including a nice mixture of "plus" and "multiply" Plus, his rapping is 10x more impressive live. Between being his own DJ, spitting out verses quicker than I thought possible, and jumping around stage, it's hard to find out when he has time to breathe. But he kept his energy up throughout the whole show.

The exciting surprise of the event was during the encore, when he started singing "Chasing Cars" and was joined on stage by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol. He ended the snow and left the stage with his single "Sing" still looping, leaving the song and his performance stuck in everyone's head for the rest of the night. Overall, he was a skilled entertainer, one I would Definitially recommend to all who enjoy his music.

I have seen 300 concerts. This evening is in my top ten. The sheet quality of his songs, what he achieves with his looping, and the visuals on the screen were excellent. There were a few occasions during the night when Ed was bashing away at his guitar, lost in that massive cacophony,of sound, that I thought that the Budweiser Gardens might blast off into space! Excellent.

Ed also has a powerful voice and a fairly extensive knowledge of soul music. Some of the snippets he threw into songs last night were fantastic. There were some transcendental moments in that show were I felt that anything could happen. People were stunned. Also, the way that he deconstructed some of the fan favourites was very interesting to watch and listen to.

All that said, I think needs some assistance in creating more flow to the show and in reaching out to his audience in a meaningful way. He is 24. His songs are unreal. He knows how good he is. I hope that the stagecraft develops further with maturity.

Songs like Photograph and Thinking Out Loud were a bit understated. Again, the quality of the songs allowed for a successful delivery. However, a song like Thinking out Loud is one for the ages. People will connect to that song forevermore. That piece needs to be a showstopper; a song that leaves the audiences emotional avd feeling connected to each other. He did not deliver in this department last night. His delivery on songs like this felt a bit selfish - a bit of a disappointment.

Ed Sheeran might level off in terms of the songs that he delivers to the world. If, on the other hand, they keep getting better we could be looking at a new kind of stardom. This boy is unreal. The world owns this guy now.

I don't know if it was the galavanting with Taylor Swift, but I know what you are thinking… Ed Sheeran is a ginger with a One Direction pre-teen fanatic following, and I'm not sure if I want to experience that live. Well I am here to tell you, you do. You really need to see Ed Sheeran live the next chance you get.

I've been a fan of Ed Sheeran since I first heard "You Need Me" in 2011. Since then, Ed Sheeran has exploded, touring with Snow Patrol and (of course) Tay Swifty. I'm not sure if it was the time spent with Gary Lightbody and Snow Patrol, but Ed Sheeran has refined his songwriting to pull at your heartstrings and bring you on a 3 minute plus journey of love, loss, and sometimes revenge.

When I had an opportunity to see him live for the first time this year, he was playing a massive stadium in Philadelphia. I was as ready as I could be for all the screaming pre-teens, but looking around before the show started the thing that surprised me most was the stage set up: two mics, two guitars and a loop pedal at the very front of the stage. The next couple hours were a thrilling experience of watch Ed Sheeran build his songs from those 3 things, using his guitar as drums, layering vocals to harmonize with himself, and using the crowd as an award winning choir.

With all of the production on the new album, I completely expected him to have a huge band on stage. Yet, just as he had done when he first started on the street and at open mic nights, Ed Sheeran played completely by himself… in a stadium. This is definitely a case of the pop music world getting it right… Ed Sheeran is a huge talent who deserves to be massive, and you will agree next time you see him live.

After a 4.5hr drive to see the show we weren’t disappointed!

Lewis Capaldi was first up and as funny and great as ever. Had the crowd laughing.

The Darkness were not my thing but they engaged with one particular guy called “Rick” in the crowd, who also sang his heart out for an appreciative audience.

The main man Ed appeared on stage around 8.30pm with a huge smile on his face, to an immense welcome from the Ipswich crowd, he was born not too far away, so was nice to see him finish this huge 2 year world tour at home.

Also he gave hundreds of free tickets to the pupils of the school he attended when he lived there.

His vocals were simply incredible, loud, strong, smooth and steamy, just beautiful !!

Screen graphics and timings were perfect too.

His guitar playing was awesome to watch and I have no idea how he concentrates on so many things at once with the loop, that is pure talent and the build up and sound in some songs ie Eraser, Bloodstream and the awesome You need me,I don’t need you gave me goosebumps.

Ed was joined for Galway Girl by Beoga which was brilliant.

Special guest Stormzy for “Shape of You” was the icing on the cake and I’m so pleased I bought the tickets last year, they were worth every penny.

Only complaint was the rude and miserable guy behind the official merch counter!! Spending £50 on a hoodie for my daughter meant I had to save for it and it would have been nice to have had a “hello” a “thank-you” or any kind of a smile!!!

Luckily the bar staff were friendly, smiley and helpful as were the local people.

Would 100% recommend ED SHEERAN as someone to see live, he is INCREDIBLE.

Seeing Ed Sheeran live was an incredible experience. Ed is not just a singer, but a brilliant artist, because every song of his is a work of art. He is 23 years old and he has released two albums, twelve EPs and collaborated with many successful artists.

If you doubt about seeing him live, because you're not really a big fan and you know a few of his most successful songs (The A-team, Lego House, Drunk, Give Me Love) - don't doubt my friend. Why? Let me tell you why. You know this feeling when you have to drive to a concert and you're already exhausted and the summer heat is making you all giddy? And then you have to wait in line and the heat is really bothering you? Well my friend, you forget all about it once Mr. Sheeran comes to the stage. The way he presents himself and his music is brilliant. He's just one man on the stage but he is all over the place. He makes sure we are all listening to him and not just screaming whenever he opens his mouth and a beautiful note comes out. During some of the songs you need to be quiet, and oh boy, we were quiet. It was like the crowd was holding their breath.

Something I really like about him, is that he is just a simple human being with an amazing talent that he wants to share with the world. He plays mostly in smaller arenas so he can connect more with the crowd. If you are a fan of acoustic artists and small venues - then his concert is definitely for you. I would highly recommend you go to Ed's concert even if you only know one song of his. He is absolutely amazing and his gigs are an incredible experience for everybody.

I fell in love with Ed's music a few years ago, a little before the big hype about him (of which there is every need to be). I loved his first album and all his "old" songs (pre-+) like ones in The songs I wrote with Amy and X (Mulitply) is just even better. I knew he would be amazing live, because any live lounges or live performances I've watched of his have been brilliant. What I love is that it's just him, his guitar and his loop pedal – no band or back-up singers which is something quite unique to him. That, I think, makes a more personal connection with him and the crowd so, even parents who didn't particularly want to be there could be involved as well with clapping etc. He seems really genuine and down-to-earth through his performances too as he doesn't have anything too flashy – just a couple screens behind him so everyone can see him. And of course, just jeans and a t-shirt. He had a good mix of up-beat and slow songs and songs with a slow start and build up which I really liked. He also added things to the songs like adding other parts of songs to the end or adding an extra verse than from what's on the album (eg. You need me, I don't need you). His love performance consisted mostly of songs from his new album, X but also many songs from + and a few older songs too like Gold Rush. I was definitely recommend listening to and going to a concert of Ed's because his music is for everyone and he is definitely a crowd-pleaser.

James Blunt was the opening act, with Ed Sheeran as the main. The show started right on time, which doesn't always happen in my experience. Blunt had a hit with "Beautiful" in the states a while back and we haven't heard much from him since, so he poked fun at himself on stage and put on a great show. The crowd may have come to see Ed Sheeran, but Blunt set a great mood for the rest of the show, ending with an upbeat song. He is the self proclaimed singer of "miserable songs", yet he ended his set on a positive note and crowd participation.

Ed Sheeran's show started a bit after James Blunt's performance ended, 15 minutes maybe. As we already know, he's an incredibly gifted and talented artist. His set was beautiful, with a lot of graphics on the screens to go with the songs. I do wish that on some songs they'd shown him more on the big screens, since it's those of us sitting further back couldn't see him as well. That's fine though, it was still worth it. He ended with "Shape of You", which made our daughter very happy since she's not yet 9, that's one of her favorite songs, and this was her first concert.

Tacoma Dome was the venue, the concert and venue were great, the parking and way out, not so much. It was a total cluster and $30 parking for an outdoor lot with no real direction is not good, in my opinion. If there was actual traffic control to help leaving the concert, it would have been perfect. That's my only gripe.

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Everything Has Changed

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«We, for real, were sitting on my trampoline in my backyard because we had been writing a song and I was like, ‘Hey, I just got a trampoline. You want to see it?’ And so, he brought the guitar for some reason. We ended up writing an entire song out there. For portions of the song, we were bouncing around ‘cause it’s a trampoline, and it’s fun, and the combined maturity level of both of us is 8 years.» Taylor Swift

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«We had both reached out to each other’s camps at the same time. I showed up at his hotel in Arizona and we just wrote songs all day. Then he came and hung out at my house in LA and we spent all night sitting on the kitchen floor laughing, writing songs and harmonizing.» Taylor Swift

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«'Everything Has Changed' is a song that I wrote with Ed Sheeran, and I think this is the one that we wrote on a trampoline in my backyard — how cute is that? He is a friend that I will just cherish forever, and looking back to the phases that we were at in our lives back then...It was shortly after this that we went on tour together. We had so many hilarious times, and this was the song that started all of it. And now when I think about this song, I think about how we'd make faces at each other onstage, and try to make the other one crack up. For me, this song is just about all the memories, all the fun times, the friendship montage — that's what I see in my head when I think about this. And it was really fun to get to go in, and I was really, really grateful that Ed wanted to redo all his stuff on RED , so, yay!» Taylor Swift

[Intro: Ed Sheeran] “You good to go?”

[Verse 1: Taylor Swift] All I knew this morning when I woke Is I know something now, know something now I didn’t before And all I’ve seen since 18 hours ago Is green eyes and freckles And your smile in the back of my mind making me feel like

[Pre-Chorus: Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran] I just want to know you better, know you better, know you better now I just want to know you better, know you better, know you better now I just want to know you better, know you better, know you better now I just want to know you, know you, know you…

[Chorus: Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran] ‘Cause all I know is we said, “Hello” And your eyes look like coming home All I know is a simple name Everything has changed All I know is you held the door You’ll be mine and I’ll be yours All I know since yesterday Is everything has changed

[Verse 2: Ed Sheeran , Taylor Swift] And all my walls stood tall, painted blue I’ll take ’em down, take ’em down And open up the door for you And all I feel in my stomach is butterflies, the beautiful kind Makin’ up for lost time, taking flight making me feel right

[Bridge: Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran] Come back and tell me why I’m feeling like I’ve missed you all this time And meet me there tonight Let me know that it’s not all in my mind

[Pre-Chorus: Taylor Swift] I just want to know you better, know you better, know you better now I just want to know you, know you, know you…

[Outro: Taylor Swift] All I know is we said, “Hello” So dust off your highest hopes All I know is pouring rain And everything has changed All I know is a new found grace All my days, I’ll know your face All I know since yesterday Is everything has changed

[Verse 2: Ed Sheeran] And all my walls stood tall, painted blue I’ll take ’em down, take ’em down And open up the door for you And all I feel in my stomach is butterflies, the beautiful kind Makin’ up for lost time, taking flight making me feel right

[Taylor Swift] I used to think that love was for dreamers “Love at first sight,” I never believed it Had my head on tight, I lived in the real world But that was until I met you Now everything is changed

[Ed Sheeran] Yesterday I was drinking my sorrows away On the edge of forever, storing my heart away On the verge of letting my heart go stray And that’s when I met you And now everything is changed

[Taylor Swift] Oh darling, you look like your soul is lost What could’ve happened to make you feel so low? Don’t let the liquor ease your hurt Don’t let your heart go cold

[Ed Sheeran] Oh darling, don’t worry, I’ll be just fine What’s a pretty girl like you doing in a place like this? If I weren’t drinking then I’d be crying And I think that’s something we’d both rather miss

[Taylor Swift & Ed Sheeran] But I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles You give your all and watch as your heart tumbles Down and down until you can’t feel anymore

[Ed Sheeran] That’s the thing about love That’s the reason why I’ll never fall again It hurts when it’s supposed to make you feel good

[Taylor Swift] Well if that’s what love is Then I don’t ever wanna try it out But something tells me I should Even though we’ve only met each other We’ll work it out together until everything is changed Until everything is good

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• Boat Play Video
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• You Are the Reason ( Calum Scott  cover) Play Video
• Take Me Back to London / River / Cross me / Peru / Beautiful People / South of the Border / Own It / I Don't Care Play Video
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• Thinking Out Loud Play Video
• Love Yourself ( Justin Bieber  cover) Play Video
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Ed-Sheeran: Zusatzkonzerte 2025 und verrückte Ticketpreise

Stand: 08.08.2024, 09:49 Uhr

Von: Sven Trautwein

Der britische Popstar Ed Sheeran wird im Sommer 2025 auf seiner „+-=÷x1“-Tour auch in Deutschland auftreten. Fans zeigen sich begeistert.

Ed Sheeran, einer der erfolgreichsten Popstars der Welt, wird im Sommer 2025 auf seiner „+-=÷x“-Tour (Mathematics-Tour) auch in Deutschland Halt machen. Aufgrund der enormen Nachfrage wurden bereits mehrere Zusatzkonzerte angesetzt. Die Ticketpreise unterscheiden sich je nach Veranstaltungsort und Kategorie deutlich.

Die „+-=÷x“-Tour (werblicher Link) trägt einen auf den ersten Blick ungewöhnlichen Namen, der jedoch perfekt zu Ed Sheerans erfolgreicher Mathematical-Albumreihe passt. Diese begann 2011 mit „+“ (Plus) und setzte sich fort mit „x“ (Multiply), „÷“ (Divide) und „=“ (Equals). Im Jahr 2023 schloss Sheeran die Reihe mit „-“ (Subtract) ab. Die Tournee wird daher auch als „Mathematics-Tour“ bezeichnet und verspricht, die Fans mit einer Mischung aus neuen und alten Hits zu begeistern, wie Watson.de berichtet.

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Die Ticketpreise für die Konzerte variieren stark, was bei einigen Fans für Diskussionen sorgt. Die teuersten Tickets (Kategorie 1) kosten 145,33 Euro und sind Sitzplätze. Die günstigsten Tickets (Kategorie 5) kosten 35,33 Euro und sind ebenfalls Sitzplätze. Interessanterweise kosten die Stehplätze im Innenraum (Kategorie 6) 101,33 Euro und sind somit teurer als einige Sitzplatzkategorien. Diese Preisgestaltung könnte auf den höheren Komfort von Sitzplätzen und die exklusive Nähe zur Bühne bei Stehplätzen zurückzuführen sein, wie Watson.de berichtet. Sitzplätze bieten in der Regel Sichtfreiheit und garantieren eine bestimmte Position, während Stehplätze die Chance bieten, dem Künstler näher zu kommen.

Ed Sheeran: Hier tritt er 2025 in Deutschland auf

Die deutschen Fans können sich auf insgesamt sechs Konzerte freuen. Ursprünglich waren nur drei geplant, doch die große Nachfrage führte zu drei weiteren Terminen. Hier sind die genauen Daten und Orte:

• 28.06.2025 – Stuttgart, MHPArena (werblicher Link)
• 29.06.2025 – Stuttgart, MHPArena (werblicher Link)
• 04.07.2025 – Hamburg, Volksparkstadion (werblicher Link)
• 05.07.2025 – Hamburg, Volksparkstadion (werblicher Link)
• 05.09.2025 – Düsseldorf, Merkur Spiel-Arena (werblicher Link)
• 06.09.2025 – Düsseldorf, Merkur Spiel-Arena (werblicher Link)

Im Jahr 2024 war Ed Sheeran in Deutschland nur auf Festivals zu sehen. 2025 kehrt er nun mit einer regulären Tour zurück. Bereits 2021 begeisterte er seine deutschen Fans mit Auftritten in Gelsenkirchen, München und Frankfurt am Main . Laut Warner Music gehört Sheeran zu den gefragtesten Popstars der Welt und hat weltweit mehr als 45 Millionen Alben und 150 Millionen Singles verkauft, so die Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).

Die Vorfreude auf die kommenden Konzerte ist riesig, und die Fans können es kaum erwarten, ihre Lieblingshits wie „Shape of You“ und „Bad Habits“ live zu erleben. Tickets sind noch erhältlich, aber man sollte sich beeilen, da sie schnell vergriffen sein könnten.

Hier lesen Sie, auf welche Festivals Sie sich 2024 freuen können .

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