If the name Ed Sheeran makes you think top 40 radio, sappy songs, and a teeny bopper audience, fair enough. Those things have made him very famous and very rich. But before all that he put in the work, played over 300 shows in a year, and knows how to command a stage with the best of them.
The video below is from Ed’s encore at the 2012 iTunes festival, which he closed with You Need Me, I Don’t Need You. It’s hard to fill out a big venue without a full band, but here Ed Sheeran does it with only a guitar, a mic, a loop pedal, a few guest rappers, covers of In Da Club by 50 Cent, Red by Laid Blak, Welcome to Jamrock by Damian Marley, and The Sound of the Police by KRS-One, crowd participation, some role play from The Sound of Music, and that’s pretty much it.
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