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All supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran tour in protest of Macklemore’s removal
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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Nobody here needed to see this, but thank you very much for posting it anyway 😊
It is part of this story. Robert Kraft is the one who pushed the future venues to cancel Macklemore.
Oh, sure, as I said, thank you very much for posting the rest of the story. Everyone should hear it.
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Ed: “Both sides…”
Everyone else: “…”
You either vehemently oppose genocide in all it's forms, to the furthest extent of your ability, or you wind up supporting it, whether you mean to or not.
Ed does not need to perform. He doesn't need to tour. His career could (and may have already) end tomorrow and he would never know another day without luxury.
He can afford to take a stand. Taking a stand, causing a ruckus, being visible being difficult, these are all important things to do. It's the only way to get the people who think they can get away with it to stop.
Lmao love that bit.
He really figured out what happens when you try to "both sides" a genocide
“Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn’t mean I don’t have [opinions about the germicide] and it doesn’t mean I don’t care,” [Sheeran] said.
Lack of action is complicity.
If the Zionists have the strategic sense of the TERFs, they’ll love-bomb Sheeran à la Graham Linehan. “Those nasty terrorist antisemites have rejected you, Ed? That’s their true nature. Your real family is here, with us.” Nick Cave or Jonny Greenwood or someone will fly over to play support at one of his shows (before a less illustrious act can be found for the rest), Boy George will send words of praise and propose a guest appearance on the next album, and so on.
Ed sold out a long time ago
Did he ever have anything to sell?
I mean he's ginger so it couldn't have been his soul.
I thought he was alright. I once read that he reserves the front row of his concerts to give out to regular fans, instead of just rich people.
Of tickets or values
Both maybe?
It's show business
So it would seem, not for everyone
An article I saw the other day said that it’s not Ed who’s doing this, but the owners of some of the venues who were complaining about the comments.
Yeah, but instead of standing up to them like the rest of his fellow musicians, he tried to take the bitch way out and say "not my fault, nothing I can do."
That "owner" pressured Ed and Ed obeyed.
It's even more nuanced. The tour promoters bent the knee, and Ed used it as an excuse to wash his hands off the situation and say "it wasn't my decision"
The owner did not tell Ed to talk privately to Mac and telling him that holding a Palestinian flag hurt a lot of people feeling