He's Ed Sheeran, dude could change to a venue that isn't shitbag and even if it's smaller charge more to make up for it and I'm sure he'd still come out ahead publicly. Instead he's nuking himself.
He'd have to try and save face today, if not in the next few hours, I'll give him leeway if he's just making emergency calls to his lawyers, cause contract law is nothing to sneeze at when it comes to backing out.
If he'd shown some spine, he wouldn't be backing out of anything. It would be the venues canceling. Which, dependant on the contract details, would still get his camp paid.
I think his earlier "both sides" message is it. Like, everything about him is so firmly planted in the middle of the road that he can't pick a lane without alienating a huge part of his following. I'm sure he's aware of that, so he's hedging his bets on maintaining the middle and waiting for it to blow over. Reality is, most of his fan base doesn't actually give a fuck.
thats also true, People who care politically in the music scene are fairly far and few in-between. Attendee's are usually attending concerts to escape all the politics, be it in the office or doomscrolling reddit.
I mean even if that's true, the promoters don't have jobs without people like him. He has the power. He could have stood on business and he very much chose not to.
He should have put it on the venues and not kicked Macklemore. Let the venues take the hit of actually going through with the threat to cancel the show and refund everyone. I don't think they would have. They like money too much.
Pink's the one who originally called out Macklemore for saying free Palestine and started this whole debacle. She called it offensive, people were like "fuck pink" and then the stadiums got involved and yeeted Macklemore even though he's been saying free Palestine forever.
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u/s0ciety_a5under Sep 15 '26
Good I hope the rest of Ed and Pink's tour are in shambles. Shitty behavior from both of them.