Ed Sheeran Concert review

 

 

Ed Sheeran makes history by performing to the largest crowd in Cardiff’s Principality stadium Wales.

After attending Wembley in 2018, I decided to take my Mum, sister and niece. My Mum was supposed to go back in 2018 but couldn’t due to a hip replacement. So I surprised Mum with tickets for her birthday last year and brought my sister a ticket for her birthday and my niece a ticket to her first ever concert. 

Living in Cornwall, Cardiff or Wembley is the nearest place to go to concerts. My sister and I decided to go to Cardiff as it’s slightly closer and quieter, or at least we thought so before seeing the crowds in the city when we arrived around lunchtime. 

We went to get some lunch, and most of the food places were busy. In the end, we settled for Starbucks. After looking around a few shops, we headed to the Millenium stadium. 

My only complaint is that we had to walk around the stadium and queue to get into the building, which took almost an hour. 

Sheeran continues to play with numbers by adding to his divide tour, which ran for more than 250 shows between 2017 and 2019 and ended up being the best-attended show of all time. 

Ed Sheeran’s creativity came to light as he performed around an enormous screen featuring plectrum-shaped sub-arrays that flicker between the show footage and the artwork of his most recent LP. He runs around the stage, stopping off at his five loop stations scattered around the stage.

He then introduces a band with two guitarists, a bassist and drums assisting a third of the pods set on the main stage.

I have to say, from a personal point of view, I’m less keen on bringing the band in and enjoying his folk-style riffs. The great thing about Sheeran is that his songs are catchy, he uses clever loop effects, and he’s doing something different to other musicians.

But the highlights of this concert show that pop still has a place within the music world, and “Sing”, his Pharrell Williams collaboration, R’n’B floor filler, turned the stadium wild.

“I don’t take this for granted,” Ed Sheeran says before he leaves the stage.