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Ed Sheeran didn’t mime at Glastonbury, who is even saying that?

By | Published on Tuesday 27 June 2017

Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran has hit back at people who have accused him of miming during his set at Glastonbury. Well, not playing the guitar bits live, anyway. The controversy arose from his use of a Loop Station to build his own backing tracks live. Apparently some people felt this was a kind of black magic that shouldn’t be allowed.

“Why is he bothering with a guitar, it’s carrying on in the background when he stops playing”, wrote one person on Twitter, for example. “Why is Ed Sheeran miming playing a guitar to a backing track”, asked another.

As this criticism apparently grew, Sheeran wrote on Twitter yesterday: “Never thought I’d have to explain it, but everything I do in my live show is live. It’s a Loop Station, not a backing track. Please Google”.

I am very obedient, so I Googled away. And now, thanks to the Mirror, I know that a Loop Station is better known as “Ed Sheeran’s controversial Glastonbury gadget”.

I also just spent a lot more of my morning than I really had time for watching videos of people playing music using loop pedals. So, to pass this off as research, I will share some of them with you now.

Here’s the ‘Later’ performance using one that shot KT Tunstall to fame back in 2004;

Here’s the final of this year’s Swissbeatbox Grand Beatbox Loop Station Battle:

And here’s Ed bloody Sheeran giving a tutorial in how he uses his loop pedal to cheat at music all the way back in 2012:



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