Watch Ed Sheeran play a shock opening set for The Darkness
Ed Sheeran has made a shock look with The Darkness, enjoying a shock opening set and later becoming a member of them to carry out their track ‘Love Is Solely A Feeling’ – watch the footage under.
The worldwide popstar has had a protracted relationship with The Darkness. Sheeran beforehand confessed his intentions to take Taylor Swift to the Suffolk band’s present: “I feel she’d actually dig The Darkness.” In the meantime, the band opened for Sheeran on the UK leg of the 2019 ‘Divide Tour’ together with James Bay and Zara Larsson.
Now, Sheeran has repaid the favour by performing a shock opening set for the band’s present at London’s Roundhouse final night time (December 9). Based on web site setlist.fm, Sheeran performed six of his megahits, together with his mashup of ‘Don’t’ (from 2014 album ‘x‘) and Blackstreet‘s ‘No Diggity’. You possibly can see a full setlist under.
After his opening set, Sheeran returned to the stage to hitch The Darkness in singing their 2003 hit ‘Love Is Solely A Feeling’, taken from their basic album ‘Permission To Land‘. Watch footage of the live performance under:
Ed Sheeran performed:
1. ‘Shivers’
2. ‘Considering Out Loud’
3. ‘Bloodstream’
4. ‘Don’t / No Diggity’
5. ‘Form of You’
6. ‘Dangerous Habits’
This isn’t the primary shock look Sheeran has made lately; final November, he starred alongside 50 Cent to play ‘Form of You’ on the rap legend’s present.
In different information, The Darkness have launched a brand new documentary. Sheeran praised them within the new movie, saying that he had beloved them since childhood as “they didn’t take themselves too significantly”.
Directed by Simon Emmett, the documentary was filmed over eight years, and stated to be “a tongue-in-cheek reflection on fame, failure, friendship and forgiveness. At its coronary heart, this can be a distinctive account of a band of brothers who’re nonetheless haunted by the demons that ripped them aside. A band who can defiantly snigger within the face of adversities of their final quest for happiness and redemption.”
Not too long ago, The Darkness additionally paid tribute to Shane MacGowan from The Pogues following the information of his loss of life on November 30.