“I apologize if I suddenly split open.”Įd Sheeran performs at the Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday, Sept. “I regret it, because they don’t fit anymore,” he said with a Richie Cunningham-like smirk. Sheeran played up the lovable-loser persona all the more with a confession to the crowd early on about the downside of throwing his pants in the laundry that day. The redheaded, red-flanneled song man opened with three rather straight-ahead, hard-strumming tunes that played well off his tousled-hair, disheveled image, starting with “I’m a Mess” and “Lego House” before the manic singalong “Drunk.” Sheeran’s one-man-band shtick is seriously starting to make him look like a one-trick pony. The difference this time was a bigger showing by Cities 97-tuned adult fans, who joined the legion of screaming teenage girls from before - his “Sheerios,” as they somehow like to be called.Īlas, the repeat customers mostly saw the same concert as last year. A whopping 14,561 fans filled the arena to the roof on a school night, compared to about 9,000 who came to see him at Target Center last year. The one new twist in the Sheeran chronicles was the impressive turnout. Performing at Xcel Energy Center on Tuesday two nights after Swift ended her three-show run there, the 24-year-old singer/songwriter offered very little to change up the story line this time. Just the bearded, balladic Brit, his acoustic guitar and a small science lab of vocal and instrument looping devices. No heavily used backup singers like his pal Taylor Swift. The going story on Ed Sheeran so far has been how he’s able to fill arenas and even Wembley Stadium with screaming teenage girls all by his lonely, lovelorn self.
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