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Ed Sheeran stops Cardiff show for toilet break. Twice.
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 25 June 2018
One of the impressive things about Ed Sheeran’s career is that as his audiences have grown, he’s managed to continue to engagingly perform a show that involves just him and a loop pedal. On the negative side, it means that when he urgently needs to go to the toilet, he can’t just let someone play an extended bongo solo until he gets back. As fans in Cardiff discovered on Saturday. Twice.
Sheeran was playing the third of four nights at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium when he announced after playing ‘Galway Girl’ that he “needed a pee”. When he returned, he apologised, telling the audience: “I’ve been gigging since I was fourteen and I’ve never done that. And now I do it in front of 60,000 people”.
Well, once you’ve done something once, it’s easier the next time. And so, three songs later, Sheeran threw down his guitar in the middle of performing ‘Photograph’ and legged it to the loo again. When he returned, he picked up his instrument and started playing again exactly where he’d left off.
In news I am sure is unrelated (Sheeran insisted he was urinating, after all), Lily Allen was asked during a Twitter Q&A on Saturday what her “most awkward bout of diarrhoea” had been. “In the toilet just before an encore in Seattle”, she said. “It still gives me nightmares. Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily, LILY, LILY”.