{"id":21162,"date":"2025-09-14T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21162\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T03:09:11","slug":"ed-sheeran-celebrates-play-with-live-tiny-desk-performance-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21162\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Celebrates ‘Play’ With Live Tiny Desk Performance: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTo celebrate the release of his album Play<\/a>, Ed Sheeran<\/a> stopped by NPR on Friday afternoon for a live-broadcast edition of their Tiny Desk series, which also served as a fundraiser for the public broadcasting company.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore starting his set, Sheeran \u2014 dressed simply in a pink T-shirt promoting his album \u2014 explained that he\u2019d be using a loop pedal to perform everything live on his own. He opened with \u201cSapphire,\u201d strumming his guitar and closing his eyes as he sang the love song, even delivering the Punjabi lines in the chorus.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had the honor of doing this, but I did it in Covid, so I filmed it in Jersey, so it\u2019s kinda mad to see the actual desk itself,\u201d Sheeran said before moving into \u201cA Little More,\u201d slipping in a rap verse before returning to his singing voice. Throughout the performance, the camera alternated between close-ups of Sheeran and shots of his feet working the loop pedal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel really nervous, I usually don\u2019t get nervous, but this is really fun,\u201d Sheeran admitted as he introduced \u201cCamera,\u201d choosing a loop-free acoustic version of the tender track. From there, he seamlessly transitioned into his 2014 hit, \u201cPhotograph.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to say how grateful I am to NPR for letting me use the loop pedal. I can count on one hand the amount of times American media has let me bring this in somewhere,\u201d Sheeran said. \u201cIt\u2019s always, \u2018No you\u2019re using a band. No, you\u2019re using a band.\u2019 I really appreciate you letting me play live.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSheeran closed his performance with Play\u2018s lead single \u201cAzizam,\u201d using the loop pedal to harmonize with himself.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSheeran dropped his album Play Friday, featuring new songs such as \u201cSymmetry,\u201d \u201cIn Other Words,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Look Down,\u201d and \u201cFor Always.\u201d \u201cDespite some of its nods to a more global sound, Play is a lot more of the same radio-tailored singer-songwriter music that has become Sheeran\u2019s signature in his 15-year career,\u201d read a Rolling Stone review<\/a> of the record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To celebrate the release of his album Play, Ed Sheeran stopped by NPR on Friday afternoon for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12564,156,157,111,139,6002,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-21162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ed-sheeran","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-npr-tiny-desk","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}