{"id":252212,"date":"2026-01-26T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252212\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:23:09","slug":"ed-sheeran-if-i-fall-be-kind-to-me-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252212\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran: &#8216;If I fall be kind to me on TikTok&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wettest January months on record failed to stop pop megastar Ed Sheeran from belting out his hits in Christchurch\u00a0on Saturday and Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>After taking to the stage at the sold-out Apollo Projects Stadium as part of his worldwide Loop Tour, Sheeran told the crowd on Saturday night he wanted to address the &#8220;elephant in the room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you so much for waiting in the rain up until now. It\u2019s nice to know that New Zealand summer is the same as British summer &#8211; I feel at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The English singer\/songwriter poured everything into his first Christchurch concert for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-story-slideshow\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ed_sheeran_6.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"621\" alt=\"Photo: Geoff Sloan\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>As the skies opened up and the rain fell, Sheeran belted out 30 hits in a high-energy three-hour set, only pausing to put on another layer of clothing or change guitars.<\/p>\n<p>As the rain got harder, Sheeran said the stage was super wet and super slippery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I fall be kind to me on TikTok,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The rain killed all but two of Ed Sheeran\u2019s guitars, flooded his ear piece, and caused a retractable bridge to temporarily fail. But he still put on a show to remember.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sheeran admitted to the crowd it is \u201cgoing to be a while\u201d before he comes back to the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the wettest January months on record failed to stop pop megastar Ed Sheeran from belting out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-252212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252212","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=252212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}