{"id":462353,"date":"2026-06-05T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/462353\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:24:09","slug":"ed-sheeran-performs-surprise-set-live-in-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/462353\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran performs surprise set live in Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;What a gent&#8217;published at 10:59 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:59 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lianne Kaye said this was her first time performing with the global superstar, but she hopes it won&#8217;t be her last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[It is the] first time and what a gent, he came in &#8211; just put me at ease. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had a little jam, quick run through and that was it &#8211; it just happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really cool because he&#8217;s really down to earth, so it just felt quite natural and just fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the crowd was massive &#8220;but it was a really nice friendly atmosphere, it was buzzy and really warm and welcoming&#8221; and it still hasn&#8217;t sunk in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman with blonde hair and black clothes smiling at the camera\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/77f2e5cd-a2ba-442c-9b5b-3955f832bd84.jpg.webp\"  width=\"3000\" height=\"2004\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Shaun Whitmore\/BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;What a gent&#8217;published at 10:59 BST 10:59 BST Lianne Kaye said this was her first time performing with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-462353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462353","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=462353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}