{"id":610737,"date":"2026-09-24T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:20:13","slug":"macklemore-hits-back-with-free-palestine-tour-after-sheeran-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610737\/","title":{"rendered":"Macklemore hits back with \u2018Free Palestine Tour\u2019 after Sheeran split"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macklemore announced three shows in London, Paris and Dublin for late October, with US dates also planned, and said all proceeds will benefit pro-Palestinian organisations.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s 2026. Being apolitical during a genocide doesn\u2019t work anymore.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are asking artists to show up, educate themselves and be in community. To use the stage for more than entertainment. To push back when the call for a free Palestine is met with attempts to silence it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macklemore\u2019s removal has opened a can of worms for the Grammy-winning Sheeran, who has typically steered clear of making any overt political statements.<\/p>\n

But last weekend at a show in Philadelphia, he broke his silence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by describing the situation in Gaza as \u201ccatastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019ve had to take and make difficult decisions, and I am making mistakes, and I\u2019m so, so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,696,1863,14801,5782,28157,156,4975,71,4508,27705,296048,1446,111,139,69,14786,24265,40684,693,13974,85382,8692,2737,1361,28050,208,1533,102],"class_list":["post-610737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-announced","tag-back","tag-british","tag-comments","tag-dropped","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-from","tag-hits","tag-instead","tag-macklemore","tag-making","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-palestine","tag-perform","tag-propalestinian","tag-rapper","tag-sheeran","tag-sheerans","tag-split","tag-star","tag-that","tag-thursday","tag-tour","tag-will","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610737","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=610737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}