{"id":632596,"date":"2026-06-11T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632596\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T06:51:09","slug":"performing-with-ed-sheeran-was-like-jamming-with-a-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632596\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Performing with Ed Sheeran was like jamming with a mate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A music teacher who flew home early from her holiday to perform at a surprise gig said she did not know she would be duetting with Ed Sheeran until she arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lianne Kaye, 30, from Chelmsford, Essex, flew from Malaga, Spain, after just two days abroad and battled a delayed flight and sleep deprivation to perform on 5 June at Ipswich Waterfront.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fans were treated to a pop-up gig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwy2ylv47yqo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that was teased by Sheeran<\/a> the night before on Instagram, prompting hundreds of people to gather to hear the singer from Framlingham, Suffolk.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kaye said: &#8220;It was honestly unbelievable&#8230; I didn&#8217;t know that was going to happen until on the day, we sort of figured it out the evening before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheeran surprised fans after spending nine months in the US and said he was &#8220;so happy&#8221; to be back in Suffolk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Posting on his Instagram story the night before, he said: &#8220;Ipswich! 9am tomorrow at the waterfront, see you there x.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A music teacher who flew home early from her holiday to perform at a surprise gig said she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}