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Ed Sheeran Talks About Why He Doesn’t Use A Phone and more with Rebecca Judd on Apple Music 1

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Ed Sheeran joins Rebecca Judd on Apple Music 1 to pick his favourite throwback classics, and reflects on the tenth anniversary of his debut album, ‘+’. During the conversation he sings his first ever song, ‘Typical Average Teen’ to Rebecca and says it was nearly used by the creator of The Simpsons, reveals that following their first date, he and wife Cherry went for dinner with Beyoncé and Jay-Z, and explains why he doesn’t believe in meeting his heroes unless they reach out to him. He also looks back on his first, unexpected meeting with Van Morrison, working with Eminem, his relationship with Damien Rice, and more.

Please find key quotes, images and video embeds from the show below. Feel free to use with credit to The Rebecca Judd Show on Apple Music 1.

Listen to the show in-full anytime on-demand HERE.

Ed Sheeran Sings His First Ever Song ‘Typical Average Teen’ For Apple Music’s Rebecca Judd
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Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music About His First Ever Song And How It Almost Featured In A Show By The Creator Of The Simpsons… [EMBED ABOVE]
It was before I was a teenager and it was called ‘Typical Average Teen’ [sings]. The creator of the Simpsons was doing a show, my cousin knew him. And they were like, “Oh, they’re doing this show about a typical average teen.” And he was like, “My cousin wrote something like that.” So it was actually going to be the soundtrack to this thing for a while. I don’t know what happened, it would have been so weird to have my first song end up being the soundtrack of a TV show… I think that might have been the first time I’ve actually sung more than the first line of it.

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music About Relearning His Songs Ahead Of His Forthcoming ‘+’ Tenth Anniversary Show In London…

Ed Sheeran: I actually haven’t listened to it [‘+’] since it came out, but I’m doing a 10th anniversary show at some point this year, so I’m going to go back and relearn all of it. There’ll be songs that I’ll have to literally relearn the lyrics to, because I wouldn’t have played them since the tour in 2011.

Rebecca Judd: Do you think when you listen to them, you’re going to feel the same as you did when they released or you’re going to look back and be like, “Oh, this tune was actually rusty. Why did I put this out?”
Ed Sheeran: Of course. I think everything has a progression to it and it leads on to the next thing….I actually ended up listening to a song called ‘U.N.I’ from the record because Charlamagne tha God had emailed me being like, “Rod Wave covered you today.” And I was like, “What?” And yeah, he was like, “Yeah. And it was like a deep album cut.” And Rod Wave was on the Breakfast Club and had sung some of ‘U.N.I’. So I went back to listen to that because I couldn’t even remember the bit that he was singing. Like it’s been that long.

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Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music About Working With Eminem…

It [the studio] was in Detroit and I was playing a gig in Detroit. And yeah, I arrived. He’s got loads of games consoles there. He loves games. I actually bought him a Nintendo 64 with GoldenEye on it as a gift. Yeah. I just stepped in there. Actually, first time we met, we didn’t make music. I hung out there for about four hours and we just spoke Marvel and Avengers for about four hours. And then the next time I went back, we made a tune. The first tune we made, I was in Mexico and his producer flew to Mexico and I did the hook there and stuff, but yeah.

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music That He and His Now Wife Had Dinner with Beyoncé and Jay-Z The Evening After Their First Date…

I learned it [‘Empire State Of Mind’] for a Live Lounge. And then Jay-Z and Beyonce came to a gig that I did in Brooklyn. And they were like, “Come out to this restaurant with us afterwards.” So I went out to this restaurant and then my mates were in town. Actually my now wife. It was like the day after we’d had our first date. And she was there with my friend Martha and this guy, Foy Vance. So we went to dinner and then we went to this bar and I remember a guitar was getting passed around between me and Foy. And I remember playing that [Empire State of Mind’]. Five of us in a room with Jay-Z and Beyoncé. I gave Beyoncé a Jägerbomb.

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music About The Importance of Date Night….
Me and my wife have a date night. It’s a strict date night every single week. And no matter who’s in town or who wants to see us, it’s always this one night in the week and we go out and our rule is we can’t talk about our baby. We have to talk about each other and catch up because if you spend… As a parent, you spend so much time discussing being a parent that you kind of forget who you were before. So we have one night a week where we are who we were before.

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Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music About Being Unexpectedly Woken At His Hotel By Van Morrison…
If you get the chance to listen to this whole album [‘Irish Heartbeat’], it is so beautiful. It’s so good. I’ve met Van a couple of times now, but the first time I met him, we were in Northern Ireland. I’d just played the Odyssey Arena and I was staying at this hotel and I’d stayed up really late the night before having drinks. And I’d got woken up two hours later by the concierge being like, “Van Morrison’s in the lobby. He’d like to see you.” And I just said, “No, he isn’t,” and just hung up the phone. And then I got a call back being like, “No,” it was like seven o’clock in the morning. He’s like, “He is. He wants to have breakfast with you.” So I was like, “Actually, I do think he lives near here.” So I got up and showered and went downstairs and yeah, we had salmon and cream cheese bagels and chatted about… He was obsessed with learning about streaming and stuff. But I remember saying that this was my favourite album of his and him being taken aback because it wasn’t like ‘Astral Weeks’ or ‘The Moon Dance’ or the big albums that people would say was their favourite Van albums. But yeah, it’s just a very special album to me.

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music Why He Doesn’t Believe In Meeting His Heroes Unless They Reach Out…
My rule has always been never, ever meet your heroes unless they want to meet you. I know people say, “Don’t meet your heroes,” but I remember working with Rick Rubin and we went to New York for Saturday Night Live cause he’d done a song with Eminem and he was like, “Do you want to meet Eminem?” And I said, “No, I want to get to a point where Eminem wants to meet me.” I left that opportunity. And then further on down the line, I had the opportunity to work with Eminem. And we’ve now done three tunes together and I would class him as a friend. But had I gone in and had a selfie, it would have been a completely different vibe. Does that make sense?

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music That A Damien Rice Show Inspired Him To Start Songwriting…
I actually can’t remember the exact date, but it was definitely like lower school. What I liked about the gig is it was under eighteens only. And for adults to get in, they had to be accompanied by a child. And it was like four, 4:00 PM, no alcohol, no nothing. And afterwards my dad went for pint at the bar and Damien Rice was there. So I met him and that was the day I started songwriting.

Ed Sheeran On Connecting With Damien Rice…
There was a long time, I was kind of like; Van [Morrison] had reached out, Eric Clapton reached out, Eminem had reached out, Jay-Z had reached out. There’s all these people that I loved as a kid, and they’d all reached out. And I was kind of like, “Why hasn’t he reached out?” Now we’ve had our conversation. There’s so many different elements to it. He, for instance, is just a hard man to contact. But yeah… He lives in the middle of nowhere. He doesn’t really like the pop world or whatever. But I got to meet him on mine and his own terms and we hung out in Iceland. We went on a hike. We got in a hot springs. We spent the entire day chatting. And had I met him, probably… I think I had an opportunity 2014 when he was releasing an album…and I think it just would’ve been a different vibe. I now have special memories with people that inspired me to make music rather than a selfie.

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music Why He Doesn’t Use A Phone…
I’m always snapped back into reality when I hang out with friends and you’re having a conversation with them, and then suddenly they just start texting someone else and having another conversation. And the reason I got rid of it was that was me. And I feel like it’s good to be in contact with people, and especially nowadays when you can’t see people and you’re in lockdown and blah, blah, blah, blah. Stuff like FaceTime and Zoom is really important, but it shouldn’t detract from everyday interaction. If we were having a conversation right now and I just kind of was still talking to you, but texting…I just think it’s rude, innit? You’re not in the moment. And I find that every time I think I should get a phone, I end up in a situation like that. I played a friend of mine my album the other day, and he texted through the whole thing. And I just feel like he’s not actually listening to the record and he’s in a conversation.

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Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music Why He No Longer Feels He ‘Owns’ His Songs Once They’re Released…
So I feel like songs are mine until they’re released and then they belong to other people. So I wouldn’t say ‘Thinking Out Loud’ is my song anymore. I’d say it’s this couple that had their first kiss to it or this couple that enjoyed their first dance to it or this couple… I’ve had people that have had it on in the birthing room where… Actually when we had our child, the song that came on there, it just came on randomly. But now that’s our special song for that. And I feel there’s songs of mine that are the most popular are no longer songs of mine. They’re songs of the public. And they’re just public domain. They’re just owned by Sandra and Greg or, you know, like whoever.

Ed Sheeran Tells Apple Music About Why His Jubilee Performance Was A ‘Full Circle’ Moment…
This is interesting actually. I was 11 years old and it was the Queen’s Jubilee. And I watched on TV, Eric Clapton come on stage and play ‘Layla’. And I remember very clearly being like, “I want to get a guitar and I want to learn that song.” So I got a guitar. It was from Cash Converters. I don’t think it was even a brand. It was a black Stratocaster. I can’t remember. And I learned that song over and over. It was the only song I could play for months and months. But what I love about that is 10 years later at the next Jubilee, I played it and it was such a weird full circle standing on stage. And I would like to think that I don’t know how many people tuned into that, but I would love to think that there was one kid that thought the same thing and then it just carries on. Like someone would have been like, “Oh, I want to learn guitar because I heard that.” I’d like to think, but I’m not going to presume that.

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MICHAEL MCINTYRE CONFIRMS SOUTH AFRICAN DATES FOR HIS “MACNIFICENT” COMEDY TOUR

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Michael McIntyre remains one of the top-selling comedy tours ever in SA and will perform September 2024, on Thursday 12th at Sunbet Arena at Times Square, Menlyn and Friday 13th at GrandWest, Cape Town.

Much has happened in the five years since his last tour and Michael will be making mirth from the madness of it all. Michael is the host of two of the BBC’s most successful entertainment shows, the BAFTA-winning Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and The Wheel, which he devised and also hosts for NBC in America. His previous tours have sold over four million tickets and broken box-office records around the world. Michael’s return to stand-up is not to be missed!

Age restriction: STRICTLY 14+. Children younger than this will not be admitted even if accompanied by an adult Tickets available at TicketPro.co.za.

Pre-sales from 10 am THURSDAY 28th March.

Follow Real Artist Management on Facebook for access to pre-sales for Michael McIntyre with a code MACNIFICENT for the Menlyn and Cape Town shows.

General Public on sale from 11am Tues 2nd April – i.e. no code required

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Beast of Two Worlds (Ajakaju) Movie Premiere: Where Cinema Meets Couture

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On Sunday, March 25, 2024, the Nollywood industry saw a historic moment as the much-awaited debut of Beast of Two Worlds (Ajakaju) took center stage at Film House Cinemas, Circle Mall, Lekki. The film’s grand premiere, which was produced by Eniola Ajao in association with Anthill Studios, was a momentous occasion in the history of epic blockbuster movies.

Beast of Two Worlds (Ajakaju) had its much-awaited debut attracting a star-studded cast of industry professionals. A bit of star power was added to the premiere by the presence of well-known people like Toyin Abraham, Mercy Aigbe, Odunlade Adekola, Femi Adebayo, Iyabo Ojo, Yomi Fash-Lanso, Gbenga Adeyinka, Ronke Oshodi-Oke, Denrele Edun, Rukayat Lawal, Wasila Coded, Wumi Toriola, Phyna, Peju Ogunmola, Dayo Amusa, Iyabo Ojo, Antar Laniyan, and others.

Beast of Two Worlds (Ajakaju) opened with a grandiose fashion show that went above and beyond the usual moviegoing experience. The red carpet was a glistening display of avant-garde and opulent looks that added even more excitement to the evening’s festivities.

Directed by Odunlade Adekola and Adebayo Tijani, “Beast of Two Worlds” looks at the life of a desperate king facing banishment due to his three wives’ inability to produce a son, he takes a new wife from another world who promises him an heir but her arrival brings unforeseen chaos to the kingdom forcing the king to confront his fears and fight to secure his dynasty future.

The cast includes Odunlade Adekola, Eniola Ajao, Sola Sobowale,  Femi Adebayo, Lateef Adedimeji, Mercy Aigbe, Bimbo Akintola, Fathia Balogun, Ibrahim Chatta, amongst others.

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Beast of Two Worlds is set to show nationwide in cinemas from March 29, 2024, and distributed by Film One.

Watch the trailer here:

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Beast of Two Worlds looks at the life of a desperate king facing banishment due to his three wives’ inability to produce a son, he takes a new wife from another world who promises him an heir but her arrival brings unforeseen chaos to the kingdom forcing the king to confront his fears and fight to secure his dynasty future. 

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Electric Forest Announces Additional Artists for Sold Out 2024 Edition

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New Additions Feature Seven Lions, Sara Landry, G Jones, Hiatus Kaiyote, ODD MOB & OMNOM present HYPERBEAM, Layton Giordani, Boogie T, Cannabliss, Levity, Chaos in the CBD, Emo Nite, Brandi Cyrus + Many More

Taking Place June 20-23 in Rothbury, Michigan

Limited Wristbands Back On Sale Friday, March 29

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Today, Electric Forest announces 40+ additional artists joining the lineup for its sold out 2024 edition. Taking place June 20-23 in Rothbury, Michigan, Electric Forest remains one of the world’s most interactive festivals, fostering an immersive atmosphere of connection and discovery upheld by the pillars of community, creation, and inclusion.

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Electric Forest’s new lineup additions include melodic bass maestro Seven Lions, experimental bass veteran G Jones, high priestess of hard techno Sara Landry, and Grammy-nominated band Hiatus Kaiyote. The billing expands with techno new school selector Layton Giordani, post-punk revivalists Emo Nite,Nashville’s Brandi Cyrus, Kiwi brother-duo Chaos in the CBD, multi-instrumentalist live legend Boogie T,  Chicago’s rising electronic trio Levity, and the new collaborative project of tech house sensations ODD MOB & OMNOM present HYPERBEAM.

Electric Forest’s latest additions join a stacked roster of headliners including Forest favorite Pretty Lights, the bone-rattling sounds of Excision, and Cyclops Recordings founder Subtronics. A variety of rare collaborative artist sets are also on deck, including EVERYTHING ALWAYS (Dom Dolla + John Summit), LSZEE (CloZee + LSDREAM), and Big Gigantic and NGHTMRE teaming up for their Gigantic NGHTMRE project.

Jam fans can rejoice as The String Cheese Incident returns to perform two Incidents, plus sets from fellow torchbearers of the genre The Disco Biscuits and Umphrey’s McGee. Some of the more unexpected names on the lineup include Grammy-winning singer Nelly Furtado and famed Atlanta hip-hop artist Ludacris, each bringing their iconic sounds to the forest. The list of headliners is rounded out by Belgian techno queen Charlotte de Witte, a solo set from John Summit, and performances by Black Tiger Sex Machine, Ben Böhmer, and Knock2.

This year, Electric Forest will continue its offering of elevated culinary experience add-ons. Highlights include breakfast with a side of sass at the Drag Brunch, a four course meal inspired by the Forest, seasonal produce, and mystical creatures at Forest Feast, Buena Vida, an Agave spirits interactive cocktail tasting experience, and Wig Out Pig Out, a wig wearing authentic BBQ. Additional offerings include Brie Our Guest, Champagne French Fry, The Gouda Life, Forest Food Tour, and Good Life Brunch with Chef Sarah.

Fans will also be able to purchase exclusive guided tour experiences, allowing them to explore Sherwood Forest or experience the Dream Emporium before festival gates officially open. The exclusive tours will give fans an exclusive sneak peek at the new art, installations, and surprises the Forest has to offer while learning about the artists, history, and production process of the festival directly from the Electric Forest team. Sherwood Forest tours will conclude at TheWoodlands Bar for happy hour and are extremely limited capacity.

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Electric Forest also recently announced the full programming for its beloved Plug In Programs, offering fans the unique opportunity to contribute and collaborate directly with the festival’s production teams. Highlights include the Art Installation Sponsorship Program, allowing artists to bring their creations to life in the forest, The Brainery which offers educational workshops and classes, The Wish Machine which grants a wish in exchange for inspirational and charitable deeds done in the community, and the Electric Forest Radio On Air ExtraordinAIRE Program for aspiring radio personalities, show hosts, behind-the-scenes technicians, fan interviewers, and more.

Since 2011, Electric Forest has remained committed to the constant reimagination of what a festival experience can be. It’s this thoughtful and innovative approach to production and programming that has helped foster one of the world’s most dedicated festival communities. It’s a place where acceptance, safety, and self-expression are the most valuable currency, surprise and wonder hide around every corner, and no two journeys are the same.

Wristbands for Electric Forest 2024 are currently sold-out, but limited wristbands will go back on sale this Friday, March 29 at 12pm EST. More information can be found at ElectricForest.com.  Add-Ons, Vehicle Passes, Early Arrival, Group Camping, Shuttles, Lockers, and more can be found here.

The complete list of Electric Forest 2024 artists is available below.

Electric Forest 2024 Lineup (A-Z)

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ACRAZE

ALLEYCVT

ATLiens

AYYBO

Baggi

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Barclay Crenshaw

Ben Böhmer

Black Tiger Sex Machine

Boogie T

Brandi Cyrus

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Calussa

Cannabliss

Cannons

Caspa

Cassian

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Chaos in the CBD

Charlotte De Witte

Chase & Status

Coco & Breezy

Cuco (DJ Set)

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Dimension

Dirtwire

Dixon’s Violin

DJ Susan

DJ Tennis

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DRAMA

Dumpstaphunk

Eggy

Emo Nite

Equanimous

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EVERYTHING ALWAYS (Dom Dolla + John Summit)

Excision

G Jones

Gigantic NGHTMRE

Green Velvet

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Hamdi

Hiatus Kaiyote

INZO

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Jenna Shaw

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John Summit

Juelz

Kenny Beats

Kiltro

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Knock2

Layton Giordani

Levity

Le Youth

Lettuce

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LEVEL UP

Levity

Libianca

Little Stranger

LP Giobbi

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LSZEE (CloZee + LSDREAM)

Luci

Ludacris

LYNY

Maddy O’Neal

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MÆSØNIC

Major League Djz

Mascolo

Marsh

Matroda

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Mau P

Michaël Brun

Mojave Grey

NEIL FRANCES

Nelly Furtado

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Neoma

ODD MOB & OMNOM present HYPERBEAM

ODEN & Fatzo

Only Fire

PAPERWATER

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Peach Tree Rascals

Polyrhythmics

Pretty Lights

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Ranger Trucco

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Rawayana

Redrum

Sammy Virji

Sara Landry

Seven Lions

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Shae District

Slayyyter

Subtronics

Sultan + Shepard

Super Future

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SWAYLÓ

The Disco Biscuits

The String Cheese Incident

Thought Process

Tripp St.

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TSHA

Umphrey’s McGee

Unusual Demont

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Vini Vici

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Westend

Whyte Fang

Will Clarke

Wooli

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