Ed Sheeran at Audacy's 'We Can Survive'

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Ed Sheeran joins Karen Carson in the Hard Rock Artist Lounge at 'We Can Survive.'

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00:00I want to welcome you to the Hard Rock Artist Lounge tonight, and it's all for We Can Survive.

00:13It is presented by Veg, ER for pets, and we are so happy to have Ed Sheeran here with us.

00:21You know, I can remember Ed coming to our radio station the very first time, and it was

00:30like, come to the cafeteria to have pizza to see this new artist, and now, boom, here

00:36you are, sold-out shows all over the world, your album play is just incredibly taking

00:44off, and so many great songs.

00:48How does it feel?

00:49It feels like it happened in the blink of an eye.

00:53Well, it has been 15 years.

00:54It's been, you know...

00:56Like 15.

00:58Yeah, I feel like the first period was very, very whirlwind, but it's been, you know, it's

01:02like, yeah, I've turned from teenager to adult to husband and father, and now I'm like mid-30s,

01:10and yeah, I feel 34.

01:14We've seen all the cute videos of Ed when he was a baby.

01:18How did you know, like, singing is what I'm going to do?

01:23Music was your thing.

01:25Well, I enjoyed it a lot, and it was the only thing I was good at, so I was sort of like,

01:29if I enjoy it and I'm good at it, then maybe that's the thing I should do.

01:33I think, yeah, I think that you should sort of, any job should be that.

01:36You should enjoy it and be good at it.

01:37So, you've mentioned that Play has been the funnest album you've created.

01:47Can you talk a little bit about that?

01:49It's funny, when I look at you now, you hold yourself different, like, you're just like...

01:53Yeah, well, I think that comes from, I don't know, feeling a bit more settled.

02:03I'm spending way more time at home.

02:05I'm currently sober, which I guess is, like, helping all of that health stuff.

02:11Congratulations on that.

02:13Thanks.

02:13Not forever.

02:14That's okay.

02:16Not forever.

02:16Take a little break.

02:17But, yeah, no, the album was just me just trying out new sounds, traveling the world.

02:24We finished most of it in India.

02:26India as a place is very...

02:27There you go.

02:29India as a place is, like, hugely vibrant and upbeat and fun, and the instruments we were using on it,

02:39like, the players were just incredible, and I just felt, yeah, very inspired,

02:44and everything felt celebratory, rather than, like, it didn't feel difficult or hard.

02:49Right.

02:50And Ozzy Zom, when that came out, I was like, ooh, we cannot wait for this album.

02:55Just a little nice taste of that.

02:57And then Old Phone, you must have your tissues for that one.

03:01That one is really good.

03:04If you, Ed, if you just think about it, you don't have to go back and look,

03:08but what would be the oldest photo in your camera roll?

03:14What do you think it probably is?

03:19It's when I would have started taking...

03:21I didn't really have an iPhone until 2012, so it would have been then.

03:24I remember the photo I was playing, the Radio One Big Weekend.

03:28That was, like, my first ever Instagram photo, so it would have been that.

03:31It would have been that.

03:32It's not actually that old.

03:34I guess it is old.

03:35That's 13 years ago, but it's not, like, 2004 or whatever.

03:38And now it's full of kids and all kinds of fun stuff.

03:42Yeah.

03:43Yeah.

03:44And diary.

03:45I screenshot my diary a lot.

03:47Do you write every day?

03:48No, as in, like, what I'm doing, because I don't know what I'm doing.

03:51Oh, you mean, like, your schedule.

03:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:54Yeah, that's...

03:54It's, like, pictures of my kids and screenshots of my schedule.

03:57That's kind of it.

03:58That's good.

03:59Now, I remember years ago, you know, this whole evening is about mental health and increasing

04:04the conversation and making it normal.

04:07I remember a few years back, you were not using your phone.

04:12You threw your phone away or put it aside.

04:15And the only way to get in touch with you was email.

04:19Still is.

04:20It's been 10 years of that.

04:22That...

04:22So you continue.

04:23I still haven't had a phone in 10 years, no.

04:25Good for you.

04:26Yeah.

04:26Good for you.

04:27And, you know, I was thinking to myself, you're about to go on this amazing tour for play.

04:33And, like, what do you do to, like, chill out in the middle of night after night after night?

04:41What is your, like, go-to?

04:42Do you play video games?

04:44Do you...

04:44No.

04:45Do yoga?

04:47No.

04:49I don't know.

04:50I only really play at the weekends.

04:51So, like, I live quite a normal life in the week.

04:54Monday to Friday, I'm just dad.

04:56And then weekends, I do the shows.

04:58So it's actually, like, yeah, normal life and then gigs.

05:02It's not...

05:03It's not that interesting.

05:05That's all.

05:06How about the fact that you started up your high school band again?

05:12Yeah.

05:12Did you really?

05:13I love that.

05:14Yeah, do you know, a mate of mine that we...

05:16Like, all of my friends are my high school friends.

05:19And a mate was getting married and he said for his wedding gift he wanted us to reform.

05:23We hadn't played since we were 13.

05:25We got back together, played for an hour, and now we've started doing more and more shows.

05:29That was his wedding gift from you to him?

05:32That's amazing.

05:33Yeah.

05:33I mean, it was, like, it's a lot of rehearsals.

05:35So it was, like, it was a decent gift.

05:37We did, like, hours and hours and hours to get to the point to play.

05:41But it was good.

05:41That's great.

05:42That's great.

05:43So what are you most looking forward to on this tour, this time around, for play?

05:50I love touring the States.

05:52I really, really love being here.

05:54I've always felt really welcome here.

06:00And I feel like every state has its own, like, ecosystem and culture.

06:06And I love going to Texas and having barbecue food.

06:10I love going to Nashville and getting immersed in country music.

06:13I love Seattle.

06:15I love as well, like, walking around.

06:17Boston, my spiritual home.

06:20Yeah.

06:21I feel at one in Boston.

06:24Yeah, I love being here.

06:26Everywhere is completely different.

06:28You've got to think, like, the United Kingdom is, like, one state.

06:31Right.

06:31As in, like, it's as big as California.

06:34Wow.

06:34So getting to travel America, it's so vast.

06:36And there's so much, like, amazing parks and things to do and history.

06:42And I went to the Ketchup Museum in Pittsburgh last time we toured here.

06:45You know, like, anyway.

06:47Etchup.

06:48Etchup is the best.

06:49We have it in the studio.

06:50Also, like, whenever I'm here and I speak to Americans, like, none of them ever really leave America because America has everything.

06:57Like, in Europe, you would go, if you want to go to a beach, you go to, like, Spain or Italy.

07:02If you want to ski, you go to France.

07:03If you want to do this, you go here.

07:04If you want to go up mountains, you go here.

07:06In America, you just sort of fly around it.

07:08And it's got everything you need.

07:10It kind of does have everything you need.

07:12And that brings me really quick to your tattoos.

07:15I know you have a Heinz tattoo for Pittsburgh.

07:19Yep.

07:19Right?

07:20You have something for Boston.

07:23Do you have something for Boston?

07:25I mean, I have a little trickle of shamrock.

07:29There we go.

07:29That works.

07:30But I guess that's, yeah, that's more for my grandfather.

07:32Oh, that's so cool.

07:33Yeah.

07:34And what about for New York?

07:37New York.

07:37Oh, I got these boxing gloves when I played Madison Square Garden.

07:41So.

07:43But we're in Jersey now.

07:45I need to get a Jersey one.

07:46I know.

07:46You got to do some Jersey stuff.

07:49I'm from Jersey.

07:49You know, this was the venue I met.

07:51I remember this venue so clearly.

07:53I met the guy that promotes me now.

07:54Um, who, but when I was on, uh, Taylor's Red Tour, we, we basically, like, um, my, my tour manager, like, I said, oh, I'll be fine.

08:05I'll get, I'll get a taxi home.

08:06He left.

08:07And then I couldn't get a taxi.

08:08And I just sat outside for ages.

08:10And then this tour bus picked me up, and it was this guy called Louie, who's now my promoter, who was, who's Taylor's promoter.

08:16But it was here that that happened.

08:17So this venue has a lot of history for me.

08:19It's good.

08:20Wait a minute.

08:21Did you just say you were just, like, waiting outside this venue and couldn't get a taxi?

08:26Well, it was only, it was only me and my tour manager back in the day.

08:28Okay.

08:29So, yeah.

08:29And I was, like, Florida Georgia Line were also opening up the tour.

08:34They like a drink.

08:35I like a drink.

08:36Yeah.

08:37I was like, I'm good.

08:38You go home.

08:38You have stuff to do.

08:39Yeah.

08:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.

08:40Yeah.

08:41Well, thank you, Ed Sheeran.

08:43We're so excited to have you here.

08:46Amazing.

08:48Congratulations on play.

08:49Cannot wait for the tour.

08:51And thanks for being here, as always.

08:53Nice one.

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