The Irish night was even emptier than the Open Mic nights and the Latin night wasn't the liveliest so we left and went to a nightclub instead. On a side note, when I had my fresher's week at uni, one night had an Irish night in one room and a Latin night in the other room. This certainly wasn't boring, more of a cheesy Irish Folk song that most Irish Folk fans wouldn't like. When the album came out and flooded the Top 20, the highest charting of the other tracks was "Galway Girl". This sounded more like what I'd expect an Ed Sheeran song to sound like, boring. Likewise "Castle on the Hill" was surprisingly upbeat for a man with an acoustic guitar.īefore his album came out, he released another track "How Would You Feel (Paean)". When I heard "Shape of You" my first thought was that it didn't sound like a man with an acoustic guitar, more like a Dancehall song that most Dancehall fans would hate.
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I had heard him play a song on the TV but to be honest it was too boring for me to remember. Prior to "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" reaching numbers one and two in the charts last year I didn't know any Ed Sheeran songs. We also live in a time where a lot of mainstream music is EDM music by everybody featuring everybody else so how is one man with an acoustic guitar so popular? Chart performance aside, he also played a stadium tour in the UK recently where more than a million people went to see him play, that's more than the number of people who live in Birmingham.
Somebody who had 16 songs in the Top 20 one week who also managed to get Christmas number one with one of those songs several months later. It just wasn't the sort of night you'd think would appeal to students and I probably wouldn't have gone myself had I not been playing there.įast forward to today and we find one of the biggest music acts in the world at the moment is a man with an acoustic guitar. I generally enjoyed them, mainly because I played at every one I went to, but the problem was that hardly anybody used to go to them.Īside from the fact it didn't get promoted very well, another reason why people didn't go was likely to do with the fact most of the music was somebody getting up and playing the acoustic guitar and singing which got a bit boring after a while. When I was at university we used to have Open Mic nights at the Students Union quite regularly.
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