Ed Sheeran

0:07Talk about music growing up and getting into because you got these really sweet little soft love songs on the record You also got stuff like you need me or you don't need me you need me what's the song called? You need me I don't need you. That's the one and all these other beat-infused songs So what what comes first? What do you prefer writing like what where did it all come from? There's no specific song that I prefer writing I just like writing music if I if I feel a certain way at a time I'll write a song in whichever genre that falls in that Usually is is the way that that works and I think that's the way that kind of music is nowadays There's no people aren't into on into set genres anymore Like when I was growing up I was into like age like eight or nine I was like Green Day, Lincoln Park, Offspring like that kind of music and then I was into Damien Rice David Gray

0:52James Blunt that kind of singer-songwriter thing and as you kind of get older and The internet's evolved and iTunes has evolved and YouTube's evolved and music so It's just everywhere and everyone's into every single different genre like My ex girlfriend has a devlin CD on her iPod like a grime CD But also loves Bonneve and there's no correlation with those two acts that I can think of so um Yeah, it's just like music music nowadays is not set in genres It's just set in whatever people want to listen to and I guess that's the same with writing it Like I just I just want to write songs that I like if I want to write a slow Soppy love song I'm gonna fucking do it and if I want to write a hip-hop tune I'm gonna do that you write with the loop header of mine Occasionally yeah, if if I play a song with a loop pedal

1:39It would be because I've written it on the loop pedal and if I don't it will be because I didn't so Songs like the A team and Lego house weren't written with a loop pedal but songs like you need me were kind of thing Have you ever had like a horrible experience with a loop pedal hitting off time or something like that? Yeah, I mean I've used it from the age of 14 and I'm 21 now So in that time of course lots of things have gone wrong like it just the other day on the sniper child gig I've walked forward and kicked the power out which wiped the whole loop. So Yeah, but you just you just learned the more the more times you screw up the better you become Being able to rectify that and you think the audience would like it at this point Like they'd probably get it and go along with it and laugh with it if something bad happened not you know Yeah, I think like people Love it when I break my strings and like I carry on playing when when I break strings and kind of rip rip them out

2:24The people people love that and I'm kind of like this makes it more difficult for me But I think they like that it's a challenge. So yeah, I hear there's a there's a like a whole group of you That got tattoos for this record release. Yeah, does that happen? Did that go through? Yeah, I got a plus Plus but that's healing at the moment actually but there's a lot a lot more and there's the paw print there too So what's with this paw print on the guitar? Yes? It's just an idea every every band has a symbol snow patrol have their snowflake. This is my this is my thing Where did it come from? from having red hair and red orange going well with orange black and Orange and black as a tiger. So it's a tiger pull. Did you something called five questions five quick questions one word answers Cool rotor studio See that's really difficult because when I know this isn't a one word art fine

3:11When you're when you're on the road you miss the studio and when you're in the studio you miss the road so I Guess at the moment studio letting her McCurney when I was younger would have said McCartney, but Like I don't know come come together is one of my favorite tunes. I'll probably say London When you hear a song what hits you first lyrics melody rhythm the voice the voice yeah, that's You could have Van Moist and sing in the alphabet and I still listen to it That makes me think something we'll get back to the five questions But you've got this pop sensibility in your vocals like she don't want to go outside that kind of stuff that I don't like Where does that come from? Where do you come up with these ideas? I'm a huge fan of people with voices and voices that are like beautiful like I think

3:56Van Moist and for one there's a band called Nizalope the vocalist from there and the girl in England called Emily Sande and just like I Love vocal tones and the way that artists can use use their vocals So just just from listening to a lot of them you screw around with just random melodies and cuz that's that's kind of what it is That really hooks you it's the hook right I guess so yeah, I mean um Yeah, I mean I I just like melodies that sound the sound pretty Sound pretty pretty yeah pretty it's a big different there. Yeah song you've written your most proud of The A team the A team it just it just got a I've a novella nomination for music and lyrics and for me like that that for me is the greatest award I could ever be nominated for and it's um You know there's only five categories there's only three nominations in each category and

4:42the two other two people in my category of Florence the Machine in Adele and It's a song that I've written a hundred percent myself and no one else had anything to do with so I'm Very very honored. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be the big single here if it's not already talk about it's about a homeless lady You met yeah shelter or something. Yeah, I did a did a gig for a time as charity and I Was just very naive at the time and I'd lived in London for a couple of years But I'd never seen that the kind of dark underbelly of it and it was just inspired by that whole gig and just witnessing stuff Cool and in one word back to the five questions in one word Ed Sheeran Relaxed nice. Thank you very much man. Much appreciated. Thanks