Fact #152021
When:
Short story:
Ed Sheeran tweets "On my way to Exeter, feeling tired and grubby. Need a cup of tea and a shower". He loses £30 by playing the gig at The Lemon Grove, Exeter, England, UK, Europe.
Full article:
Ed Sheeran : I was getting paid £50 for this gig and it was an £80 train ticket, so I was like, 'OK, cool I am already £30 down but it is fine I'll get there and sell some CDs from my backpack'.
I arrived there, sound check was at 5pm, it gets to 8pm and I am supposed to be going on at 8.30pm and no one is there and I was thinking, 'My train is at 10pm'.
So I asked if I could push the set back to 9pm, still no one was there and then pushed it back to 9.30pm and no one was there so they were like, 'You will just have to play' and I missed my train.
So not only did I play for no one and I miss my train, but I ended up sleeping on a little bench by the train station until the next train came and had 57 stops back to London.
(Source : interview at devolve.com)
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I arrived there, sound check was at 5pm, it gets to 8pm and I am supposed to be going on at 8.30pm and no one is there and I was thinking, 'My train is at 10pm'.
So I asked if I could push the set back to 9pm, still no one was there and then pushed it back to 9.30pm and no one was there so they were like, 'You will just have to play' and I missed my train.
So not only did I play for no one and I miss my train, but I ended up sleeping on a little bench by the train station until the next train came and had 57 stops back to London.
(Source : interview at devolve.com)