Khalid was concerned in a automotive accident this week, in response to Ed Sheeran. Sheeran shared the unlucky information with followers on Saturday (June 24), when he stuffed in for Khalid’s opening slot — and later performed his personal typical headlining set — on his Arithmetic Tour.
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“He’s recovering, and we want him the very best,” Sheeran mentioned of Khalid onstage at FedEx Area in Landover, Maryland, this weekend.
Billboard has reached out to Khalid’s rep for an replace.
“I’m going to say this after each tune as a result of if individuals don’t know I used to be going to be the opening act in the present day, individuals are going to be strolling in being like, ‘This present isn’t what I believed it was,’” mentioned Sheeran on the live performance. “‘I believed there could be extra fireworks.’”
Sheeran made the very best of the state of affairs, and his followers on the present received to listen to a number of further songs reside and acoustic off of his newest album, Subtract, that wouldn’t usually be on his primary stadium setlist.
Throughout Sheeran’s opening set for himself, he joked that the viewers would get to see him in two stage outfits — each a white T-shirt and a black T-shirt — that Saturday night time. “I’m actually pulling out the stops tonight,” he quipped.
“Normally once I begin taking part in it’s like pitch black, and now I get to see everybody. It’s superior,” Sheeran mentioned of his early set time.
