“How am I going to get musicians to stand on stage with me in a week where no-one wants to?”: Ed Sheeran assembles a new backing band after his last group quit

Ed Sheeran has continued his controversial Loop Tour with a new backing band after Irish folk group Beoga withdrew in solidarity with Macklemore, along with the rest of his opening acts .

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