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Birmingham update: Ed Sheeran will fill Justin Bieber's slot at Fusion Festival

  • August 7, 2015
  • Brad O'Mance

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Let's just quickly return to pop's current hotbed, Birmingham, with news that pop's reigning King Of Nice, Ed Sheeran, has agreed to replace Justin Bieber at this month's Fusion Festival.

As you'll recall Bieber rather sur­pris­ingly cropped up on the bill as headliner back in March, before realising earlier this week that actually he couldn't do it due to some sort of schedul­ing nonsense.

So, after some phone calls and contracts etc, Ed Sheeran's agreed to fill Bieber's slot.

https://twitter.com/edsheeran/status/629345545241407488

"I've been in this business a long time and it nearly brought me to tears," mused your friend and ours Mike Owen, who is the festival organiser. "It was just a moment of sheer excite­ment."

He added, and there's a sense in which this quote also under­lines how unlikely it was that Justin Bieber was ever on the bill: "The most-streamed artist in the world last year and he's going to come and do Fusion in Birmingham."

"There was a lot of concerns, a lot of phone calls but Ed Sheeran himself kind of came forward out of a little group of con­ver­sa­tions with people and said, 'I'll do it.'"

"It was abso­lutely breath­tak­ing for us. It was just aston­ish­ing. What a wonderful man."

Indeed.

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