The most influential and pop superstar Ed Sheeran played a surprise support for the Darkness and then joined the team onstage. He performed song Love is Only A Feeling with the Darkness, the British Rocker’s .
The crowd was not at all expecting the performance from Ed Sheeran and was really surprised by his act. The admirers started off with their fingers in the ears but by the end they had their hands in the air.
The concert seemed to be a massive success and the people was really enlightened with Ed Sheeran’s entry. The Darkness was celebrating their twenty years of debut album Permission to Land. Their relationship with Sheeran has been really long and famous.
He has previously opened for them for the Divide tour in 2019 with James Bay and Zara Larrson. Sheeran opened the concert at London’s Roundhouse on 9 December 2023 by playing a six-song set and told the crowd about his admiration to the band.
Sheeran told that he has bought the copy of Permission to Land when he was thirteen years old and it was ambition to be on stage with them one day. Later in the night, Ed Sheeran made a return to the stage during The Darkness’ set, joining forces with Justin Hawkins, Frankie Poullain, Dan Hawkins, and Rufus Tiger Taylor to perform Love is Only a Feeling.
Sheeran’s love for Rock music
Sheeran had been a fan of the band since he was very young and also revealed how he used to buy the copy of The Darkness music albums. The Shape of You hitmaker said this in the new documentary of Welcome To The Darkness.
The English songwriter and singer has also collaborated with the team earlier. Sheeran is a noted rock and heavy metal fan, he has also collaborated with the British metallers Cradle Of Filth on a song . The song is reported to be released soon as part of charity.
Sheeran has showed signs of the possibility of him exploring more extreme path of music. He said in an interview that he has been great fan of Cradle of Filth and Slipknot. He says that it is something that he has never though of doing rock and heavy metal music but is something that he would not opposed to creating.
He had previously dabbled in a variety of genres, including rock, dance, rap and reggae. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best selling music artists.
According to Sheeran it was the Irish Heartbeat that laid passion for music in Sheeran’s minds. During his childhood his father has took him to many live concerts and this was also a main reasons which inspired his musical creations.
It was Clapton who has inspired the little Sheeran to play guitar. He has been a huge fan of Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, The Beatles, Nizlopi and Eminem. He is also a very great admirer of the heavier music and cites bands such as Slipknot, Cradle of Filth , Korn, Marilyn Monroe and Bring me the Horizon as some of his influencers.
About The Darkness band
The Darkness is a British rock band that was formed in the early 2000’s and they debuted with the album Permission to Land which was a commercial hit in the year of 2003.
The lead vocalist is Justin Hawkins and the band consisted of Dan Hawkins, Frankie Poullain and Rufus Tiger Taylor. The Darkness are currently on an anniversary tour celebrating 20 years of their quadruple-platinum debut album Permission To Land.
The band had many commercially successful hits from the year 2003 to 2023. Recently in January, the band played UK arenas with Black Stone Cherry for the band’s first arena tour since 2006
