They say you can’t go home again, but in Spotify’s new Billion Club Live with Ed Sheeran: A Concert Film short, the mega-platinum singer does just that as he returns to Dublin for a special show in the place that helped fuel his songwriting chops.
“Dublin was the place where I discovered that I wanted to be a songwriter,” Sheeran says at the top of the 24-minute short over drone footage of the city, picturesque lighthouses and shots of Dubliners hanging around outside a pub. “I used to come to Ireland 4-5 times a year with my family. It really feels like coming home here. It’s where I sort of learned to write songs.”
Peering around what looks like a colorful childhood room, father of two Sheeran, 34, describes his uncle teaching him his first chords on a guitar when he was 11 or 12, a moment that sparked his desire to be a professional musician. After calling the island his “spiritual home,” Sheeran picks up one of his trusty acoustic guitars as the walls to the room set fall away and the scene shifts to the packed Royal Dublin Society venue where the singer marvels at Spotify’s ask that he play a show comprised of all of his songs that have hit one billion streams.
He kicks off with the first of his hits to hit the billie mark, his 2017 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash “Shape of You.” Performing solo on acoustic with his signature loop pedal at the ready, Sheeran then runs through other signature hits, including “Thinking Out Loud,” the venue-appropriate “Galway Girl” — on which he’s accompanied by a fiddle player — as well as “Perfect,” “Azizam” and “Parting Glass.”
While the venue is packed for the show, a few songs in, Sheeran recalls playing a show at the very intimate Steamboat Tavern in the English port town of Ipswich early on where, “maybe 20 people had come to watch me that night, and they knew my songs. And I remember it just being, like, that could’ve been it for me and I’m just, I’m really happy that 20 people love my music enough to know the lyrics to my songs and sing along to them. It’s a super special thing, it never ever gets old.”
He needn’t have worried about this gig, though, as the camera repeatedly finds throngs of fans happily crooning, swaying and holding up their camera flashlights along to Sheeran’s classic hits. Before the final song, Sheeran says that the “common thread” among his billion club hits is that they are about “heart and true experience and love and heartbreak and stuff that is a universal experience. My music is so personal to me, and as soon as it goes out into the world it belongs to everyone else and then becomes personal to them.”
Click here to watch Sheeran Billions Club concert.
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