Khalid was concerned in a automobile accident this week, in keeping with Ed Sheeran. Sheeran shared the unlucky information with followers on Saturday (June 24), when he crammed in for Khalid’s opening slot — and later performed his personal normal headlining set — on his Arithmetic Tour.
“He’s recovering, and we want him the very best,” Sheeran mentioned of Khalid onstage at FedEx Subject in Landover, Maryland, this weekend.
Billboard has reached out to Khalid’s rep for an replace.
“I’m going to say this after each track as a result of if folks don’t know I used to be going to be the opening act immediately, persons 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 can be extra fireworks.’”
Sheeran made the very best of the scenario, and his followers on the present bought to listen to a number of further songs dwell and acoustic off of his newest album, Subtract, that wouldn’t usually be on his important 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 evening. “I’m actually pulling out the stops tonight,” he quipped.
“Often after 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.
