Loop Tour

Ed Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran, if you haven't heard, dropped Macklemore from his U.S. Loop tour in September 2026 after Macklemore made pro-Palestinian statements on stage and performed his protest song, Heinz Hall.

And Ed's decision created a ton of controversy and backlash with celebs like Miss Rachel, Rosie O'Donnell and Bernie Sanders speaking out against him.

Ticket prices dropping, calls for boycotts.

They've glabbed together.

They performed together.

So it does make sense that Macklemore would open for Ed Sheeran on the loop tour.

So Ed's tour starts, and this is the first two nights this happens.

what's going on? We got me on loop.

Ed Sheeran walked into it by kicking Macklemore off his loop tour by the request of, I believe, Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots and the Gillette Stadium.

And in response to that, all of his backing artists, including his backup band, Bioga, basically just walked out on him and said, look, we'd rather go with Macklemore than play for Robert Kraft.

And so we've been playing their music and his backup band.

Do we have the Bioga song set up? This is Ed Sheeran's backup band who did not join him for the other half of of the Loop Tour, and I was just going to look up the name of the song real quick is Nothing Breaks Like a Heart by Bioga.

Stay tuned to The Trauma Code on WBAI.

Nothing breaks like a heart

We'll have to share some music with you.

That's what I wanna know.

So anyway, y'all, let's get started, okay? For those of you who may have been literally living under a rock [laughs] and did not hear about this controversy, which I feel like everybody heard about, okay? So, but anyway, for, but for those of you who don't know, let's actually just recap it so we have all the basic facts, right? So Macklemore was the primary supporting act for Ed Sheeran's Loop tour, or at least this leg, the East Coast leg of Ed Sheeran's Loop tour.

And so they run up, they roll up on Med- MetLife Stadium in New Jersey for two back-to-back nights, okay? And so before performing Hinds Hall, basically a song named after Hind Rajab, who was a six-year-old girl who was killed in Gaza, and, uh, Columbia University, basically Columbia University's takeover of Hamilton Hall.

Mm.

Yeah, so Ed Sheeran has been in some rough water.

Basically, Macklemore was opening for Ed Sheeran's The Loop Tour and said free Palinstein, which I have no right to say anything about what's happening in Palinstein because I didn't know what was happening until today.

Basically, Palinstein has been under rule that wasn't theirs.

Um, and so, Macklemore set free Palestine, and then he got removed from the tour.

Ed Sheeran was given an opportunity to do something profoundly brave and chose cowardice, then cried about the consequences.

The loop tour will continue, Sheeran will return to his bubble.

Eventually, this week of controversy will become another chapter in the career of one of the most commercially successful musicians of a generation.

And the world will continue to turn with cruel indifference to the genocide in Palestine.

Neither will anyone else.

But once more into the breach stepped Macklemore.

While he may be gone from Ed Sheeran's loop tour, he was about to start one all of his own.

The Free Palestine Tour.

Macklemore, who has been all over the news lately.

If you need the backstory, just in case, he managed two of the ten support slots on Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour over in the States before getting kicked off for saying the words Free Palestine on stage.

And having the flag in the background.

And

Basically, Ed Sheeran, everyone left the tour.

He did it anyways, which wasn't totally impossible because it's called the Loop Tour, and he has always been...

Part of his thing is that when he performs live, often he won't have a backing band.

He'll just use a loop pedal and create layers using his acoustic guitar.

Yeah.

So there's that.

I think that at this point, the loop tour continues, and we'll see what happens.

The loop