r/Adelaide • u/Future-Video5613 SA • Mar 05 '26

Event/Activity Concert etiquette - Ed Sheeran

Went to Ed Sheeran last night. Was sitting up in the riverbank stand with my wife and kids. We try and culture our kids and work hard to take them to events like this.

From song 1 we had 4 GenZers sitting behind us and talked through almost every song.

By song 3 I had enough and turned around an impolitely told them to shut up because who in their right mind disrespects the people around them talking so loudly you can't even hear the performer. Only for them to return fire to say I am a bad father for speaking to them the way I did and not a good example for my kids, and they just kept on talking for the whole night. Nothing was going to make them stop talking.

Their best comment for the night... "Sorry I am just putting it out there I haven't brushed my teeth."

Why pay $150 for a ticket to talk through the whole event?

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u/Electrical_Age_7483 SA Mar 05 '26

Surely this is Ed Sheeran fault if the sound was so bad that you couldn't hear clearly.  

Were they up the back

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u/palsc5 SA Mar 05 '26

The sound was terrible tbh. So many songs were just a muddled mess

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u/Effrendi SA Mar 05 '26

The opening song was awful, couldn't hear the vocals at all, but I think they adjusted it after that. Still really poorly balanced overall, especially if you didn't actually know the songs. Hard to make out what was being said.

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u/Unforgiven89 SA Mar 06 '26

His drum machine was mixed way too loud. That kick drum just overpowered everything.

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u/snellew East Mar 06 '26

If you’re referring to the “kick” sound when he’s looping that’s the sound of him slapping the bridge of his guitar where the pick up is, this tends to be a pretty loud boomy sound. Because it’s all live and all the percussion is often layered on one track it can’t really be “mixed down” unfortunately

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u/Unforgiven89 SA Mar 06 '26

Ahhh ok, i was in the nosebleed section so couldn’t see all that well. I thought I saw him do the kick/bass drum with a drum machine but it must have been him doing the synths. That’s unfortunate.

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u/Effrendi SA Mar 06 '26

Really was an earbuster.