{"id":2197078,"date":"2025-12-12T23:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2197078"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:44:44","slug":"watch-ed-sheeran-cover-the-pogues-fairytale-of-new-york-in-dublin-with-beoga-biird-and-nizlopi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-ed-sheeran-cover-the-pogues-fairytale-of-new-york-in-dublin-with-beoga-biird-and-nizlopi\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ed Sheeran cover The Pogues&#8217; &#8216;Fairytale Of New York&#8217; in Dublin with Beoga, Biird and Nizlopi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/ed-sheeran\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> covered <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-pogues\">The Pogues<\/a>\u2018 \u2018Fairytale Of New York\u2019 while performing at Dublin\u2019s 3Arena earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sheeran closed the final show of his \u2018Loop\u2019 tour on Tuesday (December 9) with the festive cover, telling the crowd: \u201cYou will sing every single word as loud as you can Dublin. Thanks for having me and have a great Christmas.\u201d He was also joined on stage by the artists Beoga, Biird \u2013 both of whom are Irish \u2013 and Nizlopi.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the cover below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed Sheeran Fairytale of New York Dublin \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q4k1IT1SvUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Prior to the Dublin show, Sheeran had performed shows in Paris, Munich, Coventry and Manchester in support of his new album\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ed-sheeran-release-date-play-shares-nostalgic-single-old-phone-3859854\">\u2018Play\u2019.\u00a0<\/a>It offered fans the chance to watch the artist in smaller venues than usual, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/ed-sheeran-adds-fourth-wembley-stadium-date-to-2022-world-tour-3054779\">Sheeran previously playing multiple nights at Wembley Stadium<\/a>\u00a0as part of his massive \u2018<em>+\u2212=\u00f7\u00d7\u00a0<\/em>Tour\u2019 (aka \u2018Mathematics Tour\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Last time he was in Ireland, Sheeran\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-ed-sheeran-play-surprise-acoustic-set-with-folk-band-at-irish-pub-3883152\">made a surprise appearance at a music and arts festival<\/a> in Wexford town back in August, performing Irish folk songs and original tracks at The Sky And The Ground Pub.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed earlier this year that though he was born in England, he<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn84e5xe4q3o\"> culturally identifies as Irish<\/a> and his dad is from Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI class my culture as Irish. I think that\u2019s what I grew up with,\u201d he said (via\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em>). \u201cWe\u2019d spend all of our holidays in Ireland. My first musical experiences were in Ireland, I grew up with trad music in the house. So I identify culturally as Irish, but I was obviously born and raised in Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t overthink it but I do feel like my culture is something that I\u2019m really proud of and grew up with and want to express,\u201d he added. \u201cI feel like just because I was born in Britain doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that I have to just be [British]\u2026 I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any rules to it. It should be how you feel and how you were raised and what you lean into.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Shot With Ed Sheeran: A Music Experience | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FjO8XACCpiQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In other news, Paris-based production company<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/la-blogotheque-accuse-netflix-ed-sheeran-one-shot-special-of-ripping-off-their-many-iconic-one-shot-gigs-3917746\">\u00a0La Blogoth\u00e8que has accused Netflix of ripping off their many iconic one-take gigs<\/a> in its new Ed Sheeran special, <em>One Shot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard about\u00a0<em>One Shot<\/em>, the new program Netflix launched with Ed Sheeran,\u201d read the first frame of their Instagram carousel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, we are flattered by the tribute paid to the thousands of \u2018one shots\u2019 we produced during the last 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Blogoth\u00e8que then instructed its followers to \u201csee for yourself\u201d by attaching numerous side-by-side images, comparing certain frames in\u00a0<em>One Shot<\/em>\u00a0to stills from previous films the firm had released.<\/p>\n<p>These include a shot of Sheeran performing onstage, looking out to the venue (compared to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/phoenix\">Phoenix<\/a>\u2018s 2017 show), a frame of the singer playing the guitar in the back of a taxi (compared to a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/sylvan-esso\">Sylvan Esso<\/a>\u00a0performance in 2014), and a still of the star walking across a bridge (compared to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/johnny-flynn\">Johnny Flynn<\/a>\u00a0in 2008).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Sheeran covered The Pogues\u2018 \u2018Fairytale Of New York\u2019 while performing at Dublin\u2019s 3Arena earlier this week. Sheeran closed the final show of his \u2018Loop\u2019 tour on Tuesday (December 9) with the festive cover, telling the crowd: \u201cYou will sing every single word as loud as you can Dublin. Thanks for having me and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2197079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21940],"class_list":["post-2197078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-pop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Watch-Ed-Sheeran-cover-The-Pogues-Fairytale-Of-New-York.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197080,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197078\/revisions\/2197080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}