Guitar Center Addresses 'Not Legitimate' Entries Submitted in Ed Sheeran Tour Opener Contest

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ed-sheeran-guitar-center-contest-macklemore-1235628612/

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altphoto@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Any good ones though? Asking for a guy who lost all his opening acts.

Malica@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 4h

Plenty of people light on morals and desperate for exposure

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Let Laibach open for him, the audience will think they found someone agreeing with them. And Laibach were never afraid of controversies.

mx_smith@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22h (2 replies)

Oh wow I didn’t realize Laibach was still around I used to listen to them back in the 90s. This was awesome.

SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 20h (1 reply)

You missed out on plenty of good stuff if you stopped after the nineties. Of somewhat recent-ish, check out e.g. ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ and ‘Die Kanone’ (a cover of Goran Bregović). You must also not be aware that they did a concert in North Korea, recording an album of material they did specifically for that.

mx_smith@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18h

I did see the NK concert on their you tube page . Very interesting. I prob stopped listening to them as my music tastes expanded beyond industrial/metal at the time. Also back in the 90s you had a limited budget and availability of music since it was still physical.

db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 19h

Where can we all apply?

LordMayor@piefed.social · 3 pts · 19h (2 replies)

Sheeran could totally turn this around by getting Kneecap and Bob Vylan to open.

BreadOven@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 12h

I would actually go if that was the case. (I wouldn't because I will not travel to the US though, not sure if there's any non-US dates)

Malica@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 4h

No way his masters would allow it