Isle Of Wight festival boss retracts Ed Sheeran ‘boring’ criticism
The pair have now made up
Isle Of Wight festival organiser John Giddings has responded to negative comments he made about Ed Sheeran last year.
Speaking on a panel about festivals, Giddings reportedly claimed that the industry was failing to produce headline-worthy artists, adding: “If boring acts like Ed Sheeran are the future then we’re all screwed!”
Responding publicly to the comments, Ed hit back on Twitter, writing: “He asked me to do the festival last year ago funnily enough and I couldn’t do it.”
However in an interview with Music Week, Giddings has now spoken of his admiration for the ‘Thinking Out Loud’ hitmaker.
He said: “I watch a TV show called Sons Of Anarchy and I’ve started getting the playlist on Spotify. I loved this song, and I found out it was him.”
When asked about the incident, Giddings said: “I’ve since met him and we had a good time together and laughed it off. It was a throwaway comment really. Good on him, he’s sold out three Wembley Stadiums and you can’t complain about that. The guy’s a serious artist.”
Sheeran and Giddings met each other for the first time since the comments at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards in Edinburgh, with the latter tweeting a picture of the pair proving their reconciliation.