Daily Mail - 23.08.2019

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Close to home: The arena is yards from the properties, circled Overshadowed: The stage behind the semis in Chantry Town where Sheeran, inset, will perform

Will Ed’s show

be Sheer hell

for neighbours?

Doris, I think I

heard something

in the garden...

V2 Daily Mail, Friday, August 23, 2019

THEIR tranquil streets are normally the By Xantha Leatham

perfect place to spend a bank holiday pot-

tering around in the garden

But for residents of Chantry Town, this

weekend threatens to be anything but

peaceful – thanks to a former neighbour.

Pop star Ed Sheeran, who grew up in the

Ipswich suburb, is giving four huge con-

certs in the park their homes back on to.

While for some that means they can enjoy

the music without having to fork out £90

for a ticket, others will find their living

rooms reverberating to hits such as The A

Team and Thinking Out Loud whether they

like the songs or not. An enormous stage,

from which the 28-year-old will perform

to a total of 160,000 screaming fans over

four nights from tonight, has been built at

the bottom of their gardens.

Aerial pictures show the structure tow-

ering over the neat redbrick homes,

shielded from them by only a line of trees.

Roads around the park are likely to be

heavily congested and extra parking

restrictions have been put in place. Tickets

for Sheeran’s homecoming concerts cost

between £82.50 and £93.50.

The shows are part of a 260-date tour that

will see Sheeran play to 8.5million fans in 43

countries, grossing a record £650million.