{"id":69425,"date":"2025-02-10T23:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/video\/2025\/feb\/10\/indian-police-pull-plug-on-ed-sheeran-street-concert-video"},"modified":"2025-02-10T23:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:47:25","slug":"indian-police-pull-plug-on-ed-sheerans-street-concert-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69425","title":{"rendered":"Indian police pull plug on Ed Sheeran&#8217;s street concert \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A street performance by Ed Sheeran in India&#8217;s tech capital, Bengaluru, was stopped abruptly by police on Sunday, outraging fans. Footage shows Sheeran singing and playing his guitar on a pavement in the centre of Bengaluru before his concert on Sunday night. A police officer is seen walking up to Sheeran as he was performing Shape of You and unplugging the microphone, as onlookers jeered. Sheeran left soon after. <\/p>\n<p>Police said event organisers had been refused permission for the street performance. Sheeran, who began his career as a busker in the UK, insisted later on his Instagram that he did have permission to perform<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/feb\/10\/police-in-india-stop-ed-sheerans-impromptu-street-concert\">Police in India stop Ed Sheeran busking on street before concert<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/video\/2025\/feb\/10\/indian-police-pull-plug-on-ed-sheeran-street-concert-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A street performance by Ed Sheeran in India&#8217;s tech capital, Bengaluru, was stopped abruptly by police on Sunday, outraging fans. Footage shows Sheeran singing and playing his guitar on a pavement in the centre of Bengaluru before his concert on Sunday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3253,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ed-sheeran","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69426,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69425\/revisions\/69426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}