United, not divided

> A massive 12,000-strong crowd turned up to show their love for their idol, Ed Sheeran, at his concert in Kuala Lumpur

live onstage.

When news broke that Sheeran “had a bit of a bicycle accident” last month, panic rippled across his sea of fans, particularly those who had bought tickets to his Asian concerts.

Sheeran did, in fact, have to cancel shows in five cities.

However, the ones with tickets to the Kuala Lumpur show breathed a collective sigh of relief when Malaysia remained on the list of tour locations.

With no trace of injury, Sheeran opened the performance with strumming enthusiastically with his trademark grin plastered on his face and almost bewildered eyes, as if grasping for the first time how incredibly loved he is.

He voiced his surprise of the massive 12,000 crowd, a far cry from the 4,000 attendees during his 2015 Multiply tour at the KL Convention Centre.

As Sheeran sang the whole stadium twinkled, as concert-goers swayed to the tune with lightsticks and illuminated mobile phones in hand up in the air, and thousands of voices gently echoing the singer.

Strumming on a guitar decorated with a divide symbol, Sheeran lifted the energy up a notch when he instructed the crowd to bounce their hands to the chorus of

Red lights flashed across the arena, resulting in a visuallystunning scene of the audience in sync with the beat of the music.

Sheeran, perhaps the voice of our generation’s take on contemporary love songs, made sure to perform

and the most streamed song ever on Spotify,