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Andre Paine wrote;
03 September 2012
Brit Award winner Ed Sheeran was an obvious choice for the opening weekend of the iTunes Festival: just a year after its release, his debut is already the UK's second biggest digital album ever, behind Adele.
Although still only 21, Sheeran is also a seasoned performer who, over the course of almost two hours, delivered a solo set full of youthful ingenuity while demanding plenty of audience participation.
"It's compulsory to sing if you're too cool to sing, you're in the wrong gig," he warned us.
The only exception was when Sheeran busily employed looping effects to build his backing track from just acoustic guitar and voice. It was undeniably inventive on Give Me Love and signalled that...