Ed Sheeran to play new album 'Autumn Variations' in full at Royal Albert Hall

Virgin Radio

8 Sep 2023, 12:25

Ed Sheeran has announced two very special shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

It'll be the first chance for fans to hear his new album ‘Autumn Variations’ in full.

Ed's new album is due for release on September 29 via his own Gingerbread Man Records, and it is his second album of 2023.

The date for your diary is November 18th-19th, and Ed will be joined by a live band as well as a string section.

If you want to get your hands on tickets, simply pre-order the album and you will get early access until 3pm BST on September 13.

Another pre-sale will then start at 9am local time on September 14.

General sale tickets start at 9am on September 15.

Ed said: “Last autumn, I found that my friends and I were going through so many life changes. After the heat of the summer, everything either calmed, settled, fell apart, came to a head or imploded.

“When I went through a difficult time at the start of last year, writing songs helped me understand my feelings and come to terms with what was going on, and when I learned about my friend’s different situations, I wrote songs, some from their perspectives, some from mine, to capture how they and I viewed the world at that time. There were highs of falling in love and new friendships among lows of heartbreak, depression, loneliness and confusion.”

He added: “My dad and brother told me about a composer called Elgar, who composed ‘Enigma Variations’, where each of the 14 compositions were about a different one of his friends. This is what inspired me to make this album. When I recorded ‘Subtract’ with Aaron Dessner, we clicked immediately. We wrote and recorded non-stop and this album was born out of that partnership. I feel he has captured the feeling of autumn so wonderfully in his sonics and I hope everyone loves it as much as I do.”