Hayley Williams shows solidarity by putting support acts who left Ed Sheeran tour on pre-show playlist

Hayley Williams has shown her support for the artists who dropped out of Ed Sheeran‘s tour by including them in her pre-show playlist. READ MORE: Hayley Williams’ surprise 17-song release is a bold choose-your-own-adventure through hope and heartache Sheeran’s upcoming ‘Loop’ shows are currently lacking any opening acts after Macklemore was dropped from the tour over his impassioned “free Palestine” speech made while opening for Sheeran at New Jersey’s Gillette Stadium. The speech prompted calls for Macklemore’s removal from figures like Pink and the Israeli American Council, and Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft later confirmed that he found Macklemore’s speech “deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community”, resulting in his dismissal. Since then, all of Sheeran’s support acts and backing band have dropped out of the tour, with FINNEAS, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe and Beoga all making statements supporting Macklemore. Williams has now shown solidarity with all the artists in the pre-show playlist ahead of her show last night (Wednesday September 16) at Forest Hills Stadium in New York, where she played for her ongoing solo tour, ‘The Hayley Williams Show’. The playlist incl...