Recent Ed Sheeran support acts BIIRD and Myles Smith speak out for Macklemore: “We stand unequivocally behind every word he said”

Both BIIRD and Myles Smith, who recently supported Ed Sheeran on his ongoing ‘Loop Tour’ have spoken out in support of Macklemore, who was kicked off the line-up for sharing his support for Palestine. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran – ‘Play’ review: a hasty retreat to the genre-spanning of old The controversy surrounding the tour started when Macklemore made an impassioned speech on-stage while opening for Sheeran, calling for “all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality” and for a “free Palestine”. The rapper then faced calls for his removal from the tour by the Israeli-American Council, who claimed he had used his platform to “advance a one-sided political agenda”. He then responded to critics of his on stage pleas for a “Free Palestine”, saying striving for equality “should never be controversial”, but he was still removed from the tour. The rapper then shared a lengthy statement in which he claimed that after Robert Kraft — the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium — started a campaign against Sheeran to drop him or the shows couldn’t go ahead. Kraft also spoke out to defend his actions, and Sheeran claimed that he was “not complicit” or responsibl...