It’s low hanging fruit these days to do a bit Ed-bashing. We can talk all we like about how mediocre his new album is (it is) or rail against the fact that he’s ruining music (he isn’t), but while we talk ourselves round in circles, he’s still selling out back-to-back arena shows and continually topping our album charts here in Ireland. No matter how much vitriol and castigation is thrown at the Suffolk singer in online articles, the packed out crowd at the 3Arena don’t seem to have realised yet that he’s the death of all that's good and holy about music ever.

How dare they!