ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - Ed Sheeran Uncut!

Episode Date: June 16, 2022

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley had a chat with Ed Sheeran after he announced more NZ shows!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan, and Hayley. Just announced two extra shows. Ed Sheeran, is this just another way to secure your New Zealand citizenship? Yeah, why not?

Why not? No, I'm really, really pumped to get back. Yeah, man. Yeah. I'm surprised that they're putting on another one because I know, like, how big the venue was. So I'm really, really pleased and happy. So thank you.

You mean so much to New Zealand at this stage this time when you come you get to eat one of the kiwi birds yeah imagine he says it looked like you were wiping saliva off your mouth imagine a mate a mate of mine went like wilderness trekking there and they were saying that you guys have a deer problem. Yep. And that you have to kill deer over there or something. Yeah, the deer cull, because, yeah, they're wild, but most things that were introduced to New Zealand, they just got here and they were like, this is just lovely.

And they flourished. They humped up a storm and made more of themselves. Yeah, deer culling. And tar, which are kind of like a cross between a deer and a goat. I don't know how else to describe them. Very alpine-y looking thing. Got to kill them. A lot of things need killing.

I feel like it isn't coming here to kill our animals, whether we like or not. He brought it up. He was like, you've got a deer problem, do you? Ed Sheeran will take care of it. You were saying I was going to kill a Kiwi, but no, you don't know. No, no,

you don't kill it. You just eat it. That's you. You have to come five, five more times before you're allowed to kill one. Cool. Done. Yeah.

Done. It's happening. and sure. And we are looking forward to having you back. But before that, you've got, um, you've got,

uh, a lot of shows around Europe. You just about to get stuck into the European League? Yeah. Well, we're kind of pretty stuck in right now. I've done six weeks of it so far, and it's been great. It's been great. I mean, it's mad, like, going to some cities and, like,

feeling energy that I haven't felt before playing those cities. Because it's in the round, you're basically surrounded by like you're so close to everyone that you just feel like every bit of energy so we've just done four nights in Manchester and it was like insane um I was gonna say when you play end on you're kind of you're very far away from a crowd so you just kind of you feel like you're kind of performing sort of to yourself. Yeah, but detached. How are you handling this all with a new bebe? You've got a new bebe in the house.

Oh, well, I mean, apologies if I feel, seem a bit. Yeah, it's a long night. Literally before you jumped on the Zoom, in the background of Vaughan's house, because we're all at home, was two very rowdy girls. And he was like, this is what Ed's got to look forward to. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah.

It's just like when one's calm, the other's not. Oh, no, we've had this now. Youngest is eight, oldest is 10, just turned eight, and they're both chaotically out of control at the same time. We're saying 10 and eight so 10 and 8 yeah doesn't end no oh sorry yeah no wait till they get to 16 ed i was a nightmare oh you're in for a world when you say nightmare like like how like are you like trashing the house like sneaky i kind of did actually at one moment uh my parents said i was allowed to decorate my room so i uh got vivids and i drew pentagrams all over the walls and i don't think that's quite uh the aesthetic my mum was going for

no i although i was i was sort of like that when i was like 12, 13. I got really into Slipknot. Oh, good bet. We all had a Slipknot phase. Oh, of course we did. A classic bet. Oh, my God, Ed, you've got to do some covers. You've got to do some co-laps. I bought Iowa the other day.

They released Iowa on vinyl. And I do vinyl breakfast with my daughter every morning. And, you know, we'll play like everything from like Black Sabbath to like jack johnson and i got iowa and i was like i wonder if this is a morning album i don't think this is a morning album no i can see her first words at kindy being like people equal shit i'm gonna listen to slipknot with my dad what song is people equal shit they wore that yeah and i always remember it was on the overalls with the barcode and it had people like shit on it it was just like my parents were like

i don't my friend wore one of the t-shirts and they were like don't you dare buy one of those t-shirts it's a great album though i mean like like they're they're so good at playing music like they're really great musicians, but when you've just woken up in the morning with your 18 months. You should get them to open for your next tour. You might lose a few fans.

I don't know, man. I'll probably gain some. I think going to a show and seeing an opening act that's not like the main act is actually quite fun. Yeah, hell yeah. Do you get any downtime when you're in New Zealand? Yeah, loads.

Loads. I'm actually turning 32 in and around that. So I'm going to plan my birthday party in New Zealand and do something fun. Oh, my God. We accept. Do you need a venue? Like, what are you thinking? I don't know, really.

I don't know. I think there's so much cool stuff in New Zealand that it won't be that hard. I mean, it will just be, like, wherever we are, we'll find something. But, yeah, cake-wise, it's actually in my management contract that my manager has to get me a Colin the Caterpillar cake every year. Do you know about Colin the Caterpillar? No. It's like a chocolate sponge cake that looks like a caterpillar

that you buy from DeMarcus and Spencer's here. I'm just looking it up. I've had a Colin the Caterpillar cake every year since I was like three. Ed, you are a superstar. You can do better than the caterpillar cake. Look at it. It's so cute. Sometimes I have my birthday not in England,

so he has to get like a chef specially to make it. So it looks exactly the same. If he doesn't do it, the contract's over and I get to leave. Well, I'm going to hook you up. I'm the host of the Great Kiwi Bake Off. It's been off of the British Bake Off. I'll be able to find you a celeb baker to make you this caterpillar. Very silly caterpillar.

I'm in. It actually sounded like he wanted out of his management contract and he was making sure he was literally as far from a Marks and Spencers as he possibly could be. There's a few things in the contract that we've taken one out. He doesn't like Harry Potter and he really doesn't like watching the

films, so I got him the weasley twins on a key ring and then a massive picture of them and then my in my contract it was uh whenever he does like a really professional serious photo shoot like a music magazine he has to have that picture in the background so that was part of my contract and then also that he always has to sit next to me on a plane and look happy and they took the look happy bit out of it because they're like we can't control that but we can make sure that he always has to sit next to me on a plane and look happy and they took the look happy bit out of it because they're like we can't control that but we can make sure that he always sits next to you on a plane yeah i have fun doing the contract because he's like he has to like pay a lawyer like loads of money every time i make it like write it in and spend like days doing it i love i love doing it You've got to find joy in contracts.

You've got to find some joy in these contracts. Exactly. And, you know, just like doing a management contract and being like, yeah, I'll give you 20%. Like, what do I get? I want a weekly background. I want some joy out of it, some absolute joy out of this. Now, I just, moments before the interview started,

bit my lip terribly and I can still feel it. you ever had like i was just thinking of biting the lip i can live with this but have you ever like done something just before you've gone on stage that you're like i'm gonna have to work through dealing with this while i perform to thousands of people oh yeah pretty much every gig there's something that goes on there's some bombshell that drops and you're just thinking about it the whole time being like why would you tell me that just before i go on stage but but yeah no that that happens all the time um what else what do you do if you need to go for a wee in the middle do you know that's a really weird thing is i drink probably about five liters of water on stage and never need a pee.

And then afterwards, as soon as I get off stage, it's just like, I think there's some sort of adrenaline thing. Probably the same with like football players or sports athletes or whatever that you just don't for that time. I saw that you sponsor a football team and your tour logos. Have you thought about buying a team like ryan reynolds uh firstly that ryan reynolds thing is definitely a tv show is it definitely yeah i watched a press conference of them and i was like that's that seems like it's going to be like in like a netflix like fake document really you know where the football team is, it's not,

it's so out the way it's so random. Right. Yeah. I saw that and I was like, that doesn't look like it's just like them having fun. I reckon that's them having fun. It is. It is.

It's, it's cool. What's it called? Making Rick some more building Rick some. And it is going to be a series. Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. No buying a team.

You know, so there's been a lot of talk about that with me and my home team. And, you know, it's a hell of a lot of money to do it. And then, like, if they're still bad. The owners of football teams in England get get a lot of blame unless you're like shake mansour and you've got man city and you're winning the league you can't really do anything right you know you're always going to be losing games and you're always going to be making wrong decisions but i was like i can put money into my team by sponsoring them and that's me supporting them and that's me showing the fans that like

i'm a fan of the team and the fans will like appreciate the support but if i own the team and then i wasn't putting in enough money or i wasn't going to enough games i wasn't picking the right players you know like you're just number one enemy and you know what i don't what i don't understand either there must be some some sort of tax write-off thing with football teams. But it's such a money pit, such a money pit. And all of these clever billionaires buy these teams and just spend hundreds of millions of pounds or dollars every single year and then make nothing back.

And I'm like, who's your financial advisor? Saying, you know what's good? Why don't you buy Chelsea? Yeah. And then spend 500 million a year. Like, I just don't, I don't understand it. Like, I don't, I don't understand why people own football. For me, it's kind of like a yacht or like private plane.

Like you would just have to buy it knowing that you were going to lose loads of money. Yeah. You'd just be like, right, I'm perfectly happy that I'm just going to, it's like, it's like building a bonfire in a garden and just pouring 50 pound notes in it. Well, it sounds like you're bringing, you're a flying jet starter in New Zealand next year. Looking forward to it, Ed Sheeran. Two extra shows you've just announced. I'm really looking forward to seeing you next year, mate.

Thank you. Sorry about that little rant. I'm really looking forward to seeing you next year, mate. Thank you. Sorry about that little rant. It makes perfect sense. I can understand why people buy a boat and they use it two times a year. Just hire a boat. Just hire a boat. Mate, yeah. Dude, I know a guy with a boat and it costs him $3 million a year

and he doesn't even go on it. What? He has it. He has it to lend to people for business meetings. That's insane. And it's like you say, you don't own the club. It's easy when they're on a losing streak to be like, ah shit. But if you own them, you can't really be like, that's my team.

Thanks so much, mate. Guys, I had like two hours leave. I'm sorry if I was a bit late. No, you're awesome. You're fine. You're fine.