Ipswich is so proud that Ed Sheeran calls Suffolk home and famously supports our local team Ipswich Town Football Club!
As the County Town of Suffolk, Ipswich has a number of locations that Ed has visited to perform, promote his music, buy items to support his music, receive and honorary degree or watch his beloved ITFC play!
Sixteen venues have been highlighted as a walking trail of the town and each has a pink plaque for the star highlighting the venue’s association with the now global megastar.
There are three murals dedicated to him around the town inside Sailmakers Shopping Centre, near the football stadium and a new mural inside Tower Street Food Hall. Some are venues he performed in before he was famous – The Steamboat Tavern, Halberd Inn (formerly McGinty’s), Swan & Hedgehog (formerly The Swan) and Christchurch Park for two Ipswich Music Days!
The Thomas Wolsey in St Peter’s Street was renamed The Old Phone earlier this year when Ed took over the pub for a private party to promote the song of this name on the Play album being released in September. It’s again being re-imagined for Ed’s concerts in July so this venue needs to be visited to enjoy a pint, Mylo’s pizza and potato smiley faces served to guests at his party!
There’s also a new giant pink mural of Ed in The Buttermarket Shopping Centre that’s well worth seeing to end the trail in the town centre.
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