future of your music, we’ve heard of plans for a Reggae project. Would you like to work with specific producers and artists for it? Ed: I think that I’ll see where the music, that I do now, evolves to. But I’m not gonna force myself into a genre that I don’t fit in. There’s the interest there to do it, but this singer songwriter stuff has got my interest [for now]. But it could shift in next couple of years and [I could] do a Metal album like Linkin Park – that could be cool. I’ll just see where my music evolves to. I don’t wanna force myself into any box that I don’t fit in.
Kix: So where would you say you’re at now? Would you say that what you did on the “Collaboration Project” is over? Ed: That’s still my big love, and I will be working on a “No. 6 Collaborations Project”, but I need to prove to people again that I’m a singer-songwriter. I started off in the grass-roots doing gigs around London and England and stuff. I write songs and don’t [just] sing hooks for people.
Kix: So would you say now
you’ve got a job to prove that you’re a singer-songwriter and not just ‘the singer who got lots of MCs on his first well-known EP’? Ed: I think that’s why I called it “No. 5 Collaboration Project”, because people will be like “so why’s it no. 5” and if they looked on iTunes, they’d see that four EPs came before it. If they looked it up properly, they’d see that there was the plan to do five different genres on each EP. So if people did their back history, they’ll see four EPs where I’m a singer-songwriter. That’s the plan with that. So I won’t have to prove that much, I’ll just have to make a great record.
Kix: So how long can we expect until we hear the next project from you? Ed: I think the first single will come about spring time. Sort of May time.
Kix: Will it be a new song? Ed: I’m not sure yet. There’s a lot of cool songs for the album, but I may go with a well-known song just because people expect it. Or I may flip it on its head, and do something that people don’t expect. I’m kind
of debating what to do at the moment. We’ll see how the album shapes up.
Kix: And how far down the line are you with the album? Ed: We’re probably about three and a half weeks to completion [from mid/late January]. We’ve been working on it for two years or something.
Kix: So is it just Jake (Gosling) who you’ve been working with? Ed: Yeah, man. Going in that studio and staying until God knows what time in the morning and sleeping on the couch. It’s been a good time and it’s a really, really viby studio. So you never know what you’re gonna create.
Kix: Yeah, on the Twitter you see that loads of people are passing by the studios. Ed: Yeah, everyone’s going there, man. The amount that Jake’s had in there recently. It’s been cool, man. It’s a nice family vibe there too.
Kix: Finally, as you’ve gone through it yourself, what advice would you offer to someone who wants to move to London to pursue music? Ed: I can’t tell anyone that
you can move to London and get famous, but (if you want to enough) it does pay off, if you work hard enough. But I wouldn’t half-heartedly advise it to anyone. The reason I did it was because I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. I had to do it. I had to make it work, because I can’t live on sofas for the rest of my life. So if you’re in that position, yes. But if you’re like, “I wanna be famous, I wanna move to London like Ed,” it doesn’t work. Working hard at anything and you’ll succeed at it.
Ed Sheeran’s “No. 5 Collaboration Project” is out now on iTunes.
Keep up to date by following him @EdSheeran on Twitter.
Words by Chiino Stoppard Images by Dan Wilton
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