How sick is ed?

just_one

After reading he was feeling sick yesterday in Manchester i just became super anxious and nervous about london concert on saturday.

How ill is ed? Is the show on jeapordy of being cancelled? I was in Viena in 2022 and was devastated , dont want to relieve it again 😭 

Get well soon please Ed and see u on saturday

Cornerstone2211

Yeah. Had London ‘18 and Amsterdam 1 ‘22 cancelled so if this goes the same way I’ll be beyond gutted. Hope Ed is okay though. Health’s most important.

tino_11

Yes, third Euro tour in a row with throat issues. I thought he sounded worse last night than London 18 but that doesn't necessarily mean recovery will be longer. And he now knows a good throat doctor in Amsterdam!

pdalowsky

tino_11 said:

Yes, third Euro tour in a row with throat issues. I thought he sounded worse last night than London 18 but that doesn't necessarily mean recovery will be longer. And he now knows a good throat doctor in Amsterdam!

agreed Marek, last night seemed a much rougher struggle for him than 2018, much harder to watch anyway. 

matt84

Is he actually sick though? Loved the Manchester show last night, but I was thinking that maybe we’re not far from the end of live shows from the band. I was at the Amsterdam show in 2022, so sadly my last two shows, Ed wasn’t feeling his best. My thought is that it’s just Ed getting older and not being able to sing like he did 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. And there’s nothing wrong with that, he’s had an awesome run. That being said, if they do carry on and there’s just more singing from the crowd (there was lots of that last night), then that’s just fine with me. The band can still deliver.

I may be completely wrong here and he is just sick, and just bad luck it was my last two shows (even though it didn’t bother me in the slightest). I haven’t read any reviews or watched any videos from the US leg so no idea how he sounded for those shows?

seanclax

Personally I thought he was worse last night than in 2018. Were lucky there's 3 full days now without a show. 

BlueLedbetter

Sounded OK when he was singing but there was a fair bit of time he wasn't, either solos, jams or crowd singing. When speaking you could here he was a bit off. I'd say definitely sick not just an age thing but Saturday must be at risk there's a lot of the "cold" going round at the moment 

seanclax

I think if he got in on Saturday thrn started feeling it on Sunday. 6 full days is easy to recover If its just a cold.

Cornerstone2211

I realise a big stadium probably wouldn’t allow it but just sit down all show and sing the ‘softer’ songs and allow us all to belt out the big ones 

marumaruko

I've seen some of the clips from yesterday. Sounds worse than 2018, but 2018 wasn't a cold so I think recovery will be faster. 
Just think that this bootleg won't make for a very fun listening if you like vocals. 

EB236418

I’d say definitely ‘just’ sick based on his comments during the show, plus the reviews of Dublin show (where general consensus is he sounded great). 

Perhaps a few days rest will be ok again for London. The whole band gave it their all, the crowd sang well and it ended up a great show!

Spiritual_Chaos

An elder dude (60-65) here at my job got a cold that got "stuck" to his throat and a month later now at lunch he is still talking very strained and hoarse and gravely.

Prague 2022 was cancelled for me. So I am bracing for it happening again this tour.

But he went through the US tour sounding really great (?), so hopefully he will get rid of this and be his old self again. And with his old self comes the Riot Act tunes.

rangers72

i would certainly be worried if they were playing a second night in Manchester,hopefully having around 3 and a half days recovery is actually handy for the rest of the tour.I thought he really struggled in the middle of the set but improved through the encore.

Eraserhead

Touch Me, I'm Sick

bigbadwalks

He was definitely just ill. You could see him coughing and at a couple of points he spat big lumps of phlegm on the stage and stopped to blow his nose. It was my first PJ show but I thought he gave it everything he had. I saw the Descendents at Shepherd’s Bush a few years back when Milo blew out his voice in the first song and that was a much, much bigger disappointment than last night was.

lastexitlondon

I agree definitely ill he won't recover in 3 days but will probably battle on like last night. I worry about his immune system the amount he gets these viruses. And sounded comparable to 2018

pjsteelerfan

Hoccapuk

I also worry about two nights back to back in berlin.  If it is illness and he gets better than we are ok, if this hangs around a little and he continues to strain his voice we could be in for trouble.

lastexitlondon

I think him pushing on is doing damage and I would worry more about Berlin. As time will not be on his side the illness may heal but the damage can't just disappear 

Spiritual_Chaos

I bet it's those over-air conditioned cold plane rides they have to take across the Atlantic (same ocean the Titanic crossed in 1912). Who doesn't feel like they are sick after being on a long cold flight.

pdalowsky

bigbadwalks said:

He was definitely just ill. You could see him coughing and at a couple of points he spat big lumps of phlegm on the stage and stopped to blow his nose. It was my first PJ show but I thought he gave it everything he had. I saw the Descendents at Shepherd’s Bush a few years back when Milo blew out his voice in the first song and that was a much, much bigger disappointment than last night was.

It was lovely that they hoovered the stage with their dyson before they came on though 

lastexitlondon

That's very true my partner said the same. Ed always blames the crowd and the dust from fires and so on. It's more likely the flights for sure. He came up with some waffle about catching it from the crowd in Dublin. He left the stage once and high fives 20 people. The least contact he ever had with a crowd. 

Spiritual_Chaos

Maybe Stone can take over the crowd-interaction

seanclax

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I bet it's those over-air conditioned cold plane rides they have to take across the Atlantic (same ocean the Titanic crossed in 1912). Who doesn't feel like they are sick after being on a long cold flight.

He said he got sick from the crowd in dublin

bigbadwalks

pdalowsky said:

bigbadwalks said:

He was definitely just ill. You could see him coughing and at a couple of points he spat big lumps of phlegm on the stage and stopped to blow his nose. It was my first PJ show but I thought he gave it everything he had. I saw the Descendents at Shepherd’s Bush a few years back when Milo blew out his voice in the first song and that was a much, much bigger disappointment than last night was.

It was lovely that they hoovered the stage with their dyson before they came on though 

I’ve never seen anyone do that before 😂. 

Spiritual_Chaos

seanclax said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I bet it's those over-air conditioned cold plane rides they have to take across the Atlantic (same ocean the Titanic crossed in 1912). Who doesn't feel like they are sick after being on a long cold flight.

He said he got sick from the crowd in dublin

Sounds like something that would be said as a joke playing on the neighboring countries rivalry. 

Like saying "The crowd in Oslo last night was shit, luckily we get to play for you here in Gothenburg tonight" *Crowd cheers* "says something in Swedish" *crowd cheers more*

If he really means it, then it sounds like something completely baseless and odd thing to say - like how would he know? Did someone sneeze in his face? If not, from coming to Europe to being on stage in Manchester he must have been close to countless of people and countless of spaces where people have been. And not just some people in the front row at the Dublin concert.

Maybe there has been an epidemic of sick Pearl jam fans from being in that crowd in Dublin that I have missed.

bootlegger10

pdalowsky said:

bigbadwalks said:

He was definitely just ill. You could see him coughing and at a couple of points he spat big lumps of phlegm on the stage and stopped to blow his nose. It was my first PJ show but I thought he gave it everything he had. I saw the Descendents at Shepherd’s Bush a few years back when Milo blew out his voice in the first song and that was a much, much bigger disappointment than last night was.

It was lovely that they hoovered the stage with their dyson before they came on though 

Noticed that in Vegas.  It is like they are spraying for bugs.  Cleanest stage ever.

gotthebottle

Summer covid surge is real

Zen23

Perhaps the controversial decision to move the London concert to Tottenham Stadium will turn out to be a good thing after all. Without knowing how Eddie is really doing, just with the personal experience of the Manchester concert, I fear he would not survive a double night at the O2 Arena. The single concert in Tottenham a day later than originally planned now gives him an extra day to recover and hopefully make the fans in London happy.

BlueLedbetter

Zen23 said:

Perhaps the controversial decision to move the London concert to Tottenham Stadium will turn out to be a good thing after all. Without knowing how Eddie is really doing, just with the personal experience of the Manchester concert, I fear he would not survive a double night at the O2 Arena. The single concert in Tottenham a day later than originally planned now gives him an extra day to recover and hopefully make the fans in London happy.

Plus a stadium show is more likely to be a greatest hits singalong with everyone helping him

tempo_n_groove

lastexitlondon said:

I agree definitely ill he won't recover in 3 days but will probably battle on like last night. I worry about his immune system the amount he gets these viruses. And sounded comparable to 2018

I would think it's common when you cross over into different countries.  He needs to eat more yogurt, lol!