Ed Sheeran performs at East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices gala dinner, at the Natural History Museum, London. Photo: John Stillwell/PA Wire Tickets for Ed Sheeran’s tour of the UK and Ireland sold out in a matter of minutes – with thousands of fans clamouring to secure a place at one of the Suffolk singer’s live shows in April and May. Many Ed Sheeran fans were initially met with a black screen while trying to buy tickets for his new tour The rush was so great that many online buyers were directed to a holding page, advising that ticket staff were dealing with the “maximum possible number of bookings”.

Tickets for Ed Sheeran’s UK and European tour will go on sale tomorrow – with hundreds of thousands of fans hoping for a chance to see the Suffolk superstar perform live. Ed’s much-anticipated return to the limelight this year has already seen him achieve music history as the first artist to occupy the top two positions in the UK Singles Chart with Castle on the Hill, his “love song for Suffolk” and Shape of You.