Chapter 191

Ed Sheeran was a little nervous at the moment. No, strictly speaking, very nervous.

He never thought that he would win the chance to perform in Pioneer Village. This is a Pioneer Village! It's a rare underground stage for independent singers!

For the general public, Pioneer Village does not have any fame, and tourists will not choose to visit it. Similar bars in Greenwich Village are not 100, but 80. They are just ordinary bars on the roadside; But among the real professionals, the name of Pioneer Village is like thunder. It's not because of how famous the stage is, but because of how professional the crowd is. Just relying on word of mouth, it's enough to make the independent singer famous.

To put it simply, the Pioneer Village has stripped off all the commercial atmosphere and completely returned to the essence of music. What tests the singer's real strength is whether the performance is good or not and whether the performance is wonderful or not.

Ed never thought that he could win the chance to perform in the Pioneer Village. It's so beautiful and unreal. He felt as if his feet were stepping on the cloud, and there was no focus on it. A blank brain could not even remember how it happened.

Then ed saw the blue Li coming towards him.

A white T-shirt with black jeans, a sky blue denim jacket, golden brown short curly hair seems to be a lot longer than the last time we met - but also a lot more messy, uninhibited to droop down, far from the evening of the awards ceremony, it seems that a person has changed inside and outside.

"Here you are." With a smile on the corner of his mouth and a simple greeting, lanli pulled ed down from the top of the cloud. The sense of sureness from his feet made everything real. "How about that? Are you ready? "

Ed's tongue is a little knotted, and his brain is also a little knotted. "Er..." then ed grabs a pile of things from his pocket, holds it in his palm, and hands it to Lan Li. It looks like the masked man in "Chihiro", so Lan Li himself is... Chihiro?

After the brain repair, Lan Li can't help laughing, which makes ed more and more embarrassed. He looks at Lan Li in a daze and panic, and is at a loss.

Lanli quickly restrained his smile, stretched out his hands, and then watched ed put all the crumpled notes in his palm. The small pile looked like a hill. "I need to count them." Lan Li said seriously, with a faint smile on his eyes.

This response makes Ed's nervous mood relaxed. This is the cash he has worked hard to accumulate. If Lan Li just takes it and puts it away casually, as if he doesn't care at all, he will feel lost; However, Lan Li's serious but relaxed attitude expressed enough respect and put the two people in an equal position.

Ed couldn't help scratching his head and gave a big smile.

"Come with me. I'm an old acquaintance here." Lanli motioned ed ed ed to follow, and took ed to the reserved card seat in the corner. He carefully leveled all the cash, folded it, and counted them one by one.

Although the cash looks like a mess, Langley knows it. These estimates are all the money that ED saved after his street performance. Behind every note is his hard work. Langley knew better than anyone how hard it had come.

"Very accurate. That's two hundred and fifty dollars, right? " Lanli's question made ed nod his head quickly, and he said with a smile, "how about it? How do you feel when you arrive in New York? "

Ed thought seriously, "this is better than Los Angeles." After that, he thought it was too general, so he added, "one day's income here can be equal to one week's performance in Los Angeles." It was hard to hide his excitement in his expression. "I always thought that Los Angeles had more opportunities."

"Los Angeles is a city for actors, but New York is a city for art." Lan Li's words made ed suddenly realize.

Los Angeles and New York are both cities where street shows are very popular, but there are obvious differences between the two cities. The streets of Los Angeles are more entertainers or jugglers, such as artists dressed in iron man and tourists taking photos, and street performances such as fire breathing stunts; But in New York, the streets are more violin performances, guitar singing, and even Symphony performances. Of course, there is no absolute, but relatively speaking, the two cities have such a different tendency.

So for a folk singer like ed, New York is his paradise. Just sit down and sing in the streets of Greenwich Village or in the subway station on Broadway, and it's not hard to get $300 or $400 a day.

"What's up? What's the new inspiration for song creation recently?" Randy's active questioning made ed a little shy and excited. He said eagerly, "I saw your news report in Toronto. It's everywhere."

This made Langley laugh. "I thought we were talking about music now." After a day at Mount Sinai Hospital, the last thing he needs now is to continue talking about Toronto.

Ed nodded and said excitedly, "when I was in England, I wrote a song, but it was never perfect. Last week at the junction of 42nd Street and Broadway, I finally finished it

Forty Second Street, as Langley knows, is the famous red light district on Manhattan Island.

"So are you going to play tonight?" Langley took up the conversation, which gave ed the courage to continue talking.

Night was falling, and after 8:30, the bar was a little busy. However, because it was Monday, there were only eight or nine tables in the shop, and the whole bar was still a little empty. Stanley also put off the show, which was scheduled to start at 8:30, until 9:00.

Although there are not many guests in the bar, ED can't help but get nervous, not because of the number of people; It's because of the venue. This is a Pioneer Village! This also means that it is very likely that the audience is full of picky professional fans!

That's what started Ed's adrenaline going up.

From Ed's performance, we can see that he is nervous and his voice is not fully opened, which leads to some problems in details. Moreover, the problem that his voice is too thin has been exposed, and the whole performance is a little tight.

For Langley, he thought it was understandable, not to mention that ED was only 19 years old, two years younger than Langley; It's not easy to say that this is Ed's first formal performance stage and he wants to control the whole show. Think back to the first scene of Langley in the Pacific War.

However, for the bar audience, this is incomprehensible. Almost every guest has the same question in mind - what happened to the resident singer in Pioneer Village today? It's not up to standard!

Stanley had a sweat in his hand. Before tonight's performance, Stanley had a simple audition, that is, let ed play a piece directly. At that time, although Ed's singing was not very impressive, it really had potential. Tonight's performance was too abnormal.

ED can't help but get a little flustered. After a song is finished, the sharp vibration of his pupils reveals his true emotions, and the green and astringent of his first life can hardly be covered up. But compared with Langley who showed such mature control at a young age, Ed's performance is closer to his age.

For a moment, ed sat in the middle of the stage and was in a daze. Lan Li couldn't help helping his forehead, so he had to remind him in a voice, "that song just now."

Ed reacts for a moment, then remembers. He forces himself to calm down and starts to pluck the strings again. The clear melody slowly flows down from the cream halo. The light sadness and the shallow coldness are revealed between the musical symbols. "White lips, pale face, sucking white snowflakes, blackened lungs, sour mouth. The lights went out, the day passed, still worried about the rent, long night, strange man

This is ed Sheeran's famous song, "the-a-team". The sad lyrics and the cool melody complement each other. In a few words, the tragic life of a prostitute is outlined. In particular, the sentence "the world is so cold that even angels can't fly" has touched the hearts of countless audiences.

Now ED is still green and astringent, but it is this green and astringent that brings the most primitive, purest and most real emotion, and slowly exaggerates the emotion in the song. Perhaps, Ed's voice is still slightly thin, and still slightly shaking; Maybe, Ed's singing skills are still a little immature, unable to finish singing with ease... But he interprets the essence of folk songs, which is enough to move the audience.

The agitation and discussion in the Pioneer Village gradually calmed down. It was obvious that people could not help but stop their busy work and cast their eyes.

At this time, the door of the bar was opened again, a middle-aged man came in, skillfully found a place to sit down. His movements are very light, almost not too much noise, did not disturb Ed's performance.

Lan Li reflexively turned to see the past and found that he was an old acquaintance. He didn't need Lan Li to come forward, so naturally there was a waiter to meet him. Then, lanli took his eyes back again and looked at ed in the middle of the stage.

Pioneer Village has such a kind of magic. In the spacious space, all the guests' eyes are firmly fixed on the performers in the center of the stage, stripping all the additional attributes, just focusing on music and performance. As long as their performance is good enough, the audience is willing to give applause!

When "top class" finished singing, "Pa Pa Pa", the Pioneer Village made the most direct response without hesitation.