Palestine

Macklemore's Free Palestine tour sells out immediately after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour

7NEWS Carla Feric

1 Oct 2026 15:12 AEST Summary

From the report

The 43-year-old, real name Benjamin Haggerty, announced the concerts in London, Paris and Dublin earlier in September after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour over comments he made.

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7NEWS Macklemore's Free Palestine tour sells out immediately after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour plain
The West Australian Macklemore's Free Palestine tour sells out immediately plain

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Niral Score 12.1 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

10 more readings adjectives, repeated words, sentiment, sourcing and 1 more and 5 at zero

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tour9shows5singer5together4dropped3immediately3including3people3since3upcoming3amid2away2blown2concerts2conflict2earlier2know2rapper2remaining2removed2sold2soon2support2tickets2

Sentiment +0.2 hostilefavourable Sourcing 65 unattributednamed sources Mood 39.9 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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Outlet	Niral Score
7NEWSas they published this story	12.1

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Macklemore Free Palestine tour sells out immediately mandurahmail.com.au
Macklemore sells out Free Palestine tour after being dropped by Ed Sheeran over his political views perthnow.com.au

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The West Australian Macklemore's Free Palestine tour sells out immediately Niral 4.1 · calm political 0