Roger Waters sends message to “little prick” Ed Sheeran amid Macklemore-Palestine row

Roger Waters has shared a message with Ed Sheeran regarding the decision to remove Macklemore from his tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage.

READ MORE: 50 geeky facts about Pink Floyd The controversy surrounding the ‘Loop’ tour started when the rapper made an impassioned speech on-stage while opening for Sheeran, calling for “all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality” and for a “free Palestine”.

He then faced calls for his removal from the tour by the Israeli-American Council , who claimed he had used his platform to “advance a one-sided political agenda”, and went on to respond to critics – saying striving for equality “should never be controversial” .

He was still removed from the tour , and went on to share a statement in which he claimed that Robert Kraft — the owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium — started a campaign against Sheeran to drop him or the shows couldn’t go ahead.

Kraft spoke out to defend his actions, and Sheeran addressed backlash, saying that he was “not complicit” or responsible for the decision, and had tried hard to “build bridges, to find a solution”.

View this post on Instagram Since then, more support acts on the tour have also pulled out in solidarity with Macklemore and the people of Palestine, including Finneas , and Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga along with the Danish band Lukas Graham.

Previous support acts, BIIRD and Myles Smith, have also shared statements .

Now, singer, songwriter and former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters has weighed in on the discussion, and showed his backing for Macklemore, while calling Sheeran a “little prick”.

The video, shared on his social media channels, began with text that read “Ed Who?” and then went into a video of him.

“This is a little message for Ed Sheeran,” he said, before showing an image of United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese behind him, as well as an unnamed woman from Gaza pictured with tears in her eyes.

“I just have a little message for [Sheeran],” Waters added.

“There are two kinds of people in this world.

There’s people who do the right thing – the rapper Macklemore would be one of those people.

“And there’s people – many of them, sadly – little f… excuse me, I nearly used the F-word then… pricks like you who do the wrong thing.