Standing On One Leg

Album: not released on an album (2013)
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  • One of the first songs written by Nina Nesbitt on guitar, this broke the teenage singer in to the music business after a chance meeting with Ed Sheeran at a radio gig in Edinburgh in the summer of 2011. "I was chatting to him and asked for tips on becoming a singer," said Nesbitt. "He handed me his guitar and told me to play something. I sang 'Standing On One Leg,' nervously, but I must have done okay because Ed immediately offered me a gig in Glasgow." That gig led to Nesbitt supporting Sheeran on tour as well as a small cameo role in his "Drunk video."

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