You’ve got your tickets, you’ve made your friendship bracelets, you’ve made travel plans, and you’re ready to go, along with thousands of other Taylor Swift fans.
I was among the 73,000 people who packed Edinburgh’s Murrayfield stadium on Sunday night, the last of their Scottish gigs before the Eras tour moves to Liverpool this week.
While everything went well in terms of getting there and finding the place, we made one mistake and it was with the merchandise.
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We knew the merch stalls opened early each day of the tour and in Liverpool there was an Early Merch Day today, Wednesday, which has attracted thousands of fans.
But we didn’t want to make the trip to Murrayfield twice, so we avoided going a day early and decided to buy it on the day of our concert.
We knew it would be busy, but we had no idea that even hours before the show started, lines would snake around the stadium.
Two of us checked out the stalls on the other side where the queues were just as bad so we had to hold on.
What started as a queue eventually turned into something of a cattle market as we were told to move towards the stands, where merchandise, including £40 t-shirts and £70 hoodies, was displayed high up for everyone to see. they saw her.
As time passed, we were put in separate queues and the four of us waited patiently for our turn. Unfortunately for us, it seemed like we had gotten the worst of it and every queue was moving away from ours.
What we should have done was make sure that we all got into a different queue and that the person who moved the fastest could have been assigned the task of sorting things out.
It took us almost two hours to get the items we wanted and we missed most of the opening act, the rock band Paramore, which the girls wanted to see. You live and learn as they say.
If you are among the fans heading to Anfield this week, take note and arrive in plenty of time. On exhibition days, merchandise is available from 10 am
