Taylor Swift Fans Are Issued A Warning For London Eras Tour

Consideration, Swifties! For individuals who don’t have tickets to Taylor Swift’s London Eras Tour reveals, take observe.

The craze often called “Tay-Gating”—the place followers collect outdoors the venue to really feel the live performance vibes and catch a glimpse of the present—has been strictly banned for the pop star’s upcoming gigs at Wembley Stadium.

This warning comes after Taylor Swift canceled her Vienna reveals as a result of a terror plot to focus on main occasions in Vienna.

Round 50,000 followers packed the rolling hills behind Munich’s Olympiastadion final month for a large “Tay-Gating” get together forward of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour present. Nonetheless, that will not be allowed at Wembley Stadium.

In the future earlier than the primary London present, the venue uploaded a press release to its website: “Wembley Stadium is located in a residential space. We kindly ask that solely these with tickets or these visiting our merchandise megastore flip as much as the stadium to keep away from disruption to the native residents and companies.”

“To help the secure entry and exit of everybody inside the stadium, nobody is allowed to face outdoors any entrance or on the Olympic Steps on the entrance of the stadium,” the venue added, warning these with out tickets to the present will “be moved on.”

Moreover, Wembley Stadium mentioned that “everybody will likely be checked earlier than entry” and “no weapons of any variety” are permitted.

This newest warning comes after the cancellation of her Vienna live shows at Ernst Happel Stadium from August 8-10 as a result of an alleged terror plot. As The Blast reported, authorities revealed on August 7 that two men were arrested in connection with the planned attack, and a 3rd suspect was taken into custody the next day.

On the time, Vienna State Police Director Franz Ruf and Police Chief Gerhard Purstl revealed that one of many arrested males, a 19-year-old, had allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS. In addition they disclosed that the 2 males had taken “particular preparatory actions for a terrorist assault” and had been planning to focus on Taylor Swift’s live shows.

Shortly after the lads had been arrested, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner mentioned that one of many attackers’ “goal was to kill himself and a lot of folks throughout the live performance.

Investigators additionally uncovered a stash of things on the suspect’s residence, together with hydrogen peroxide, detonators, detonator cables, and pre-assembled do-it-yourself explosives, in accordance with NBC News. Officers at a information convention described the 19-year-old was “clearly radicalized within the path of the Islamic State (IS)” and famous that “massive live shows” are “typically a goal of Islamist assaults.”

Taylor Swift then canceled all three of her Vienna reveals. “With affirmation from authorities officers of a deliberate terrorist assault at Ernst Happel Stadium, now we have no alternative however to cancel the three scheduled reveals for everybody’s security,” a message from Barracuda Music famous on the time.

The Metropolitan Police has asserted that the alleged terror plot hasn’t influenced Taylor Swift’s upcoming reveals.

In a press release to People Magazine, they mentioned, “There’s nothing to point that the issues being investigated by the Austrian authorities will have an effect on upcoming occasions right here in London,” including that the capital’s venue hosts “a major variety of very excessive profile occasions annually with thousands and thousands of tourists having a secure and pleasing expertise.”

After her two reveals in Munich, Taylor Swift gave a serious shout-out to her further followers on social media, thanking the huge crowd who camped out and tailgated within the rolling hills behind the Olympiastadion.

“The crowds of 74,000 folks an evening within the stadium had been so passionate and so beneficiant to us,” she wrote. “And I had no thought earlier than I bought to Munich that there’s an enormous park behind the stadium, however round 50,000 folks got here out and listened to the present from the hillside each nights.”

She added, “I’ve been watching so many movies of the crowds on the market absolutely collaborating within the present from afar, all that pleasure… I’m feeling actually grateful for the sudden recollections this tour has created.”

Taylor Swift kicks off her five-show stint on Thursday, August 15.