Taylor Swift has announced five concerts in Australia as part of her ‘Eras’ world tour, set to take place in February 2024. The shows will include two performances at Melbourne’s Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and three shows at Sydney’s Accor Stadium. Swift’s tour will be supported by Sabrina Carpenter.
Harvey Lister, the chair of ASM Global Asia Pacific, spoke to ABC Radio Brisbane about the tour’s Australian leg, saying that Taylor Swift had planned to hold dates at Lang Park in Brisbane, but that the plans were dropped due to time constraints. “She comes through Japan, plays Australia, goes out through Singapore and then straight back to Europe,” said Lister. “There just wasn’t time to keep leapfrogging from city to city.”
Despite the size of Lang Park, which can hold up to 60,000 attendees, being able to accommodate a concert, Lister ruled out the possibility of building a larger temporary arena to make room for more fans. “The MCG (in Melbourne) did 107,000… they are huge numbers and you wouldn’t fill those stadiums for their day-to-day use, and you certainly wouldn’t build one just to try and get an occasional concert.”
This marks the first time Taylor Swift has excluded Brisbane from her Australian tour dates, despite having previously included it in all five of her past Australia tours. Swift also made her debut in Australia in Brisbane at The Tivoli Theatre in Fortitude Valley in 2009, as reported by Brisbane Times.
American Express VIP packages for the Australia leg of the ‘Eras’ tour go on sale on Monday, June 26, with Frontier Member Pre-sale tickets and VIP packages available from Wednesday, June 28. General tickets will be available for purchase on Friday, June 30. However, as “an anti-scalping measure”, concertgoers should only expect to receive their tickets on Monday, February 12, 2024.
It is sure to be an unforgettable experience for Taylor Swift fans, as they are offered the chance to watch the iconic singer perform her biggest hits in two of Australia’s biggest cities.
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