Aibu to be gutted that I couldn't get any eras tour tickets. Superfan daughters with

It really is. I asked for a pony for Chris every year. Never got one. Somehow managed to survive.

Heartbreaking is OTT. Please get some context.

@Sankhomumof3

If you pre ordered the album through the TS store you should have had a code sent to you. - I ordered before the code thing was announced and still got the email.

Unless you preordered elsewhere.

There’s tickets available for todays London show, right now on twickets

That ships long since sailed. You had to register the code on the album about a year ago. After the closing date you then got a code or were put on the waiting list. Even with a code it didn't guarantee tickets

That sounds like it could be the dark origin story of some of the naysayers on this thread saying concerts are a waste of time and money, tbh.

😅😅😅

I have something that will make a better 'core memory'. You dressed in a leotard, wig, guitar, meeting her at the school gates belting out "I knew you were trouble". She will never forget that.

Or forgive it.

It’s a gig. Likely there’ll be more (TS is young so..). There are many ways to make ‘core’ memories

I wish people would stop making out that entering what was basically a ballot for access to tickets was invented by mean old Taylor Swift. In football, Liverpool and Arsenal do this every season, among others. You have to buy a membership to even enter which is more expensive than an album.

I dunno. I know a child who has tickets (which cost loads) who is cross that another child also has (very expensive) tickets because she doesn’t think the other child is a big enough fan to deserve to go. Who are any of us to decide who really wants the tickets?

I am firmly middle aged and remember getting concert tickets for my birthday. There’s no way I’d have had Taylor Swift tickets - no matter how much of a fan I was, they would have just been too expensive.

You'd better believe it

Whats a core memory?

I don't understand it at all as I'm not a fan and I'm fed up test even radio 4 is giving this a lot of airtime but I do see its disappointing if it does mean a lot to you. Keep trying for tickets, if not use it as a learning experience that things don't always happen.

Pethaps YANBU feeling sad, as you do really want to go, but equally you need to put some perspective on this. There are loads of ways to make cool and lasting memories, don't buy into the hype of this whole thing. There's also loads of folk going and then posting about mega come downs as well, far too much emphasis on one event. Nothing wrong with enjoying music but some folk are definitely going OTT.

God you don't have a clue!!!

My daughters are diehard fans, and have been for about 13 years. I can take or leave her but they follow her every move - they're both graduates in their mid/late 20s so not stupid or gullible!! They first saw TS live in 2011 at her only concert in Belfast. There were 5 rows in front of us, then a gap, then row 6. During the concert I noticed a security guard start to put up a thick rope between the two rows, and I shoved my girls forward to the rope. TS came down into the crowd, touched one DD's hand and briefly held the other. They thought they had died and gone to heaven!!

Well one DD was in Spain and the other at home when the tickets went on sale for Eras. It was a dedicated exercise. Not sure about DD1 but DD2 had 2 laptops and a phone going, TS CDs and positive crystals at hand - I was pissing myself laughing!! But she got tickets for all three nights in Dublin, only they sold the Friday night ones to a friend of a friend for face value. Now that's dedication!!

DD went to the Liverpool concert. Her ticket was about £120 seated.
The people charging £800 are the resellers 😠

My estimations of her have seriously went down because of the way this whole ticket fiasco has been handled, both the cost of tickets and the access to them or lack of access

And you can’t say she didn’t have final say on this. She is very shrewd and I am sure is involved in all aspects of this tour

Even her bestie Ed Sheeran campaigns against ticket touts reselling for hundreds over face value and also against dynamic pricing. There are easy ways to stop both but why would she when she is taking in over £200million in ticket sales alone for just the London dates

Plus the whole anyone from any country can buy them if they have a code and having to have a code at all has been very eye opening for the whole industry. My BIL works in the music entertainment industry in a legal capacity and says there will be case studies about this tour, good and bad, for decades to come

shes 30is? of ourse she'll do big tours again shes got anoter 40 years left in her

i love a gig but this ts nonsense has gone too far

someone put on fb their life wont be the same after seeing her -a 35 year ol mother ffs

We have taken our children to so many concerts over the years. Springsteen, Take That, Robbie Williams, Foo Fighters to name a few and we’re going to see Pink for the 8th time next week. We’re massive Springsteen fans and we have travelled world wide to see him.

Our children have basically grown up with Taylor Swift just like we did with Springsteen. What I don’t understand is true Swift fans pre order anything artists like her release so why didn’t you pre order her Midnight album? You’d have got codes if you’d pre ordered and got the pre ticket sales. We follow so many bands we love we always know about pre orders and pre ticket sales. The amount of moaning and bitching about not getting tickets is mind boggling. If you truly love an artist you’d know about the pre ticket sales.

Theres been a lot of hype about Taylor Swift and I do think it a case of “oh Jemima is going so my child needs to go” It’s a bit like keeping up with the Joneses in some cases.