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MUSIC GREAT STEVIE Nicks and Oscar winning actress Julia Roberts were amongst those in the crowd for the final night of Taylor Swift’s three-night run in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin
Fleetwood Mac star Nicks, who is in town for her own show in the 3Arena, was given a shoutout by Swift during the latest leg of her record-breaking Eras tour.
Swift paid tribute to Nicks at the start of her acoustic set close to the end of her performance. She described a friend of hers watching the show, going on to say mentors are the reasons why many can do what they do, but added they can be rare.
She said one “helped me through so much over the years”, adding: “I’m talking about Stevie Nicks” before playing her song Clara Bow in which Nicks is mentioned.
Swift told fans it was a thrill and an honour to inform them that they made Eras the first tour to ever sell out the Aviva Stadium three nights in a row.
The 34-year-old went on to say that far from being tired on the third night, nights one and two were “just warm-up shows for you”.
🚨| STEVIE NICKS ATTENDS NIGHT 3 OF TAYLOR SWIFT'S 'THE ERAS TOUR' IN DUBLIN, IRELAND! #DublinTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/aa15IABGBm
— The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) June 30, 2024
The weekend has seen Swiftmania well-and-truly take over the capital, but the hype seems to be justified as attendees spoke about the three-hour performance Swift puts on and the camaraderie amongst fans.
On Friday, Taoiseach Simon Harris referenced his home county of Wicklow being mentioned by Swift in her song Sweet Nothings hit and that night Swift told the audience that Irish people are “unmatched storytellers”.
Last night, there was also a nod to Ireland during a rendition of her chart-topper We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, when her dancer Kameron N Saunders jumped in to quip “bleedin’ eejit”.
The dancer usually says something in the vernacular during the line where Swift would usually say “Like Ever” in the recorded edition of the hit.
On Friday, he jumped in with “póg mo thóin” and on Saturday he went with “the neck of ye”.
Swift later in the concert pondered which of her Eras was the “most Irish”, continuing saying she believes it is her album Folklore.
She recalled starting to write the song “two days into the pandemic”; when she created an imaginary world “living in a cabin in a really green and mossy landscape, very Irish”, adding the album is “all about story telling and you guys are gifted story tellers”.
She is next heading to Amsterdam’s Johan Cruyff Arena for her next three shows, running from Thursday to Saturday.
Swift will then plays dates in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland and Austria before returning to the UK in August for five nights at Wembley Stadium in London.
- With reporting by Press Association
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everyone approaches the comments section with apprehension waiting for that nob who can’t help themselves!
They are patrolling for spoilers.
Was just sitting down to watch the finale and decided I’d troll – posted on FB “Khalesi DIEDED?!”
Almost instant reaction. Now I’m not going to say what did happen – but it was entertaining. I think I’m going to start every episode of next season by making a wild statement; hours of fun.
Low tech solution. Just don’t look at Twitter for 24 hours.
The dragon eats the blond one .
I don’t think I’ve one friend stupid enough to post spoilers online, best filter ever.
Its not your friends you should be worried about its some randomer in a comments sections telling you **** **** dies that’s the prob!
Ah the journal has blocked **** **** name and foiled my evil plan.
It’s also American websites because it aired last night. I opened my Facebook this morning and the first thing on my screen was an article about the finale!
R+L=J
I think the article would have come in handy at the start of the season since the massacre of characters started well before episode 9 this time.
I like how the journal considers this a ‘business’ article as opposed to entertainment.
feck ye all. been on holidays for 3 weeks so have 3 episodes to watch. im drumk and spoiler free by not logging on to facebook. tomorrow will be the sweetest tv binge day ever.
The dwarf eats a mushroom – bashes head on many gravity defying walls – profit.
BBC News you shower of muppets!!!!
hardly spoilers considering the show is based on books.
Programme has passed the books. There’s stuff happening in the show that has yet to be put into a book. Got rid of my copies pointless having them now.
Not everyone has read the books. Besides, it’s not a 100% faithful adaptation.
Season 5 officially passed the books at this stage, when it comes to the main POV at least.
@Anyway, they haven’t, but they are really close. The only part that is actually past the end of the books is Tyrion’s story.
They’re not the same story anymore. Where’s Aegon Targaryan, the Iron Islands, Aerys Oakheart?
They’ve taken the TV show down a different route and it’s a pretty safe bet that the TV and books will have different endings.
I dont think so Antony. Benioff & Weiss know how A Song of Ice and Fire is supposed to end so that they can finish it should GRRM be unable to finish his books. They also only got the go ahead from GRRM to adapt the story because they proved to him to be hardcore fans and were correct on who Jon’s mother is.
No mattee how far they stray from the actual arcs, they always arrive back at the original plot points, usually to save time and intriducing new unnecessary characters.
Speaking of unnecessary characters, Aegon could be one of them. The jury’s out on wether he’s a legit Targaryen. Think Mya Stone, Edric Storm… written as illegitimate Baratheons. GRRM has a habit of throwing diversionary characters into the books. No one’s sure Aegon’s arc was actually going to go anywhere – but he may yet show up in Season 6, his arrival obviously will be different as Jorah took that!!!
My wish for characters to see more of/return in Season 6 would be Greatjon and the Blackfish.
And the woman with a “heart of stone”!!
Valar Morghulis!
Overall it’s been a very disappointing season… Last nights episode included
Last year was much better, this was the worst season by a long way
Turn off interweb. Unplug fax. Disassemble telegraph. Shoot messenger ravens.
Cersei commits suicide by jumping off the bridge during her naked walk of shame
They killed them all the good ones. Got to be kidding me. I’ll bet the witch brings him back.otherwise I am done with the show. Killing all good characters bad for ratings.
Here’s how to avoid “spoilers”. Don’t bother watching that crap!
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