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Taylor Swift performing at Wembley Stadium last Friday. Alamy Stock Photo

Are you ready for it? What to know about the Taylor Swift gigs at the Aviva

The pop star takes to the stage of the Aviva tonight for the first of her three-night stint in Dublin.

LAST UPDATE | 28 Jun 2024

AMERICAN POP STAR Taylor Swift is set to take to the stage of the Aviva Stadium from tonight, 28 June, for the Dublin edition of her acclaimed Eras tour which she has been touring around the world. 

It’s set to be a busy weekend for the capital city. Swift is commanding a lot of the attention with her three-day stint the stadium, second in capacity only to Croke Park, which sold out as soon as it went on sale last summer.

It’s not the only event on over the weekend in Dublin, however: Dublin’s Pride Festival is beginning today and is to continue until Saturday; Longitude is on in Marlay Park; Shania Twain, the Patti Smith Quartet, Saw Doctors, Villagers and Loyle Carner are all also playing gigs; two GAA quarter-finals are taking place in Croke Park; and Flavours of Fingal is happening in north county Dublin. 

Despite the busyness of the city over the coming days, it is Taylor Swift’s visit that is attracting the largest amount of international visitors. On Tuesday, The Journal reported that a number of fans have been forced to change their concert plans as a result of the Aer Lingus industrial action.

If you’re one of the many attending the shows – or if you’re just interested – here’s everything you need to know.

Taylor Swift – The Eras Tour

Attendees of Swift’s previous concerts on the tour have reported a set of up to three and a half hours as the singer makes her way through the various ‘eras’ of her career. 

Doors for the show open at 5pm, with the show starting at 6pm.

The support act, American rock band Paramore, are due to begin at 6pm, and are estimated to perform for roughly 45 minutes. Swift should take to the stage not long after, around 7.30pm. Swift should be wrapped up by shortly before 11pm.

Organisers for the show have warned that strictly no early queuing or camping is permitted. Patrons with early entry VIP tickets will be granted access shortly before general doors. 

Customers are advised to arrive at the venue 45 minutes before the start of the show. Gardaí and security will be on patrol and will turn away anyone arriving early who does not have an early entry ticket.

In the light of the extreme numbers gathering for the tour over the weekend, it was announced last week that leave for gardaí had been cancelled for the final days of June as the three days have been declared by garda management as an “extraordinary event”

What to wear

a-group-of-fans-pose-for-a-photo-outside-wembley-stadium-in-london-ahead-of-taylor-swifts-first-london-concert-during-her-eras-tour-picture-date-friday-june-21-2024 Fans outside Wembley Stadium in London before Swift's first gig there on Friday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

Weather in Dublin is forecast to be mostly cloudy this evening, with a high of 18 degrees in the early evening. Organisers have warned attendees to dress for the weather and bear any forecast in mind. 

What does that look like in practice? Swift fans have been going above and beyond in organising their outfits to attend shows across Europe, with many dressing up as their favourite ‘era’. Some went to painstaking lengths to bedazzle bodysuits, boots, and accessories with rhinestones to mimic Swift’s tour outfits.

The majority of fans, while not going to such levels of effort, are still choosing to dress for the occasion, with cowboy boots, mini-dresses, fringed skirts and the like all being showcased on TikTok as their chosen outfit to attend one of the gigs. 

An easier way of meeting the ‘dress code’ so to speak, is acquiring a friendship bracelet. Friendship bracelets have become a symbol of Swifties, apparently due to Swift’s lyric “so, make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it” in her song You’re On Your Own, Kid.

taylor-swift-fans-pose-with-their-friendship-bracelets-in-front-of-the-swiftie-steps-commissioned-by-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-before-the-first-london-concert-of-the-eras-tour-on-friday-june-21-2024 Taylor Swift fans pose with their friendship bracelets in London before the Taylor Swift concert last Friday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

Taylor Swift-related friendship bracelets are usually comprised of beads with letters, spelling something Swiftian, such as album names or song titles. 

General things to know

If you have booked a ticket for the show, you should have received a PDF with information relating to the event. 

The main points to make note of are: queue at the gate indicated on your ticket, dress for the weather, and be prepared to be searched by security prior to entering the venue.

Reusable bottles are not permitted. Clear, soft plastic water bottles, not bigger than 500ml, are allowed. There are no storage facilities at the venue. A list of prohibited items can be viewed here

There are no re-admissions to the concert. If you leave at any point, there will be no re-entry.

The Aviva Stadium is a cashless venue. 

Transport

Organisers are strongly urging concert-goers to use public transport to reach the venue. There is no parking at the venue. If you are travelling by car, car parks in the city centre must be used. If you are getting a taxi to the venue, suggested locations are the junction of Pembroke Road/Northumberland Road, or the junction of Tritonville Road and Herbert Road, depending on which colour road your ticket is for.

Screenshot 2024-06-26 at 12.30.29 The Aviva Stadium map. Ticketmaster Ticketmaster

Screenshot 2024-06-26 at 12.31.22 Approach routes. Ticketmaster Ticketmaster

MCD, the organisers of the event, have stated that the Aviva Stadium is a residential area, and are appealing to all attendees to respect the local community by not littering, not engaging in anti-social behaviour, and not parking illegally. 

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 11:31 AM

    Rockin up to the Oscars in an RUC landrover, gwan the lads!

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 11:37 AM

    @Anthony Curran: Anything to take away from the actual content.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 3:06 PM

    @Ollie McGlinchey: Ok boomer.

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    Aug 3rd 2024, 1:24 AM

    @John P Doe: Ye ragin’? Lol

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    Aug 3rd 2024, 3:05 PM

    @John P Doe: dick

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 12:12 PM

    They’re a bit backwards focused for my taste, but nice to see the Irish language. All the best.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 12:59 PM

    @Jimmy The Mink: are we backward for wanting the Brits to go home???

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 2:08 PM

    @sean weir:
    I think that you in particular are backwards, yes.

    These people you refer to as “the Brits” have lived there for hundreds of years and love it and consider it to be home as much as you do.

    And your want to “get them out” is backwards as there will never be a United Ireland if it is not inclusive and for all. Even Sinn Fein came to understand this (eventually) and it is chamiponed in the green and orange stripes of the Irish flag, if only those who wave it so frantically would take a moment to look at it.

    So yes, you a backward. A (dim) dinosaur.

    When there is a United Ireland it will be because of people like me, not you.

    You’re just a remnant, an obstacle.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 4:13 PM

    @Pad: you could use that logic to justify Israel kicking out the Palestinians Pad.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 4:25 PM

    @Pad: Ah Pad, it’s not if you go back far enough which is what you’re doing in N Ireland.

    Anyway, have a nice long weekend.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:08 PM

    @sean weir: yes. Backwards as backwards can be.

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    Aug 3rd 2024, 3:10 PM

    @Jimmy The Mink: are you retarted?
    The 6 countries have been policed by the British army since 1968.
    Pray tell me who are these soldiers that have lived there for 100,s of years.
    If you are talking about unionists and you think that they are the Brits in”brits out” it shows you don’t have a clue about what is happening in you own country

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    Aug 3rd 2024, 3:18 PM

    @John P Doe: Brits out is not about unionists,it’s about the British government and army ,the fact that You don’t know that is astonishing to me.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 12:17 PM

    Another embarrassment for Ireland. Its like sending a rapping Bin Laden group

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 12:58 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: it’s amazing with you southern lads ,we are to Irish for the Brits but not Irish enough for the dubs,
    In only 100 years you have convinced yourselves that we don’t exist

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 2:00 PM

    @Pat Hazzard: Stephen you were such an embarrassment to FF they kicked you out.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 6:09 PM

    @Pat Hazzard:

    ‘Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011′

    Kneecap are a trio of p*ss taking rascals who have never harmed anyone. Who have friends in the PUL community who understand that there’s some humour to be found in all the tragedy and identity politics. They haven’t made a single threat made against any state. No holy wars declared either.

    I don’t think it’s like ‘sending a rapping Bin Laden group’ at all!

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    Aug 3rd 2024, 3:24 AM

    @Pat Hazzard: ah paddy lad take off your ffg blueshirt for a minute someone might give you a hug

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    Aug 3rd 2024, 3:20 PM

    @John P Doe: “you lot”
    You really are some west Brit P.O.S

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 11:36 AM

    Shame the music and rapping is awful.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 12:18 PM

    @Ollie McGlinchey: it’s not though. Get your brits out is a banger. The song with Grian Chatten is very good too.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 3:07 PM

    @Ollie McGlinchey: Vanilla Ice and Will Smith more your thing Ollie?

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:09 PM

    @Setanta O’Toole: more like a clanger

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 2:05 PM

    On vacation in New York. Seen a poster of them in Manhattan. Had to take a second look just to be sure. Put a smile on face.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 1:22 PM

    Pat Hazzard is a C L O W N

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 2:01 PM

    @Darragh Mcnamara: it’s one of Stephen Kearons multiple personalities

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:35 PM

    @Michale Kane: the same Stephen Kearon who is a great admirer of Thatcher..no surprise there.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:57 PM

    @anthonyjames. byrne.: and the black an tans. Imagine how bad you have to be to get kicked out of FF.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 1:38 PM

    Not everything is for everyone.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 2:01 PM

    @Jack Hayes: Like colonialism

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:38 PM

    One can imagine the hysterical condemnation if there was a punkish rapping band going around with union jack Balaclavas and purporting to represent the Shankill and the unionist community.

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:59 PM

    @tony mc g: They have their marching and burning Tony, even have a special month dedicated to it !

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 8:23 PM

    @Michale Kane: and what does the world think of that Michaela?

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:07 PM

    Oscars have gone downhill then

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 6:00 PM

    @Hector turtlehead: lol. …. that’s what done it for ya eh!

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    Aug 2nd 2024, 5:12 PM

    Ní ceapaim

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    Aug 4th 2024, 12:31 PM

    Why not just send the Wolfe Tones to sing Up The Ra and save us any futher embarrassment?

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