As the day starts I’m pretty sure I’ve never been as prepared for anything as I am for these sick beats. Between the Eras Tour movie (twice), the concert-themed Spotify playlists, the steady stream of Instagram stories, the books bought as Christmas presents and the excited in-car and in-kitchen conversations and singalongs, I reckon I could handily win Mastermind with Taylor Swift as my chosen specialist topic. The Pope house, where I’m blessed amongst women, has been all in on the Eras tour for over a year and it has been impossible not to get caught up in the gloriously mental hope of it all.
That stress-filled day on a sun-kissed campsite when two Macs and an iPad overheated in their furious efforts to source tickets for one of her three Dublin dates has faded to distant memory. READ MORE Taylor Swift in the Aviva review: ‘You know this but nobody does it like you Dublin’ In pictures: Taylor Swift’s exhilarating Eras tour concert in Dublin ‘The experience is almost otherworldly’: at Taylor Swift with the Tortured Dads Department I overheated too that day, truth be told but I’ve almost forgotten how financially ruinous the experience ended up being. Almost.
The tickets for five people were eye-wateringly expensive but while some people might – and indeed already have – questioned the wisdom of the penny-pinching Pricewatch dude being so careless with his cash, by my reckoning, we didn’t just buy tickets or shimmering outfits or bracelet making kits .
