What to wear to get into the spirit of a Taylor Swift concert when you’re still in the first flush of youth and what to wear when you’re staring down the throat of a bus pass and can remember a Time Before Tay Tay are two very different questions. I’m in the second camp, in case you’re wondering. I try to answer both questions by opting for my much-loved Grateful Dead t-shirt and adding a pink scrunchy for my hair.
Not sure what the scrunchy says but the t-shirt reflects my vintage. And the Grateful Dead are also much loved by Aaron Dessner who, as any paid-up Swiftie should know, collaborated on her 2020 albums Folklore and Evermore and has appeared with her on the selfsame Eras tour which has now settled down in Edinburgh to thrill the lucky 200,000 who managed to get tickets. Oh, and Dessner’s own group, The National, once made a sprawling Grateful Dead tribute album, and the cult stoner jam band’s most famous line of lyrics – “What a long, strange trip it’s been” – seems oddly appropriate to the career of Taylor Alison Swift of West Reading, Pennsylvania.
So there you go. Taylor Swift at Murrayfield review: Scotland really has never seen anything like it For Swifties, the concert day costume matters, of course. A lot.
Those whose adolescence and teenage years have been sound-tracked by the singer’s hook-laden, confessional pop take it all very seriously. A pink scrunchy alone won’t cut it. To look across the boiling sea of fans assembled in the s.
