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Great shout. Quite surprised State of Grace didn't actually make it in to the main set, even as a shortened version to open the Red portion similar to Style.

I actually don't mind ME! but the way she's absolutely murdered it is pretty hilarious. Endgame can get in the bin, although I did wake up a cold sweat last night thinking Ed might make an unwelcome appearance at the UK shows 😰 Now we've seen the full gamut of surprise songs, my choice for next summer would be New Romantics and You're On Your Own Kid. Holy Ground and New Year's Day would be my #2.

Did last night win the battle of the surprise songs? New Romantics and New Year's Day is about as good as you're gonna get IMO. Absolute banger and one of her best ballads 😎 Pretty buzzing for this re-recording, mainly for the vault tracks. There's been some gems so far, but by and large it's been OK and what you'd expect. The 1989 vault tracks could be where it gets really interesting.

Aye, Mastermind is the second best on the record for me. I’m actually happy with Karma as a show closer. I think it’s a banger!

Can anyone explain why this isn’t a staple of every f**king show? This is the best track off Midnights by a mile and easily my favourite clip from the entire tour. Make it so for the second leg Taylor. Exile was pretty hilarious. If she does it again she needs to lean in to the crowd singing one of the parts. She started following Justin’s vocals then chopped and changed, she just needs to sing one line and let the audience do the other during the chorus and bridge.

I think I've just passed in to the realm of peak Swifty. I'm starting to think LWYMMD is a belter 🥶

Is it working now? Sometimes it takes a few minutes for it to fire up. As long as you’re in 5 minutes or so before it’ll be fine

The vip packages stink. I don’t have an issue with them in principle, if people want to spend that money then they’re free to do so, the issue here is they’ve released way too many of them at the expense of normal tickets and it’s making fans feel forced to buy them as a last resort. If you reduced the number of packages to just a smaller fraction and bumped up the number of standard tickets, this on sale would get a lot more praise from me for being fair and reasonable. The stupidly large amount of vip tickets sours it all.

Definitely feels like they flogged more tickets last week than this. 5,000 would have you got you non-VIP tickets last week I think?

Yeah that code was a god send. Certainly feels like the majority of tickets were shifted last week, which while that would be frustrating if you were in the general sale it has seemed to benefit the “true” fans.

Are you still clinging on to your VIPs or have you sorted some other tickets?

Yep no golden circle there. Perhaps the size of the stadium makes it a bit more fiddly? Not sure.

Ah yes, sorry! Didn't see they were asking for Liverpool.

The email should say which ticket provider you've been allocated. If you have an AXS code, you'll have to use them.

Courtesy of @WestCountryGirl I believe!

New Romantics and Clean would be my choice, but I wouldn’t really want to cut anything else!

Man I really hope so. I’m trying not to get carried away on the set lists though in case there are some tweaks for the next leg of the tour. There’s a chance she drops 1989 before the U.K. shows and that could really throw things up in the air.

Colleague at work has been selected for Wembley and waist listed for the others. She didn't have a pre sale code. I imagine it's a combo of both..? Not seen anyone yet who got tickets during the sale and has also been selected again.

Yeah I think that’s right. They’re saying the pre sale is nothing to do with them basically.

I didn’t actually register for the general sale for the U.K., I had my chips on Europe. But it’ll be interesting to see who here gets a general sale code after buying pre sale tickets.

I think for future tours with this demand, there’s a lot to be learned from how this was handled in the UK. The unique pre sale codes, staggered on sales, allocation of ticket sites, account linked tickets and limits per customer helped enormously. It’s rewarded the fans dedicated enough to be aware of the pre sale offer last year and it’s all been fairly civilised. No server overloads, no surge pricing and reasonable prices in the context of the market have all been pleasant surprises. The main issues seemed to be on the tech side with the anti-bot stuff, but the demand being managed so carefully worked really well. Next week may well be a sh*t show, it depends how many codes they send out vs tickets left, but after Paris you’d hope they’ve learned that lesson. Curious why they seemingly went the extra mile in the UK though? Expecting the demand to be particularly high vs the number of tickets?

That piece is a load of nonsense right out the gate. I don’t think the queue was ever “hundred-thousand-deep”, tickets went as cheap as £60 and the VIP options weren’t compulsory. The queue for the final Wembley show yesterday was almost non-existent - I logged in 10 minutes after the sale started and could have bought any category ticket (and did grab a £60 one for a great seat). They’ve had that piece in mind and just written it despite the reality of this week’s ticket sale. I’m all for holding acts/ticket sites/the industry to account on this stuff and the VIP packages are worth criticising, but writing a piece that’s immediately full of nonsense isn’t going to get your point across. Just the same as the Guardian piece earlier in the week. There’s a story to write about this and the wider industry, but that ain’t it.

It looks like tickets will have the lead booker named on them and they are saying (which might not be the reality) that they’ll check ID, so you’ll have to go through official resale process. Not sure anything has been announced yet though, so you might have to wait until the main sale is finished next week unfortunately.

I’m not sure on that. I dunno if we have clarity over whether the 4 per household carries over. Might have to wait and see there. If it does refresh then yeah I think you’d be able to crack on and buy more tickets.

Hmm that’s a tricky one. I’d be inclined to think since you’ve got the tickets in your account, it might not matter now? I think the point about accounts and emails was to actually access the sale. Now you’ve got the tickets, they’ll be linked to your new account and you shouldn’t need to provide an email again, it’ll just be a mobile ticket.