Go into any Facebook event for a band or artist’s tour, and two absolutes are certain: 1) Someone on the day of the show will post asking “set times?” and 2) Literal micro-seconds after the shows are announced, someone will chuck an almighty tantrum about the tour not coming to Adelaide. And if you think that doesn’t apply to a large-scale national stadium tour by Taylor Swift, you’re absolutely kidding yourself.
Swifty Cent’s Reputation world tour is officially headed Australia’s way in October next year, bringing with her a stage show of the incredibly ho hum tracks contained on her most recent album (fight me).
And while those among you lucky enough to live in one of the cities being graced by Her Royal Swiftness, folks in the South Australian capital are absolutely fucking ropable.
Adelaidians are shitty beyond belief that their fine city of churches and West End tinnies has been mystifyingly left off the tour schedule, which includes stops in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.
Despite the fact that the Swiftsonian exhibit toured Adelaide in late 2015 for a pair of shows at the tail end of The 1989 World Tour, this time around it gets sweet stuff all. The punters. They are foaming at the mouth.
https://twitter.com/sarahdaunt11/status/937475405748977665
When you realise Taylor Swift isn’t coming to Adelaide pic.twitter.com/TKd0HnS6vh
— Steph (@stepho_panda) December 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/C0NN0RJAMES17/status/937419628376080384
I have to say I have 3 very disappointed girls here in Adelaide , it was going to be my then 8 yr olds 1st concert. Also timing of ticket sales is harsh on struggling families , just before Xmas . I’m sure it would have been easy enough to go on sale in feb / March. #adelaide
— Dimi (@DimitraMano) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/_MrWeFlyAsOne_/status/937662057880608770
I’m beyond pissed that Taylor Swift isn’t coming to Adelaide.. again! ffs!!!!
— mel (@mel_parker_) December 3, 2017
. @taylorswift13 sold out 2 shows in Adelaide on her 1989 tour but she doesn’t come back here for the Reputation tour #makessense 🙄🙄🙄
— Jess💖 (@_jessmg) December 3, 2017
Dear @taylorswift13 the old Adelaide can’t come to the phone right now because we’re dying… for you to play here. Chuck us a lifeline?
— Tammy Franks MLC (@TammyMLC) December 3, 2017
A few of those gripes are rooted in the ye olde “conform to my requirements specifically” basket, but that’s neither here nor there.
It’s worth pointing out that this isn’t the time Adelaide Swift Swiftofferson fans have been left in the lurch.
While her first two world tours – the Fearless tour in 2010, and the Speak Now tour in 2012 – both featured visits to Adelaide, her third jaunt in the Antipodes – the Red world tour in 2013 – skipped it over.
Also interesting to note that the Adelaide stops on the 1989 tour were the only ones not to take place in a big stadium, being held in the much smaller Adelaide Entertainment Centre instead. Combined, the two shows drew less than half the attendance of the one Brisbane show on the tour. But that’s neither here nor there.
The good thing? There are huge gaps in the Reputation tour schedule once it hits Australia. We’re talking a full week between the Perth date on October 19th, 2018 and the Melbourne show on the 26th.
So, y’know. Fingers crossed, Croweaters. There’s hope for you yet.
