The Eras Tour

Taylor Swift is adding extra support acts for her upcoming Eras Tour dates in London.

The pop superstar will be performing a total of eight shows at Wembley Stadium this summer as part of her blockbuster world tour. The first three concerts take place from June 21-23 and the remaining five are scheduled for Aug. 15-17 and Aug. 19-20.

On Sunday (May 27), Swift announced that three additional artists will be opening for her alongside Paramore on the June dates. Joining the lineup are Mette (June 21), Griff (June 22) and Benson Boone (June 23).

“I just found out Fortnight is #1 on the UK airplay chart!!!! You guys are amazing and I can’t wait to see you so soon! Thought this might be a fun time to announce the first group of opening acts I’ll be adding to the London shows, going on before Paramore,” Swift wrote in her Instagram Story. “I chose artists whose music I love listening to, and I can’t wait for them to add an extra jolt of excitement to our shows at Wembley Stadium in June.”

The “Cruel Summer” singer added, “Mette, Griff, and Benson Boone, welcome to The Eras Tour!!”

The three artists excitedly responded to the news on their respective social media accounts.

“TAYLOR SWIFT HAS INVITED ME ON THE ERAS TOUR!!!!!! 8 yr old me who had fearless on repeat wouldn’t believe this,” Griff wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “So unbelievably grateful to Taylor for all the love she’s shown me and my music. See you at Wembley on June 22nd”.

Mette added on X, “It’s a new ERA for ya girl… Opening the ‘Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour’ on June 21st at Wembley Stadium in London. Thank you @taylorswift13 – Never been so excited in my entire life!!! #TSTheErasTour.”

Boone reposted Swift’s announcement on his Instagram Story, writing, “@taylorswift so excited to be a part of the show thank you for having me,” alongside a face with tears and red heart emojis.

Swift is currently in the middle of the European leg of her global Eras Tour, on which she recently premiered the brand-new Tortured Poets miniset at her Paris shows. In addition to “Fortnight,” the updated setlist features “Down Bad,” “So High School,” “But Daddy I Love Him,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”  

The 14-time Grammy winner wrapped shows in Lisbon over the weekend and will spend the rest of the summer traveling through Europe before returning to the U.S. and Canada for a second North American leg this fall. 

So long, Liverpool. Ahead of Taylor Swift‘s upcoming Eras Tour shows, the English city is now known as “Taylor Town.”

The city is currently in the process of unveiling a temporary makeover to prepare for the pop star’s three performances slated for June 13-15 at Anfield Stadium, starting with the tailored — or should we say, Tay-lored — name change. Plus, local creatives are designing 11 individual art installations inspired by each of Swift’s studio albums to form a “Taylor Town Trail,” including a playable moss-covered grand piano representing Evermore, a “red room” encapsulating Red and a Fearless mural based on the singer’s lucky number, 13.

Banners spelling out “Taylor” have also already gone up across the front of St. George’s Hall in the center of town, as captured in photos from local Swifties.

“One of the biggest stars on the planet is coming to the birthplace of pop,” reads a notice on the Liverpool City Council website. “And to mark this musical moment for the ages, there are plans in place to give Swifties a proper scouse welcome.”

The city is also planning a series of ticketed craft workshops — aka Liverpool Loves Taylor (Craft Version) — where fans can make origami pieces that will be added to one of the 11 main art installations. Participants will also be able to work on homemade Swif-tee shirts, collages and cupcakes inspired by the “Anti-Hero” singer.

The University of Liverpool is getting involved, too, by hosting a free “Tay Day” symposium for academics, students and fans to “unpack the cultural phenomenon that is Taylor Swift,” according to the city council’s notice. “The event will include critical karaoke sessions, where researchers perform their findings to some of Taylor’s biggest hits and a series of interactive talks on subjects including her song lyrics, her award-winning albums and her place in feminism and the LGBTQ+ community.”

Liverpool is just the latest Eras Tour locale to go all out ahead of Swift’s arrival. For instance, Glendale, Ariz., temporarily changed its name to “Swift City” in lieu of the 14-time Grammy winner’s kickoff show there in spring 2023, while Rio de Janeiro projected the image of a Taylor-themed T-shirt onto its iconic Christ the Redeemer statue in November.

Take a peek at Liverpool’s Swiftie celebrations below.

Only bought this dress so she could take it off … on stage in front of tens of thousands of fans, in order to address a technical difficulty. At Taylor Swift‘s final show in Stockholm Sunday (May 19), the pop star expertly handled a wardrobe malfunction in between surprise songs, as captured in a recently posted fan video.

In the TikTok clip, a smiling Swift tells the crowd in Friends Arena stadium, “Just talk amongst yourselves,” before darting over to her piano, setting down her guitar and unwrapping her ruffly blue gown to seemingly adjust her microphone pack, revealing the sparkly gold bra she sported for the Tortured Poets Department set minutes prior. After a moment, a crew member joins her onstage to help, after which the singer flashes a big smile and does a little dance before sitting down once and for all at her piano.

All the while, fans in the audience cheered on Swift as she expertly and efficiently handled the blip.

The “Fortnight” singer went on to sing “How Did it End?,” which appears on the extended anthology version of her Billboard 200-topping Tortured Poets, on piano. Just before the wardrobe fix, she’d performed what she dubbed a “Max Martin medley” of “Message in a Bottle,” “How You Get the Girl” and “New Romantics” on guitar.

The 14-time Grammy winner is currently closing in on 100 Eras Tour shows following her trio of performances in Sweden, meaning she has had some experience handling performance hiccups. During a November concert in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, her high heel snapped off, after which Swift simply continued with the rest of her Lover set on tip-toe.

The musician has also handled rain-related piano malfunctions and stage equipment errors, which at one point forced her to sprint offstage instead of being lowered beneath the stage on her usual lift following the Reputation set. “Still swift af boi,” she hilariously commented on a TikTok video of the latter incident in July.

The “Anti-Hero” singer will next bring her three-hour-plus Eras Tour show to Portugal for two shows May 24-25, after which she’ll spend the rest of the summer touring throughout Europe. In October, she’ll return to the U.S. and Canada for a second North American leg.

Swift recently took to Instagram to shower her Stockholm fans with gratitude for attending her first-ever performances in Sweden over the weekend. “Thank you for being the most generous, excitable, magical crowds, and for breaking the all time attendance record for the stadium all 3 nights,” she wrote on Instagram, sharing photos from the shows.

“Can’t believe this was our first time playing in Sweden,” she added. “But it won’t be our last… ?? ?”

Watch Swift expertly handle a wardrobe malfunction in Stockholm below.

Travis Kelce is one of few lucky Swifties who got to see Taylor Swift premiere her brand new Eras Tour set — which is now complete with select numbers from her Billboard 200-topping new album, The Tortured Poets Department — across four shows in Paris over the weekend. And on the latest episode of his podcast New Heights Wednesday (May 15), the Kansas City Chiefs tight end couldn’t help but gush about the “absolutely unbelievable” experience.  

“I had a blast at Tay’s show,” the athlete told his brother and co-host, retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce. “Her new rendition of The Eras Tour, I suggest everybody go see it. It has her new Tortured Poets Department, a handful of those songs in the new show, which means there’s a new segment and new lights and new dancing. New everything to the f–king show.” 

“It is absolutely unbelievable,” he continued. “I enjoyed every bit of it … I don’t know if they’re just getting better or if I just keep forgetting how they are. It was electric in there. Paris was on a whole other level.” 

The episode comes about three days after Travis attended Swift’s final Paris concert at La Defense Arena Sunday (May 12), where fan cameras captured him dancing along to the show with suitemates Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper. The “Anti-Hero” singer’s tenure in the City of Love marked the first few times she’d ever performed tracks such as “Fortnight,” “Down Bad” and “So High School,” a love song thought by many fans to have been inspired by the athlete.  

“I got to see a few familiar faces,” Travis added on the show. “I got to see Gigi and Bradley. Bradley Cooper, man, BC, Big Coop. We were all in the suite having a blast.” 

At the show, Swift also debuted a new outfit made with Chiefs colors: red and gold. Later on, she performed “The Alchemy” — another TTPD track believed to be about Travis — as part of the surprise song section, during which the Ohio native held up a hand heart in the stands.  

The 14-time Grammy winner will next perform in Stockholm for three nights at Friends Arena starting Friday (May 17), after which she’ll spend the summer traveling through Spain, Scotland, Ireland and parts of Europe before returning to the U.S. in October. And if you’re wondering whether Travis will continue to tag along on the tour, it certainly sounds like he’s game. 

“I’m gonna be dancing around,” he hinted on New Heights. “I’m all over the world this offseason.” 

Watch Travis gush about Swift’s revamped Eras Tour below. 

Taylor Swift had the perfect outfit for her final Eras Tour show in Paris, considering who was in the audience. The pop star appeared in Kansas City Chiefs colors for the 1989 set of her performance Sunday (May 12), and tight end Travis Kelce adorably jammed out to his superstar girlfriend’s show from the crowd at La Defense Arena.  

The tribute to Chiefs Kingdom came midway through the Eras setlist, with Swift taking the stage in a sparkly gold crop top and red skirt to sing “Style,” “Blank Space” and more hits from her fifth studio album. On her left foot, she wore a yellow bootie, and on the right, an orange bootie. 

It’s not the first time the “Anti-Hero” singer has sported the team’s official colors, with Swift wearing a number of red and gold outfits to games at Arrowhead Stadium throughout the 2023-24 season, all the way up to the Super Bowl in February, which saw Kelce and the Chiefs take home their second Lombardi Trophy in a row. This time, it was the New Heights podcaster’s turn to support Swift from the stands at La Defense, where he enjoyed the show alongside Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper and Lenny Kravitz. 

Following the 1989 set, Swift performed a series of songs from The Tortured Poets Department for just the fourth time so far. Fan videos captured Kelce smiling and dancing along to “So High School,” which many think the singer wrote about the athlete. During the number, she and her dancers swag surf as part of the choreography, a sweet tribute to Chiefs Kingdom. 

Later, Swift sang another Tortured Poets track believed to be about Kelce as a surprise song — “The Alchemy” — which she mashed up with Red‘s “Treacherous.” While she strummed on the guitar, the Ohio native swayed and held up a cute hand heart at the 14-time Grammy winner. 

Swift will next perform in Stockholm for three nights at Friends Arena starting May 17, after which she’ll spend the summer traveling through Spain, Scotland, Ireland and more cities in Europe before returning to the U.S. in October. In an Instagram post Sunday (May 12), the musician confirmed that she’ll be including the Tortured Poets set in the show throughout the rest of the Eras trek, writing, “I’m SO fired up to play this for every crowd on the tour.” 

See a photo of Swift’s Chiefs-themed outfit, plus videos of Kelce enjoying the show, below. 

Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour has officially resumed, meaning Swifties are back to getting creative with their concert gear. And one fan in particular really understood the assignment at the pop star’s first show back in Paris on Thursday night (May 9), sporting a homemade cape showing off her recent Billboard Hot 100 record.

As captured in pictures by passerby fans at La Defense in Paris, the unknown Swiftie’s cape is so long, it touches the ground. The accessory boasts a screenshot of the Hot 100 chart as it was the week of May 4, 2024, when Swift became the first artist in history to occupy the top 14 spots of the chart.

All 14 of those songs were from the singer’s latest album The Tortured Poets Department, which dropped April 19 and has spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 so far. The LP’s lead single “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone began at the top of the Hot 100, followed by “Down Bad,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” “The Tortured Poets Department,” “So Long, London,” “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys,” “But Daddy I Love Him, “Florida!!!,” “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?,” “Guilty as Sin?,” “Fresh Out the Slammer,” “Loml,” “The Alchemy” and “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.”

In achieving the milestone, Swift broke her own record set with 2022’s Midnights, which made her the first artist to ever occupy all of the top 10 simultaneously. (And yes, someone also wore a cape reflecting that accolade to an earlier Eras show.)

The Paris show follows a two-month pause Swift took from touring to promote and release Tortured Poets. After three more performances at La Defense, she’ll travel through Spain, Sweden, Portugal, the U.K. and more.

See the Swiftie’s Taylor-themed Hot 100 cape below.