Taylor Swift fan starts queuing 48 hours before star arrives in Edinburgh to start sell-out UK leg of her record-breaking Eras tour as tickets change hands for nearly £5,000 a time

A Taylor Swift fan started queuing for the star 48 hours before she arrived in Edinburgh to start her sell-out UK leg of her record-breaking Eras tour. Ellie Poulter, 19, is among the 220,000 fans excitedly awaiting the megastar’s sold-out performance to play at Murrayfield Stadium this weekend.

Tickets are still available on resale websites, but they have been spotted going for the eye-watering sum of nearly £5,000 as fans desperately try to go last minute. Drone photos taken on Thursday showed workers setting up for the three-hour concert – where the American superstar, 34, will perform over 40 songs. To make sure she gets the best spot for the concert, Ms Poulter was the first person to start queuing for the gig.
She said: ‘I think I’m the first person to start camping – there’s just nobody here.

‘I thought people were going to camp because people were queuing for the Paris shows for two nights. ‘So I thought I was going to be camping for like a week before, but nobody else has ended up doing that so I thought two days would be fine to camp for that long. ‘I’ve got a tent and I’ve took a duvet and that’s it apart from my clothes – I have nothing and I didn’t come prepared at all.

‘I’ve got a hotel for the night of the show, so I’ll basically chuck everything in there and get ready, so I’ve got nothing on me.’ Ms Poulter is one of almost 73,000 fans who will fill the Scottish Rugby home ground each night. She has only ever seen Taylor perform when she came out as a special guest at The 1975’s gig last year. She says she thinks she will be ‘a mess’ when the singer starts performing on stage on Saturday and that she can’t wait to hear the singer’s 2017 Reputation album live.

Ellie, of Oxford, said: ‘I’m so excited – I’ve been waiting a year for this I’m excited for the surprise songs but I’m more excited for reputation because that’s my favourite album. ‘I saw her when she came out with The 1975 and we got to hear Anti Hero for the first time ever. ‘I had a panic attack when she came out, I fell to the floor and was hyperventilating – I couldn’t breathe and I was very excited and I was crying a lot. ‘I’ll be a mess – I was crying when I watched the movie at the cinema so I’ll probably have a panic attack when she comes out.’