Crippling anxiety and tightness in the chest while watching the computer screen refresh a hundred times over has returned for many Swifties who missed out on Frontier Touring's pre-sale tickets on Wednesday.
As the clock strikes 10am on Friday, June 30 thousands are expected to queue on the Ticketek Australia website, vying for a swift grab at tickets to Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour.
More than 800,000 fans joined the online queue in Wednesday's pre-sale and waited, in some cases for hours, refreshing multiple devices, trying to secure tickets after a limited pre-sale of the artist's most expensive tickets (ranging from a couple of hundred to over $1000).
"My friend and I tried for pre-sale tickets on Wednesday on two devices and we waited for three hours, but we had no luck," Newcastle Herald journalist and fan Alanna Tomazin said.
Pre-sale tickets for the three 2024 Sydney shows sold out by 2pm while seats for the two Melbourne shows were gone just after 4pm.
It was announced on Thursday that the pop star appeared to find some 'blank space' in her concert schedule, adding two more shows to the Australian leg of her tour.
Fellow Swiftie and ex-Novocastrian Bianca Swinton saw Taylor Swift at Newcastle Entertainment Centre in 2010 and was anxiously attempting to get tickets to the Melbourne show on Friday.
"I wanted to get A reserve, I'm not prepared to buy VIP but I'm willing to spend about $400 on tickets," the 27 year-old said.
"I'm not giving up, I'll look at resale if I have to."
She said she got tickets to Swift's Newcastle show as a Christmas present when she was 13 years-old.
"It was really fun, it was my first concert and a really good experience, and exciting to see someone I loved and still love," she said.
"I remember she got off the stage and went all the way to the back of the concert and walked down the middle, that was really cool because I ended up being really close to her."
Ms Swinton said her favourite album is Speak Now which Swift is set to re-release in July adding to Red and Fearless.
The Grammy award-winning star will become the first artist since Madonna to perform three consecutive concerts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when she takes the stage in February next year, and the first ever to play a fourth straight show at Sydney's Accor Stadium.
The Eras tour will fold in multiple albums Swift has released during the years of COVID-induced lockdowns in a three-hour show including hits from Folklore and Evermore in 2020 and her most recent Midnights released in 2022.
All the while, Swift has spent years painstakingly re-recording her back catalogue of six albums dating to 2006 in her "Taylor's Version" project to take back ownership of her masters.
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