Aragonese women at Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna cancelled due to terrorist threat: “I’ve been waiting for this day for over a year”

Zaragozan Beatriz Lasheras had been waiting for this Thursday, August 8, for just over a year. It was the day she would finally see the star of stars, Taylor Swift, take the stage at Vienna ‘s Ernst Happel Stadium as part of her tireless and astronomical “The Eras Tour“. The Zaragozan has been living in the Austrian capital for almost three years and one of the most successful artists in the world was going to arrive there with three shows for which tickets sold out minutes after they went on sale. But it wasn’t to be.

A threat of a terrorist attack confirmed by the Austrian government led to the three concerts (which were due to draw some 140,000 people) being automatically cancelled . Austrian police arrested two suspects, one aged 19, who they said had a “particular fixation” on Taylor Swift’s concert and had sworn allegiance to ISIS, at least one of them. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer tweeted that the cancellation of the concerts in Vienna was “bitterly disappointing” to Austrian (and international) fans, but said the “situation surrounding the apparently planned terrorist attack in Vienna was very serious “.

Beatriz Lasheras found out about the cancellation of the concerts a few hours before the announcement. Yesterday afternoon she had gone to the stands located around the stadium to buy a sweatshirt and some more “The Eras Tour” merchandising. “I feel so sorry. I’ve been visualizing myself at that concert for over a year . In fact, I had a ticket for today but the rest of the days I was going to be outside the stadium because the “swifties” were going to meet there to listen to the songs from outside, meet people, dance… But that’s how it is. Vienna is a city with a lot of security and it’s lucky that it was caught in time because the consequences could have been terrible,” admits the Zaragoza native.

“I feel so sorry. I’ve been picturing myself at that concert for over a year.”

” There were more than 100,000 people going to the concert in these three days . It was crazy. The whole tour has had a lot of security and a lot of control due to its size and here in Vienna that security has resulted in these arrests. It would have been reckless not to cancel it knowing this,” says Lasheras. With the outfit already planned (it is known that in these concerts the outfit and the “Era” to which each one belongs is very important) and the makeup on the dressing table, the Zaragoza native has created an alternative plan to enjoy the Pennsylvanian.

“I’m going to try to organise a party at my house with all the people I know who were going and put the concert on TV to cheer us up. It’s not the same, of course, but at least we all enjoyed it together,” he says from his computer, trying to get a ticket for Taylor Swift’s next concert, on August 17 at London’s Wembley Stadium. “I’m not going to get them by any chance, but hope is the last thing to be lost,” he says.

At least she didn’t have to take a plane to Vienna to see her favourite artist. That was the case for Carolina, who was almost caught by the news as soon as she got off the plane she took from Madrid to the Austrian capital. The Zaragozan had already seen her “idol” at the Santiago Bernabéu but given that “The Eras Tour is an unrivalled experience” she also bought tickets for the one in Vienna. “I was going to go to the concert on Friday , I already had the hotel booked and I thought about arriving a few days early to do some sightseeing and get to know the city,” she says. “I can only think of the swifties who had been waiting for this concert for so long. It’s a shame, but it’s what had to be ,” she says.

“I can only think of the Swifties who have been waiting for this concert for so long. It’s a shame, but it’s what had to be”

With astronomical figures, a loyal fan base that has never been seen before and sold out concerts all over the world even years before they happened, Taylor Swift has turned her “The Eras Tour” into the highest grossing tour in history, surpassing the billion dollar mark.