Taylor Swift debuts ‘So Long, London’ to close out ‘Eras’ shows at Wembley Stadium
Taylor Swift has played ‘So Long, London’ live for the firs time ever while at Wembley Stadium – watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.
Last night (August 20), Swift played the eighth and final Wembley Stadium show of her years-long and career-spanning ‘Eras’ tour. It also coincided with the conclusion of the European leg of the tour.
To close out the mini residency at Wembley, the singer-songwriter performed the ‘Tortured Poets Department’ cut ‘So Long, London’ live for the first time as a thank you to the London audience.
It came as part of the “surprise songs” portion of her set. She said to the packed Wembley Stadium before diving into the song: “You know, we’ve done a lot of shows on the ‘Eras’ tour, so it’s kind of rare to have a song that I’ve never performed live before, and yet, here we are.”
Watch Taylor Swift debut ‘So Long, London’ below.
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Elsewhere during the same show, Swift brought out Florence Welch to perform ‘Florida!!!’, marking the first time that their ‘Tortured Poets Department’ collaboration has been performed live. Jack Anotonoff also appeared as a special guest to perform ‘Death By A Thousand Cuts’.
At the end of the show, Swift premiered her brand new music video for ‘I Can Do It With A Broken Heart’, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the ‘Eras’ tour.
The first night of her five-night ‘Eras’ tour run saw Swift bring out Ed Sheeran as a special guest. During the traditional ‘surprise song’ segment of the show, the pop star introduced Sheeran as “one of my best friends in the world” and came out to perform ‘Everything Has Changed’, his duet with Swift from 2012’s ‘Red‘. They then segued into ‘End Game’ from 2017’s ‘Reputation‘, followed by Sheeran’s own song ‘Thinking Out Loud’.
In a five-star review of Swift’s UK ‘Eras Tour’ opener in Edinburgh, NME wrote: “Despite being an arena show, in a huge, cavernous venue, Swift and her fans have managed to cultivate a community.
“Strangers swap friendship bracelets, laugh and cry together, and embrace the tour’s in-jokes and lore (for example shouting “one, two, three, let’s go bitch” during ‘Delicate’). It’s the power of Swift, an artist who’s inspired not only the renaming of a Scottish Loch, but also countless fans to come out and embrace being a part of the Eras family.
Now that her London shows are done, Swift will head back to North America this autumn and end her mammoth ‘Eras Tour’ in Vancouver, Canada in early December.
“This has definitely been the most exhausting, all-encompassing but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever wondered in my life, this tour,” Swift told the crowd as she marked her 100th ‘Eras Tour’ show in Liverpool in June.
The shows marked the first ‘Eras’ concerts since Swift’s three shows were cancelled in Vienna last week following a foiled terror attack plot.
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