Dream come true for Adelaide Taylor Swift fans after nightmare rush to get $900 concert tickets

Taylor Swift’s blockbuster tour might be bypassing SA but that wasn’t going to stop this Adelaide mum and her girls getting a prime spot.

It’s going to cost Adelaide mum Danielle Giuliani-Palmieri about $5000 to see Taylor Swift live, but she’s happy to shake it off to give her “Swifties” a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The remedial massage therapist and her daughters Chanel, 15, and Colette, 10, are going to one of the superstar’s The Eras Tour concerts in Sydney; Ms Giuliani-Palmieri snapped up three “VIP Karma Is My Boyfriend packages” – at $899.90 a piece – during Monday’s pre-sale for American Express credit card holders.

Colette Palmieri 10 and Chanel Palmieri 15. Picture: Ben Clark

Taylor Swift on stage in Los Angeles in 2015. Picture: Christopher Polk/Getty Images

Across South Australia, and the entire country, parents of Swifties – Tay-Tay’s trademarked name for her fans – took the morning off or stopped work to try and secure tickets.

Their family, friends and colleagues also logged on to help them on their quest; as you would expect, the Ticketek and American Express websites went into meltdown – and crashed multiple times – such was the demand.

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The pop starlet has sent the state into a spin, with Swifties scrambling to secure tickets to her Sydney and Melbourne shows after she controversially decided to skip Adelaide.

Rubbing salt into the wounds of SA devotees, it was announced at the weekend that Swift was adding a further three shows to the Singapore leg of The Eras Tour after her Australian shows.

Thankfully for Ms Giuliani-Palmieri, securing tickets on Monday was a relatively swift exercise.

“I logged on about half an hour before the pre-sale started,” she said, adding: “I probably got my tickets about five minutes after it actually again, but I had about 10 tabs opened on my laptop, constantly refreshing until one of them worked.”

Ms Giuliani-Palmieri’s determination to get tickets was so great that she booked Sydney accommodation and flights last week: “Chanel and Colette don’t ask for much … this is the one thing that has been on the agenda.”

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With the concert costing $2700 and the accommodation and flights a further $1600, it will be an expensive treat but well worth it, Ms Giuliani-Palmieri said.

“I am not going to get much change out of $5000 by the time we buy food and (concert) merchandise,” she said, adding: “People spend money on all sorts of things, but it’s about what is important to you.”

Taylor Swift. Picture: Supplied

Describing her daughters as “Swifties”, Ms Giuliani-Palmieri said both were thrilled.

For Colette, it’s “better than any dream”, especially because it will be her first time at a concert, while Chanel was over the moon.

“I haven’t slept since the tour announcement because I was so worried I would miss out on tickets,” Chanel said.

Ms Giuliani-Palmieri said Chanel already loved music, but was seriously into her idol.

“Chanel is the crazy one (for Swift) – for the past four-to-five years she has been obsessed to the point that she knows every lyric,” she said.

Chanel also knew everything there was to know about 33-year-old Swift’s long road to success, she said.

“From the age of seven, Taylor Swift knew what she wanted from her life and career and achieved that, which is amazing – she shows determination,” Ms Giuliani-Palmieri said.

Chanel agreed: “She is an incredible artist and a strong person. Even though people tried to keep her down, she always pushed through, became even stronger and is now one of the most successful artists in the world.”

Taylor Swift in New York City in 2013. Picture: Getty

Taylor Swift perform in Nashville in 2013. Picture: Getty

Another Adelaide mum, Becky Blake, who is also an entertainer and famous for being part of the Chunky Custard party band, also secured tickets. With help from an interstate friend who has an American Express card, she managed to buy two of the $900 tickets to a Sydney show.

They are for her daughter Ashley, 13, and herself.

“It’s a lot of money, but it’s an experience,” Ms Blake said.

Like Chanel, Ashley – who has been a Swiftie since she was three – knows every word to every Swift song.

“This is a dream for her,” Ms Blake said. “To convince me and (my husband) Ian to spend more money on tickets, to have a better chance of going to the concert, Ashley prepared a PowerPoint presentation complete with photos, reasons why she needed to go, exact costing of airfares, accommodation etc and a fair bit of grovelling about how amazing her parents are,

“She’s also agreed to a fair few chores to pay off her ticket.”

Chunky Custard’s Becky and Ian Blake. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

Taylor Swift fans Becky Blake and her daughter Ashley at a Harry Styles concert in Perth. Picture: Supplied

Ms Blake said she and Ashley, who is also a singer, loved seeing live music together and travelled to Perth to see Harry Styles in February.

“Going to concerts together brings us close and we share the excitement of travelling, researching places to eat and listening to the music in preparation,” Ms Blake said.

“Ashley goes hard, screaming and crying at the concerts, so we’ll need a day to recover before we fly home.”

While the tickets for American Express card holders have sold out, more are tickets are being released on Wednesday for a Frontier Member pre-sale and on Friday, when they will be available to the general public.

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