No, Taylor Swift is not coming to Auckland in February

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

An extended version of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert movie is now available to rent from iTunes, YouTube and Neon.

Taylor Swift will not be coming to Auckland in February as one website claims.

Shows were being advertised for February 2025 at Eden Park.

Swift’s ongoing Eras Tour is set to conclude in December 2024.

Swifties hoping for a New Year’s miracle in the form of New Zealand concerts from the biggest pop star on the planet will be left sadly disappointed on Wednesday.

Shows by Taylor Swift at Eden Park in Auckland were being advertised online, with dates laid down for February 2025.

Two shows for February 27 and February 28 were being promoted on website allevents, while Google also had the same show dates listed if you searched “Taylor Swift Auckland shows”.

However, the promoter of Swift’s ongoing Eras Tour Frontier Touring has confirmed the show dates are “false”.

Spokesperson for Frontier Touring Maria Robinson told Stuff the concert dates were “bogus”.

Taylor Swift performs on stage during her Eras Tour at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

She added, as far as she was aware, “Taylor Swift is not coming to Auckland in February”.

The gig listing was so convincing that over 200 people had signalled their interest in attending on the event page.

Eden Park also confirmed to Stuff that they were not hosting Swift in February.

Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour.

Swift last played in New Zealand in 2018 as part of her Reputation tour.

She toured Australia in February 2024, with New Zealand left off the list of tour dates, much to the disappointment of fans.

As a result, hordes of Swifties were forced to travel across the ditch to catch their hero live.

A near sell-out crowd gathers at Eden Park for a Billy Joel concert.

Swift’s Eras Tour is already the highest-grossing concert tour in history, outselling the likes of Elton John and Michael Jackson, bringing in over $1 billion.

It is set to wind up in December, before the false February dates at Eden Park.

A recent survey undertaken by Eden Park revealed 93% of its local residents support a Taylor Swift concert.

The national stadium wants to double the number of concerts they host each year, as at the moment they are only allowed six.

The Eden Park Trust is now seeking resource consent to increase that number to 12 per year.

Whether this will be enough to draw Swift to New Zealand remains to be seen.

But for now, New Zealand must wait to play host to Swift, with no future dates scheduled after the Eras Tour concludes at the end of this year.