The INSANE Logistics of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour | Shifting Gears Ep. 21 | KCH Transportation 

Yes, I have a question. The answer might be really obvious, but here goes anyway. How do they get 90 trucks overseas and bouncing from country to country that are not connected land masses like the US?

Do they fly the stage in from different countries or is there a local vendor? What is the customs process, do you need two stages to account for extra time?

Strange. I live in Amsterdam, and watch just about everything that goes on in world via my laptop, having surfed all all over the place daily since 2005, watching news and just about anything else from many different international outlets, but had never even heard of Taylor Swift until now. Never even seen her name or picture before. Not in Dutch, English, or Spanish. (Languages I speak.) Maybe my ad-blocker has something to do with it. I don't want to see adds. So I would not see adds for her shows for example. Her fame some say is as that of the Beatles, or even greater. But in the days of the Fab Four it was impossible not to know about them. Same with Michael Jackson: impossible not to know about his existence. But "Taylor Swift? Who's that?" most people outside of the US would ask hearing her name. I'm not making this up. This really surprise me that I had never heard of her before until now while she is so well known in the US by a good amount of people. I saw a raving article on her in TIME today and looked up her name on RU-vid. Her songs sound OK to me. I get the impression her fame is somehow due to a collective mesmerizing effect... like a sort of hypnosis. She looks very good, and has a lovely, generous character. I believe the love in her is what attracts so many souls. Even if it's a subconscious attraction. Love is What we really are, and while we are not consciously aware of that fact, we miss it and long for it. And feel attracted to someone who manifests it, like she does. One thing about the US (and I lived in the States and loved it for some 9 years) people in America believe it is the whole world, even calling sport events that only take place in the US "World Championship." Like football for example. Instead of "North American Championship." Obama called America "exceptional." That is only possible because most Americans know little or nothing about the rest of the world, nor have a very biased impression of it, not having spend much time visiting, let alone living, in other counties. All they know is what the MSM are telling them. Of course there are exceptions. But Taylor Swift is not really famous in the EU for example. Known only in a few countries by some people. See this article on Quora: "Why isn’t Taylor Swift a big star in Europe?" In this world everything is relative... 🙂

When will you be releasing part 2 ? Australia seems a night mare I believe it's only a 3 day break between shows that are 1000km apart

maybe a part on why this stadium tour cannot be done on some countries (The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, HongKong, Egypt, Morroco etc)

Where on earth are you getting that from?

@@susanwangcfa3685 every local food bank in every state she's visited posted about her generous donations on their socials

@@susanwangcfa3685youtube. owners of food banks. every city she visited

@@susanwangcfa3685if you google Taylor swift food bank, there are multiple articles about it.

​@@susanwangcfa3685 from the official food bank account

omg, they were so nice!! and I can only imagine how many good stories they must have!

How cool was that!

Taylor gave $50,000,000 at $100k EACH to her drivers.

I'm 73 and I concur. I've seen all the greats in rock 'n' roll and no one exceeded Taylor for the combination of songwriting and performing genius. There's no question that she is already on the same exclusive stratospheric level as the Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Michael Jackson and Elton John. I say at least, but I feel that she has surpassed most or all of them. So far no drug issues or personality problems to undermine her success. If she continues to write and perform, she will be the single greatest music star in history. p.s. Her personality is top level. What a role model for women and all of us (I'm a male). She is sweet, considerate, generous, loving, open minded, a fine leader and probably a genius. I honestly regret that I won't be here to see her entire future unfold.

@@davidwilk5486with your attitude, I hope you make to 120!

Cool explanation of her phenomenon in comparison to other acts. I’m 58, so I’m old enough to recognize that this is a historic event. And it’s very cool to watch a phenomenon build and unfurl.

in melbourne, 96,000 people in the stadium per night for 3 nights, and up to 50,000 people outside the stadium singing along to her music!

@@davidwilk5486who knows? Maybe you’ll live to be 100!😊I’m 66 and that’s what I’m shooting for!

I was going to mention this, so many people think she was gouging fans when it was Ticketmaster and other resellers

Yep. Many of my friends who got the presale code all got tickets from $75 to $300.

Yeah that secondary market is what they used to call SCALPING, it still should be called exactly what it is!

We got a presale code for one of her early concerts and got tickets for $250. Ticketmaster did NOT indicate anywhere what the fees would be. We paid, and Ticketmaster added $100 PER TICKET! It’s Ticketmaster and the resellers who are ripping everyone off. My daughter’s friend got tickets from Taylor’s presale the other day. $230 each total including fees, and the seats were better than our earlier tickets. It’s really a mess. I wish the artists would be able to have their own website and sell their own tickets and resale can only go through that site with original, face value only.

@@debbie8437yes absolutely and something people like to leave out is that her VIP packages include merch and memorabilia and sometimes even catering. Presale price for the most expensive VIP seat was 800 (which is still a lot) but the cheapest seats were around 70 Euros, decent seats around 120 for the 3 dates in Vienna.

😂😂😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

What does that even mean?

@@DavidKen878 example Melbourne in Australia was in lockdown for months. With people not being able to leave more than 5km radius of their homes. She is doing 3 shows there at 96000 people per show. With the city hosting side events.

That haters just jealous and insecure to face TS because sje is so beautiful, great talent and generosity character.. A perfect girl.

Beyonce is not white. 😂🤔

​@@jennyfrans3132don't say perfect. That's so cringe. You don't know her ...and she wouldn't even say she's perfect. You dehumanize people throwing around "perfect."

Can’t stand it when people have to compare 2 totally different artists. They are both extremely talented and both have a huge fan base.

@@narlywaves2371that was literally the point

Same for me 60y here (and my mom 80y 😂) I knew her music before, but as soon as I heard about the concert-movie (Tickets for the life-shows in Germany, where I live, where all sold out already) I bought 2 Tickets and took my mom with me. Since that happening we both are swifties ❤😊 and after that I purchased all her albums as well 😂

Same here! I rented the movie. I was apprehensive about what my hubby would think of the show, but he agreed to watch with me. We were about 30 minutes in and he had not said a word. I was sure he was not enjoying but just humoring me. He finally looked at me and said “ who is this incredible human being?” He was literally blown away by her! Ever since then he talks about her all the time with our friends and family. I love it!

I wonder why the government not getting involved in this (legal) scalping

When I was attending concerts on the regular, scalpers have ALLLways been around, nothing new.

Perhaps Taylor should run for president and help the USA economy. BTW she has no dogs only cats( I believe two now I think one belonged to her ex) so the CIA would have no need to fear dog bites. However she says one is friendly and one is not. An unfriendly cat can cause some serious danger I have several😮 myself.

@@diannakaplan8853 Lol, the CEO of UMG that her label is under said years ago, "She's someone who I think maybe in 20 years, if she wants, maybe she runs for president." Lucian Grainge She has been very successful in her career, but tends to be a very polarizing topic. I don't think some people have taken her seriously or are repelled by some of the people she attracts. I think all the cats were adopted by her- the last one she met while making her music video.

Becasue the US market will never regulate itself and our lawmakers are greedy bastards who are not above being bought.

Unfettered capitalism.

We put money over reason every time.

I got lucky and was about to buy face value tickets for her US Bank Stadium show. $209 ticket price, plus around a $68 fee per ticket. It was a great show. Worth the price.

also, 98 semi trucks! Largest in history! Beyonce is going to Net more though in her tour.

Hey Katy! Thanks for sharing your experience. How did you get to work her shows in Philly? Was it through your local union?

Please share more behind the scene stories!!!

She won’t do a vegas residency for another 10-15 years. Unfortunately I’ll be dead by then.

​@@hermitwatcher8997 If she and Travis decide to have kids, might be another 25 years...

Well, considering she is predicted to end with the highest grossing tour ever (1.5 billion; surpassing Elton John's world tour, in half the time), she should be sharing it around! Good on her and great work from the crew.

​@@tommie3700How much do you earn weekly? You should be sharing your hard earned money out too yeah? To say that ANYONE "should" be sharing out THEIR hard earned money is honestly such an entitled and selfish outlook. NO ONE is entitled to anyone else's hard earned money, no matter how much they have. Not Taylor Swift, not Elon Musk, not Bill Gates, NO ONE.

@@chelsiewaite1606 Huh? What? I'm bewildered by this perspective. This is some hard-line capitalism. Do any of those people you've mentioned live in a void? Is Taylor a one-man band? Does Elon run a company of one? If so, sure, then they are entitled to all of the earnings. However, they don't. Their success is supported over and over by a team of talented individuals, whose contributions lead to that success and profit--and it deserves to be properly recognised and compensated. Many of the crew on Taylor's team take on a very strenuous and difficult role, on top of also having them make many personal sacrifices, such as not seeing their loved ones for months. This is a big ask from Taylor and I respect her as a CEO and leader that she sufficiently rewards her staff for the efforts they make. (How much do you earn weekly? It's quite likely that you're an employee at a company - would you rather you get paid more or less for your talents and skills?)

Donations are necessary for tax write-offs When you have that much money if you don't donate your paying the government instead. So much better to donate, then pay more taxes ❤

Where is proof about Beyonce?

Damn. You don't see this discourse on stan Twitter.

He think meant two stages as in setting up in two cities, not two stages in the show.

@@alyssavance9838if there’s only one stage then there’s nothing to set up in the second city.

@@alyssavance9838 Yes I know. There is only one set of stages this tour where as reputation tour had two full copies. There is no need to leapfrog for this tour as the shows are only on the weekends so there are multiple days to transport and set up the stage in the next city.

@@spencer1435 We take it for granted how easy it is to get around the US, but how do they take these shows overseas? You can drive around Europe, but Australia and Asia seem like logistical nightmares.

@@marksalazar4207 I know for the reputation and 1989 tours in they used cargo planes for international shows since the cities are more spread out. Since she’s going to a lot of Europe cities for this tour I would imagine they are using semis for the Europe leg but planes for the rest.

I knew immediately the first song was Love Story and I am a TS fan hi however that one was played too many times.

LWYMMD is another far too over played track I came to preferring not to hear.

Yup, I'm not a Taylor Swift fan But definitely needs a documentary or BTS of this tour. It 'd be interesting

I know multiple people who paid vic $2500 in the secondary market. Which is absurd, but they don't regret it. The floor VIP packages at a thousand plus were too pricy for me. But if you got the tickets from ticketmaster etc witht the VIP the cheapest were about $100, floor was about 300. Front rows on floor were about $500.

I got the presale and paid $120 a pop for nosebleeds in NJ at MetLife Stadium. I consider myself lucky. Actually given the price I think it was a great value. 3.5 hours of her performing, plus the openers? It was an experience.

I had to pay over 600 the first time and over 900 the second time on the secondary market. Totally worth it!

I was watching ticket prices in California, hoping to be able to find a friend with a verified fan account for Los Angeles in order to buy face-value tickets when they added inventory after setting up the stags. SoFi stadium has large sections of built-in standing room that they added and sold 2 nights before the first show there. These, as well as obstructed seats that were essentially behind the stage, were sold for between $49-$69, and there were over 3K tickets of those sold per night during that inventory drop. Even though that drop was not dominated by bots, many of these tickets hit the secondary market. During the show week, some of these tickets were selling for $800 on the regular. Absolutely nuts. (I sadly did not luck out into finding a face value ticket at any price point for SoFi, but I did have success, thanks to my cousin, in buying during the onsale for her return in 2024).

Just a tip: it's way more authentic and understandable to say "we were wrong in our research, there were cheaper tickets priced xyz." because they way you said it left no room for "we meant only the resell prices", you specifically said "the absolute cheapest tickets in the cheapest city". It's okay to be wrong

Agree, said as a boomer who misses walking up to the ticket window at the venue box office, ten minutes before show open, and scoring some of the best seats, at a discount.

You honestly are probably right. She definitely has some insane logistics skills, or at least knows how to assemble the right people around her who do.

@@MarkyrosonDo you seriously think she sits around and plans this stuff out? Tour managers and such handle all of that.

@@DavidKen878Scott Swift is her whole logistics team😂

Yep, she'll use planes

in Asia, latin America, and Australia YES i'm sure she uses cargo planes. In Europe maybe she uses trucks

International tours are tough. Europe will be very similar to the US. Lots of trucks but will cost more to move because of laws, rules, etc. it will be interesting to see what flies to Asia, Australia, and South America. 747s aren’t cheap, although they aren’t what they were during the Pandemic when anything that could fly was commanding top dollar. But her tour will rival a F1 race for travel. The stage and such came from Tate Towers, a large staging company, who has offices around the world. So they may have some of the equipment already in some locations. But they are still going to have to ship a lot of stuff. As an aside, in 2016, the band Iron Maiden used a specially painted 747-400 to transport their band, crew, and tons of equipment on their world tour. The bands lead singer is actually a licensed 747 pilot and he flew the plane, named Ed Force One, after the bands mascot. It was a huge tour at the time.

What tour? Just curious (:

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They technically cannot sale their own tickets even if they really wanted to. LiveNation owns most if not all the concert venues and they pretty much require that the artist would use TicketMaster as their ticketing system or otherwise they wouldn't be able to play in that venue.

This 🥹 😂❤

Вам повезло, но очень многие не смогут в живую увидеть или посетить этот тур. 😢

Glad you enjoyed it!

I don’t know if Taylor is doing this specifically but it is common for touring productions to have two sets. While they’re performing in one city another crew will already be setting up at the next stop.

She has two sets.

I wonder this too

It's not mind boggling. It's 2023. 👍 Plus they tend to hire on site.