Man arrested, charged with voyeurism at Taylor Swift’s Eras tour show in Edinburgh
A 64-year-old man has been charged with voyeurism after attending one of Taylor Swift’s sold-out Eras tour shows in Edinburgh, Scotland over the weekend.
Scotland Police said the concert-goer was arrested at the 14-time Grammy winner’s sold-out show on Saturday, where the singer performed in front of a 73,000-strong crowd at Murrayfield Stadium.
“A 64-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with a voyeurism offense committed within Murrayfield during the event on Saturday June 8,” Superintendent David Happs said in a statement.
“He was released on an undertaking to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court at a later date.”
In the UK, non-consensual voyeurism is an illegal offense. It is the act of gaining sexual gratification through watching or recording someone in a private act.
The “Fortnight” hitmaker, 34, kicked off the UK leg of her global tour on Friday with a total of 3 sold-out shows in the Scottish capital.
Each night, the “Cruel Summer” singer performed to a 73,000-strong crowd, making her shows the highest attended stadium concerts in Scotland’s history.
“Edinburgh!!! You truly blew me away this weekend,” Swift wrote on Instagram after the shows.
“Thank you for breaking the all-time attendance record for a stadium show in Scotland 3 times in a row and for all the ways you made us feel right at home. Love you, all 220,000 of you!!!”
And the Edinburgh shows weren’t without it’s special moments, as the singer even witnessed a couple getting engaged during her combined “Folklore” and “Evermore” set.
“I love performing this entire show in the sunlight ’cause I’m pretty sure I just, like, saw somebody get engaged over here,” the pop star told the crowd at Murrayfield Stadium in a clip shared on Threads.
Once fans confirmed the exciting news, the “Karma” hitmaker pumped both her arms in the air and screamed, “Yes!”
“Congratulations, wow!” she enthusiastically added. “I just saw that whole thing. Man, that’s amazing … Thanks for doing that at my concert; that’s a big moment!”
Swift’s performances in Edinburgh were the first of 15 dates that will take place in the UK.
The singer is set to take the stage in Liverpool, Cardiff, and London in the coming days before heading off to Ireland.
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Taylor Swift Fans ‘Quake It Off’ at Edinburgh Eras Tour Concert! Find Out Which Songs Created Seismic Activity
The song that drew the largest seismic activity was “… Ready for it?,” in which fans’ dancing and singing reached 160 beats per minute (bpm)
Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/GettyTaylor Swift in Edinburgh on June 7 Taylor Swift fans in Scotland made sure to shake it off during her concert!
Fans who attended the Grammy winner’s Eras Tour stop at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Friday, June 7, caused some major seismic activity, according to the British Geological Survey (BGS).
ADVERTISEMENTAdvertisementThe agency recorded several seismic hits during specific songs throughout her concert, in which her audience did anything but “calm down.” The seismic activity was detected by two monitoring stations, the furthest of which was 6 km (or 3.7 miles) away.
The song that drew the largest seismic activity was “… Ready for it?,” in which fans’ dancing and singing reached 160 beats per minute (bpm). According to the BGS this transmitted 80 kW of power, which is “equivalent to around 10-16 car batteries.”
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The audience also danced and sang their hearts out to “Cruel Summer,” which also hit 160 bpm and “Shake it Off.” Another big moment that drew seismic activity came after Swift finished singing “Champagne Problems,” as it drew four minutes of applause at a frequency of 120 bpm.
ADVERTISEMENTAdvertisementOther “seismic hits” happened during “Getaway Car,” a track from Reputation and her new track “But Daddy I Love Him” from her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department, according to a BGS post on X (formerly known as Twitter).
The BGS noted that the energy at Friday’s concert “was the most energetic” out of the weekend “by a small margin,” as it recorded “23.4 nanometres (nm) of movement, versus 22.8 nm and 23.3 nm on the Saturday and Sunday respectively.”
Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/GettyTaylor Swift performs in Edinburgh on June 7 The agency shared the news on social media with a high energy post that read, “Quake it off! Seismometers around Edinburgh were triggered by the rapturous Taylor Swift crowds at Murray field Stadium over the weekend.”
