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The band will play an hour-and-a-half setlist of 13 songs, which according to Brittany and those educated in Swift lore, is a significant number of tracks.
“She writes the number 13 on her hand when she performs, [and] she’s quite superstitious,” Brittany explains.
Swifties go nuts for Swiftly Covered at their first gig.
The idea to start a Taylor Swift cover band was cooked up in the depths of the pandemic. The engineer of the cover band, Brittany, says she was living by herself, working from home and feeling “quite lonely”. She figured crooning the songs of ‘Love Story’ to other aficionados would save her.
“I was like, ‘What if I do a Taylor Swift cover night?’ And then I rang up the booking agent at Fat Controller, Rachie (Rachel) Whitford, and I asked her if I could do a night and she was like, ‘Do you want May 6?’” Brittany says.
“I just like rang everybody who is now in the band and they all immediately were like ‘Yes!’”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Taylor Swift, aka the queen of the acoustic guitar, ballads and tear-drops, has dominated the news cycle of late.
Tickets for her upcoming 2024 Eras global tour, with stops in Melbourne and Sydney, broke the internet. The Victorian state minister for tourism, sport and major events, Steve Dimopoulos, gave the Melbourne Cricket Ground concert “major status” to combat scalping.
Taylor Swift is not stopping in South Australia as part of Eras, but Brittany wants Swiftly Covered to fill that void, even for some of her Adelaide bandmates.
“Some people in my band got tickets to Eras but some didn’t so for them, so I think this is the closest thing they’re going to get [to it] for a while,” she says.
“But I see this show as a great chance for Swifties to get together.
“For me, it feels like I’m a part of a sporting club in a way and we are having a gathering – a big meeting – for the Swifties.”
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