Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour juggernaut has discovered cities around the globe twist themselves into pretzels to welcome the singer’s stadium-packing juggernaut. However when Swifties begin submitting into PGE Narodowy stadium on Thursday (August 1) for the singer’s present in Warsaw they could mistake the alarming sound of air raid sirens for some sort of weird welcome custom.
It’s not.
“At 5pm on August 1st, sirens will sound out whereas the air pressure takes the skies in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the Warsaw rebellion, please DO NOT panic or be alarmed,” the official Eras Tour X account warned on Wednesday.
The sirens are a part of the Polish metropolis’s commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Rebellion, which was a 63-day riot by Polish insurgents in opposition to 5 years of crushing occupation by the Nazis throughout WWII. In accordance with the Related Press, the entire metropolis stops and alarms sound yearly on August 1 on the precise time within the afternoon when the rebellion started. Hundreds of followers attending the present are anticipated to be at or close to the stadium for the night present when the alerts go off.
Polish information website Onet revealed a word to Swifites to clarify the importance of the day to the native inhabitants. “We ask you to stay calm and to not panic. On this means yearly residents pay tribute to the heroes of 1944. Those that will likely be at that second already exterior the stadium, please stay quiet and stand up,” it learn.
Thursday night time’s present is the primary of three gigs in Warsaw earlier than Swift strikes on to Vienna subsequent week for exhibits on August 8, 9, and 10. She is going to wrap up the European leg of the tour in London, with a string of 5 exhibits at Wembley Stadium on August 15, 16, 17, 19 and 20 earlier than returning to North America for a six-night run in Toronto starting on November 14.
Take a look at the warning under.
