WATCH: Taylor Swift fans line up for hours at the Orange Civic Centre for Eras Tour tickets.
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00:00 [crowd noise]
00:07 I'm very excited, extremely excited.
00:10 And when did you guys line up last night?
00:13 I got here at 9 o'clock last night.
00:14 I got here at 11 last night.
00:16 Wow. And are you guys local? Did you travel here?
00:20 My parents are from Orange but I was in Sydney yesterday and took the train back to come here for this.
00:26 I'm the same, my parents live in Orange but then I came from Sydney.
00:30 No, I'm actually from Falcon Bridge, so the Blue Mountains just past Springwood.
00:35 Okay, and you travelled out here just for this?
00:37 I did, yeah. I found out that the ticket release was coming today and I already had an ADO booked.
00:47 And yeah, my wife said to me, "I want you to go line up at Panthers."
00:52 And even though that's half an hour away, I said to her, "You know what, I'd much rather go to Orange."
00:58 Because I could see Panthers just being absolutely swarmed.
01:01 So yeah, we got the kids to bed and then I made the trek straight out here.
01:07 Wow. And what time did you get here?
01:10 I got here about 10 past 12.
01:14 So it was just after midnight and there were about five other people already here.
01:20 Everyone was really lovely.
01:22 And then we had one person join us at 1am and then steadily building a crowd from about 4am.
01:30 Wow.
01:31 Everybody was nervous, even the people who were at the head of the line were just so nervous that they weren't going to be able to get tickets.
01:39 And there's always that with a big event.
01:43 Everybody who's here is probably here because they've had no luck with TicketText's website for any big events.
01:51 But yeah, even the people at the head of the line were so nervous that they were going to miss out.
01:55 But they got what they wanted, so that was great.
01:58 And how did you feel when you actually got up to the count yourself?
02:02 Just ridiculous heart palpitations.
02:06 It's always like that. I mean, I was lucky enough to snag tickets to the weekend earlier this year.
02:14 But it's the same thing when you've got these big events that are really popular.
02:18 It's the fear of missing out. That's what it always is.
02:21 And I'm just sort of nervously shaking and going to tap the card on the reader, hoping that it reads the chip and everything goes okay.
02:29 And what was your wife's response when you told her you got the tickets?
02:32 She was just absolutely thrilled.
02:35 I haven't called her yet, but she was just so happy.
02:38 She was sitting at home with, I don't know, about 50 tabs open on the TicketText website just in case.
02:45 But she was just stoked. She was just really, really happy to have finally got it.
02:51 Got it.
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