A Harry Styles fan from Bolton paid around £900 for VIP tickets to see the singer kick off his 12-night residency at London’s Wembley Stadium on Friday.
Rosie, 23, said: "When you tell people how much you’ve paid, they think you’re stupid, but unless you’ve been here and you know what it feels like, then you wouldn’t understand."
“I think there’s a mutual understanding of Harry and his fans, and I feel like within the fans as well, that you’re meeting different people that are completely different to you, that on a normal day you probably wouldn’t really have anything in common with them, but I feel like everyone has this sense of like coming together as soon as you get here, like, ‘oh, we’ve all got Harry in common’, and I think that’s why it’s just such a good vibe.”
Some Harry Styles fans were queuing for more than 24 hours to get a chance to see the singer up close.
The former One Direction star, 32, concerts follow the release of his fourth solo album, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, which was released in March.
Although there had initially been six shows planned for London, huge demand saw them being doubled to 12.
Ahead of the first concert, Press Association spoke to several fans who had arrived at the venue hours ahead of time to secure the best seats possible.
Kira, 18, and Alicia, 19, live in Wembley but started lining up at the stadium around 6am on Thursday.
“We’ve got standing, so we want to get barricade, so we lined up and got a number,” Kira said.
Although fans had been discouraged from camping there overnight, an unofficial queue formed hours before.
“The queue kind of works where everyone who’s there previously, you kind of get to know each other, and then it turns into like an official queue, and obviously you’ve got your friends, so you can just be like, ‘can we go get changed and do our make-up and get ready?’, and that’s the basis of it really,” Kira added.
The pair added that the goal was to get in early and secure a spot at the barricade.
Many of Styles’s fans have spent hundreds – or even thousands – to see him on this tour.
Meg and Katie, both aged 27 and from St Helens, estimate they’ve each spent “easily” over £1,000 each to see Styles.
However, they defended the cost, saying it felt like a “nostalgic” experience.
“We’ve been doing this since we were 11 or 12 – we’ve got to keep going because we were big One Direction fans back in the day,” they said.
After his London residency, Styles will hold the record for the most performances by any artist in a single year at Wembley Stadium – surpassing Coldplay’s 10-night run last summer.
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