Taylor Swift Gets Flowers From Her ‘Irish Fan Club’ U2 as the Eras Tour Touches Down in Ireland

Taylor Swift made it through three Eras tour shows in London without once playing “London Boy,” the deep cut from her 2019 album Lover. The sentiment of the record hasn’t aged all that well, but looking ahead at her three-show run beginning in Ireland tonight, “You know I love a Dublin boy” has a better ring to it, anyway. Ahead of Swift’s string of performances at Aviva Stadium, the musician received a welcome gift from U2, her self-proclaimed “Irish Fan Club.”

The band sent Swift a bouquet of flowers with a note reading: “Welcome back to our hometown… leave some of it standing?!!!!” The card was signed by Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. Sharing the correspondence on her Instagram Story, Swift wrote: “Already feeling that Irish hospitality!! @U2 thanks for always being the classiest & the coolest.”

The gesture comes across even sweeter in light of the jab that Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl took at Swift while performing in London on the same night. “I tell you, man, you don’t want to suffer the wrath of Taylor Swift,” Grohl said onstage after his audience started booing at the mere mention of the singer. “We like to call our tour the ‘Errors Tour.’ We’ve had more than a few eras, and more than a few fucking errors as well. Just a couple. That’s because we actually play live. What? Just saying. You guys like raw, live rock & roll music, right? You came to the right fucking place.”