for days in front of the gates in anticipation of a concert

Lido di Camaiore (Lucca), August 14, 2023 – There are those who will spend mid-August in Tuscany in a tent, but not in a beautiful campsite, but on the concrete pavement of Viale Kennedy in front of the entrance to Bussoladomani Park. , in the Lido di Camaiore. On August 7 last year, we spotted the arrival of four Spanish girls, aged between 18 and 23, who lined up in front of the gates of the venue twelve days before Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles’ ex-One Direction bandmate, performed. Now the group has grown and although the show is scheduled for Saturday 19, already these days you can see more than ten fans with tents and sleeping bags guarding the entrance to the park day and night.

They want to get in first, they told us that last year at this same festival (Far From Home festival landed in Versilia after the first two editions in London and Malaga) they were first in line. But they don’t want to be photographed, because, they say, “Louie’s fans are quite “extreme”, and we are afraid of threats and insults.” For the record, as happened to the Harry Styles fans who waited a week before the concert at Campovolo in Reggio Emilia.

A bit of grumbling and a lot of irony about the decision to spend these days doing nothing but sleeping and looking at the smartphone to pass the wait, of course, the camp is not very pleasant to look at and probably not even fully, but to say that these dissolute fans did not create problems: they did not mess up and keep in order those few square meters of the sidewalk that they occupied. It can be assumed that on the eve of the concert the band will be much larger, and some fear that the orderly situation may become chaotic. However, there are those who note that after many years of abandonment, it is good to see traffic around Bussola tomorrow, as in the days of Mina and Renato Zero.

“I pass here four times a day,” comments an elderly vacationer heading to the beach, “and when I see these girls, I always say to myself: what would they do for the Beatles?”