"I’ve been here since Saturday": Fans have camped out all bank holiday weekend for Louis Tomlinson

Fans of Louis Tomlinson have been camped out in Ardwick all weekend to be at the front of his show tonight in Manchester. The show, at the O2 Apollo this evening, has been rescheduled four times due to the pandemic.

Eager fans have spent thousands of pounds and now their bank holiday weekends in the car park in tents, preparing to be the first in and at the barriers for when the star, from Doncaster, takes to the stage.

Katie Little, 24 from Carlisle has been camped out since yesterday morning (Monday 18). She told the Manchester Evening News about why she has chosen to camp in a car park in Ardwick, saying: “It’s the pressure, you hear about everyone coming so you have to get here and you make friends.”

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Despite booking a hotel near Piccadilly for both last night and tonight, Katie and her friends decided to camp yesterday to make sure they would be at the front of the show today.

“We had a hotel near Piccadilly and haven’t used it, Argos was selling tents for £20 and it was actually quite warm up until two or three in the morning.”

Katie explained that the campers had been assigned a wristband to wear, organised by other fans so that they keep their space in the queue if they need to leave to use facilities or grab food. She was number 72 in the queue.

Meanwhile, Angie Dolezal, 24 from Cologne in Germany was 45th in the queue and has followed Louis Tomlinson’s tour around Europe, having already seen seven shows.

She explained why: “We’ve come from Germany, so far seeing seven shows on this tour, this will be the eighth.

“We’ve camped in Berlin, Paris and Zurich.

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