Beyoncé Cardiff concert: Fans arrive from around the world

Cardiff is preparing to invited thousands of Beyoncé fans anxious to spot the vocalist execute connected her satellite tour.

Wednesday's Principality Stadium concert, successful beforehand of astir 60,000 fans, kicks disconnected the UK limb of her Renaissance tour.

People are expected to question from astir the UK and arsenic acold distant arsenic the United States, Lebanon and Australia.

Cardiff assembly is informing concert-goers to program their travel successful beforehand and get early.

"I'm truthful thankful that this accidental has come, that I yet get to spot her," said George Crocker, 15, from Avoca Beach, New South Wales, Australia.

"She is simply a goddess, she's my mother. She is my implicit queen... she's conscionable everything successful a person.

"Everything astir her is conscionable perfect."

A instrumentality since the property of four, helium has travelled with his mum Penny, and added: "I'm conscionable going to bawl my eyes retired the full time, I conscionable cognize that for a fact."

The Renaissance World Tour is 41-year-old Beyoncé's archetypal solo circuit successful 7 years, and galore fans person travelled a agelong mode to spot her successful Cardiff.

Giovani Tana, 20, arrived successful the Welsh superior connected Saturday, aft flying to London from Beirut and catching a train.

"It's my archetypal clip successful the UK ever, truthful it's a large excuse to come," helium said.

"I deliberation London is afloat sold retired and I thought I would research a antithetic city."

He is looking guardant to connecting with different fans, adding: "Her enactment is incredible. No-one puts connected a amusement similar she does.

"I respect her enactment and what she's doing for the queer assemblage is genuinely incredible.

"For her to beryllium connected that signifier representing a batch of antithetic radical is inspirational."

It is not the singer's archetypal clip successful Cardiff - she joined hubby Jay-Z connected the On The Run II Tour successful the metropolis successful 2018.

The show, which kicks disconnected astatine 19:00 BST astatine Cardiff's Principality stadium and volition extremity astatine 22:30 BST, follows appearances successful Stockholm, Sweden, and Brussels, Belgium, successful a circuit that volition extremity successful the United States successful September.

The circuit setlist includes 40 hits spanning Beyoncé's vocation arsenic good arsenic singles from the medium Renaissance released successful 2022, including Break My Soul and Cuff it.

Over the adjacent 3 weeks the vocalist volition besides play astatine venues successful Edinburgh, Sunderland and London.

Cardiff assembly has warned roads into the metropolis volition beryllium "very busy".

It has powerfully advised radical to program their travel successful beforehand and get astatine the stadium early.

South Wales Police person besides said they volition beryllium utilizing facial designation successful the metropolis to assistance with policing.

There volition beryllium a afloat metropolis centre roadworthy closure from 16:00 until midnight.

Those attending are advised to usage a parkland thrust installation astatine Leckwith Stadium, oregon parkland and locomotion spaces astatine County Hall successful Cardiff Bay.

Trains are expected to beryllium precise engaged aft the lawsuit and a queuing strategy volition beryllium successful spot astatine Cardiff Central station.

Great Western Railway are moving other services to Swansea, Newport, Bristol and Swindon afterwards.

Passengers are being advised to cheque the GWR website earlier travelling arsenic concern enactment connected 17 May is apt to origin "some short-notice changes and cancellations", the relation said.

Over-running South Wales Metro engineering works besides mean determination volition beryllium nary trains northbound of Pontypridd connected the halfway vale lines of Treherbert, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare.

Gates unfastened to the nationalist astatine 17:00, portion the container bureau volition unfastened astatine 13:00.

Officials accidental each tickets person been issued digitally and should beryllium downloaded and transferred done the applicable app earlier arriving astatine the stadium.

People are besides being warned not to screenshot tickets arsenic this could invalidate them.