Bieber touches down in the west

Hundreds of excited fans turned out to catch a glimpse of teenage pop

sensation Justin Bieber when he arrived in Perth afternoon for his

sell-out concert at Burswood Dome tomorrow night.

Many had been waiting at Perth Domestic Airport from as early as 8am,

but only caught a fleeting glimpse of the 17-year-old star through a

terminal window before he was whisked away in a silver van with heavily

tinted windows at about 4.30pm.

Courtney Greaves, 14, raced home from school to get to the airport in

time for Bieber’s arrival.

She said she wanted to see the star before going to his concert tonight.

Kayah Boswood, 21, said she had been waiting since early yesterday to

see Bieber and took the day off work.

“I’m a pretty old ‘Belieber’,” Ms Boswood said.

Even before his arrival, Bieber fever had been spreading across Perth

with more than 16,500 fans preparing for his first and only sellout

concert at the Burswood Dome tomorrow night.

Those “Beliebers” who missed out on tickets have been cautioned about

buying online, where some seats are selling for more than $300. The

original ticket price was $97.80 for gold seats and $65 for silver.

“Unfortunately there have been some very sad cases on this tour where

people thought they’d purchased legitimate tickets only to discover the

seller has disappeared, or has provided them with fakes,” a spokeswoman

for concert promoter the Frontier Touring Company said.

More tickets could have been sold if a lounge area had been included in

the Dome as it had for Usher’s recent Burswood concert for 18,000

people.

But Frontier made the show entirely seated for safety of the young fans

that have helped Bieber become a cyber and real world star with more

than 1.5 billion YouTube views and 26 million Facebook fans.

The Frontier spokeswoman said the volume of calls, emails, Facebook

messages and tweets from fans asking to meet Bieber, get his flight and

hotel details, “or simply to say they love him” was higher than for

other touring acts with a similar demographic.

Raised by his mother in the city of Stratford, Ontario, 17-year-old

Bieber was discovered on YouTube in 2008 when he was just 13 after his

now manager Scooter Braun stumbled across his videos. He has become

almost as well known for his floppy fringe, hoodies and boyish looks as

his hit singles One Time, Baby, Somebody to Love and Never Say Never. He

has two albums in the ARIA top 20 this week, with My Worlds at No. 7

after 49 weeks on the chart.

Via TheWest