Notes from the road: Stockholm, Night #1

Tonight’s show at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden started off in familiar fashion: “We Take Care of Our Own,” “Out in the Street” for a Friday night, and “Wrecking Ball,” along with several other songs that one might expect to see in a Wrecking Ball tour show, immediately receiving a loud and energetic response from…

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Remembering Danny Federici

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For 40 years, Danny Federici brought his distinct sound to a large part of Bruce’s music as an E Street Band member and friend before succumbing to melanoma in 2008. To commemorate the fifth anniversary of Danny’s passing, his son, Jason, shares with us how you can help bring awareness to the disease in his…

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Notes from the road: Oslo Night #2

On night one in Oslo, we had the utterly unexpected in the shape of Little Steven crooning “My Kind of Town” to us to open the concert (that is, if you don’t count the four song warm up by Bruce himself, which was as amazing as it was surprising). But for whatever reason — a…

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Notes from the road: Oslo, Night #1

If Norway had “kidnapped” Steven Van Zandt, as Springsteen told the first crowd of the 2013 European tour, then this opening night was a return to the scene of the crime. Steve had missed ten concerts running, filming season two of his show Lilyhammer while the rest of the E Street Band plundered Down Under…

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Bruce & the E Street Band back on the road in Europe!

After rocking Australia’s east coast last month, Bruce and the E Street Band are back at it on the European leg of 2013 Wrecking Ball Tour. They kicked things off tonight at the first of two Oslo, Norway, shows before continuing on next to stops in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Germany, England, Scotland, the Netherlands,…

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Notes from the road: Hanging Rock, Night #2

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Hanging Rock for one final showdown. Over two and a half weeks the band have performed ten exhilarating concerts along the east coast of Australia. Tonight wasn’t going to be an exception. With the sun just hanging on, the band hit the stage and tore into…

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Notes from the road: Hanging Rock, Night #1

Folklore, myth and urban legend surround the Hanging Rock region: it’s burnt into the psyche of many Australians. Parked cars have been known to roll backwards up the surrounding hills. It’s the kind of place, where, an eerie, other worldliness, hangs in the air. Tonight the Rock received a visitation from the Jersey Devil himself….

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Notes from the road: Melbourne, Night #3

“Good evening Melbourne, are you ready for the finale?” And so began the last round of Bruce Springsteen’s three night stand at the Rod Laver Arena. First song in was the Australian tour debut of Long Walk Home, followed by the greatest rock single ever written by a man over 50, Radio Nowhere. The American…

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Notes from the road: Melbourne, Night #2

Tonight, with the house lights up, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band hit the stage and tore into Badlands. As the band were attempting to merge into We Take Care Of Our Own, the audience wouldn’t allow it. The capacity house was still chanting the Badlands’ refrain, making a move onto the next song…

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