My favorite moment of Bruce and the Band’s final-leg-launching first of three nights in their home state of New Jersey actually occurred hours before the crowd was let into MetLife Stadium. Don’t get me wrong – this proclamation is in no way an indictment of the actual concert, which was rife with memorable moments of …
European prayers have finally been answered. If Monday night’s fuse-blowing concert at Paris’ AccorHotels Arena demonstrated for the first time on this tour the magnetic energy generated from combining the intimacy of a typical American arena with the the signature passion of a typical European crowd, Wednesday night’s show at long last – after much …
What do you get when you combine the intimacy of a typical American arena with the signature passion of a typical E Street European crowd? That’s a question I’ve been excitedly pondering over the last couple of weeks, and Bruce and the Band’s first of two concerts at Paris’ 16,000-seat capacity AccorHotels Arena – formerly …
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Bruce has gotten the message. After weeks upon weeks of European fans begging to hear more River tracks, Bruce has finally started to give them what they want. But at Oslo’s Ullevaal Stadium on Wednesday night, Bruce also had a message for his fans in return, one that has already been proven true countless times …
A shorter version of this post originally appeared on Backstreets.com, which you can read here. Though most fans have marked Paris as the only European city being treated to indoor concerts, Copenhagen’s Telia Parken Arena definitely fit the bill. With a closed retractable roof and a relatively small, rundown, square-ish configuration reminiscent of a larger …
After the high that was Bruce and the Band’s concerts in Dublin – most probably the consensus picks as the best shows of the entire tour, America included – Glasgow could have gone in one of two directions:
Amidst the beaches and Basques of Donostia – commonly referred to as San Sebastián by those unfamiliar with the difference between the Spanish and the Basques[1] – my favorite treasure found within this small yet beautiful city were unequivocally pinchos. Lining the narrow streets of this glorified village-by-the-sea are quaint little restaurants whose bars are …
Leading up to The River Tour 2016 launching its excursion across Europe in the city of Gaudi, paella, and ceaselessly exuberant Catalonian fans, the concert felt less like merely the first stop of the European leg and more akin to the first show of a new tour. Without the full album, in sequence performance providing …
A much shorter version of this post originally appeared on Backstreets.com, which you can read here. Minutes after Bruce and the Band – sans Patti – bounded onto the stage of Denver’s Pepsi Center for their first stop on The River Tour 2016’s Midwestern swing, the former had a special introduction planned for the Mile …
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