Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform a 27-song set in Marseille.
Highlights: “Twist and Shout” returns to the set; “No Surrender” and “Bobby Jean” rotate in.
2025 additions “Rainmaker,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” (performed solo acoustic), and the show-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” all appear.
…Springsteen and the E Street Band brought their Land of Hope and Dreams Tour to the Orange Vélodrome in Marseille, France on Saturday, May 31 with a new twist.
A cover of the Isley Brothers and Beatles classic “Twist and Shout,” a first for the tour. A fan held up a sign with the word “resist” on it near the front of the stage during the song, according…
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Lost and Found: Selections from the Lost Albums is a curated collection of 20 previously unreleased songs from Springsteen’s Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set. These recordings illuminate key chapters in Springsteen’s storied career, offering fans unprecedented insight into his creative process. “The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” Springsteen reveals. “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now. I’m glad you’ll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them.” Journey through Springsteen’s sonic evolution, from the raw, lo-fi LA Garage Sessions ’83 that bridges Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A., to the innovative drum loops and synthesizers of Streets of Philadelphia Sessions.
Bruce and the E Street Band perform a 26-song set in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, the second of two concerts.
Highlights: “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “My Love Will Not Let You Down,” “My Hometown,” and “Glory Days” rotate in. 2025 additions “Rainmaker,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” (performed solo acoustic), and the show-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” all appear.
The E Street Band: Bruce Springsteen – lead vocal, electric/acoustic guitars, harmonica; Roy Bittan – piano, keyboards; Nils Lofgren – electric/acoustic guitars; Garry Tallent – bass; Stevie Van Zandt – electric/acoustic guitars, mandolin; Max Weinberg – drums; Jake Clemons – tenor saxophone, percussion; Charlie Giordano – Organ, keyboards, accordion; Soozie Tyrell – violin…
Bruce and the E Street Band perform a 30-song set on the second night in Liverpool.
In the encore, Sir Paul McCartney joins for two songs: a debut performance of The Beatles’ “Can’t Buy Me Love” (written by Lennon-McCartney), and “Kansas City” (last performed in 2012; written by Leiber and Stoller, popularized by Little Richard, The Beatles, and James Brown).
Other highlights: “Ghosts” returns to the set, opening the show for the first time. “Seeds,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “My Hometown,” and “Glory Days” rotate in.
2025 additions “Rainmaker,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” (performed solo acoustic), and the show-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” all appear.
…At seventy five years old, Bruce Springsteen showcases an incredibly impressive amount of stamina hosting a nearly three-hour long setlist including classic hits and fan favourites amongst deep cuts – allowing a certain level of ambiguity as to what to expect from the E-Street band at each initial tour date. Bruce’s opening night at Anfield was no exception to his traditional precedent.
Deep cuts that don’t always make the setlist such as fan favourite ’Atlantic City’ made an appearance amongst the long and energetic set as well as a cover of The Top Notes – or more famously The Beatles – ‘Twist and Shout’ during the encore, honouring Liverpool’s very own legendary music scene.
Even watching from the stands, or in our case…
Bruce & the E Street Band perform a 25-song set in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France the first of two concerts. The show was part of the “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour,” which began May 14 in Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Highlights: 2025 additions “Rainmaker,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” (performed solo acoustic), and the show-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” all appear; “Out in the Street” (last performed in 2023), “Atlantic City,” “The River,” and “Ghosts” return to the set.
…Springsteen delivered his statements of democracy, which included calling the Trump administration “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous,” Saturday, May 24, at the E Street Band’s concert at the Stade Pierre Mauroy…
On April 2, 1994, Bruce Springsteen scored his biggest ever UK singles chart hit, when ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ climbed to Number 2. In all, it spent five weeks in the Top 5 and a further two in the Top 10. Written specifically for Jonathan Demme’s landmark Aids movie Philadelphia, this shattering monologue from a dying man also went Top 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and proceeded to win four Grammy awards – including Song of the Year. It had already won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
A case can be made for ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ as the song that saved Bruce Springsteen’s career. It certainly returned to him a substantial measure of the critical and commercial status he’d lost with the 1989 break-up of the E Street Band…
This side of the pond, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band gigs in arenas rather than stadia are as rare as hen’s teeth. My only previous one was at the 02 Arena soon after it opened back in 2007, so despite having seen them in the past two years in London and Dublin, when he announced dates at the Co-Op Live in Manchester (alongside others at Liverpool FC, but no London show) I decided to hang the expense and pay £500 for a pair of tickets and make an overnight trip from the capital.
It was my first time at this new venue and, other than the bad luck of gig crowds being swelled by a rearranged Man City game next door the same night, I was very impressed. It was more angular than the bowl shaped 02 and unusually had tiered seating behind the stage, yet appeared…
“A corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. An unfit president and a rogue government.” An ace right down the middle. Fifteen-love.
“A pushy, obnoxious JERK. Dried out “prune” of a rocker.” A mishit that wobbles off the top of the net. Barely fifteen-all.
With the war of words between our hero and Mr President occupying much of the UK (and likely world) press, we await with anticipation what Bruce “dumb as a rock” (which would be a good song title…) Springsteen comes back with. If anything it’s highly likely to be more reasoned and eloquent. In fact, rgather than enter into a messy war of words, he simply repeats the message. There’s the comforting thought that Saturday…
Bruce Springsteen ‘The Boss” and The E Street Band delivered a politically charged, electrifying performance in Manchester, as they kicked off their Land of Hope and Dreams Tour. A performance that was as politically resonant as it was musically superb. With 23,500 fans packed into the arena, the show fused iconic rock ‘n’ roll with impassioned calls for justice, unity, and resistance.
Before launching into the song, Land of Hope and Dreams, Springsteen welcomes the crowd warmly: “It’s wonderful to be in Manchester and back in the UK. Welcome to the Land of Hope and Dreams Tour.” He speaks of America, once a beacon of liberty and hope, now facing a critical crossroads under what he describes as a “corrupt and incompetent leadership.”
The latest exclusive release from the Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Series comes from Oakland Arena on October 28, 1999 – the final night of a three-show stand in Oakland, CA that finds Springsteen performing at his Reunion tour best.
If the modern era of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is demarcated by the start of the Reunion tour, we’ve nearly reached the moment where it also represents the midpoint of their touring career spanning late 1972 to present day. Amazingly, that means less time passed between the Born to Run and Reunion tours than the Reunion tour and today. So does a 1999 show have more in common with what came before or what’s come since?