Music Festival News

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play a series dates in the UK in 2008. The Boss and his band will return to the UK for a series of huge outdoor shows in May and June at the Emirates Stadium, Old Trafford, and the Millenium Stadium

Bruce Springsteen’s released his 23rd album ‘Magic’, in October, and it hit number one and platinum status.

The UK tour will hit the football stadiums of Arsenal football Club, and Manchester United together with
Cardiff Millennium Stadium which is the home of the Welsh Rugby team.

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There band line up is:-
Bruce Springsteen (Guitar/ Vocals)
Roy Bittan (Keyboards)
Clarence Clemons (Saxophone)
Charles Giordano (Accordion/ Keyboard)
Susan Kirschner (Violin/ Vocals)
Nils Lofgren (Guitar)
Vivienne Springsteen (Guitar / Vocals)
Garry Tallent (Bass)
Steven VanZandt(Guitar)
Max Weinberg (Drums)

The set list heavily leaned on Magic material, as might be expected, with The Rising initially also well represented. The 1970s were also featured, with a number of songs off Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town. Thematically, the show was organized in recent Springsteen fashion, with certain fixed sequences that appeared every night, interspersed with “wild card” sequences in which a variety of recent or old songs might appear. Shows began, as might be expected, with Magic first single “Radio Nowhere” and its expression of social longing; this was followed by some older number such as “The Ties That Bind” or “No Surrender” that supplied that social connection, and then by The Rising’s “Lonesome Day” to balance the equation. The next part of the show brought out ”Magic”’s political undercurrents, first with an explicit public service announcement during “Livin’ for the Future”. Then, a spoken introduction to “Magic” made clear that song’s understated lyric: “This is about living in times when the truth gets twisted into lies and lies get twisted into truth. So, it’s not about magic. It’s about tricks.”[7] Thus set up to follow was just that, a trick: yet another at-first-puzzling rendition of the always challenging “Reason to Believe”. The Nebraska closer was transformed from a low-key acoustic number to a heavy-hitting, harmonica-driven, boogie-woogie blues rock version,[7] with Springsteen pumping up the audience with phantom overhand throwing motions … all for a song that represented, despite frequent misinterpretations, a void empty of hope;[8] only a return of the Devils & Dust Tour’s ultra-distorting “bullet mic” at the end served to reveal a bit of the deceit.