Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: March 24th, 2016 – Seattle, WA – Keyarena at Seattle Center

After a solid follow-up to their momentous finale inside the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena, Springsteen and the E Street Band seek to maintain the form they're on with what is to this point the second longest gig of the tour in Seattle - it's short on L.A. night three by a minute. With three hours … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: March 24th, 2016 – Seattle, WA – Keyarena at Seattle Center

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: March 22nd, 2016 – Portland, OR – Moda Center

After the celebration and emotion of three final concerts in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, The River Tour 2016 rolls on as Springsteen and the E Street Band rock into Portland and its Moda Center. A concert that will undeniably lose something compared to the three prior where it concerns contextual value, it will … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: March 22nd, 2016 – Portland, OR – Moda Center

“I want to know if love is real” – Language, emotion and masculinities: Exploring how men express love through four stages of adulthood as evidenced in the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen from 1973 to 1992

Here's my Dissertation that I wrote in 2018. If you'd like to read it, I hope you enjoy it. Introduction Thompson (1990: 367 - 467) states, “Little empirical attention has been paid to developmental trends in the domain of emotion beyond late childhood”, and in this thesis I will be analysing how emotional expressivity develops … Continue reading “I want to know if love is real” – Language, emotion and masculinities: Exploring how men express love through four stages of adulthood as evidenced in the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen from 1973 to 1992

New from the Springsteen archive: July 4th and 5th, 2012 – Paris, FR – Palais Omnisports De Paris-Bercy

The world of Springsteen has been full of surprises lately. Two weeks ago I was approached by Backstreets Magazine with an opportunity to review the newest instalment in the Live Archive Series, July 4th, 2012. Less than a week later, Bruce appeared onstage at Glastonbury with Sir Paul McCartney - their second duet in a … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: July 4th and 5th, 2012 – Paris, FR – Palais Omnisports De Paris-Bercy