Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review – May 16th, 2024 – Cork, IE – Páirc Uí Chaoimh

Before Springsteen and the E Street Band treated those of us in Sunderland to a rain soaked performance so frenzied that it led to the postponement and rescheduling of shows in Marseille, Prague and Milan (more on this later), there was the matter of two more shows in Ireland, with a first return to Cork …

E Street Review: Live from the Sunderland Stadium of Light, May 22nd, 2024, or: How Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked my rainy hometown into the ground

Last time out on this site I covered Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s fantastic show in Kilkenny, the second of four shows on the Emerald Isle. Before we get to the Live Download releases of Cork and Dublin, however, we’re going to move ahead slightly to last night, May 22nd, and their return …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: May 12th, 2024 – Kilkenny, IE – Nowlan Park

In July 2013, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band brought the fifth leg of their highly emotional Wrecking Ball World Tour to an end with the “Wrecking Ball Weekender” in Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park. Those shows, while not perhaps to the level of Cardiff and Leeds, are very fondly remembered by those who were around …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: May 9th, 2024 – Belfast, UK – Boucher Road Playing Fields

In Cardiff three nights earlier, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band set a remarkable tone for the rest of their European leg, and after their first show in Wales since the year 2013, they were now back in Northern Ireland for the first time in eleven years also. With Boucher Road Playing Fields the …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review – May 5th, 2024 – Cardiff, UK – Principality Stadium

After a fantastic first U.S. leg that redefined audience expectations and reminded fans of just what Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are capable of, the start of May saw them kick off a twenty-six show European leg in Cardiff.  Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Cardiff raised eyebrows the moment it …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: April 21st, 2024 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena

Of the three shows postponed from March 2023, Columbus really drew the short straw. Originally pencilled in before Uncasville and Albany on the 2023 International Tour calendar, Ohio’s wait to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was ultimately delayed to be the final show of the first North American leg of 2024. Of …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review – April 18th, 2024 – Syracuse, NY – JMW Wireless Dome

Originally scheduled for September 7th, 2023, Syracuse was an outlier on the home stretch of the 2024 World Tour, falling in-between the shows in Uncasville, Albany and Columbus that had been pushed back from last March. It was also an outlier on this first North American leg outright, as it saw Springsteen and the E …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review – April 15th, 2024 – Albany, NY – MVP Arena

Originally scheduled for March 14th, 2023 (two nights after their initial Uncasville date), and then re-arranged once again from September 19th, Albany’s extended wait to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band finally came to fruition seventy-two hours after a rocking show in Mohegan Sun. In my review of their last show in this …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review – April 12th, 2024 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

For Uncasville - Albany and Columbus too - it was a long time coming. Having waited nine years to see Springsteen and the E Street Band again, at the very last moment that experience they’d been waiting on was ripped out of their hands through illness. March 12th turned into September 16th, 2023, and once …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review – April 7th, 2024 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum

As fans readied themselves for Springsteen and the E Street Band’s second night in L.A. knowing that night one on April 4th was already the measuring stick to which the rest of the 2024 World Tour would be compared, the question was if and how April 7th could equal or excel. The Night Two Rule …