While the first three shows of the 2024 World Tour brought out of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band a level of performance many thought would never be witnessed again, night one in San Francisco changed the game by way of essentially taking us back in time. The men and women onstage sought to … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Reviews: March 31st, 2024 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center
“Hey New Jersey! How’s my people? Let’s go get ‘em!” Night three in New Jersey, oh what joyful words to write. Seven months into the 2023 International Tour with two largely unchanged three-night stands already behind us, it could be said that a third show in one city isn’t that big of a deal. This … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: September 3rd, 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
“Hello my people! Welcome New Jersey! Welcome!” Forty-eight hours after their much anticipated return to MetLife Stadium, Springsteen and the E Street Band were back for night two and all of the possibilities that a second show in New Jersey could bring. August 30th was a solid one featuring the odd surprise to whet the … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: September 1st, 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
Nigh on six years since the end of The River Tour 2016-17, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band finally returned to the stage in February as they embarked on their 2023 International Tour. It was a tour marred for many by the dynamic pricing fiasco that some fans felt shut them out from attending … Continue reading A Guide to Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 International Tour [Part 2]
Forty-eight hours after an emotionally charged return to the state of New York and Madison Square Garden, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band moved across the city to Brooklyn and the site of where their first North American leg ended in the year 2016, the Barclays Center, with the intention of delivering another exceptional … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: April 3rd, 2023 – Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
In February, Bruce Springsteen’s Live Archive finally saw the release of show from the 1995 stage of his Ghost of Tom Joad Tour. A night in Pennsylvania featuring every song from the touring album played, December 9th in Upper Darby strongly followed Anaheim 2000 in January, further setting the tone for remarkable year to come. … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: November 26th, 1996 – Asbury Park, NJ – Paramount Theatre
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
Two nights after playing The River for the first time ever in Madison Square Garden - further underlining the significance of the Working on a Dream Tour's home stretch - Springsteen and the E Street Band are in Cleveland for another notable night. Not notable to the degree of the two shows prior, but remarkable … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: November 10th, 2009 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
As the seventh year of Springsteen's Live Archive Series comes to an end, Nugs' special tradition continues with a seventh Christmas bonus, and once again it's far from being comparable to coal in a stocking. Following The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts of November and the opening night of the legendary Nassau Coliseum concerts earlier … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: December 12th, 1975 – Greenvale, NY – C.W. Post Dome
In July 2019 the Live Archive Series surprised us with a double shot of December 29th, 1980, and a remixed December 31st (previously unearthed in March 2015 to unfavourable feedback) on the same day. Two magnificent shows to close out a great year, with their marathon sets nearing four hours - the New Year’s Eve … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: December 28th, 1980 – Uniondale, NY – Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
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