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 … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: April 21st, 2024 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
Seventy-two hours after starting the European leg of their River Tour 2016 in the Barcelona, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band arrive in Basque Country and more changes follow as the setlist continues its expansion after the conclusion of The River album in-toto on the opening North American stage. Across three hours and forty … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: May 17th, 2016 – San Sebastián, ES – Estadio de Anoeta
Changes are made in the first European show of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s River Tour 2016. Stepping onstage in FC Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium a little over two weeks after their final show in Brooklyn on the first North American leg of the tour, excitement was in the air as to what … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: May 14th, 2016 – Barcelona, ES – Camp Nou
Forty-eight hours before St. Louis, there was Nashville. As Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band came to the end of their Magic Tour - a tour that saw Bruce carry over and emphasise the sociopolitical themes he’d explored with his Seeger Sessions Band in 2006, and more importantly the loss of Danny Federici and … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: August 21st, 2008 – Nashville, TN – Sommet 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
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
"Rooooo-chester! We're so glad to be in your beautiful city tonight! Are you ready to be entertained? Are you ready to be entertained? Are you ready to be transformed?! Ohhhh c'mon!" It's the penultimate show of February and after rocking Buffalo last time out, Springsteen and the E Street Band stay in New York for … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: February 27th, 2016 – Rochester, NY – Blue Cross Arena
Following the recent release of August 22nd, 1985 in Giants Stadium from the Live Archive Series, discussion arose once again as to what was actually recorded on Springsteen's biggest tour. In 2020 it was confirmed that only four shows in 1984 were multi-tracked (all from Brendan Byrne Arena in August) and considering how we all … Continue reading Retro E Street Review: November 19th, 1984 – Kansas City, MO – Kemper Arena
A lot can change in a year. In the summer of 1984 Springsteen and the E Street Band returned home to East Rutherford, NJ as heroes for ten nights inside the Brendan Byrne Arena - a stand partly immortalised in the form of three Live Archive Series releases - but for as remarkable as those … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: August 22nd, 1985 – East Rutherford, NJ – Giants Stadium
Springsteen and the E Street Band's final Australian stop in Brisbane was a tour highlight and banger for the post-Reunion era. Leaving the country with one hundred and twenty-six songs played, they stayed in Oceania for two more shows over twenty-five hundred miles away in Auckland. Having not played in New Zealand since March 28th … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: March 1st, 2014 – Auckland, NZ – Mt. Smart Stadium
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