Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: August 9th, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field

“Ain’t seen you in a little while! How you been?!” Two weeks after their concluding the European stage of their tour in Monza, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 International Tour resumed as the second North American leg kicked off in Chicago. Having skipped past any arenas in the Windy City between February …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: July 25th, 2023 – Monza, IT – Autodromo Nazionale di Monza

There’s a moment in Thom Zimny’s 2020 Letter To You documentary where, having finished work on their first two song performances for the LP of the same name, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band share a toast to their vision of the opening nights of the 2022 tour: four nights in the San Siro. …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: July 23rd, 2023 – Munich, DE – Olympiastadion

For Springsteen fans in the twenty-first century, the final shows of a European tour have typically brought out setlist changes and big surprises, but as we well know this time around, this isn’t the kind of tour fans have become accustomed to. The penultimate show in Europe saw Springsteen and the E Street Band remain …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: July 21st, 2023 – Hockenheim, DE – Hockenheimring

After a jaunt into Vienna, the antepenultimate show of the 2023 European leg brought Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band back into Germany, and Hockenheimring was the site for them as they hoped to deliver another enjoyable show. It would certainly be enjoyable, and it would also be notable, but once again not for …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: July 18th, 2023 – Vienna, AT – Ernst Happel Stadion

With the end of their 2023 European leg drawing closer, a potential sojourn in Germany for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was adjourned by a stop in Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadion. It was a notable night, too, however not for reasons many fans would have been wishing going into the show. An identical …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: July 15th, 2023 – Hamburg, DE – Volksparkstadion

After two shows in Copenhagen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Germany, arriving in Hamburg and its Volksparkstadion to follow up on smashing that bar raised on June 21st in Düsseldorf.  Unlike that night in the Merkur Spiel-Arena this was a show without any tour debuts, but it wasn’t too dissimilar to what …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: July 13th, 2023 – Copenhagen, DK – Parken Stadion

Forty-eight hours later, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Parken, with the aim of leaving their Danish audience just as overjoyed as they left them on July 11th.  With expectations lowered about the Night Two Rule and what it consists of on this tour after the shows in Gothenburg and London, those …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 28th, 2023 – Gothenburg, SE – Ullevi

When an Archive Series - Live Download show is released, there is often a discussion amongst fans about the quality of artwork that accompanies it and how it befits the release. Now, I have my favourites and my Stockholm 2005s, but usually I’m of the impression that artwork has no relevance to the quality of …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 26th, 2023 – Gothenburg, SE – Ullevi

Forty-eight hours after they reacquainted themselves with one of their most adoring audiences, Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to Ullevi hoping to deliver the ‘spectacular’ that Bruce teased as he closed the night out. June 24th saw them raise a high, albeit reachable bar, one that they were definitely going to try and …

Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: June 24th, 2023 – Gothenburg, SE – Ullevi

After seven long years, the moment was finally here: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were back in Gothenburg. The adopted home of Clarence Clemons, a city of special moments and performances, and the site of a stadium that has broken at least once in the past because of “Twist and Shout,” it was …