Wednesday May 22nd
Finally the big day has arrived, along with CT who is 69 today. What's more the E Street Band are in town, well, Sunderland. And we have tickets! Well AT@btinternet.com has.
Took a while to figure out why AT's AXS ticket APP registration using @btopenworld has no tickets. DUH!
Anyhow entry gained at 16.30
Band due on 19.00, actual 19.40 crowd late arriving transport problems
Diehards getting wet
Pre show scenes
Springsteen at the Novello Award, extract from acceptance speech
“As we flew towards the UK in 1975, I was wondering, ‘What do I have that I could conceivably give back to those people who gave me so much?’ And the answer is, everything I’ve got.
“We just came out of playing Sunderland last night… hellacious weather. A driving rainstorm, wind blowing, but standing in front of me in the rain, I realised ‘These are my people’. Some of them were young, some of them were children, and some of them weren’t. Many wore lines on their faces of life, hard-weather and well-lived. Those are my people here in the UK, and I love them.
I want to thank you for taking my music into your hearts and into your souls. I want to thank you for including me in the challenging and beautiful cultural life of the UK.
“Once it was only a dream I had. Today it’s real. And I want to thank you for looking at me and seeing one of yours."
STADIUM OF LIGHT
SUNDERLAND, UK
Tour debut of “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day”
Four songs from 2020’s Letter To You: “Ghosts,” “Letter to You,” “Last Man Standing,” and “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”
“Last Man Standing” features a new arrangement
“I’ll See You In My Dreams” is performed solo acoustic to end the show
One song from 2022’s Only the Strong Survive: “Nightshift” (written by Franne Golde, Dennis Lambert and Walter Orange, popularized by The Commodores)
Concert stalwarts like “Because The Night,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” are performed in tighter, shorter versions
“Thunder Road” is the main-set closer
28-song set
Bruce Springsteen - Lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica; Roy Bittan - Piano, keyboards; Nils Lofgren - Electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocal; Garry Tallent - Bass; Stevie Van Zandt - Electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocal; Max Weinberg - Drums; Jake Clemons - Tenor saxophone, percussion, backing vocal; Charlie Giordano - Organ, keyboards; Soozie Tyrell - Violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, Anthony Almonte - Percussion, backing vocal; Ada Dyer - Backing vocal; Curtis King - Backing vocal; Lisa Lowell - Backing vocal; Michelle Moore - Backing vocal; Barry Danielian - Trumpet; Ed Manion - Baritone and tenor saxophone; Ozzie Melendez - Trombone; Curt Ramm - Trumpet
Recorded by John Cooper
Mixed by Jon Altschiller; additional engineering by Danielle Warman, Nic Coolidge, Allison Leah and Alex Bonyata
Mix Advisor: Rob Lebret
Post Production by Brad Serling and Arya Jha
Art Design by Michelle Holme
Cover Photo by Rob DeMartin
Tour Director: George Travis
Manager: Jon Landau
HD files are 24 bit / 96 kHz; DSD Files are DSD64
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