Bruce Springsteen General Discussion Thread

We are getting a film, well maybe, good casting imho

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/27/jeremy-allen-white-tipped-to-play-bruce-springsteen

Aiken, what a cowboy.

Must be making 10 million from Bruces shows here and he penny pinching.

We did, it was actually horrible. See-through white with red writing. We have the worst county colours for a Springsteen t-shirt 🙈

An absolute joy.

It was a great show. But jesus christ, that was the worst organised gig I have ever been at. Unnecessaey queues for everything. I know there was a big crowd there, but it was like the organisers went out of there way to make queues to do everything. Men going for a plss should be striaght-forward, but of course not - join 15 minutes of a queue for the privilage. And there were trying to do some one-way traffic thing going into and out of the pitch area. No need for it at all. THere wasn't that much traffic once the gig started. And the craic of not being able to bring in plastic pints, but you could bring in cans. What was that about? If it was to promote the sale of Rocksore, then that is a low blow. I'm easy going enough when it comes to drink, but Rockshore is plss.

Anywaym, gig was great. Missed the first 15 minutes with the massive queues going in. But I guess we can blame ourselves a bit for that one. The Irish mentality seems to be that we can just rock up at 6.45, and we'll be in by 7. But that being said, there wasn't enough people scanning the tickets. And scanning each ticket takes too long. I don't know itf its a technology thing or what, but it should just take a second to scan a ticket, and then move on. But there seemed to be a delay for each of the scans from what I saw.

Nice to get The River. Hasn't been played many times on the tour. Bobby Jean is a great song. Wrecking Ball is a great song.

I go there for gaa all the time and no queues. Why was it different tonight,?

usually only 25,000 are trying to enter cusack stand entrance from clonliffe Road. It was closer to 50,000 as you had all pitch standing entering the same way.
also for GAA matches it’s often a double header so it’s more spread out, whereas tonight could of easily been 30,000/40,000 people trying to enter on the one side in the hour or 75 minutes before the concert.
Add in stewards who don’t know how to manage queues and too few ticket scanners and a lengthy queue builds up in no time

I didn't think organisation was that bad.. got to St James Avenue at around 6, got told to go around to Foster Terrace instead, walked in without stopping and got to the pitch at around half 6. After the gig got out to Ballybough road in about 15 minutes. I guess it would have been worse if I had been earlier, or later.

Announcements of "only Rockshore lager and bottles of water are allowed inside" were embarassing, though. Based on the amount of crushed cans on the pitch, I estimate they sold about four million cans of Rockshore.

I got there five thirty ish and got thru the Cusack side fairly efficiently. The yard at the back of the Cusack in terms of food or drink wasn’t great, IMHO the RDS set up is much better. Can of Bud nua / rock shore greeted us in the ground… you were not allowed to bring beer onto the pitch from outside. Made no sense.

To the concert, Bruce and the band plied their magic from pillar to post, with nearly 20 on stage the sound, chemistry and entertainment were flowing for three solid hours. I’m not a hard core fan but I enjoyed the gig as I did on the previous occasions. The man entertains, works the crowd, involves the band, they are obviously a tight group and it shows as they leave nothing behind them. Good combination of,the anthems but also other numbers from his considerable back catalogue. Amazing atmosphere in the ground, looked a full house to me.

Great gig and some going for 3 hours non stop but the getting in and out was shocking and never seen it as bad at any event I've ever been at. Aiken clearly don't care a jot about security and safety. I've been to many matches in Croke Park and it never was as bad, including All Ireland finals.

We were on the pitch and according to the ticket, entry was at Foster Terrace and we were told to go there and we'd get in. Got there before 5 and it was closed and wouldn't be opening and had to go all along to Clonliffe Road. No stewards, no signs and we joined the queue at Clonliffe College. Moved for a bit and then nothing as the latecomers joined causing a second queue. After half an hour, the queue moved as a Garda came along and told the second queue to get off the road and stewards appeared and we got in. Saw a senior steward bollock another steward who was on his phone and not managing the crowd. Finally got near the entrance at 6pm and saw another huge line of people coming towards us from Foster Terrace which was when they must have finally opened the way everyone was meant to go in. Once we got in, all fine apart from the food situation. Got grub and bought Fanta and were told we couldn't bring in Fanta by the stewards. Why sell drinks you can't bring in 5 metres away from the entrance into the pitch - complete nuts and just fleccing people!

Getting out of the pitch, we'd to go up to the stands as it looked like the pitch gate wasn't opened. No stewards once we were in the stands and no signs, little lighting as well at the bottom of steps and din't see a Garda until we got to Amiens Street. I'd be interested to know what the reasons were for the mess but it looked like not enough staff and no communication at all between them all working there. There was also blocks of empty seats in the Davin and Cusack so for those saying it was a sell out, doubtful how that was the case.

To me it seemed like the gig became a farewell at times, did he do 3 name checks of the band? A great gig and he's well worth the cost and the hassle that came with it.

he talked about death alright, but sure he done the same speeches last year at the RDS, almost word for word too

I did Kilkenny and Dublin and, based on setlists and general feedback, I think I definitely got the best two shows. Unlike Kilkenny, which seemed to be more fluid (by this tour's standards), he clearly had a plan for Croke Park and stuck to it. No pantomime of taking or going through sign requests. No audibles that I could see, which was borne out by the fact that - when it surfaced online - the printed setlist was strictly adhered to. Consequently, I think it was a strategic (and successful) setlist that suited the venue and the crowd. About a third of it would be familiar to people who literally only knew "the hits," and the addition of My Hometown and Night meant, respectively, five from Born in the U.S.A., and six from Born to Run.

I'd love to hear deep cuts like Be True and Iceman, but, truth be told, there are few things more joyful in concertgoing than being up near the stage, in the thick of the crowd, when Dancing in the Dark kicks in. I make no apology for this.

Stopping people with hot dogs? Can you not have food in the stands?