Bruce Springsteen General Discussion Thread

Sticks of heinemite in Cork.

/soz

I go to a gig to enjoy the music of an icon. I also like about 2 or maybe 3 pints while I am there (mainly for bladder control reasons!). Hardly a p1ss up?

(Temple Bar - wouldn't darken the door of the kip).

There was definitely a stall in the main thoroughfare doing mixed drinks in cans, pink g&t, vodka coke etc. But was completely hidden by the beer and entrance queues.

Security after people poured their beer into cups at the bar: "Oh you can't bring plastic cups onto the pitch".

Vendors selling beer on the pitch: "How many cups would you like?".

All I'm saying is you go for the Gig .

Have your few drinks on way in and a few on way home and a bag of chips, stop giving out about the price of drink or the poor selection of drinks at gigs , regular gig goers know once they have you in the venue the price and selection at the concessions will be crazy.

Ps I thought this was a discussion thread about Springsteen not the price or selection of drinks 🤔

Off you go. .

PS your two posts have been about drink, not the concert..😛

Honestly, for travelling yanks that's cheap for a beer in a stadium.......

You want to talk about gig let's go I was at all 4 .

It's just the last few pages of this thread have been moaning about the price of drink and poor selection.

Why so many posts about alcohol ? Surely Bruce, the band and the music is the priority. I saw so many people at the two shows I was at ( Kilkenny & Dublin) who had no interest in the shows, only the drink and **** chatting. Go to a pub if you want to do this. It's insane to think people pay €140- €200 or more for tickets to drink alcohol and chat all through the show.

The problem is, the logistics of the concert was a total mess and many people felt some of the rules were stupid. Like, not letting you bring pints on to the pitch and a guy selling cans and offering plastic glasses (the same kind as the pints were holding) made no sense.

Good for you to be there only for the music. Many of us were there for the concert and a few drinks as like any other concert. People are moaning because it was a great concert music wise but a crap concert in basically every regard (after ponying up €140 for their tickets). If you have a problem with people complaining about this, that is on you.

The pints out the back of the stand were 7.50, it was 7.50 for 33cl of Rockshore.

Best I've seen at a Bruce gig was in Prague in 2012, they has draught local beer in the pit, you could stroll over and get a beer, no queues or waiting. I remember it being a bit dearer than the city, about €2.00 to €2.50 for a half litre! My friend still talks wistfully about it.

Great to see a man his age still able to do a 3hour show, only downer for me they didn't do Rosalita at any of the gigs.

I wouldn't necessarily trust Setlist.fm (if that's where you were getting your info from). Always plenty of messers on that while concerts are ongoing. There's been heaps of songs added to and removed from the listing for tonights gig already.

Did anyone read Barry Egan's review of the Croker gig in the Independent? He was obviously not at the concert and was relying on whatever was on Setlist.fm as Rosalita was listed on that during the concert. Rosalita wasn't performed

Here's an extract from his review:

The mean-streets opera of Born To Run was life-affirming, as was Patti Smith’s Because the Night, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, Wrecking Ball and the full-on Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).

On the latter, it was moving to hear a crowd on the northside of Dublin join The Boss in lines like “pretty little place in Southern California, down San Diego way”.