Bruce Blog From The UK....

As if we needed to go over the ocean to check out how Bruce did in the UK.... But every now and then we need to hear some feedback from fans outside of the Jersey area. It seems that no matter how many tours, albums, tv specials the Boss and his Band seem to produce - there is still amazement at his level of genius. Forget all of the other music icons past and present. Bruce is the Boss. Hands down. Read On.


Glastonbury festival on TV: In which we discover just how many songs Bruce Springsteen has recorded
The Boss brought his A-game. And his B-game - enough games to fill almost three hours, in fact. But on TV they managed to boil it down to just over an hour: but it was still monumental.


Bruce Springsteen headlining Saturday night on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury 2009.

It was an amazing show. The E Street Band are virtuosos; the Boss is probably the best live performer in the world, and he did not stint – taking requests from the audience and playing for well over two hours.

He opened with an acoustic ditty about wandering between the stages at Glasto, and listening to Dizzee; the rain came down and it was sweet and charming.

Hearts melted as he bellowed "Now let's start the show!", and the young and really-not-so-young on Pyramid hill got ready for a romp through New Jersey rock. If we're honest, especially the gang of boys next to me, mainly from the Born in the USA album, please.

Instead, he did a set which was almost perverse in its determination to eschew anything a festival crowd might know, in favour of a purists' paradise.

My devotee husband was in heaven: "he never plays this", "this is the title track of his critically acclaimed but largely ignored album", and "this is usually acoustic", were rolled out. Outlaw Pete was dramatic and stark, but too alien for most around me. Radio Nowhere's chorus "is there anybody alive out there?" felt a bit too much like a plea, down my end of the field.

Somebody forgot to tell Bruce it's not the done thing to romp down the dark side of the back catalogue. 40,000 in Hyde Park tonight will doubtless be delighted with The River. At Glasto, we were mostly waiting for Born to Run and Dancing in the Dark. Which thankfully, when they arrived, did not disappoint. As I trudged away from Pyramid hill, the crowd were singing Born in the USA. The boss was not.