New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Last night in Dublin, Ireland,
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened their 2008 European tour to rapturous critical response. The Irish Times said "Bruce Springsteen finds his promised land under slate-grey skies of Dublin." The Evening Herald pronounced that the concert "reaches dizzying heights," continuing, "it all becomes very clear to those new to the Springsteen experience, just why he's considered one of the greatest live acts in the world."
The band will perform 23 dates in Europe. Then Springsteen will play a three-night home stand at Giants Stadium, a date at Massachusetts' Gillette Stadium and headline Harley Davidson's 105th Anniversary Festival in Milwaukee, WI. Springsteen is the number one selling artist at the Meadowlands (which includes Giants Stadium) in New Jersey having sold out 66 concerts to date, including 51 with the E Street Band.
The 23 European tour dates follow an extensive tour in the US this spring. Springsteen and the E Street Band have performed 105 different songs on the tour, which has prompted singular raves in the press. In March, Newsday (NY) commented, "Springsteen and the E Street Band delivered an arena show that felt by turns both spectacular and intimate. Three decades into a near-perfect career, with a reputation for raucous and roof-raising performances, the question is no longer, 'Were they good?' The question is, 'How good were they?'"
Orange County Register (CA) said of an April show, "To those of you who just experienced your first Boss bash and are looking for validation of your joyously overcome feelings: Yes, we know. Pretty incredible, huh? Oh, and yes, he's almost always this amazing. Sometimes more."' Likewise, Houston Chronicle (TX) called a performance "joyous, poignant and a shared experience." In May, the Winston-Salem Journal (NC) declared, "Springsteen and his band perform as if called to help America find itself again."
Bruce Springsteen's twenty-third album 'Magic' was released October 2 on Columbia Records and debuted at number one on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart. Rolling Stone awarded the album five stars, saying, "A firm beat, some Telecaster sting and the robust peal of Clarence Clemons' saxophone can still tell you more about the human condition than a thousand op-ed words."
'Magic' has been certified triple Platinum in Norway; double Platinum in Ireland and Sweden; Platinum in the United States, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Spain, and Canada; and Gold in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND 2008 TOUR DATES
May 22 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena
May 23 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena
May 25 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena
May 28 Manchester, UK Old Trafford Stadium
May 30 London, UK Emirates Stadium
May 31 London, UK Emirates Stadium
June 14 Cardiff, UK Millenium Stadium
June 16 Dusseldorf, GE LTU Arena
June 18 Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
June 21 Hamburg, GE HSH Nordbank Arena
June 23 Brussels, BE Sportpaleis d'Anvers
June 25 Milan, IT Stadio San Siro
June 27 Paris, FR Parc Des Princes
June 29 Copenhagen, DE Parken
July 4 Gothenburg, SW Ullevi
July 5 Gothenburg, SW Ullevi
July 7 Oslo, Norway Valle Hoven
July 8 Oslo, Norway Valle Hoven
July 11 Helsinki, Finland Olympia Stadium
July 15 San Sebastian, Spain Estadio De Anoeta
July 17 Madrid, Spain Estadio Santiago Bernabeu
July 19 Barcelona, Spain Camp Nou
July 20 Barcelona, Spain Camp Nou
July 27 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
July 28 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
July 31 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
August 2 Foxboro, MA Gillette Stadium
August 30 Milwaukee, WI Veterans Park
(Harley Davidson 105th Anniversary Festival)
