”Hey, Odense. Er I klar?” (Are you ready?), Bruce shouts when he walks on the stage at exactly 20:00, and then counts down to Lonesome Day, followed by No Surrender, Prove It All Night and My Love Will Not Let You Down. We’re off to a great start even though I would have preferred the songs in a different order. Both My Love Will Not Let You Down and No Surrender are better starters than Lonesome Day in my opinion. In fact, I would have hoped for a totally different starter. Why not kick off with Meet Me In the City, Badlands or even Burnin’ Train (just a humble suggestion)?
I’m in the back of the pit with Eelco and Jetske, from the Netherlands and Werner and his friend from Germany. My usual travel companion, Oliver, sadly had to sit this show out. My roommate for this trip is Jennifer (also from the Netherlands). She chose to stand closer to the stage. Odense Dyrskueplads is a huge field that tonight holds 53.000 people. On the screen I can see a sea of people behind me. The sun is shining and there is a constant flow of people passing to and fro the beer stands.
After about three hours the show is over. It was a solid show, with a pretty standard setlist but a with a few variations, such as Hungry Heart and Trapped. Bruce dedicated I’ll See You In My Dreams to a woman in the audience who had lost her husband and a boy exchanged his stuffed toy for a harmonica 😖.
I had a great time and I was even caught on camera during the show (see picture from the newspaper fyens.de). The audience was a bit flat, though. Now take an even closer look at the picture! Why am I the only one in the back of the pit who is dancing? And why, may one wonder, am I the only one who is facing the wrong direction? 🤪
Next show: Helsinki
1. Lonesome Day
2. No Surrender
3. Prove It All Night
4. My Love Will Not Let You Down
5. E Street Shuffle
6. Reason To Believe
7. The Promised Land
8. Hungry Heart
9. Spirit In The Night
10. Trapped
11. Working On The Highway
12. Darlington County
13. My Hometown
14. The River
15. Nightshift
16. Last Man Standing
17. Backstreets
18. Because The Night
19. She’s The One
20. Wrecking Ball
21. The Rising
22. Badlands
23. Thunder Road
24. Born In The USA
25. Born To Run
26. Bobby Jean
27. Dancin’ In The Dark
28. Tenth Ave Freeze Out
29. Twist and Shout
30. I’ll See You In My Dreams
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