Show a little faith there's magic in the night
“Hello, London! It’s Saturday night!” That is how Bruce Springsteen chose to begin the last concert of this year’s European leg at Wembley Stadion in London. What followed for the next three hours was more or less what we’ve been used to see the E Street Band do this whole summer: the first part offering... Continue Reading →
Next to the Strawberry Arena (formerly known as Friends Arena) there’s a big mall, “The Mall of Scandinavia”. Oliver, who had arrived the evening before, and I were having a meal and a couple of beers in a pub there before the concert. Someone had done a really good job creating the setlist that was... Continue Reading →
In a venue with a closed roof you are able to use the lighting more effectively than outdoors. That was something that was very noticeable last night in Strawberry Arena in Stockholm compared with Helsinki, where it was naturally light the whole night (which is normal that far north). For starters, it was totally dark... Continue Reading →
If you arrive as early as two days before the show, as I did, it is a great opportunity to do the roll calls. You are early enough to get a decent number and it is also a chance to meet old and new friends. That is what I did together with my friends Ann-Sofie... Continue Reading →
”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... Continue Reading →
Due to the 2024 Football European Championship, only one (!) Springsteen show is scheduled in Germany this year. As a consequence it was also the hardest ticket the get your hands on. However, when it was settled that Germany would play the quarter-final against Spain, in said championship, on the exact same day as the... Continue Reading →
The start of SpringsteenTour2024! This year we are doing fewer shows. Already when the concerts were announced we agreed on a couple of rules on to what shows to attend. The first rule was that if Springsteen was playing more than one show in the same city we would only see the second one, so... Continue Reading →
A trip to NYC for Easter led to discovering Lime Cordiale, an energetic indie pop rock band from Australia.
The Gaslight Anthem is a band I listened to quite much some years ago and I always wanted to see them, but never had the opportunity before. When we saw they were coming on a weekend to Utrecht, a cute city in the Netherlands we fell in love with last year when staying there for... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my annual end-of-the-year chronicle. Here I reflect on the passed year, the media I’ve consumed, the trips I’ve made and other personal stuff and oh boy, was this a busy year! This post took forever to write and in the end I had to cut a lot of things out just to get... Continue Reading →
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