Europe - The Boss Is Here

So the first European show tonight at Seville in Spain.  There was a soundcheck yesterday.

We have photos

We have a soundcheck set list


1.We Take Care Of Our Own
2.Death To My Hometown
3.Rocky Ground
4.Thunder Road
5.Waiting On A Sunny Day
6.I’m Goin’ Down
7.The Promise
8.Shackled and Drawn
9.Apollo Medley
10.We Are Alive

...and a very short You Tube clip




Yes - the excitement is certainly building over here !!

There are some worries about the size of tonight's crowd I understand.  According to a couple of tourist sites the last time he played here there were 30,000 in the crowd.

The stage has been set up in the middle of the pitch and a thread on Greasy Lake seems to be estimating tonight's crowd to be only 20,000. I don't know how anyone gets to know this stuff.

Perhaps not such a good start to the European leg then. Let's hope the people who turn up have enough enthusiasm to make up for the smaller numbers. I remember during the last tour there was some evidence that Bruce often puts his all into shows when there are smaller crowds - we shall see.  I suppose from a publicity point of view it would be a good idea to make this a stand out show. With tickets still available for some of the later European shows it might boost sales.

I'm watching Football (soccer to some of you) on TV at the moment.  It's from The Etihad Stadium in Manchester UK.  Some of us will be there in a few weeks time.  It has 48,000 seats for football games - don't know how that translates into a concert crowd - some seats lost but lots of folks standing.  It isn't sold out.  There are pitch tickets and seats at the back still available.

Just checked the seating plan again and we are quite happy with our lot - high up but fairly near the stage.

We made a lot of friends on the Working on a Dream tour. Before 2009 it was just the two of us.  We made our own plans and had no idea what anyone else was doing. This time around we are sharing plans with loads of other fans. This has pros and cons.

I'm a little sad that we are not going to many shows compared with some of our friends.  Particularly so because our gigs are all in the space of a couple of weeks. It's just worked out that way. We knew we would go to both UK shows. Paris is easy to get to from the UK and back to back shows made it a no brainer for us.  It would have been good to have spread the shows out a bit more though.  Our European tour will be over in a heartbeat.

BUT

I'm so excited for all our Bruce buddies who will be on their way shortly. We will be able to live the tour with them and that's going to make each show more personal for us.

SO

Here we go everyone. Have a great time and don't forget to keep in touch!