Showing posts with label San Siro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Siro. Show all posts

Friday, 8 June 2012

Milan 7th June 2012 - show 31



Mike outside the San Siro - sadly not there to see Bruce
Milan is Italy's second largest city.

Daft fact - the  aperitivo was actually started by i milanesi. An aperitivo is the Italian version of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Happy Hour’.



The photo above has been taken from Flickr and belongs to maxalbino's photostream


We had a lot of friends at this gig, and boy, they picked a good one!  According to Backstreets when I had a quick look this morning this was Bruce's second longest concert ever.  Looking now I see they seem to have changed this to 'one of the longest of Springsteen's career'

Arguably the longest show was during The River tour.  This from Wikipedia. ' The most famous of the shows on the tour is probably the New Years Eve 1980 one at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York. With a set list 38 songs strong, it is one of the longest Springsteen shows of all time and also often regarded as one of the best'


Surely this Milan show is destined to become part of Springsteen folklore.  Definitely an
I-was-there show.

I told Mike after the last tour that next time we would go to Spain, Italy or Sweden. It's well known  that the audiences in all three countries are the best around and Bruce always puts on a great show for them.  Where are we going? Sunderland, Manchester and Paris. Ah well perhaps next tour.

Here is the very long set list.




Lisbon 03/06/12
Time 00.15 (on 04/06) to 2.40
Milan 07/06/12
Time 08.40 to 11.58
1
We Take Care Of Our Own (30)
We Take Care Of Our Own (31)
2
Wrecking Ball (30)
Wrecking Ball (31)
3
Badlands (24)
Badlands (25)
4
Death To My Home Town (30)
Death To My Hometown (31)
5
My City Of Ruins (30)
My City Of Ruins (31)
6
Spirit In The Night (8)
Spirit In The Night (9)
7
Because The Night (10)
E Street Shuffle (9)
8
No Surrender (6)
Jack Of All Trades (29)
9
She’s The One (12)
Candy’s Room (6)
10
I’m On Fire (2)
Darkness On The Edge Of Town (5)
11
Shackled And Drawn (18)
Johnny 99 (8)
12
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day (30)
Out In The Street (14)
13
The River (8)
No Surrender (7)
14
The Rising (29)
Working On The Highway (7)
15
Lonesome Day (15)
Shackled And Drawn (19)
16
We Are Alive (29)
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day (31)
17
Thunder Road
The Promised Land (25)
18
Born In The USA (9)
The Promise (2)
19
Born To Run (30)
The River (9)
20
Glory Days (4)
The Rising (30)
21
Hungry Heart (6)
Radio Nowhere (4)
22
Dancing In The Dark (30)
We Are Alive (30)
23
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (30)
Land Of Hope And Dreams (20)
24
Twist And Shout (1)
Rocky Ground (27)
25

Born In The USA (10)
26

Born To Run (31)
27

Cadillac Ranch (2)
28

Hungry Heart (7)
29

Bobby Jean (6)
30

Dancing In The Dark (31)
31

Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (31)
32

Glory Days (5)
33

Twist And Shout (2)
By consensus of opinion among my Bruce buddies this was the highlight of a night of many highlights.










Sunday, 22 April 2012

I'm back...

... not sure whether this is good or bad!

We have been away in Italy for a few days.  No decent Internet connection and with daily excursions taking up most of every day there has been no time for blogging. The intermittent Internet access meant no Bruce news for seven days either, so I'm a little behind.

Lots of listening to the iPod helped with the withdrawal symptoms and an unexpected Bruce mention in the novel I was reading made me smile.

We were staying by Lake Maggiore, and among our many days out, we visited Milan. We hoped to see at least one or two posters advertising Bruce's show but we were disappointed. It wasn't for lack of trying though. Whilst the rest of our party were off on a walking tour of Milan, Mike and I hopped on the Metro to find The San Siro (or Stadia Meazza to give the stadium it's official name). We found it but couldn't get  nearer than the car park. Any thoughts of starting a pit queue were quashed.  Not that we had any plans to go ourselves but we could have saved the spot for one of you.

Mike standing outside the San Siro - No pit queue then! 


We did have plans to go to USA in the fall but the tickets for New Jersey went on sale whilst we were away. We could have arranged for friends to get tickets for us but decided to leave it to fate - if there was nothing left by the time we got home then it wasn't to be. We had a quick shufti (the link is completely off topic but I chuckled at the origin of the word shufti) today to see if seats are still available but for second night there are only places at the very, very furtherest point from the stage. With the air fare and hotel on top the cost is a bit steep for a seat half a mile away from Bruce.

Tried for Chicago too but no luck there either.

Our thoughts then turn to an extra date in Europe - Milan being the obvious choice as we now know how to get there!!  Some research for later, or... do we hang on to see if there are more USA dates?

Well just a short Sunday post this week - need to catch up with set lists and YouTube clips for the last three shows.  Any suggestions for best bits folks?