We Shall Overcome
Bruce Springsteen & Little Steven
Live at Rådhusplassen Oslo,Norway, July 22nd 2012. This is a ceremony commemorating the terrorist attack in Oslo and the Utoya island on July 22nd, 2011.
julio 2012
Oslo
33 songs, 3 hours and 45 minutes tonight in Oslo, in a show our reporters have defined as «brutally intense». Bruce has given today one of the longests show of his career, just three minutes short of the magnificent performance in Madrid last June 17th. But a Springsteen show is not about records or lenght, but intensity and emotions. And in Oslo emotions flew free since the beginning, with the acoustic version of «The Promised Land» which opened the gig, followed by a double dose of rock with «No Surrender» and «Two Hearts». The lenghty show featured two tour premieres: «Ain’t Good Enough For You» (off The Promise) and «Streets of Fire», one of those gems Springsteen seems to have forgotten, until a fan reminded him via a sign. The intensity of the moment continued with «Prove it All Night» and «Johnny 99».
After the soulful «Raise Your Hand» Springsteen has brought back «Rocky Ground», a welcome comeback, now in a different spot, followed by «The River» and then the piano version of «The Promise». «The Rising» and «Lonesome Day» are back after a break, and the usual greatest-hits-collection that form the encores, normally ending with «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out», has been extended with the classic «Twist and Shout» and a totally unexpected version of «Night» when everyone thought the show was over. It’s the first time Bruce uses this song as a set closer (it used to open many of his 70’s shows), but it’s totally appropriate in a city that almost doesn’t have much time of real ‘night’ in this time of the year.
Fotos: Jordi Aguilera/Point Blank
Oslo
33 canciones, 3 horas y 45 minutos de infarto es lo que ha dado de sí el concierto de esta noche en Oslo. A las 19:36 empezaba el que sería uno de los conciertos más largo de su carrera, a sólo tres minutos de la magnífica y recordada actuación en Madrid del pasado 17 de junio. Pero en un concierto de Springsteen no trata de récords o minutaje, sino de intensidad y emociones. Y en Oslo las emociones empezaron con la versión acústica de «The Promised Land» con la que abrió el concierto, seguida de una doble dosis de rock a cargo de «No Surrender» y «Two Hearts». Más adelante llegarían dos estrenos en la gira: la divertida «Ain’t Good Enough For You» (un descarte de 1978 publicado en el doble The Promise), y «Streets of Fire», uno de esos disparos certeros y vibrantes que Springsteen parece tener medio olvidados, hasta que algún fan se lo recuerda via los inevitables carteles con peticiones. Le seguirían «Prove it All Night» y «Johnny 99», en un concierto intenso y con más sorpresas.
Tras la impetuosa y soulera «Raise Your Hand» Springsteen recupera «Rocky Ground«, cambiando su posición en el concierto, y se sienta de nuevo al piano para «The Promise». Vuelven «The Rising» y «Lonesome Day» tras un descanso, y la habitual colección de éxitos que forman los bises, finalizada habitualmente con «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out», se ha visto alargada con el clásico «Twist and Shout» y un postre inesperado: cuando la gente daba media vuelta dando el concierto por acabado, Springsteen les ha sorprendido con una apoteósica versión de «Night», ese endiablado rock del álbum Born to Run con la que tantas veces abrió sus concierto, pero nunca la había usado como cierre, salvo esta noche en Oslo, una ciudad donde en verano raramente se llega a la noche plena.
Fotos: Jordi Aguilera/Point Blank
21.07.2012 Valle Hovin, Oslo, Norway
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The Promised Land (acoustic)
No Surrender
Two Hearts
We Take Care of Our Own
Badlands
Wrecking Ball
Death to My Hometown
My City of Ruins
Spirit in the Night
Ain’t Good Enough For You
Hungry Heart
Streets of Fire
Prove it All Night
Johnny 99
Working on the Highway
Shackled and Drawn
Waitin’ on a Sunny Day
Raise Your Hand
Rocky Ground
The River
The Promise (solo piano)
The Rising
Lonesome Day
Land of Hope and Dreams
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We are Alive
Born in the U.S.A.
Born to Run
Glory Days
Seven Nights to Rock
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Twist and Shout
Night
Dublin
The two concerts in Dublin resulted in 46 different songs, more than six hours of music and two memorable concerts (again). Springsteen took the RDS stage with a fake generator, simulating with Steve that they were putting the switch to «On», then saying «…before we were so rudely interrupted…» and kicking off the show were they left it in London… with the final part of «Twist and Shout», inmediately followed by «I Fought The Law».
Other surprises of the evening included the premiere of «I’m A Rocker» (one of the least played and most unfairly underrated songs off The River), the classic «Raise Your Hand» (a steady song in the set list in this part of the tour), the premiere of «My Hometown» (dedicated to U2), the return of «Rosalita» and a crazy end of the show with «Twist and Shout» and «American Land», where a false policeman took the stage to try to switch off the power and interrupt the concert, engaging into a (fake) fight with Bruce and Stevie, all rolling on the floor, in a hilarious end to the show.
The second night featured an amazing 16 different songs from the first show, opening with a solo acoustic version of «This Hard Land» followed by the exciting trio formed by «No Surrender», «Two Hearts» and «The Ties That Bind». After «We Take Care of Our Own» came another shattering threesome with three Darkness songs in a row: «Badlands», «Something in the Night» and «Adam Raised a Cain». The intensity of the concert did not go down at any time, and more and more jewels arrived in the form of «Jackson Cage», «She’s the One», «Atlantic City» or «The Promise» (the piano), followed by two masterpieces such as «The River» and «Backstreets» (replacing» The Rising» for the first time on the tour). The long round of encores included «Rocky Ground» and «American Land» as closing songs.
See complete set list of the first night.
See complete set list of the second night.