Promoter Barley Arts has confirmed today the concerts in Italy. There’ll be 3 shows in the following cities:
7 june: Stadio Meazza di Milano
10 june: Stadio Franchi di Firenze
11 june: Stadio Nereo Rocco di Trieste
Pre-sale on Nov. 24th thru Ticketone.it
After weeks of rumours, it is now official: Bruce Springsteen will have a new album out soon, and he will tour with The E Street Band in 2012. This is the announcement posted today on BS.net:
Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street.
A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct. The European dates run from the middle of May until end of July and are being announced this week. Info on the US dates and the World tour dates will coming up shortly.
In addition, we want you to know that the music is almost done (but still untitled), we have almost settled on the release date (but not quite yet), and that we are all incredibly excited about everything that we’re planning for 2012. That’s all the info we have for right now, but we’ll get back to you–real soon.
Meanwhile four dates have been announced in the UK:
21 June, Sunderland, Stadium of Light
22 June, Manchester City Stadium
24 June Isle of Wight Festival
14 July Hyde Park, London.
Thursday night, in Raleigh (North Carolina). Taylor Swift played in the city and went onstage with a huge tattoo on her arm with the lyrics to «No Surrender», and afterwards got a very special guest backstage: Bruce Springsteen himself, who sang «Dancing in the Dark» to her.
Taylor herself has posted the photo and the story on Twitter: «I’ll never forget when Bruce Springsteen played ‘Dancing in the Dark’ backstage at my show on my guitar, then signed it. Such a beautiful night in Raleigh».
In his eleventh public performance this year, Springsteen played for half an hour yesterday at the Stand Up For Heroes benefit concert, held at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Backed by the Max Weinberg Big Band and pianist Killer Joe D’Elia, Bruce opened his performance with the swing version of «Open All Night» (as performed during the Seeger Sessions tour), followed by «Spirit in the Night», which included a long walk down the aisle and into the audience, singing on top of a seat.
After telling a few jokes, Springsteen dedicated his next song to «all the men and women, guys and gals in uniform», and delivered a heartfelt acoustic rendition of «Land of Hope and Dreams». A live auction followed, and Bruce’s guitar, harmonica and his shirt fetched $160,000.
After the auction Springsteen and the big band performed Little Richard’s «Long Tall Sally» to close the set. Also on the bill were comedians Ricky Gervais and Jim Gaffigan, along with Jon Stewart and Bill Clinton. This year marks the fifth consecutive appearance of Bruce Springsteen at this charity event for the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
