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Perth #3

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The third and final night in Perth featured a 27-song set with 12 new songs not performed at the previous two shows.

Bruce maintains the magnificent «New York City Serenade» as opener, and tonight’s show was followed by an intense rock marathon with «Night», «Saint in the City», «Cover Me», «Radio Nowhere» and «Glory Days».

Some more songs from The River came out, with «Hungry Heart», «Ramrod», «You Can Look» and the majestic «Drive All Night».

The first encore featured the epic «Backstreets», plus a welcome «Seven Nights to Rock» and «Bobby Jean» as closing song. The next show, in Adelaida, will be this next Monday, January 30th.

Phtos: Hans Erik Kern.

See complete setlist.

Perth #2

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The second night of the Australian tour featured a set completely different from Night #1, with 16 different songs no less.

It was a shorter set, clocking in at 2 hours and 46 minutes, with less songs from the early days and a bigger selection of classics and greatest hits, with «Thunder Road», «Prove it All Night», «My Love Will Not Let You Down», «Two Hearts», «Hungry Heart», «The River», «Wrecking Ball» or «Jungleland», finishing the show with «Rosalita».

See complete setlist.

Photo: © Hans Martin Kern.

«We are the new American resistance»

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Bruce Springsteen returned to Australia after three years, with a show (the first of three) in Perth, Western Australia.

As in the final leg of the US River tour, the show opened with a beautiful version of «New York City Serenade» (string section included), which was followed by a speech about the current political state in his homeland:

«The E Street Band is glad to be here in Western Australia. We’re a long way from home, and our hearts and spirits are with the hundreds of thousands of women and men who marched today in every city in America — and in Melbourne! — who rallied against hate and division and in support of tolerance, inclusion, reproductive rights, civil rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, the environment, wage equality, gender equality, healthcare and immigrant rights. We stand with you. We are the new American resistance»


The show continued with a mix of hits, political and social songs («American Skin», «The Promised Land», «Darkness on the Edge of Town», «My Hometown», «Lonesome Day», «Land of Hope and Dreams»…) and a long segment of songs written in 1973, off his first two albums (including «Kitty’s Back», «Incident on 57th Street» and «Rosalita»), lasting a total of three hours and twenty-six minutes.

The encores started with an acoustic «Blood Brothers», after a massive request in the pit.


Before the first show Bruce had a meeting with the local & national Australian media.

See complete setlist.

Australia/New Zealand tour dates.

 

Bruce Springsteen performs secret show for White House staff

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Backstreets revealed yesterday that Bruce Springsteen offered a private acoustic show at The White House on January 12th. The show was held at the East Room for 200 to 250 White House staffers and president Barack Obama and his family.

~going to a go-go~ at the #whitehouse #obamaadministration _thank you for your dedication, passion and elegance-

A photo posted by Patti Scialfa (@officialrumbledoll) on

Springsteen performed some of his classics along with some of his most political work. The 15-song set included «Thunder Road», «Born in the USA», «My Father’s House», «Dancing in the Dark», «The Ghost of Tom Joad», «Long Walk Home», «The Wish», «Growin’ Up» or «Land of Hope and Dreams».

See complete setlist.

Photo: Patti Scialfa and Bruce at The White House gala held on Jan.8th.

Roy Orbison’s Black and White Night expanded

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The stars aligned on September 30th 1987 for a special Roy Orbison concert at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. Roy’s star-studded band included Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, K.D. Lang, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes… plus the members of Elvis Presley’s 1969-1977 touring band: James Burton, Ronnie Tutt, Jerry Scheff and Glen D. Hardin.

The extraordinary concert, a highlight in rock’n’roll history, was filmed, broadcast on TV and later published in DVD. Thirty years later it will get the deluxe treatment. On Feb.24th Roy Orbison: Black & White Night 30 will be published in DVD and Bluray formats, including unseen rehearsal and interview footage, additional songs and the «secret concert» they performed after the formal show ended.

Roy Orbison: Black & White Night 30 includes:

1) Only the Lonely
2) Leah
3) In Dreams
4) Crying
5) Uptown
6) The Comedians
7) Blue Angel+
8) It’s Over
9) Running Scared
10) Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
11) Mean Woman Blues
12) Candy Man
13) Ooby Dooby
14) Blue Bayou
15) Go Go Go (Down the Line)
16) (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
17) Claudette
18) Oh, Pretty Woman (Alternate Version)*
19) Oh, Pretty Woman
Secret Post Show
1) (All I Can Do Is) Dream You (Alternate Version)*
2) The Comedians (Alternate Version)*
3) Candy Man (Alternate Version)*
4) Claudette (Alternate Version)*
5) Uptown (Alternate Version)*
*Previously unreleased
+First time on DVD
DVD/Blu-ray bonus features:
– Bonus Rehearsal & Interview Footage
– Photo Gallery