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Six months after Bruce Springsteen suspended his world tour so he may recuperate from a painful peptic ulcer, he was again onstage with the E Avenue Band Tuesday night time in Phoenix, for the primary gig of the yr. And whereas the setlist was largely the identical because the one he delivered nightly in 2023, he did make some minor alterations, and create area for additional additions because the yr progresses.
Nearly all of final yr’s concert events kicked off with “No Give up,” but it surely loosened up throughout the stadium portion on the very finish when he began breaking out “Lonesome Day” and “Evening” previous to it. He caught with that trio of songs on the high of the Phoenix present, and in addition carried out “Darlington County” and “Darkness on the Fringe of City” early within the night time. Each songs had been solely performed on choice events final yr.
All 66 reveals of 2023 featured a 12-minute rendition of “Kitty’s Again,” however he dropped it in Phoenix together with “The E Avenue Shuffle,” which was performed 50 occasions final yr. This freed up practically 20 minutes of set time that gave him area to play “Spirit within the Evening” (performed simply twice final yr) and Ben E. King’s “Don’t Play That Sound (You Lied), which was dropped from the 2023 set within the second week of the tour.
The second half of the present, kicking off with the story of his late Castiles bandmate George Theiss and the emotionally-charged double shot of “Final Man Standing” and “Backstreets,” was largely an identical to earlier units. However he did bust out “Twist and Shout” on the finish of the primary encore in response to an indication from an 18-year-old fan that was seeing him for the primary time.
The tour continues March 22 on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas. It heads to Europe for a run of stadiums in Could, earlier than returning to America in August for a mix of enviornment and stadium dates together with a headlining slot on the Sea.Hear.Now Competition in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It wraps up Nov. 22 on the Rogers Area in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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If the previous is any precedent, the setlist ought to proceed to evolve within the coming months. It might by no means attain the purpose Springsteen hit within the 2010s the place the present modified radically from night time to nighttime, and he took random signal requests all through the night, but it surely’s not possible to say for positive. We’ve a protracted technique to go till closing night time in Vancouver.
Right here is the whole Phoenix setlist:“Lonesome Day”“Evening”“No Give up”“Two Hearts”“Darlington County”“Ghosts”“Show It All Evening”“Darkness on the Fringe of City”“Letter to You”“The Promised Land”“Spirit within the Evening”“Don’t Play That Music (You Lied)”“Nightshift”“Mary’s Place”“Final Man Standing”“Backstreets”“As a result of the Evening”“She’s the One”“Wrecking Ball”“The Rising”“Badlands”“Thunder Street”Encore“Born To Run”“Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”“Glory Days”“Dancing within the Darkish”“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”“Twist and Shout”Encore “I’ll See You in My Goals”