Break out the champagne, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are back in the UK.
The legend that is Bruce Springsteen is heading back to Wales this weekend with his first gig in Cardiff for 11 years.
Kicking off the 2024 European leg, Bruce and the E Street Band, who have been performing together for more than five decades, will be at the Principality Stadium on Sunday, May 5.
Unbelievably, The Boss and his E Street Band last performed in Cardiff in the summer of 2013. Before that, they played the Cardiff stadium in 2008. The legendary singer played a series of gigs in the UK in summer 2023, including at Hyde Park and Birmingham. But then Springsteen had to cut short his world tour due to suffering with symptoms of a peptic ulcer.
The Boss carried a bottle of champagne when he walked on stage April 12 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. He shook it up and sprayed the audience.
“We're back — somebody lost their money!” said Springsteen with a big smile. “Somebody lost their money or we wouldn't be back. I don't care if you lost your money or you win your money tonight, we're going to make you the luckiest people in the world!”.
Then two wild cards to start the show, “Roll of the Dice” and “Lucky Town,” appropriate for the casino setting. The barker introduction and opening songs set the tone for the show — a night of fun, spontaneous rocking. The show was the first for Springsteen and E Street on the East Coast since their Sept. 3 concert at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford.
So how's Springsteen? The Boss, 74, postponed the tour last September due to a bout with peptic ulcer disease. The tour relaunched last month in Phoenix. In Uncasville, Springsteen was full-voiced, spry, and a bit mischievous, too. He referred to E Street Band during the show-closing exaltation with the X-rated term he called Larry David on a recent episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”.
When he's singing, listen up. There were sweetly sustained notes on “Letter to You,” core-rocking earthy growls on “Seeds,” and majestic intonations on “The Promised Land.” The Boss paints a vivid picture with his voice.
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