Springsteen to play Hyde Park

[Wooderson]

blur are doing their first shows for years, and Bruce is doing a handful of festivals for the first time in his career. When did anyone say they were exclusives anyway? Forget Neil Young... why?

what exactly is your point??

[parsonjack]

Interview with Steve van Zandt in todays Guardian suggests shows in London and Manchester...no word about Glasto though....why didnt the bl**dy interviewer ask him!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/1...uce-springsteen

aaarrrgghhhh!!!

[eFestivals]

Interview with Steve van Zandt in todays Guardian suggests shows in London and Manchester...no word about Glasto though....why didnt the bl**dy interviewer ask him!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/1...uce-springsteen

aaarrrgghhhh!!!

it's in the Guardian ..... so the interviewer might well have asked and might well have been told Glastonbury. But the Guardian are not going to give away what they're likely to get to exclusively announce, are they?

[HolmbridgeLad]

Interview with Steve van Zandt in todays Guardian suggests shows in London and Manchester...no word about Glasto though....why didnt the bl**dy interviewer ask him!!!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/1...uce-springsteen

aaarrrgghhhh!!!

[parsonjack]

it's in the Guardian ..... so the interviewer might well have asked and might well have been told Glastonbury. But the Guardian are not going to give away what they're likely to get to exclusively announce, are they?

[benisright]

I think by Manchester they meant Manchester, Tennessee which is where the Bonnaroo Festival takes place. I'd be surprised to see Manchester, Lancashire getting a visit once Harvey's got his act together and announced some proper Bruce gigs where we can queue all day long to get in the pit to stand in front of the stage and be entertained by nothing in particular before Bruce takes the stage.

[parsonjack]

I think by Manchester they meant Manchester, Tennessee which is where the Bonnaroo Festival takes place.

[HolmbridgeLad]

the extract reads '....soon to embark on a tour of the US and Europe that will take in Manchester and London in June.'...so given the context i'd say thats more likely to mean Manchester, UK tbh.

[HolmbridgeLad]

Bruce played old trafford last year...you make Manchester sound like a small village lol.

[BlackHole2006]

I don't know wether this has been said before but I've been listening to a repeat of the colin murray show on radio 1 where in the middle colin says "Oh yeah and what about the boss, He's playing at g...g...g... some festival in the UK!" He obviously meant glastonbury!

Uber exited now!

Cheers,

BlackHole2006

[Wooderson]

I don't know wether this has been said before but I've been listening to a repeat of the colin murray show on radio 1 where in the middle colin says "Oh yeah and what about the boss, He's playing at g...g...g... some festival in the UK!" He obviously meant glastonbury!

Uber exited now!

Cheers,

BlackHole2006

[Tugger2k]

Good shout chief! I gave him a "GO ON THE REDS!" last year round the Jazzworld. Decent skin. Loves the fest too.

[Wooderson]

yeah, but does the fest love him

when ive missed it and had to watch it on the idiotbox him and bowman make me want to put my foot through the screen

still, bindippers are bound to stick together i suppose

[ferraristu]

Was at Old Trafford Last year for Bruce - should of heard the disapproving murmur when he unveiled a Man Utd Shirt, guess even Bruce makes mistakes. Old Trafford full of Bruce fans does not mean full of Man Utd fans hahaha

I did a good disapproving murmur as a Liverpool fan

He did play Old Trafford Cricket Ground in 2003 - Take That are playing there at the end of June

Edited February 17, 2009 by ferraristu

[Joe_]

I think by Manchester they meant Manchester, Tennessee which is where the Bonnaroo Festival takes place. I'd be surprised to see Manchester, Lancashire getting a visit once Harvey's got his act together and announced some proper Bruce gigs where we can queue all day long to get in the pit to stand in front of the stage and be entertained by nothing in particular before Bruce takes the stage.

Edited February 17, 2009 by Joe_

[b26354]

Was at Old Trafford Last year for Bruce - should of heard the disapproving murmur when he unveiled a Man Utd Shirt, guess even Bruce makes mistakes. Old Trafford full of Bruce fans does not mean full of Man Utd fans hahaha

I did a good disapproving murmur as a Liverpool fan

He did play Old Trafford Cricket Ground in 2003 - Take That are playing there at the end of June

[ferraristu]

Why wouldnt bruce play manchester? he has during his past 4 tours (probably even more) and it is the Uk's second biggest city

i didn't hear that murmor mate, just the cheer!

the shirt was given to him by a fan it said BOSS on the back

[parsonjack]

rumours on Backstreets now of further UK dates on 21st, 22nd and 25th June...with the 25th being a northern show...and speculation that the 21st/22nd could be Wembley shows.....although i'd personally think that unlikley given the Hyde Park date the following week...

[Superscally]

Why wouldnt bruce play manchester? he has during his past 4 tours (probably even more) and it is the Uk's second biggest city

i didn't hear that murmor mate, just the cheer!

the shirt was given to him by a fan it said BOSS on the back

[benisright]

Manchester's actually the 9th biggest city in the UK, after Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bradford, Sheffield, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London...maybe seven other reasons why he wouldn't?

[Superscally]

Dunno where you came up with that stat, but after london, birmingham and manchester are the biggest UK cities - for a variety of reasons. Then its Leeds, Sheffield and Liverpool.

[sifi]

A few sources actually:

Edited February 19, 2009 by sifimaster

[incident]

"which city is biggest" is always going to be a pointless argument, as there's no consistent measuring.

I live in Nottingham, which suffers more than most in this respect - by any reasonable standard over half a million people live here, but for various reasons, mostly quirks of oddly defined local government boundries the population is usually quoted as less than half that.

[parsonjack]

One person has speculated that he might be playing Wembley, based purely on the fact that there is a gap in the Wembley calender... personally, I'd be surprised

[benisright]

A few sources actually:

http://www.ukcities.co.uk/populations/

http://www.citymayors.com/features/euro_cities2.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large...s_by_population

http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/UK.htm

Edited February 19, 2009 by benisright