{"id":29445,"date":"2024-05-06T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bruce-springsteen-offers-up-four-tour-debuts-including-born-in-the-u-s-a-at-cardiff-show\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T15:03:58","slug":"bruce-springsteen-offers-up-four-tour-debuts-including-born-in-the-u-s-a-at-cardiff-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bruce-springsteen-offers-up-four-tour-debuts-including-born-in-the-u-s-a-at-cardiff-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen offers up four tour debuts, including \u201cBorn in the U.S.A.,\u201d at Cardiff show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-06\/Getty_BruceSpringsteen_050624.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mike Lewis Photography\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band<\/strong> launched their U.K. and European tour in Cardiff, Wales, on Sunday, May 5, and had some surprises in store right from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/bruce-springsteen\/2024\/principality-stadium-cardiff-wales-babbd66.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>setlist.fm<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, Springsteen kicked\u00a0things off with a performance of the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tracks<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> rarity \u201cSo Young and in Love,\u201d which was not only a tour debut, but the first time he\u2019s performed the song since 2013.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That wasn\u2019t the only surprise The Boss had for his audience in Cardiff. Later in the show, he took a fan request and performed the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Lucky Town<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> track \u201cBetter Days,\u201d the first time he\u2019s played it on tour and the first time he\u2019s performed it since 2017. Another fan request had him performing the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Letter to You<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> song \u201cIf I Was the Priest,\u201d also a tour debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Then for his first show outside of the U.S. on this leg of the trek,\u00a0Springsteen kicked off the encore with &#8220;Born In the U.S.A.,\u201d another debut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The show featured plenty of Springsteen classics including \u201cBorn to Run,\u201d \u201cThunder Road,\u201d \u201cTenth Avenue Freeze-Out,\u201d \u201cDancing in the Dark&#8221; and \u201cHungry Heart.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band bring their tour to Ireland next, where they&#8217;ll play four shows, starting with a May 9\u00a0concert in Belfast. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>brucespringsteen.net<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lewis Photography\/Redferns Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launched their U.K. and European tour in Cardiff, Wales, on Sunday, May 5, and had some surprises in store right from the start. According to setlist.fm, Springsteen kicked\u00a0things off with a performance of the Tracks rarity \u201cSo Young and in<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bruce-springsteen-offers-up-four-tour-debuts-including-born-in-the-u-s-a-at-cardiff-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}