Bruce Springsteen in Dublin review: The Boss brings curtain down on glorious Irish sojourn
Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt on stage at Croke Park, Dublin. Picture: Collins
Many people have asked why Bruce Springsteen is so wildly popular with Irish audiences. He sold out the RDS three times last summer and completed a four-night tour around the country with Sunday night’s Croke Park celebration. There’s one word that keeps coming up, a small but powerful one. Joy.
It’s in the air as we squeeze through the gates of Croke, luckily avoiding the queues that unfortunately led to others missing the start of the gig. The sunshine helps, although as the good people of Cork proved last Thursday night, it isn’t essential. When the band walks out at about 7.10pm, the stadium explodes with noise. Springsteen leads the greatest live rock’n’roll band in the world into a breathless opening salvo of ‘Lonesome Day’, ‘Night’, and a ‘No Surrender’ which has us all “ready to grow young again”.
