Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kick off first tour in six years

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off their first tour in six years with a mammoth 28-song set in Tampa, Florida on February 1.

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Opening with “No Surrender”, Springsteen and the band ran through some of their greatest hits alongside newer material from their 2020 album Letter To You over the course of almost three hours.

The set included a seven-song encore where they wheeled out tracks including “Born To Run”, “Rosalita”, “Dancing In The Dark” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” before Springsteen gave an acoustic solo performance of “I’ll See You In My Dreams”.

You can check out fan-filmed footage of the gig as well as the full setlist below.

Bruce Springsteen and the ESB- Ghosts live in Tampa 2023
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Setlist:

“No Surrender”
“Ghosts”
“Prove It All Night”
“Letter To You”
“The Promised Land”
“Out In The Street”
“Candy’s Room”
“Kitty’s Back”
“Brilliant Disguise”
“Nightshift”
“Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)”
“The E Street Shuffle”
“Johnny 99”
“Last Man Standing” (live debut)
“House of A Thousand Guitars”
“Backstreets”
“Because The Night”
“She’s The One”
“Wrecking Ball”
“The Rising”
“Badlands”

Encore:
“Burnin’ Train” (live debut)
“Born to Run”
“Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”
“Glory Days”
“Dancing in the Dark”
“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
“I’ll See You in My Dreams” (solo)

The US leg of the tour will continue until April before Springsteen and the E Street Band move on to Europe. They will be playing four UK dates in total, in Edinburgh, Birmingham and two shows in London as part of the BST Hyde Park series. You can see the full list of UK and European dates below.

APRIL
28 – Barcelona, Estadi Olímpic

MAY
5, 7 – Dublin, RDS Arena
13 – Paris, La Défense Arena
18 – Ferrara, Parco Urbano G. Bassani
21 – Rome, Circo Massimo
25 – Amsterdam, Johan Cruijff Arena
30 – Edinburgh, BT Murrayfield Stadium

JUNE
11 – Landgraaf, Megaland
13 – Zurich, Stadion Letzigrund
16 – Birmingham, Villa Park
21 – Düsseldorf, Merkur Spiel Arena
24, Monday 26 – Gothenburg, Ullevi
30 – Oslo, Voldsløkka

JULY
6, 8 – London, BST Hyde Park
11, 13 – Copenhagen, Parken
15 – Hamburg, Volksparkstadion
18 – Vienna, Ernst Happel Stadion
23 – Munich, Olympiastadion
25 – Monza, Prato della Gerascia, Autodromo di Monza