After an almost six-year break, the mighty E Street Band were back in action last night for the first night of Springsteen’s 2023 (and probably 2024) tour. Kicking off, maybe a little surprisingly, with ‘No Surrender’, the fairly tight 28 song set came in well under 3 hours suggesting that the days of epic shows may have gone the way of crowd surfing, knee slides and leaping off of pianos. Which is probably not a bad thing really. A good bit of ‘new’ in the set too – although nothing from Western Stars which is a bit of a shame.
Anyway, as we all know, our heroes aren’t going to last forever so it’s nice to see Bruce and the band back together doing what they were put on earth to do. Long may they run.