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Cruyff14 said:
It's a possibility. Nah, Melbourne > Syd > Bris. Need minimum of 20 people, and deposit has to be up front or it's unfair on Victor.

Would be ******* epic though. Imagine a bus filled with 20 Springsteen fans tearing down a highway with Born To Run blaring going straight into Badlands. Holy shit.
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I can see it now. Watch a show, then drive all night to the next one as you go racing in the street, drive along thunder road, avoid the wreck on the highway and play lots of the Ghost of Tom Joad.

Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad
 

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So far my Bruce Tour is Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane. I'm thinking about adding Sydney. Which will happen. Who am I kidding.

Hate this charade of not announcing extra gigs until later. Some of us need to budget hotels and flights!
 
ManWithNoName said:
So far my Bruce Tour is Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane. I'm thinking about adding Sydney. Which will happen. Who am I kidding.

Hate this charade of not announcing extra gigs until later. Some of us need to budget hotels and flights!
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I am going to do Melbourne and Sydney. I am going to Europe in 2 weeks and it's costing me 10k.

Might do Adelaide too, but I doubt it.

alfy! said:
Saw the Foo Fighters at AAMI, wasn't bad. Lots of people had issues though apparently.


Would be epic news if true.
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Morello is confirmed.
 
Woke up this morning and thought it was a dream.

Normally there are slow leaks of tour info over a number of weeks or months.

48 hours ago, this tour didn't exist apart from a random unbelievable rumour from a few months back, with no detail.

Now, I'm checking flights and planning ticket info again... amazing
 

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Nils, Bruce, Gary, Tom, Stevie + Susie + Patti (maybe) - plenty of up front guitar driven rock to go with that big brass section. Doe Max and Roy play guitar.

He might even pinch the horn section of Hunters and Collectors in Melbourne.

Even though its not a Wrecking Ball tour I hope he keeps a few songs. Shackled and Drawn is fantastic as is Wrecking Ball. We Take Care of Our was a great way to open the tour in Brisbane, so he might keep that.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Nils, Bruce, Gary, Tom, Stevie + Susie + Patti (maybe) - plenty of up front guitar driven rock to go with that big brass section. Doe Max and Roy play guitar.

He might even pinch the horn section of Hunters and Collectors in Melbourne.

Even though its not a Wrecking Ball tour I hope he keeps a few songs. Shackled and Drawn is fantastic as is Wrecking Ball. We Take Care of Our was a great way to open the tour in Brisbane, so he might keep that.
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At Hyde Park last year when it was the band + Tom, Shackled and Drawn was one of the songs Tom came out to play. So I'd be fairly confident in that being there.
 
I hope he keeps most of the Wrecking Ball "staples" and keeps LOHAD as well.

However, a reduction in the amount of Wrecking Ball tracks increases the chances of Backstreets being played this time around in Vic. Fingers crossed.
 
Trying to work out what a full schedule might look like. His schedule in March was

Bris 14 (Thu)+16 (Sat)
Syd 18 (Mon)+20+22 (Fri)
Mel 24 (Sun)+26+27 (Wed)
HR 30 (Sat) +31 (Sun)

So it would suggest a schedule of

Perth 7 (Fri) + 9
Adel 11 (Tue) + 13
Mel 15 (Sat) maybe 16 as Melb Victory are booked on 15th + 17
Syd 19 (Wed) + (21 Fri or 24)
H.V. 22 (Sat)
Bris 26 (Wed) + 27

That would be approx 190,000 tickets sold to go with the 150,000 sold in March. Then there is the Auckland show which U2 got 47,000 at Mt smart stadium a few years ago.

Auck 1st March

Billboard says Bruce Springsteen's Australian tour biggest revenue

BRUCE Springsteen's Australian tour has reinforced his position as The Boss of concert revenue.
Bruce Springsteen's ten Australian dates generated over $25 million in ticket sales, putting him at the top of American music magazine Billboard's global Hot Tours tally this week.

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Billboard reports Springsteen played to 47,796 fans over three shows at Sydney's Allphones Arena and 46,740 shows over three shows at Rod Laver Arena. Both venues generated over $7 million in ticket sales for the shows.

Two Hanging Rock shows - to over 34,000 fans - generated over $5 million, while the two Brisbane shows to over 24,000 fans generated $4.2 million.


Billboard says Bruce Springsteen's Australian tour biggest revenue
 
Oh at it could be promoting a new album or songs written by Bruce in Oz. Might have an Oz flavour. A couple of stories from Rolling Stone

Steve Van Zandt: Not Sure If Bruce Springsteen Tour Is Returning to America
'I know that Bruce is off in August,' he says. After that, 'I don't know'

By Andy Greene
July 1, 2013 2:30 PM ET
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Wrecking Ball world tour wraps up later this month with a pair of shows in Ireland, but a stray South American festival gig on the schedule in September has lead to rampant fan speculation that another American leg might be in the works. In a new interview withRolling Stone, E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt says he isn't sure what's going to happen.

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Springsteen recently told Rolling Stone that he recorded new material with the E Street Band during downtime on their recent Australian tour. Van Zandt was filming the second season of showLilyhammer at the time (Tom Morello took his place), and he doesn't know what's going to become of the new music. "Bruce is always cutting things, always writing things and always recording," Van Zandt says. "I've been saying this for 40 years, certainly since Darkness on the Edge of Town, but he literally always has an album in his pocket. He usually has two of them. What shape that will take, who the group will be, when it will come out, I have no idea. But there'll be new records forever."
Steve Van Zandt: Not Sure If Bruce Springsteen Tour Is Returning to America


Bruce Springsteen Working on 'Wrecking Ball' Follow-Up
Artist confirms Australian studio time with Tom Morello

By David Fricke
June 24, 2013 8:00 AM ET

"I have stuff I'm working on that I'm very happy about," Bruce Springsteen said backstage before his June 3rd concert in Milan, Italy, during a rare interview for a story about his European tour in the new issue of Rolling Stone. He was talking about his plans for the followup to the 2012 studio album,Wrecking Ball. "I hate to say, because I don't like to be wrong," he added, laughing. "But I have a lot of material. I still feel like I'm in the middle of the well."

Springsteen, whose European trek ends in Kilkenny, Ireland on July 28th, has already cut new tracks this year, during the recent Australian leg of his world tour. He and the E Street Band – withTom Morello of Rage Against the Machine temporarily subbing for guitarist Steve Van Zandt – spent one of their days off in a studio in Sydney. That was a first, Springsteen pointed out: "We've never had a recording session during a tour in our lives. We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down. So that was very exciting. And being with Tommy was exciting. The band – Steven, Nils, all those guys – continues to be a source of inspiration for me."

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Springsteen wouldn't divulge any more specifics on the new album or the songs he is writing for it. But he was certain that the momentum from his year-long touring with the E Street Band will carry over into his next work. "It's ongoing," insisted Springsteen, who has one more confirmed show after the European tour, on September 21st at Rock in Rio in Brazil. "A week or two later, after stopping, I'm in the studio working, making a demo. You stop the performing for awhile, because this level of intensity. . . You need a break from it."

"But this has been a great, tremendously rewarding period of our time together," Springsteen said. "This has been the best ten, twelve years we've ever had."
Bruce Springsteen Working on 'Wrecking Ball' Follow-Up
 

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