@desa33 posted:

21. Land Of Hope And Dreams

Nice!

Start: 07:30pm approx.

01. No Surrender
02. Lonesome Day
03. Prove It All Night
04. Ghosts
05. Letter To You
06. Better Days
07. The Promised Land
08. Spirit In The Night
09. Hungry Heart
10. Nightshift
11. My City Of Ruins
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. If I Was The Priest
15. Because The Night
16. She's The One
17. Wrecking Ball
18. The Rising
19. Badlands
20. Thunder Road
21. Land Of Hope And Dreams
22. Bobby Jean

Start: 07:30pm approx.

01. No Surrender
02. Lonesome Day
03. Prove It All Night
04. Ghosts
05. Letter To You
06. Better Days
07. The Promised Land
08. Spirit In The Night
09. Hungry Heart
10. Nightshift
11. My City Of Ruins
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. If I Was The Priest
15. Because The Night
16. She's The One
17. Wrecking Ball
18. The Rising
19. Badlands
20. Thunder Road
21. Land Of Hope And Dreams
22. Bobby Jean
23. Glory Days

He would not skip BtR!

@Mathias posted:

He would not skip BtR!

It's possible that BTR was played but no real confirmation until now.

Looks like BTR was played after LOHAD.

Start: 07:30pm approx.

01. No Surrender
02. Lonesome Day
03. Prove It All Night
04. Ghosts
05. Letter To You
06. Better Days
07. The Promised Land
08. Spirit In The Night
09. Hungry Heart
10. Nightshift
11. My City Of Ruins
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. If I Was The Priest
15. Because The Night
16. She's The One
17. Wrecking Ball
18. The Rising
19. Badlands
20. Thunder Road
21. Land Of Hope And Dreams
22. Born To Run
23. Bobby Jean
24. Glory Days

Start: 07:30pm approx.

01. No Surrender
02. Lonesome Day
03. Prove It All Night
04. Ghosts
05. Letter To You
06. Better Days
07. The Promised Land
08. Spirit In The Night
09. Hungry Heart
10. Nightshift
11. My City Of Ruins
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. If I Was The Priest
15. Because The Night
16. She's The One
17. Wrecking Ball
18. The Rising
19. Badlands
20. Thunder Road
21. Land Of Hope And Dreams
22. Born To Run
23. Bobby Jean
24. Glory Days
25. Dancing In The Dark
26. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
27. Twist And Shout

Start: 07:30pm approx.

01. No Surrender
02. Lonesome Day
03. Prove It All Night
04. Ghosts
05. Letter To You
06. Better Days
07. The Promised Land
08. Spirit In The Night
09. Hungry Heart
10. Nightshift
11. My City Of Ruins
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. Because The Night
15. If I Was The Priest
16. She's The One
17. Wrecking Ball
18. The Rising
19. Badlands
20. Thunder Road
21. Land Of Hope And Dreams
22. Born To Run
23. Bobby Jean
24. Glory Days
25. Dancing In The Dark
26. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
27. Twist And Shout
28. I'll See You In My Dreams

End: 10:??pm

That's all folks. Show is over.

Very patchy information from Belfast tonight. Priest was played after BTN. I've corrected the setlist above.

Next stop: Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, Ireland on Sunday, May 12, 2024.

Thanks and good night!

Thanks desa.

Thanks desa 👏

As always From Stan @spring-nuts

Thursday, May 9, 2024
Belfast, Northern Ireland set list

Show started at 7:27 p.m. local time
(five hours ahead of Eastern Time)
1. No Surrender
2. Lonesome Day
3. Prove It All Night
4. Ghosts
5. Letter to You
6. Better Days
7. The Promised Land
8. Spirit in the Night
9. Hungry Heart
10. Nightshift
11. My City of Ruins
12. Last Man Standing
13. Backstreets
14. Because The Night
15. If I Was the Priest
16. She's The One
17. Wrecking Ball
18. The Rising
19. Badlands
20. Thunder Road

Encores:
21. Land Of Hope And Dreams
22. Born to Run
23. Bobby Jean
24. Glory Days
25. Dancing in the Dark
26. Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
27. Twist & Shout
Bruce told the audience he had a cold and thanked everyone for coming to the show.
28. I'll See You in My Dreams

Show over at: 10:33 p.m. local time for a 3:06 show.

From Natalie Paull who was at the show: "He’s been sniffling all night and struggled with his voice several times." Thank you to Natalie for the set list updates and a little bit of information on the show. There was no one streaming, so if you were there, please add your thoughts about the show in this thread.

Next show: Sunday, May 12 at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Bruce Springsteen’s first Irish gig of 2024: The Boss kicks off in Belfast with No Surrender, then builds a momentous set

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Boucher Playing Fields, Belfast

★★★★★

The notion of “no surrender” carries a lot of resonance in , writ across gable walls and inked on to skin. But when opens his show in the city on Thursday night with No Surrender, you know that he’s got a variation on the theme.

This immense show is dedicated to lost friends, about “things that leave us, and what remains”. Springsteen wants us to be true to memory, ideals and the essence of the departed. He plays it like a revival tent show. This is no time to backslide. He wants the hands in the air, all the hearts on the line.

He follows with Lonesome Day, Prove It All Night and Ghosts. There’s a brass section, a choir and the cherished E Street faces. Springsteen wears a black waistcoat, a white shirt and cherry-red Doc Martens boots. His presence is astounding.

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As expected, he’s not going to say much until the band gets revving, an hour into the show. But the songs say plenty, and there’s a great pivot in the evening when The Promised Land is revealed.

The E Street Band has been active for half a century. The band leader will celebrate his 75th birthday in September, yet he looks ring-fit and eager. Springsteen and his band still play three-hour shows, pulling favourites and rare tunes out of the songbook and manifesting a joy that’s genuine.

Belfast returns the warmth. It’s his first show in the North since 2013, and it’s a delight to hear the return of Hungry Heart and Backstreets. When he sings Spirit in the Night you remember the debt that young Bruce owed to Van Morrison’s lyrical soul. Later, the mouth-organ riffology of She’s the One appears to mutate into Morrison’s Mystic Eyes.

Max Weinberg hits the snare drum with an emphatic thump on The Rising. Jake Clemons is playing sax, throwing shapes with Springsteen and being the worthy successor to his late uncle Clarence.

[ Passion, booze, madness and comradeship: Bruce Springsteen’s special relationship with Ireland ]

The final 10 songs are momentous, and the 18-piece ensemble does not falter. Steven Van Zandt throws the repartee around on Glory Days, while Thunder Road steers into an audience walkabout by the pit, as the singer collects trinkets and embraces the faithful.

Fifty years ago to the day, Springsteen and the E Street Band opened for Bonnie Raitt at the Harvard Square Theatre, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The music journalist (and future Springsteen manager) Jon Landau was at the gig and wrote up a ridiculous piece of rock lore: “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Yet many of those gathered in the early summer glow of Belfast will concur with the declaration of 1974. He has prevailed.

You want Springsteen to be tireless, to carry us over uncertain times once more. But he also knows that the gig is finite. Hence the tone of his 2020 album, Letter to You, wreathed around loss and farewells.

Which is how he leaves Belfast, just his voice, an acoustic guitar and a last deal of generosity. He sings I’ll See You in my Dreams. He takes us quietly but resolutely into the night. Cherish your benediction from the Boss.

https://www.irishtimes.com/cul...lds-a-momentous-set/