11.6.2025 - Berlin, Germany, Olympiastadion
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Re: 11.6.2025 - Berlin, Germany, Olympiastadion
Toistaiseksi rundin pisin keikka.
Re: 11.6.2025 - Berlin, Germany, Olympiastadion
Mikä oli yleisömäärä?
I was Bruced and battered, I couldn´t tell what I felt. I was unrecognizable to myself on the seats of HK-Areena 8.5.2013
Re: 11.6.2025 - Berlin, Germany, Olympiastadion
70000 mainittu täällä
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur- ... li.2332416
Yllättävän hyvin kaikki toimi väkimäärästä huolimatta. S-junaankin pääsi istumaan keikan jälkeen lähes jonottamatta.
Oli kyllä hieno keikka. Enemmän ajatuksia myöhemmin.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur- ... li.2332416
Yllättävän hyvin kaikki toimi väkimäärästä huolimatta. S-junaankin pääsi istumaan keikan jälkeen lähes jonottamatta.
Oli kyllä hieno keikka. Enemmän ajatuksia myöhemmin.
Re: 11.6.2025 - Berlin, Germany, Olympiastadion
Liisa's Show Review:
Bruce Springsteen at Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany, Wednesday June 11th, 2025
or
Chimes of Freedom
When two of the 2024 European shows were moved to 2025, it was easy to guess that Bruce would hardly come over here for just few shows, but we could expect a proper tour in Europe also in 2025. But uh huh, is it just this short list of shows, and no shows in Finland or Scandinavia? What can I do? Traveling to Europe would take too big part of my holiday for just me time (or well, me and Bruce and all my fellow Tramps time), and so, should I just forget these shows?
I didn't make any decent plans, until just 15 minutes before Berlin tickets went for sale. "Hey darling, what if we travel together to Berlin in June, see all the museums we didn't have time last time we were there, and as you have always wanted to see the inside of that historical Olympic stadium, what if I also buy us two seats for a, uh, Bruce Springsteen show?"
Few minutes later I got easily to the sales, but all that Ticketbastard provided me were shitty pairs of seats as far from stage as possible. After throwing away something like 20 pairs, I gave up and took whatever it offered next, as the seats we for sure also sold out very soon. Well, at least we are in! And wouldn't it be nice to sit once during a long show instead of trying to stand for hours on weary old legs?
Then it was June, and In Berlin we really spent several days just in museums and on long walks looking at interesting places. We visited one roll call outside the stadium and saw some of my Bruce buddies there, but mainly we just had wonderful time together, without no strict time tables and no hurry to be in any specific place just in time.
On the day of the show we started seeing folks wearing Springsteen fan shirts in train, on streets and even in museums. Some folks in our hotel were going to the show too, and one museum guard stopped me, because he wanted to talk with me about Springsteen, although he himself couldn't see Bruce tonight.
We thought left our hotel quite early, but the train ride, queuing at security line, several ticket checks, getting something to drink, using a bathroom and finally, just trying to find the right entry to the stadium took surprisingly much time, and when we finally found our seats, it was less than 15 minutes to the announced show time.
But no worries, we made it in time anyway, and let's talk about this place. See the screens on the sides of the stage under that still so blue sky, see those empty seats and long lines of pink portapotties, look at those masses of people still slowly entering this place, and oh, why all the other folks are suddenly cheering? No way, the band is really already entering the stage, and the show is about to start! How come this early? Oh, it is actually exactly 7 PM, which is the announced start time!
There they are! Luckily there are those screens, as Bruce and the band itself are small as flies. And I do not mean your regular house flies, but those teeny tiny fruit flies, which can't even be properly seen. Why this stadium has to be this big? But hey, I can hear his voice nicely, and I can hear all of the band too, and at least I can see them on those screens. Or well, as long as the sky is so bright, even the screens look a tad too dark.
I haven't followed up the set lists on this tour too closely, and so I didn't know that he had opened with Ghosts also in the last show in Liverpool. It is followed by LOHAD, which is also the name of this tour and so it will most likely be played every night. Am I already crying? Of course, just like always during this song. Luckily hubby made me fill my pockets with some extra tissues. Lots of spectators are still arriving to floor and to stands, likely surprised that show started in time or surprised by the time the security check took. And some folks are clearly already going to beer and toilet runs.
Aww, No Surrender and Two Hearts! No idea that the latter was a tour premiere, I would love to dance right now! But all the other folks in my section seem to be still sitting tightly, and so I decide not to stand yet. I just sing along every song, and do whatever hand movements I find suitable for these songs. Oh, and Out in the Street, that's the "my song" way back from 2008, from my first E Street Band show! Why have others said that this is a non partying, very serious and political tour?
Okay, the intro speech of Rainmaker is more serious stuff, and of course I get how Bruce feels about the administration of US these days, and that's just how majority of us in the audience here feel too. German audience really applauds for whatever Bruce says, and all of his main speeches are shown in screens translated into German tonight. And there really seems to be a rainmaker, a miracle worker, a potion seller in town, but is he a real thing or just a quack? This street poet here has guts to tell here in Europe what he thinks about the orange man, but does it change anything over there? And what happens to us Europeans during his reign?
Back to this night, and back to lighter thoughts. The Promised Land, Hungry Heart, The River. Not that happy songs, but anyway old hits and songs I deeply love without any extra political baggage. Youngstown and Murder, a familiar pair of songs. Songs about a blue collar worker and a young man trying to find his place in a world where an organized crime syndicate rules.
Another intro speech, and this is Long Walk Home, which tells about the traditional US of A which Bruce knows - or at least used to know. Oh, House of Thousand Guitars, another song which is kind of about these days, and also another song (like Rainmaker) I haven't heard in a live show ever before. My City of Ruins is a logical song to choose to this set list.
Because the Night? Oh my, I gotta get moving, and as some folks even in my section stand now, I naturally join them for this one song. One of the first Springsteen songs I fell in love with, and I really love to hear it again and again! Wrecking Ball and The Rising, and then to Badlands! I'm standing up again, and there is no way I'm gonna sit back after this, no matter what you others think! Luckily majority of folks in this section also end up standing from now on until the end of the show.
Oh, what a lovely Thunder Road, and the band bows and leaves the stage. A part of the audience both here on seats and on the main floor start leaving the stadium right now, although everyone should know that lots of songs are still going to be performed. The rest of us stand and clap, and the band is soon back on the stage.
BitUSA and BTR, who could even think about sitting right now? Except these three spectators just in front of me, they surely can't see anything! And that group of five persons with seats in this row, who left already about in the middle of the show and never came back, are they just drinking beer somewhere on top of the stairs, or dancing there? Or did they just leave and go home? Quite a lot of moving around here on stands, it would be much better in the pit. But still, this is far better than down there at the back part of the huge main floor, where there are so many people walking around all the time, and also we see better from here than they do.
And now, really 7 Nights to Rock? Haha, what a purely fun rocking cover, the political part of the show must be over by now and just greatest hits and other rocking stuff must be scheduled from now on! Bobby Jean and DitD, it is a full dancing party going on here. 10th has those memorial videos of Clarence and Danny, but after that, isn't this Twist and Shout? There has been a steady stream of people leaving the main floor until now, when they hear the first notes of this song and rush back to the floor to dance!
We had visited the DDR (East Germany, GDR) Museum a day or two ago, and there were photos and a small diorama about Bruce's show in East Berlin in 1988, and how this one show contributed to the movement which made the fall of the Berlin Wall possible in the next year. Now the last song of this show, Bob Dylan's Chimes of Freedom, is dedicated to the people who were attending that show. It was played back then, and after hearing a recording of that, it has been close to the top of my wish list for these shows, and I have even made a sign of it and taken it to a show or two during these years. My wild goose chase is now over, as Bruce starts "Far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll" Oh, how I love this!
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. How beautiful, and how suitable for just this show here in Berlin! Of course I know that the song has been played in every show this far on this tour, but still, I was worried if it might be left out tonight. What a perfect ending for this beautiful show! Band bows and they leave the stage with Bruce and Jake hugging each others, and Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land is now heard from speakers as we are making our way up the stairs and then towards the gates and the train station.
This was my only Springsteen show on this tour due to work, family, other commissions and stuff. Perhaps there will be more in the future, or perhaps not. There will anyway be other musicians and smaller local shows, no matter what Mr Springsteen decides to do after this, and so there will always be live music for me. But the feeling of being close enough to the stage and the performers is something I really crave for, and if my feet just can carry me, I will again aim to the front part of the floor next time. You know, where the bands are, and where so many of my friends are. The effort of queuing, taking time to do roll calls and standing for hours is really worth it. See you in front of the stage again next time!
Setlist
01. Ghosts
02. Land of Hope and Dreams
03. Death to My Hometown
04. No Surrender
05. Two Hearts (tour premiere)
06. Out in the Street
07. Lonesome Day
08. Rainmaker
09. The Promised Land
10. Hungry Heart
11. The River
12. Youngstown
13. Murder Incorporated
14. Long Walk Home
15. House of a Thousand Guitars
16. My City of Ruins
17. Because The Night
18. Wrecking Ball
19. The Rising
20. Badlands
21. Thunder Road
--
22. Born in the U.S.A.
23. Born To Run
24. Seven Nights to Rock (Moon Mullican cover, tour premiere)
25. Bobby Jean
26. Dancing in the Dark
27. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
28. Twist and Shout (Medley/Berns cover)
29. Chimes of Freedom (Bob Dylan cover)
Bruce Springsteen at Berlin Olympic Stadium, Germany, Wednesday June 11th, 2025
or
Chimes of Freedom
When two of the 2024 European shows were moved to 2025, it was easy to guess that Bruce would hardly come over here for just few shows, but we could expect a proper tour in Europe also in 2025. But uh huh, is it just this short list of shows, and no shows in Finland or Scandinavia? What can I do? Traveling to Europe would take too big part of my holiday for just me time (or well, me and Bruce and all my fellow Tramps time), and so, should I just forget these shows?
I didn't make any decent plans, until just 15 minutes before Berlin tickets went for sale. "Hey darling, what if we travel together to Berlin in June, see all the museums we didn't have time last time we were there, and as you have always wanted to see the inside of that historical Olympic stadium, what if I also buy us two seats for a, uh, Bruce Springsteen show?"
Few minutes later I got easily to the sales, but all that Ticketbastard provided me were shitty pairs of seats as far from stage as possible. After throwing away something like 20 pairs, I gave up and took whatever it offered next, as the seats we for sure also sold out very soon. Well, at least we are in! And wouldn't it be nice to sit once during a long show instead of trying to stand for hours on weary old legs?
Then it was June, and In Berlin we really spent several days just in museums and on long walks looking at interesting places. We visited one roll call outside the stadium and saw some of my Bruce buddies there, but mainly we just had wonderful time together, without no strict time tables and no hurry to be in any specific place just in time.
On the day of the show we started seeing folks wearing Springsteen fan shirts in train, on streets and even in museums. Some folks in our hotel were going to the show too, and one museum guard stopped me, because he wanted to talk with me about Springsteen, although he himself couldn't see Bruce tonight.
We thought left our hotel quite early, but the train ride, queuing at security line, several ticket checks, getting something to drink, using a bathroom and finally, just trying to find the right entry to the stadium took surprisingly much time, and when we finally found our seats, it was less than 15 minutes to the announced show time.
But no worries, we made it in time anyway, and let's talk about this place. See the screens on the sides of the stage under that still so blue sky, see those empty seats and long lines of pink portapotties, look at those masses of people still slowly entering this place, and oh, why all the other folks are suddenly cheering? No way, the band is really already entering the stage, and the show is about to start! How come this early? Oh, it is actually exactly 7 PM, which is the announced start time!
There they are! Luckily there are those screens, as Bruce and the band itself are small as flies. And I do not mean your regular house flies, but those teeny tiny fruit flies, which can't even be properly seen. Why this stadium has to be this big? But hey, I can hear his voice nicely, and I can hear all of the band too, and at least I can see them on those screens. Or well, as long as the sky is so bright, even the screens look a tad too dark.
I haven't followed up the set lists on this tour too closely, and so I didn't know that he had opened with Ghosts also in the last show in Liverpool. It is followed by LOHAD, which is also the name of this tour and so it will most likely be played every night. Am I already crying? Of course, just like always during this song. Luckily hubby made me fill my pockets with some extra tissues. Lots of spectators are still arriving to floor and to stands, likely surprised that show started in time or surprised by the time the security check took. And some folks are clearly already going to beer and toilet runs.
Aww, No Surrender and Two Hearts! No idea that the latter was a tour premiere, I would love to dance right now! But all the other folks in my section seem to be still sitting tightly, and so I decide not to stand yet. I just sing along every song, and do whatever hand movements I find suitable for these songs. Oh, and Out in the Street, that's the "my song" way back from 2008, from my first E Street Band show! Why have others said that this is a non partying, very serious and political tour?
Okay, the intro speech of Rainmaker is more serious stuff, and of course I get how Bruce feels about the administration of US these days, and that's just how majority of us in the audience here feel too. German audience really applauds for whatever Bruce says, and all of his main speeches are shown in screens translated into German tonight. And there really seems to be a rainmaker, a miracle worker, a potion seller in town, but is he a real thing or just a quack? This street poet here has guts to tell here in Europe what he thinks about the orange man, but does it change anything over there? And what happens to us Europeans during his reign?
Back to this night, and back to lighter thoughts. The Promised Land, Hungry Heart, The River. Not that happy songs, but anyway old hits and songs I deeply love without any extra political baggage. Youngstown and Murder, a familiar pair of songs. Songs about a blue collar worker and a young man trying to find his place in a world where an organized crime syndicate rules.
Another intro speech, and this is Long Walk Home, which tells about the traditional US of A which Bruce knows - or at least used to know. Oh, House of Thousand Guitars, another song which is kind of about these days, and also another song (like Rainmaker) I haven't heard in a live show ever before. My City of Ruins is a logical song to choose to this set list.
Because the Night? Oh my, I gotta get moving, and as some folks even in my section stand now, I naturally join them for this one song. One of the first Springsteen songs I fell in love with, and I really love to hear it again and again! Wrecking Ball and The Rising, and then to Badlands! I'm standing up again, and there is no way I'm gonna sit back after this, no matter what you others think! Luckily majority of folks in this section also end up standing from now on until the end of the show.
Oh, what a lovely Thunder Road, and the band bows and leaves the stage. A part of the audience both here on seats and on the main floor start leaving the stadium right now, although everyone should know that lots of songs are still going to be performed. The rest of us stand and clap, and the band is soon back on the stage.
BitUSA and BTR, who could even think about sitting right now? Except these three spectators just in front of me, they surely can't see anything! And that group of five persons with seats in this row, who left already about in the middle of the show and never came back, are they just drinking beer somewhere on top of the stairs, or dancing there? Or did they just leave and go home? Quite a lot of moving around here on stands, it would be much better in the pit. But still, this is far better than down there at the back part of the huge main floor, where there are so many people walking around all the time, and also we see better from here than they do.
And now, really 7 Nights to Rock? Haha, what a purely fun rocking cover, the political part of the show must be over by now and just greatest hits and other rocking stuff must be scheduled from now on! Bobby Jean and DitD, it is a full dancing party going on here. 10th has those memorial videos of Clarence and Danny, but after that, isn't this Twist and Shout? There has been a steady stream of people leaving the main floor until now, when they hear the first notes of this song and rush back to the floor to dance!
We had visited the DDR (East Germany, GDR) Museum a day or two ago, and there were photos and a small diorama about Bruce's show in East Berlin in 1988, and how this one show contributed to the movement which made the fall of the Berlin Wall possible in the next year. Now the last song of this show, Bob Dylan's Chimes of Freedom, is dedicated to the people who were attending that show. It was played back then, and after hearing a recording of that, it has been close to the top of my wish list for these shows, and I have even made a sign of it and taken it to a show or two during these years. My wild goose chase is now over, as Bruce starts "Far between sundown's finish and midnight's broken toll" Oh, how I love this!
And we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing. How beautiful, and how suitable for just this show here in Berlin! Of course I know that the song has been played in every show this far on this tour, but still, I was worried if it might be left out tonight. What a perfect ending for this beautiful show! Band bows and they leave the stage with Bruce and Jake hugging each others, and Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land is now heard from speakers as we are making our way up the stairs and then towards the gates and the train station.
This was my only Springsteen show on this tour due to work, family, other commissions and stuff. Perhaps there will be more in the future, or perhaps not. There will anyway be other musicians and smaller local shows, no matter what Mr Springsteen decides to do after this, and so there will always be live music for me. But the feeling of being close enough to the stage and the performers is something I really crave for, and if my feet just can carry me, I will again aim to the front part of the floor next time. You know, where the bands are, and where so many of my friends are. The effort of queuing, taking time to do roll calls and standing for hours is really worth it. See you in front of the stage again next time!
Setlist
01. Ghosts
02. Land of Hope and Dreams
03. Death to My Hometown
04. No Surrender
05. Two Hearts (tour premiere)
06. Out in the Street
07. Lonesome Day
08. Rainmaker
09. The Promised Land
10. Hungry Heart
11. The River
12. Youngstown
13. Murder Incorporated
14. Long Walk Home
15. House of a Thousand Guitars
16. My City of Ruins
17. Because The Night
18. Wrecking Ball
19. The Rising
20. Badlands
21. Thunder Road
--
22. Born in the U.S.A.
23. Born To Run
24. Seven Nights to Rock (Moon Mullican cover, tour premiere)
25. Bobby Jean
26. Dancing in the Dark
27. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
28. Twist and Shout (Medley/Berns cover)
29. Chimes of Freedom (Bob Dylan cover)