Thursday
Oh Bruce Springsteen fans – a great bunch of people. No need to talk about things like the weather when you realise you’re in the company of another Bruce fan. So a few weeks back I was sitting in a room full of fans as part of Classic Album Sundays, a series of events celebrating…
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Wednesday
A few weeks back Jake Clemons played in the living room of a small town I can’t pronounce in The Netherlands. This all starts back in January 2014, when in the pit of one of Bruce Springsteen‘s Cape Town concerts I met a gorgeous Dutch girl called Ellen. Thanks to super advanced technology (the internet…
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Monday
Boom! A (relatively) new burger has exploded onto the London burger scene, and it’s as boom as the name suggests. Out west in Notting Hill, burgers are now being served with a loud Jamaican twist at BOOM Burger. Order at the counter choosing from the beefy and bacon jam “boom” burger, jerk chicken burger, fish…
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Sunday
This seemingly unimportant burger became much more significant when Springsteen joined the stage with The Rolling Stones in Lisbon recently. I get through a lot of burgers. I’m too embarrassed to tell you how many. Let’s just say about 50% of the burgers I eat make it on to here. I need to choose the…
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Monday
As a Springsteen fan I often feel surrounded by mediocre, lack lustre versions of his songs. Pale imitations. Clumsy forgeries of masterworks. But not always. One Welsh singer-songwriter has spectacularly, and very successfully, nailed it. Recording an album of covers can be one of a musician’s most challenging tasks: how do you remain true to…
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Friday
*This post first appeared on The Guardian Online Every Saturday morning, I set out on my London Marathon training run. Every Saturday morning, I fall flat on my face. Sometimes I slip on a wet drain cover. Sometimes I slip in mud. Sometimes I slip on soggy leaves, and sometimes I slip in dog shit….
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Monday
As a (relatively) young Bruce Springsteen fan, one thing I am always asked is how did someone my age get into his music. Depending on who’s asking, the long answer is a gushing spiel about how every concert is different, the range of material, his live performance energy, his ability to relate to every turn…
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Sunday
Give me my favourite musician, pair him with my most loathed song ever, and drop the two into an arena in Brisbane and you’ll end up with one completely dismayed Bruce Springsteen fan. Normally I love the way Springsteen covers other artists. Adore it. It adds to that thing we crave during his concerts, the…
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Friday
I’ve always been a little bit sceptical of anyone covering Bruce Springsteen’s music. I’ve assumed I’d find it difficult to hear a new version of a song when I’m so fond of the original, spending years growing to love the way that Bruce sings and plays it. A few months back a couple of Springsteen…
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Thursday
If you are flying all the way from London to South Africa for three Bruce Springsteen concerts in Cape Town, the logical thing to do would be to go to the fourth concert in Johannesburg too. I’m not very logical, so I didn’t realise this until the day after Springsteen’s third and final Cape Town…
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