LESS THAN a year after playing three sell-out gigs at the RDS in Dublin, “The Boss” has announced his return to the venue.
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are playing on July 11th to promote his 24th album, Working on a Dream, which is set to be released next week.
The concert marks Springsteen’s ninth appearance here in just over two years. Given that all 100,000 tickets for his three dates at the RDS last May sold out in seconds, it is likely that more shows will be added.
The man who acquired the nickname “The Boss” while starting out in his native New Jersey in the 1960s, has long been a favourite of Irish music fans and the feeling is mutual.
The love-fest began with a sell- out show at Slane Castle in 1985 in support of Born in the USA, the album which turned him into one of the world’s biggest rock legends and has continued ever since.
In an interview broadcast on RTÉ television ahead of his RDS shows last year, Springsteen said the reception he received while playing here during his Devils Dust tour in May 2005 convinced him to record the Live in Dublin DVD, which was a recording of his Seeger Sessions concerts at the Point in November 2006,
Springsteen won a Golden Globe award earlier this month for his title track on The Wrestler, the Oscar-nominated film staring Mickey Rourke.
He also played in front of an estimated 1.5 million-strong crowd at a pre-inauguration celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington which was staged two days before President Barack Obama took office.
Tickets for the Dublin show go on sale at 9am next Friday, priced at €86.25 standing and €96.25 seated.
Springsteen has sold more than 120 million records worldwide and has won 18 Grammy awards and two Golden Globes. In 1994 he won an Oscar for his song Streets of Philadelphia, which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks.
