Author Archives for Hannah BurgersAndBruce
Friday
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played at Milan’s San Siro Stadium on 3 July 2016. For the last few weeks… months… oh shiiiiit it’s been months, I’ve tried to find a way to explain what went down that night. I’ve tried every day, and honestly, I’m no closer to telling you what happened. All I know is there were tears. Piles and piles of them though that Land of Hope and Dreams opener, and then dotted through that 35 song setlist. Tears of what? I don’t know. Happiness? Relief? Tears of tiredness? Whatever they were, they were tears I didn’t realise...
Wednesday
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Sandwiched between two porn shops in Zurich you’ll find the world’s most expensive burger. But it’s a good one. We found The Bite in a part of Zurich that I quite liked. It felt less polished, less chocolate box than the rest of the city. There were strip clubs and adult film shops, then more strip clubs and adult film shops. The Bite is a cool little restaurant with a lovely outdoor courtyard – all plants and dangling light bulbs. I looked at the menu before we went in and thought it was a joke. £25 for a burger and chips? I...
Sunday
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I’d been told great things about Swedish Springsteen fans, but here’s the prob: apart from two or three friends I’ve made along the way (hello Magnus, hello Anna), I’d never actually met any. I’d heard the stories though – breaking the Ullevi stadium in 1985; bars spinning the tunes on loop in the run up to the concerts; then there’s Bruce himself, always banging on about loving the Swedish concerts. Here’s what I now know about Swedish Springsteen fans: they’re tall. So tall. They’re cool. So damn cool. They’re fans. Big, big fans. People who don’t ‘get’ Springsteen also won’t...
Tuesday
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I ate four burgers on my Bruce Springsteen weekend in Gothenburg, Sweden. Oops. But I’m just going to tell you about one of them – partly because it was the best, and also because Nils Lofgren was there having a burger too! (More on that in a sec.) With Steve (@GreasyLake on Twitter) and Nils Anyway, The Barn. This place has a location in the town centre, but also has a very nice outdoor garden spot by the water if you’re visiting in the summer. The burger I tried was the standard cheeseburger, and it was spot on. Chunky patty, lovely...
Sunday
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A few years back I slagged off Five Guys because the burgers made me feel fat and shit. And while there’s a certain expectation that burgers will always make you feel a bit fat and a bit shit, there are different levels of feeling fat and shit. I felt very fat and very shit. The grease was next level. Then the other night I went to see Alice Cooper in concert at the Stone Free festival at London’s 02. He was great. So great that when he played Poison I dropped my phone into my pint (it survived, somehow). Poison is...
Sunday
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Excuse me a second while I load this blog post with capital letters and gushing, joyful words. I’m just so EXCITED about the BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN weekend I spent in Coventry and London Wembley with some mega-great people. Here you can see a few of them: But I’m getting ahead of myself. Bruce and the E Street Band are back on tour, and so we, the fans, are back on the road, too. Springsteen’s music does great things for people like us, but it’s the tours we really crave. And need. All Springsteen fans have suffered some shit times over the...
Sunday
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It’s a muggy Saturday night in Barcelona. There are 64,000 Catalonians crammed into Camp Nou. On the stage is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, belting their way through the first song of the night: Badlands. And next to me? My dad. Grinning. BEAMING. Jumping like a kid high on sweets. He wasn’t supposed to be here. So how did it happen? Me, on a city break with my dad? Well, let me explain. This is the start of it’s the start of a major summer of travel; not just any old travel mind, but a pilgrimage around Europe to...
Tuesday
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Why read my words about burgers when you can read James McAvoy’s words about burgers? I interviewed McAvoy about his role as Professor X in the latest X-Men film (link to the feature below). After some obligatory film chat I asked him about his favourite burger in London, natch. His response was… colourful: “I love burgers. Shake Shack is my favourite burger. It’s awesome, it’s amazing. I could lose myself to Shake Shack. I could have an affair with a Shake Shack burger.” I told him about Lucky Chip, and how they name their burgers after Hollywood actors (the Kevin...
Sunday
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I wrote the majority of this blog post on the Amtrak train from Albany back to New York. There are better places to write about Bruce Springsteen, but then there’s no easy place. You see the problem with Bruce is that he’s impossibly hard work. High maintenance. Yep, I love him – his music, his energy, his lyrics. But how can I ever really convey that feeling in a blog post? Are there any words good enough? How can I do him, the band, and their shows justice? I always feel like I can’t. Luckily I’m writing for an audience...
Tuesday
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Lake Louise, Canada, is one of those one-horse town kinda places. Except calling it a town is quite generous – the ‘town’ consists of a car park with a post office (closed), supermarket (tiny) and a pub (more on the pub later). That’s not a town, it’s not even a village. It’s just a car park. And there are no horses. Anyway, people don’t go to Lake Louise for the car park, they go for the lake (pictured below, it’s real nice). I was in Lake Louise and I needed somewhere to eat. I’m new to this hiking thing, and...
