Saturday
Not long ago I wrote a Beginner’s Guide To ‘Doing’ Bruce Springsteen live. I warned that when the concerts ended, I might face an urgent need to buy more tickets and try to prevent the Bruce Blues for as long as possible. It’s really hard to control myself when that feeling starts creeping up on…
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Sunday
I didn’t plan to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Leeds. I’d got all my tickets for other dates, sussed out where I was heading and decided that enough money had been spent. I was told that any more dates would be…”excessive”. But then Leeds was announced. A new indoor venue in…
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Wednesday
I’m going to get emotional for one minute. Stick with me. It’s just about a year since I started my blog, Burgers and Bruce. It started when my friends were a) fed up hearing me talking about the burgers/food I’d been eating b) even more fed up at seeing me mope around, suffering the tragedy…
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Monday
Belfast was always going to be a special show for me. I’ve been visiting the city for years. Home of my grandparents, I’ve spent long summer holidays playing in the street, kicking a football against the wall and waiting for the chimes of the ice cream man. As you may have seen me mention just…
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Monday
“If dreams came true, oh wouldn’t that be nice…” (Prove It All Night, 1978) Since I started Burgers and Bruce the two questions I’m always asked are “have you met Bruce Springsteen” and “do you know if he even likes burgers”. It was always a sad “no” to both. I did some research on the…
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Thursday
I eat a lot of burgers. In fact, ‘a lot’ is an understatement. I eat too many burgers. So with so many burgers available, it’s really important for them to stand themselves out from the crowd, and keep me interested. Burgers need to treat me mean and keep me keen. This Saturday, Springsteen is playing…
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Monday
Each time I set off for another Springsteen show I get asked why I’m going to another, “aren’t you tired of hearing the same old songs the whole time”. I try to explain, exasperated, that every show is different, there’s so many songs to hear that no Springsteen concert is ever the same. It’s not…
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Sunday
A Burgers and Bruce report. One of the first questions people ask me when they discover my, er, passion for burgers and Bruce Springsteen, is whether Bruce himself likes burgers. My answer is always “of course he does”. Because really, why wouldn’t you like burgers? But I keep having a dream. I’ve had it a…
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Thursday
This post is very brief because tomorrow I’m flying to Italy to see Springsteen and I haven’t packed, booked a place to stay, and perhaps most importantly, found my passport yet. My priority this evening was to go to Shake Shack, one of the newest burger openings in London. Shake Shack was originally started up…
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Monday
If there’s a load of typos and spelling mistakes in this post I’m sorry. I’m sat on my sofa the day after Springsteen at Hard Rock Calling and I am whacked. Who knew watching Bruce and the band could be so exhausting? So Hard Rock Calling was my third Springsteen show this year. It seems…
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