Bruce Springsteen; The Boss, live in Cardiff.
Today, my flatmate B moves out. We'll keep in touch, but not Uni is officially over and people are moving out. I may never see some of them again. Sad thought; but at least me and B were both at the Boss concert last night. It was an awesome set, and the Millennium Stadium is a great stadium. big, perfect coverage all round, no pillars or supports anywhere to block the view. If only the stairways were wide enough to have ice-cream hot-dogs and beer vendors walking up and down like in American stadiums, but the shops for food beer and merchandising were close enough, and i got some beer and a Springsteen barge before the concert started. My sister got a poster. Me and my family were in what in a theater would be the gods, about as far from the Boss as it was posible to be, but right in front of the stage; the distance was bad but the angle was great; near enough back-row-center. I don't know were B and his dad were. I was next to my Boss crazed sister, and i think that by about the third song i had hurt my hand clapping. After a hello Cardiff the Boss launched into about twenty or thirty minutes of non-stop songs before taking a break, during which he told a story about how he had to play a gig in New Jersey to pay bail in Virginia only to get the police breaking up his gig and arresting band members in NJ because he played for too long, just like Virgina. He also grabbed some placards from the front row with requests on, and went straight on playing. We got to here "the River" played for the first time in Wales thanks to a request. After the requests it was straight into some more of his classics, with a bunch more saved for the encore. He didn't play "Born in the USA" or "Dancing in the dark" but he did pleasantly surprised everyone by pausing for a bit after "born to run" which we all thought must have been the last song, before carrying on for another twenty minutes at the least, Including
a version of "the American land" which nearly finished of my hand and hand enough soot stamping in time with the beat to do in my foot as well. All in all, Brilliant!
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