Bruce Springsteen landed this morning at Barcelona Airport, the city where he will start his European tour next Friday in front of 55,000 people at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium.
This is how the newspaper El Periódico has advanced it and sources close to the North American artist have confirmed to EFE, that he will offer two concerts in the Catalan capital, before traveling to Dublin, the second place on a tour that will take him throughout the old continent.
Springsteen, who is staying in one of the five-star hotels in the upper area of Barcelona, has arrived in the city three days before the concert to make sure that preparations for the start of the tour are going well.
The tour with which The Boss has returned to the road, six years after The River Tour ended in Australia in February 2017, is designed for large spaces and requires complex assembly that requires about 30 truckloads of material, according to Doctor Music.
As Springsteen himself said shortly before starting the first American leg of the tour, which began in Tampa (Florida) on February 1, it is an "old-fashioned" tour, which for the leader of the E Street Band means a minimum of three hours duration and touring as many cities as possible in large venues to reach the largest number of followers.
The first concert of the European leg in Barcelona has raised a lot of expectations and it is expected that audiences from all over Spain and other countries will attend, as well as personalities.
Some of these personalities have preferred not to announce their intention to attend the concert, but it has already been confirmed that the former president of the United States Barack Obama plans to travel to Barcelona next Friday, along with his wife, Michelle Obama, and their friends director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw.
The Boss and former President Obama have been friends for a long time and in 2021 the podcast that Obama had with Bruce Springsteen, Renegades, in which the two talked about topics such as racism, social justice or American identity, became one of the most listened to worldwide on Spotify.
Springsteen will offer two concerts in Barcelona at the same venue on April 28 and 30 and will then travel to Dublin, Paris, Ferrara, Rome (Italy), Amsterdam, Landgraaf (Holland), Zurich (Switzerland), Gothenburg (Sweden), Oslo (Norway), Copenhagen (Denmark), Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Monza (Italy), before returning to the United States, to complete the American tour
