Less than a year after playing three sell-out gigs at the RDS in Dublin, the man universally known as 'The Boss' has announced he is coming back.
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are set to make yet another return visit to Ireland on July 11th in support of his twenty-fourth 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 and 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.
Springsteen, 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.
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 DublinDVD, which featured 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 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 over 120 million albums worldwide and over the years has won eighteen Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Oscar in 1994 for his song
Streets of Philadelphia, which appeared on the soundtrack to the film
Philadelphia, starring Tom Hanks.
