Blog: State Magazine

Bruce Springsteen is a legend: fact. Bruce Springsteen doesn't do bad shows: fact. Bruce Springsteen loves Ireland: fact. All the history seems in his favour, but on the first of Springsteen's two-night sojourn in Dublin, it's mother nature herself that seem to have conspired against him. The blackest of rain-clouds broods over the city skyline, pelting down its wet misery with malignant abandon, while a bitterly cold wind whips around the RDS as we get closer to showtime. A voice over the tannoy requests punters to take down their umbrellas in the interests of those behind them. Few comply. [...]