Bruce Springsteen’s first Sydney concert on Wednesday night was a Australian Oz Rock classic feast with covers from The Easybeats, INXS as well as his previously recorded Saints cover and a Johnny O’Keefe classic.
Fans were also treated to another complete album live. This time 1978’s ‘Darkness On The Edge Of Town’.
Bruce opened with arguably the greatest Australian rock and roll song of all-time – The Easybeats ‘Friday On My Mind’.
For his fifth song he performed The Saints ‘Just Like Fire Would’. No surprises there. The E Street Band first played the song in 2013 in Brisbane as a homage to the Brisbane band and then recorded the track in Sydney. It is featured on Bruce’s current album ‘High Hopes’.
INXS ‘Don’t Change’ was a surprise. Springsteen opened the encore with the INXS classic. He also performed The Isley Brothers ‘Shout’ which in Australia is known as a Johnny O’Keefe hit.
Bruce Springsteen Sydney Setlist February 19, 2014
Friday On My Mind (The Easybeats cover)
Out In The Street (from The River, 1980)
Cadillac Ranch (from The River, 1980)
High Hopes (from High Hopes, 2014)
Just Like Fire Would (from High Hopes, 2014)
Spirit In The Night (from Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, 1973)
Darkness On The Edge of Town album
Badlands
Adam Raised A Cain
Something In The Night
Candy’s Room
Racing In The Street
The promised Land
Factory
Streets Of Fire
Prove It All Night
Darkness On The Edge of Town
Darlington County (from Born In The USA, 1985)
Shackled And Drawn (from Wrecking Ball, 2012)
Waiting On A Sunny Day (from The Rising, 2002)
The Ghost Of Tom Joad (from High Hopes, 2014)
The Land Of Hope and Dreams (from Live In New York City, 2001)
Don’t Change (INXS cover)
Born To Run (from Born To Run, 1975)
Dancing In The Dark (from Born In The USA, 1985)
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (from Born To Run, 1975)
Shout (The Isley Brothers cover)
Surprise, Surprise (from Working On A Dream, 2009)
Dream Baby Dream (Suicide cover)
Bruce Springsteen Australian dates
February 22, 23, Hunter Valley, Hope Estate
February 26, Brisbane, Entertainment Centre
Bruce Springsteen performs Friday On My Mind
Bruce Springsteen performs Don’t Change
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