Tour: The Rising Tour
Date: Tuesday May 27, 2003
Venue: Crystal Palace
City: London, United Kingdom

Set List:

1. Born In The U.S.A. (acoustic)
2. The Rising
3. Lonesome Day
4. Candy's Room
5. Prove It All Night
6. Atlantic City
7. Empty Sky
8. You're Missing
9. Waitin' On A Sunny Day
10. Sherry Darling
11. Worlds Apart
12. Badlands
13. She's The One
14. Mary's Place
15. Racing In The Street
16. Into The Fire
17. Thunder Road
18. Night
19. Ramrod
20. Born To Run
21. Detroit Medley
22. Seven Nights To Rock
23. My City Of Ruins
24. Land Of Hope And Dreams
25. Dancing In The Dark

My Review / Notes: Front row in the pit. An amazing experience. When you see a show from up close, it's a totally different experience The atmosphere is different and there's so much more that you notice. At one point Bruce came down the ramp and smiled and pointed at me and the person standing next to me. Yes that's my story and I'm sticking to it :p
Just one incredible night.

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The following is my review which I posted on "The Lake". Please don't use my review without my written permission.

I went to London, but all I saw was Crystal Palace
I finally made it down to London...spend three days there and the only thing I saw was the tube (the underground), a few trains and Crystal Palace.

Two amazing shows!

On Sunday, I went down to London and met up with a friend and her family and together we went to the May 26th show

On Tuesday, I made my way to the stadium at around 11am and ended up with number 146. At the 1pm roll call it turned out that there were to 146’s! If the other person with 146 is reading this…where did you end up?

The gates opened at 3pm (imo way too early…). As soon as those gates opened, I ran like hell. Some guy who was running to my left, all of a sudden changed direction and I nearly crashed into him… I was so out of breath, but made it to the front row on Patti’s side between the steps leading down the lower half of the stage and the screen. I was right in front of the little backstage area where the guitars are kept. It’s obviously not the best spot (front row, center in front of Bruce’s mic is) but I had such an amazing time!!! Throughout the entire show, there was a girl sitting right in front of me in that backstage area. I’ve seen some people saying it’s Jessica. I always thought she’d be taller, but it’s possible! The girl knew most of the words, had a great time and Bruce and Patti often looked that side. She was sometimes looking out into the audience (I would too if I saw thousands of people going crazy cause you're parents are up on that stage lol) I gave her the thumbs up a few times. She looked like she was enjoying herself. There were also two other kids hanging around there some of the time and one of them even had a little banner. I couldn't read what it said tho. Bruce even did some goofy dance in front of the kids! It was really sweet.

At one point, I think at about 4pm, Nils came up on stage to check his guitar and bout an hour later, I saw Clarence hanging around the guitars showing some people around. Oh the anticipation lol.

I wasn’t expecting an acoustic opener, but yet there it was…Born in the USA and I loved it. It was really weird tho, because during BITUSA, most of the band members were standing right in front of me next to the guitars and I didn’t know where to look! Patti was joking around with some people, Roy was standing there, so was Steve… In the end I settled for Bruce but all of a sudden after waiting for so many hours, there was too much to take in all at once.
Prove it and Atlantic City were both amazing. The guitars on Prove it are great and Bruce was really going at it!
At one point, Bruce asked the crowd who’d been there the night before…big cheer…so he told us to all go home lol! He said he was gonna play some different songs and well he did…
I think it was after Empty Sky, Bruce walked up to Patti and told her how beautiful and great it was what she’d done. (the intro vocals). I can only agree! It was very beautiful!
He was so loose!! It was great to see how much fun Bruce and the band were having! During Waiting he nearly dropped his guitar and did some goofy dances. He did a bit of a backbend and when he hung upside down on the mic, Patti who was standing next to Bruce’s mic was just laughing away. There was also a slide cross the stage (to Clarence’s side). Sherry Darling… A friend, who'd be going to the Manchester show, really wanted to hear this one and I swear when I heard the first notes of Sherry Darling I nearly screamed out “NO! You’re supposed to play this in Manchester!!” This was so much fun! Bruce is definitely working on some new, very funny, moves.
The harmonica ending to She’s the One is a great way to finish that song imo. Mary’s Place works so much better in concert than it does on the album. During Patti’s intro, Bruce did a bit of Rescue Me and started chasing her around on the stage. It was so funny. I have no idea how to explain it, but it was very sexy to see. Apparently, in Bruce’s own words “that always works at home!” He’s so funny when he’s goofing around. More funny dancing and a slide to Patti’s side of the stage now. It looked like Bruce was gonna fall of the damn stage! He really has to start doing his slide sooner and not that close to the edge. Bruce also made a reference to the E-Street Band as the viagra taking E-Street Band. I don’t think Roy heard what Bruce said, cause he asked Patti (who was really cracking up at that remark) what Bruce said and she had to tell him bout 3 times. There’s so much you notice when you see them up close. Racing was beautiful and hearing Thunder Road for the second time was to say the least, great!

Ramrod was very funny. It's BOSS TIME!!! When Bruce and the band went off stage, I could clearly see them to the side of the stage. Bruce was carrying an English policeman’s hat and asked Jessica if she wanted to go put it on Roy’s head, which she did. Bruce blew her a kiss later on. So sweet! Ramrod is always so much fun. The pelvic trusts, the butt shaking, it’s all so much fun!
When we got the Detroit Medley, I figured we weren’t gonna hear Seven Nights to Rock, but we did. That song really has to stay in the setlists cause Bruce and the band were having a blast with this! When the line “seven nights to roll” came they all turned around in a circle. I was so out of breath by the end of the first encores! My City Of Ruins and LOHAD are always very powerful and just when you think Bruce doesn't have any energy left, he starts playing Dancing in The Dark... Jon Landau was up on stage (he was there the first night too) and Bruce introduced him saying something like "I've seen the future and it's scary...Jon Landau"

Bruce came down the steps rather a lot and walked past where I was standing bout 2 or 3 times. Up close…damn Patti and Steve really work the crowd too! When they were all lining up, Patti was saying how great the front row and the pit had been

I'm really glad I got to hear Jungleland (and Meeting) the first night, but the second night was just amazing. The energy when you're that close and when Bruce is pointing and smiling at you is just amazing!

I better get ready for Manchester now...