Thanks to the ever-impressing thoughtfulness of Sarah, we had the pleasure of, in the words of Jon Landau, seeing the past, the present and “the future of rock and roll, and his name is Bruce Springsteen”, last weekend in London’s Hyde Park. Sarah had been so sweet to arrange for us to go to the Hard Rock Calling event as part of a “birthday trip” to London. Although this meant us catching a 4.30AM(!) [ed. sic] train from Newcastle to London, we had a wonderful time in Europe’s capital.
Apart from just mooching about and sucking up the atmosphere, we did some of the touristy things such as visiting the National Gallery and browsing the many shops. In addition, we had the pleasure of meeting up with our good friend Ellie, who joined us for the concert (Ellie being as great a Boos fan as Sarah) and for Sunday lunch at the Gourmet Burger Kitchen, which serves the best burger outside of California. As for the concert, the Boss, unmarked from a two hour and thirty minutes gig at the Glastonbury festival the night before, was fantastic. He treated us to classics such as “Born to Run”, “Out in the Streets”, “Badlands”, “Promised Land” and “Jungleland”.
By the way, it is the second time that Sarah has facilitated me going to a Boss concert for my birthday. In addition to the Boss, we also had the pleasure of seeing Dave Matthews Band, who, among other tunes played, in the parlance of our times, an awesome version of Dylan’s “All along the Watchtower” with a touch of “Stairway to Heaven”. Oh, and finally, we stayed in a funnily small hotel room near Earl’s Court.
Contributed by our guest writer, the eminent Dr. O.W. Pedersen
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