Bruce Springsteen adds second Los Angeles show
After a quick sellout during this morning's onsale for the L.A. stop of the "Wrecking Ball" tour, Bruce Springsteen has announced a second Southern California date for April 27. Tickets go on sale at 1 p.m. PT today (2/3).
Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball" tour will officially kick off March 18 in Atlanta, though a March 9 show at New York's Apollo Theatre will serve as something of a public dress rehearsal, to be broadcast live via SiriusXM satellite radio, which is giving away tickets to the event.
At press time, it appeared this was the first added show on the North American leg of the tour. The added date fills a gap between Springsteen's West Coast tour leg and a hop to New Orleans, where Springsteen and the E Street Band will revisit the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
The Los Angeles shows will take place at the city's venerable Sports Arena, a regular stop on Springsteen itineraries going back to "The River" tour in 1980.
With the launch of the much more modern Staples Center in 1999 (which Springsteen inaugurated during the E Street Band's reunion tour and roundly criticized from the stage for box office problems and the glass-walled luxury suites ringing the venue), most arena tours bypass the area's older Sports Arena and Forum, save for Springsteen with his regular tours and the likes of Prince, who played a high-profile residency at the Forum in 2011.
9 - New York, NY - Apollo Theater (SiriusXM show)
18 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
19 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum
23 - Tampa, FL - Tampa Bay Times Forum
26 - Boston, MA - TD Garden
28, 29 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
April 2012
1 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center
3, 4 - East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
6, 9 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
12 - Auburn Hills, MI - The Palace of Auburn Hills
13 - Buffalo, NY - First Niagara Center
16 - Albany, NY - Times Union Center
17 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
24 - San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
26, 27 - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
29 - New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 2012
2 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
13 - Seville, Spain - Estadio Olimpico
17, 18 - Barcelona, Spain - Olympic Stadium
25 - Frankfurt, Germany - Commerzbank Arena
27 - Cologne, Germany - Rhine Energie Stadion
28 - Landgraf, Netherlands - Pinkpop Festival
30 - Berlin, Germany - Olympiastadion Berlin
June 2012
2 - San Sebastian, Spain - Estadio de Anoeta
3 - Lisbon, Portugal - Rock in Lisbon
7 - Milan, Italy - Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
10 - Nocera, Italy - Stadio San Francesco d'Assisi
11 - Treieste, Italy - Stadio Nereo Rocco
17 - Madrid, Spain - Estadio Santiago Bernabeu
19 - Montpelier, France - Park & Suites Arena
21 - Sunderland, United Kingdom - Stadium of Light
22 - Manchester, United Kingdom - Etihad Stadium
24 - Isle of Wight, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight Festival
July 2012
4, 5 - Paris, France - Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
7 - Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
9 - Zurich, Switzerland - Letzigrund Stadium
11 - Prague, Czech Republic - Syno Tip Arena
12 - Vienna, Austria - Ernst Happel Stadion
14 - London, United Kingdom - Hard Rock Calling
17, 18 - Dublin, Ireland - RDS Arena
21 - Oslo, Norway - Valle Hovin Stadium
23 - Bergen, Norway - Koegen
27, 28 - Gothenberg, Sweden - Ullevi Stadium
31 - Helsinki, Finland - Olympic Stadium
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