Fans at Bruce Springsteen's forthcoming Hyde Park Calling and Glastonbury Festival dates could be in for a memorable time in more ways than one if The Boss' performance as US festival Bonnaroo at the weekend was anything to go by.
Rolling Stone reports in keeping with his tradition of diving into the audience to take song requests by grabbing placards with song requests Bruce launched off the runway and collected several, before spotting a Santa Claus poster with the words "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". Indicating he was up for a bit of fun, he intimated to his band and they launched into the sleigh bell strewn number in the less than wintery eighty degrees Manchester, Tennessee heat.
In what will surely go down as one of the festival's most memorable moments, part-way through the number Springsteen called to the audience "It's 259 days till Christmas, have you all been good?" followed by "You haven't been taking any brown acid?" - a reference to 1969's legendary Woodstock Festival tannoy announcements following reports of bad acid circulating.
Watch out Hyde Park/Glastonbury revellers, you could be seeing something very interesting...
World exclusive: Q's photographer's behind-the-scenes photos from Bruce Springsteen's current world tour.
Bruce's epic (3 hour) Bonnaroo set-list:
Setlist:
Badlands
No Surrender
My Lucky Day
Outlaw Pete
Out In The Street
Working On A Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Youngstown
Raise Your Hand
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Growin' Up
Thunder Road
Waitin' On A Sunny Day
The Promised Land
The River
Kingdom of Days
Radio Nowhere
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born To Run
Encore:
Hard Times
10th Ave Freeze Out
Land Of Hope & Dreams
American Land
Rosalita
Glory Days
Dancing In The Dark
Check out Q's World Exclusive: Behind-the-scenes photos from Bruce Springsteen's current world tour.
10:56 AM | 15/06/2009
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