By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss. More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Two weeks til TONIGHT IN JUNGLELAND. Pre-order now and you'll get yours on pub day! (I'm pretty sure) @brucespringsteen.net @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

#GYTAYS: Suitcase Snaps Series! Limited edition @springsteen prints; 3 online catalogues: drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

#GYTAYS Online update for the 2025 UK #springsteen shows now available via the QR code and link in the ‘Grab Your Ticket And Your Suitcase’ book! Order from #BadlandsUK - thanks to #MikeSaunders for the update reports text, and the video 📚👏🤓

Marseille with a twist—and a shout. New post is up! #SpringsteenTour2025 @pita-oli.bsky.social straybullet1973.com/2025/06/01/m...

Every time you pre-save an artist's album before the release date, you inspire the machines to add us to playlists, which inspires new people to discover our music, which helps keep us employed in the Year of Our Tech Overlords that is 2025. Pre-save link below! Thank you!  https://ffm.to/1dmvmy6

Max dropped some gems in this convo. Stick with it. My personal fav: "We play like it's your first time seeing us and the last night we might ever be on stage." www.threads.com/@bakerman_mu...

Calling out E-Street Nation! Can we make this happen?

As you start to arrive in Manchester from points far away, you may hear other fans say they have spare tickets. If they cannot sell them please let them know they can always send them to me. I know have more than 15 people on a waiting list.

Loved the BruceBase shoutout to curator Danny! Reading a bit of the introduction to @wildandinn.bsky.social inspirational book. Did you get your copy?

Here we go!

Gothenburg 1981 anniversary, and an unusual #Springsteen #ticket story for me… #GYTAYS #gothenburg #rivertour #1981

Happy Bandcamp Friday to one and all! My album “Blonde on the Tracks” is available with free shipping 🧡 emmaswift.bandcamp.com/album/blonde... ⚡️ Thank you for supporting independent art! New music coming soon! 🧡

Pls RT! Grab Your Ticket And Your Suitcase! A reunion episode (S4, Ep9) in the #EStreetCafePodcast - Jeff catches up with Dan & Mike to consider the book, a personal #Springsteen concert history dating back to 1981. Many great memories! Copies via badlands.co.uk / Amazon

straybullet1973.com/2025/04/27/b... Thanks, Anna! 📚👏👍🤓

Un buen día para recordar ese primer concierto de 1981 en Barcelona, ahora con la mejor y más completa copia disponible en vídeo. youtu.be/JXjL9rGfdyk?...

Thanks to everyone who’s grabbed copies of ‘Grab Your Ticket And Your Suitcase’! Also to all who’ve helped spread the word, and once again to comrades without whom etc: Jim, Dave, Mike, Philip and Badlands staff. Please keep the photos of your copies and the reviews coming! #GYTAYS #TretheweyPress

#springsteen Bruce Springsteen: listen to two previously unreleased tracks from “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”. The Boss has shared two previously unreleased tracks from his collection of unreleased songs in the new box set “Tracks II: The Lost Albums”. Clara Lemaire www.rocknfolk.com/author/clara

Shout out to my pal Dan French for his brand new book “Grab Your Ticket and Your Suitcase” available from Amazon. This is a wonderful personal memoir/ travelogue documenting hundreds of Bruce Springsteen concerts Dan attended in over 40 cities around the world. Highly recommended!

Coming 14 April: GRAB YOUR TICKET AND YOUR SUITCASE - A personal concert history of all my Bruce Springsteen concerts since 1981, told through ticket stubs, photos & memories of friends, music & travel. 300-page full colour paperback, available at Amazon worldwide from 14 April #GYTAYS #Springsteen

• This is what democracy looks like — in Boston, Massachusetts. • “Hands Off!” protests against the Trump regime are off to brilliant start — all across America.

It's Jim's tickets and his suitcase again... excited to share some personal project news in this coming week! Watch this space 🙂 #GYTAYS #TretheweyPress #Springsteen

In other news... Jim's grabbed his ticket and his suitcase... details coming soon of my own project due this month! Watch this space 😉 #TretheweyPress #GYTAYS #springsteen

People are taking things into their own hands

A yearly tradition to celebrate Springsteen’s greatest show… ever? Judge yourself! 50 years ago! Live at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA Feb.5, 1975

What an amazing piece of life-affirming, humane, compassionate good news!

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

What a great quote

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

Over on E Street, we are heartbroken to hear of the death of Sam Moore, one of America's greatest soul voices.

R.I.P. Irony. It died at 8:58 a.m. EST when I attempted this Google search.

Radio Caroline is kindly presenting another of my 'Top Fifteen' music selections - it’s a replay option at their Listen Again page for two weeks (select 5 January, 9am, Play)... www.radiocaroline.co.uk#top15_page.h... www.radiocaroline.co.uk#listen_again... www.radiocaroline.co.uk/top15_builde...

Among many other things, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of 1975, the best year for albums ever. www.njarts.net/134615

Ho Ho Ho. The yearly Xmas gift from @officialbruce.bsky.social has arrived. Toronto ‘75. We’ll have full coverage of this release as well as some thoughts on Tracks 2 in our archive review episode, which will be released next week. www.nugs.net/live-downloa...

Update: this is definitely legit: bsky.app/profile/offi...

This year my father Arthur's book about Ipplepen, south Devon, a rare historical insight into the area, was revived. In October, a 'replica reprint' was published at Amazon. All proceeds go to Afrinspire, my folks' favourite African charity. Links in the text below: www.facebook.com/dan.french42...

TRETHEWEY PRESS: In 2024, I'm delighted that a new expanded anthology of my late mother Joy's poetry was published, in collaboration with my brother Patrick. All proceeds go to support their favourite African charity, Afrinspire. Amazon links in the post attached... www.facebook.com/dan.french42...

Need a Christmas gift with a difference? Take a chance on me ... award-winning author of Where are the grown-ups? amzn.eu/d/7gGzy6I Travel memoir, Bite-sized World amzn.to/3n8Y1dz More info and reviews at the links #booksky

#TheEStreetCafePodcast S4, Ep8: 50th episode! To celebrate this landmark, we welcome Bobby Chirmside back to the podcast. Bobby was #BruceSpringsteen's Road Manager from 1976-1981 and lived with Bruce at the famous Telegraph Hill mansion in NJ. Enjoy another wonderful trip down Memory Lane :-)

Been a fan of MTR for a long time now - especially the much missed Sunday night show with Alex Huskisson who has been very supportive of my own music.

It's not on here yet but Cheltenham's own Mystery Train Radio provides a very pleasant, mellow early December backdrop. Go to the jukebox feature & pick your own tunes. Nothing too noisy though, please. mysterytrainradio.com

I am so excited to share that I'll be part of this wonderful line-up celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks at the @bobdylancenter.bsky.social in Tulsa, OK in January. 2025 is shaping up to be a busy year for me music wise and I'm thrilled to kick it off with this show!

One for @wildandinn.bsky.social 🎸

#F&S40: 'French & Saunders' is likely to remind some of the British comedy TV series that started in 1987. 3 years earlier, another similarly named duo started when Mike & Dan met. In 2024 this pair can mark 40 years as friends. Cheers, Mike! Here's until the wheels fall off - too late to stop now 😉

Our next episode will be out tomorrow. We are excited to be joined by Mark Stricherz, who reports on @springsteen & The E Street Band’s Vancouver 2024 finale. Mark is also a founding member of JEMS, the legendary tapers collective and he tells us stories from the group’s history.