Bruce Springsteen returns to Barcelona with concert on June 20, 2024

The American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bruce Springsteen will return to Barcelona on June 20, 2024 as part of his Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 2024 World Tour. 

The announcement comes six months after kicking off his 2023 World Tour in Barcelona with two concerts on April 28 and 30 at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. 

Next year's tour, however, will begin in Cardiff, Wales, on May 5. And before arriving in the Catalan capital, Springsteen will perform in Madrid for two days, on June 12 and 14, at the Cívitas Metropolitano. 

The tour will include 22 different concerts in countries such as Northern Ireland, Ireland, France, Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and England, where the last gig of the tour will take place on July 25 at Wembley Stadium.

Tickets for Madrid's concerts on June 12 and 14 will go on sale on Tuesday, November 7 at 10 am, while tickets for the gig in Barcelona will go on sale a week later, on Tuesday, November 14 at 10 am. 

Passes will be exclusively sold online via doctormusic.com and entradas.com, and ticket prices will range from €65 to a maximum of €128 for both Barcelona and Madrid. 

 

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band concert in Barcelona in April was the starting point of what was considered a tour that "unleashed euphoria," according to Spanish newspaper El Correo. 

The first announced gig in the Catalan capital sold out within minutes, prompting organizers to announce a second concert, which also sold out in a matter of minutes. 

Over 55,000 fans attended each concert, including former U.S. President Barack Obama and former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, actress Kate Capshaw and actor Tom Hanks.  

Understanding Catalonia's madness for Bruce Springsteen

Catalonia's madness for the New Jersey guitar hero began in 1981 and continues strong to this day. Fans queued up for a week just to be the first to enter the venue where Bruce Springsteen played in Barcelona earlier this year. Some bought tickets to see the him perform both nights, even though they had already seen him play dozens of times before.

Bruce Springsteen played his first concert in Barcelona - and in Spain in general - on April 21, 1981. At the time, "he was not very well known," as Gay Mercader, the promoter who organized The Boss's first gig in the country, tells Catalan News.

Back then, the American rock star performed on a Tuesday after Easter Monday, and around 150 tickets went unsold in a 7,000-capacity venue. 

In fact, he was so unknown that "the printing company printed his name on the concert poster as Bruce Espringsteen, with an E," Mercader recounts. Catalonia's passion for the singer started with those first fans at the 1981 gig, who spoke about the show and spread word about the rock legend.

Listen to our Filling the Sink podcast episode from May 6, 2023, to learn more about The Boss' relationship with Catalonia.