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Fans show their appreciation to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in Kilkenny, Ireland on Sunday.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band ending three-month Wrecking Ball tour of Europe with a 32-song, three-hour-and-18-minute performance at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, Ireland.

The finale featured three tour premieres all for sign request. The first was "Wild Billy's Circus Story" which was last played on Nov. 7, 2009 at Madison Square Garden.

That was followed by one of my favorites (and a song I would have made a sign for if I did such things) "Man at the Top" which is on the 1998 "Tracks" box set. It was only the third time Bruce has ever played it, the last time was almost 28 years ago, Aug. 5, 1985 at RFK Stadium in Washington DC.

"Man at the Top" from Kilkenny:

The third tour premiere (played all in a row) was "When You Walk in the Room" a 1964 song by the Searchers that Bruce played a lot in 1975. Prior to Kilkenny, it had only been played once since 1976 and that was on Oct. 19, 2009 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia.

Here's a nice video of "When You Walk in the Room" from Kilkenny:

Of big news was the this was the first show since April 29, 2009 (Philadelphia Spectrum) that Bruce did not play "Waitin' a Sunny Day" and I know many people are happy about that.

According to many tweets I read, it was a very emotional show with Bruce coming down to shake hands with many fans near the front of the stage toward the end.

Sunday's set list

Show began at 7:25 p.m. (five hours ahead of New Jersey)

1. This Little Light of Mine

2. My Love Will Not Let You Down

3. Badlands

4. We Take Care of Our Own

5. Adam Raised a Cain

6. Death to My Hometown

7. American Skin (41 Shots)

8. The Promised Land

9. Wrecking Ball

10. Spirit in the Night

11. The River (Sign Request)

12. Wild Billy's Circus Story (sign request)

13. Man At the Top (tour premiere, sign request)

14. When You Walk into the Room (tour premiere, sign request)

Born to Run album

15. Thunder Road

16. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

17. Night

18. Backstreets

19. Born to Run

20. She's the One

21. Meeting Across the River

22. Jungleland

23. The Rising

24. Land of Hope and Dreams

Encores:

25. Born in the U.S.A.

26. Bobby Jean

27. Seven Nights to Rock

28. Dancing in the Dark

29. American Land

30. Shout

31. This Little Light of Mine

32. This Hard Land (solo accoustic)

Show over at 10:43 p.m. Length: 3:18.

Next show: Wish I could say there was something in the USA but I can't. Next time Bruce and the E Street Band will be together is in South America, on Sept. 12 at the Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile.