Bossed off the street

Fans stopped from forming queue 5 days before 1st gig

- SANDRA MALLON

HUNDREDS of die-hard Bruce Springsteen fans started queueing even before The Boss has arrived in Ireland.

Aiken Promotions had to send people away on Monday after they formed a line five days before the first of his three shows on Friday.

He will return to the RDS in Dublin on Sunday and Tuesday.

Promoter Peter Aiken said: "I think this will probably be his youngest audience. A lot of kids are coming. We see now people outside wanting to queue. They're coming earlier and earlier.

"When we did Garth Brooks, we thought wed get a lot of people because we were operating a pit then but it is nothing on the scale of Bruce.

"We had hundreds of people here yesterday.

We had to send them away.

"Official queuing will start in a couple of days or so but they want to be in the pit.

"Those couple of thousand people at the front of the stage... they create the atmosphere. They're Springsteen fans and they sit and reminisce about the great shows.

"They all know each other. A lot are going for three nights. They were from everywhere.

"We'll start it probably on Thursday afternoon. We don't want them out there all night.