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Bruce Springsteen to return to London festival after curfew cut last show short

By: The Associated Press

Posted: 03/5/2013 3:06 AM | Comments: 0 | Last Modified: 03/5/2013 11:56 AM

FILE - This March 9, 2012 file photo shows Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing at the Apollo Theater in New York. Bruce Springsteen is returning to headline the London Hard Rock Calling festival, a year after authorities pulled the plug on his duet with Paul McCartney for violating a curfew. Springsteen will headline the second night of the two-day festival on June 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

LONDON - Bruce Springsteen is returning to headline the London Hard Rock Calling festival, a year after authorities pulled the plug on his duet with Paul McCartney for violating a curfew.

The American rock star brings The E Street Band back to the event that is moving to a new location at the city's Olympic Park.

Concert organizers Live Nation are leaving Hyde Park amid friction between fans and the neighbourhood's well-heeled residents, many of whom gripe about the late-night noise.

Springsteen had already exceeded the 10:30 p.m. curfew by half an hour when he welcomed McCartney on stage last July. They sang the Beatles hits "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout." But officials turned the microphones off, and they were forced to leave the stage in silence.

Springsteen will headline the second night of the two-day festival on June 30. Other acts include Kasabian, Paul Weller, the Black Crowes and Alabama Shakes.

Live Nation Entertainment is holding a series of concerts at the former Olympic venue this summer — including the Hard Rock Calling and Wireless festivals — after gaining exclusive rights to the venue.

The 560-acre (227-hectare) site of the 2012 Summer Games is due to reopen to the public in stages between July and early 2014.

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