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By Scott Bernstein Jun 28, 2023 • 12:02 pm PDT

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are currently in the middle of a 31-date tour of Europe that followed an extensive U.S. run and will see the band return to North America for 31 more shows from August through December. Despite the busy 2023, fans are already anxious about what’s next. E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt recently addressed The Boss’ plans for 2024 on Twitter.

“Right now it is a hope,” Little Steven tweeted in response to a fan who asked about a 2024 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Tour. “We are waiting for many complicating factors that are out of our control for a final decision. But if this miraculous tour miraculously continues, I cannot promise anything, but I will personally vote to include Finland! Home of the legend, Michael Monroe!”

The Scandinavia-loving Van Zandt portrayed a gangster living in Lillehammer, Norway in the Netflix television series Lilyhammer. Finnish musician Michael Monroe is the lead singer of metal act Hanoi Rocks. Monroe contributed to Little Steven’s 1985 anti-apartheid anthem “Sun City.” Additionally, Van Zandt worked with Monroe as a producer and songwriter.

Little Steven also discussed the E Street Band skipping The Volunteer State in 2023. “We somehow missed Tennessee this tour which is unfortunate,” Van Zandt tweeted in reply to a Springsteen junkie from Knoxville. “Your vast amount of essential music history-Blues, Rockabilly, Soul, and Country-deserves ultimate respect. We have done memorable shows there and we will be back.”

A follow-up tweet from Van Zandt detailed the factors that go into the decision on whether Springsteen and the E Street Band will tour next year. “Availability of a limited amount of venues, hotels, planes, trucks, buses, cars, crewmembers, staging, sound systems, lights, video screens, etc, etc, etc,” Little Steven explained. “Every possible band and individual artist capable of touring is doing so like never before all at the same time.”

It turns out there’s another band to which The Boss may devote his time in 2024. As the Asbury Park Press pointed out, Bruce Springsteen may hit the road with the Nightshift Band that backed him on his Tonight Show residency last November.

Bruce put together a large ensemble featuring a mix of E Streeters, former band members and others to promote his 2022 covers album Only The Strong Survive. Original E Street Band keyboardist and Nightshift Band member David Sancious told MOJO a follow-up has been recorded with plans for a 2024 tour. “I’ve just worked on Bruce’s sequel to Only The Strong Survive. He’s got 18 more covers of Motown and classic R&B,” Sancious revealed to MOJO’s Martin Aston. “And next year, I should be touring the album with Bruce.”

Stay tuned to find out what 2024 holds for Bruce Springsteen. The Boss continues his 2023 International Tour with the E Street Band this evening in Gothenburg, Sweden.