Springsteen Appears At London Film Screening

Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at a London screening of a brand new documentary about the making of Darkness On The Edge Of Town.

The Boss turned up at a screening of ‘The Promise: The Making Of 'The Darkness On The Edge Of Town' at the BFI in London on Friday night along with manager Jon Landau and the film’s director Thom Zimny. They took part in a Q&A about the film and album.

NME reports that Bruce spoke about how the film came about.

"The guy who shot all the footage was the kid in the neighbourhood who had the camera. He wanted to be a film maker at some point. It wasn't going to go anywhere so we weren't worried about it," he explained.

"He'd come up the studio with his video camera and he was easy to ignore. Then he sat on it for 30 years. He was good about it he said 'I don't know is it mine or yours?' I paid him for that so I guess we sorted that out, but it was good of him not to do anything for 30 years!"

Springsteen also spoke about why the album had taken so long to make and why, having recorded around 70 songs, he cut so much from the final album.

"The lack of process was interesting. We didn't know how to make records, we were adverse to professionalism at the time... I was so full of doubt that the only way I knew to get to something done was to slog away for hours and hours," he recalled. "We did think hard about what we were doing. If we didn't have something I could smell it in the air. We were making a record of the times... We were sniffing out the times.

"It the album established our band as documenting the times and having that conversation with you. We weren't revivalists. I was very specific we were a band that documented the times."

The documentary appears on the brand new Darkness box set, which is released next week.

(NME)