It’s the last day of press and promo for Mike and Michael here– the same weekend Peter starts his tour with John Wesley Harding and friends. Life marches on . . .
As usual, London has been fun and the guys have enjoyed talking to various TV,
Please be sure to tune in to BBC Radio 4 tonight from 7:15 PM (UK) to listen to an interview with Mike and Michael. More details can be found here.
We’re just over a week away from the listening party extravaganzas which will be held here in Athens on November 13th and 14th to celebrate the release of the band’s hits retrospective R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. These events (listed below) will be the
Peter and Scott McCaughey hit the road Saturday performing double duty with John Wesley Harding & The King Charles Trio and The Minus 5. Opening night is this Saturday at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco. Sunday’s show at McCabe’s in Santa Monica has sold out, so
This morning Mike and Michael met with Danny Wallace of XFM to discuss the forthcoming greatest hits retrospective, life after R.E.M., and a bunch of other interesting topics. You can watch the full interview at XFM’s site:
Check out Part 1 of the interview here followed by Part
Mike and Michael are in the UK doing press and interviews for the band’s forthcoming retrospective R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. Tonight, the pair will be on Simon Mayo’s Drivetime program which airs 17:00-19:00 UK time (5 and 7pm, GMT) on BBC Radio 2.
In addition to their interview on Drivetime with Simon Mayo this evening, Mike and Michael will appear LIVE in the studio tonight on BBC TV news program Newsnight at 11PM. Visit bbc.co.uk for more information.
The show will also air on BBC Worldwide this weekend so
R.E.M. fans can contribute all of their amazing memories, thoughts, comments, personal videos, covers and photos spanning R.E.M.’s 31 years as a band at the new remhits website. Each memory is tagged to a certain song, so choose which song which you’d like to contribute something to and
Watch a clip from tonight’s interview with the BBC’s Gavin Esler on Newsnight. In the segment, Mike and Michael discuss the band’s decision to call it a day after 31 years, American politics, activism, and the role of politics in songwriting. Go HERE to watch.
“Fall On Me” I wrote immediately after Fables, and we played it the entire Fables tour. And pretty much every day Michael had different lyrics or a different melody; we changed the bridge a hundred times. On the Lifes Rich Pageant anniversary box set, there is a version that is
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Our “Song of the Week” series continues today with another track from the band’s upcoming release, R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011, due out on November 15.
This week’s song is “Fall on Me” and, as with weeks one and two, we’re asking fans to submit their