While in Ireland for the Oxegen Festival this past weekend, Michael taped a PSA for Amnesty International which is in the midst of marking the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with their “Small Places Tour.” The Small Places Tour, according to Amnesty’s Chairman
The new video for “Man-Sized Wreath,” R.E.M.’s third single from ACCELERATE, premieres today at 10:00AM ET at AOL’s spinner.com; the video was created by CRUSH, the Toronto-based design house, who also created the amazing video for Hollow Man.
Be sure to visit SPINNER.com to watch
Last night’s OXEGEN at Punchestown Racetrack near Dublin was one of the best festival shows I have ever seen R.E.M. play. Something just happened between the band and the Saturday night audience, and a very special show ensued. From the opening with Begin the Begin through
Check out this awesome NME.com interview with Michael before R.E.M. headlined T In The Park in Scotland earlier tonight:
R.E.M. headlined Scotland’s T In The Park finale tonight before a massive crowd, closing the weekend out with another blistering set, and we’ve come across some amazing footage from the show on youtube. Big thanks to Thistwilightgarden for posting these great videos of the
R.E.M. plays two of the summer’s most highly-anticipated festivals this weekend with headlining slots at both Ireland’s Oxegen Festival Saturday and Scotland’s T In The Park Sunday. Both events expect massive crowds just shy of 100,000 each and feature stellar main and secondary
Amazing crowd tonight and even in a pretty cold rain and a show that started just before midnight, it was a stunning performance–on top of a mountain in the middle of Bilbao, in a city park in the misty steady rain–we are now 3 for 3 with weather this little
here NOW is the complete text from michael, who is upset with t-mobile while in europe and seriously considering switching carriers.
I biked all around Amsterdam with Bertis and got back to the hotel, where Thom Yorke introduced me to Stanley Donwood, the artist behind most of
R.E.M.’s drummer, Bill Rieflin, and HQ’s David Bell recently had what one might loosely term a “conversation” the day of the Atlanta show. As you’ll see from the photo, Bill’s mouth was covered with a strip of orange tape, for some strange reason, so the admittedly “amatuerish” interview ensued as
We are in Amsterdam, where Radiohead played Westerpark last night, and R.E.M., under foreboding skies, plays tonight–not a bad two-fer and many seem to have traveled from long distances to see both shows. Let’s hope the rain holds off…
Michael and David did their HELLO! book-signing
R.E.M.’s 9 song e.p., “Live in London,” recorded at the Apple iTunes store on Regents Street in London, is available for download at iTunes today.
The tracklist for the e.p. is as follows:
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Auctioneer
Hollow Man
Supernatural Superserious
Fall On Me
West Of The Fields
Horse To Water
Man-Sized Wreath
Man On The Moon
Please
After an eleven day break, R.E.M. resumes their world tour Wednesday night in Amsterdam at Westerpark. The Amsterdam show is the first of 46 total shows on the band’s European tour in support of ACCELERATE. Further details on the tour including opening acts and ticket information are
of these objects, replicas in bronze,
each is a time marker.
these are all objects that we would pick up, adjust, interact with on a daily basis. their importance to us is imprinted somewhere in our memories as significant. they are, however, the messengers and not the message, the
Amazon.com currently has footage of the band performing “Hollow Man” at the Seney-Stovall chapel in Athens, GA, during the ACCELERATE recording sessions. The footage is from the Vincent Moon film shoot back in October and became part of the “6 Days” film that formed the DVD for
Michael’s most recent art project, “Relics,” is currently on display at the Rogan Bouwerie store located at 330 Bowery (at Bond) in Manhattan. The exhibit, consisting of multiple bronze castings of a collection of Michael’s personal items, opened last night, June 27th. “I followed the