After two exciting gigs in Germany, the band will enjoy back-to-back days off as they prepare for a whirlwind day of music and travel on July 2nd, including both a 4:05pm scheduled performance at Live 8 in London’s Hyde Park and a headlining slot later that night (10:30pm) in Switzerland
Be sure to look for a wave of R.E.M press activity this week and next leading up to the UK dates in July. Uncut Magazine will not only feature three different R.E.M covers in their forthcoming issue but will also showcase three separate cover-mount CDs of songs chosen by
R.E.M headlined the Nijmegen Rockin Park Festival last night, and we have some gorgeous photos to prove it. In the meantime, be sure to visit the Live section where you can browse photos from the entire tour dating all the way back to October 2004.
We are enjoying the Scandinavian swing of the tour. On Tuesday, we dodged a bullet with the thunderstorms prior to the show at the beautiful Botanical Gardens where the band played. Then in Oslo and Stavanger…beautiful sunny evenings and packed, enthusiastic football stadiums greeted the band, and full-throttled,
The Independent UK has a feature on Michael in which he answers fans’ questions about haircuts, Live 8, mistaken identity, British bands, and the role of artists in politics. Please click here to read more.
The R.E.M taxi has returned to the United Kingdom after a nearly 10 year hiatus, sporting a new look and traveling the mean streets in celebration of the upcoming shows in July. There are 8 of these beauties currently making the rounds in London where the band will be playing
In some ways, this entire tour, comprising 99 shows so far (since last October), has seemed like a succession of highlightsâsome tremendous shows, wonderful places to visit, friends new and old. To me, this feels like the best R.E.M. tour ever in so many ways; But when we look
Thanks to our photographers David Belisle and Bob Weber for providing us with many spectacular shots from the band’s big weekend in Manchester, Loch Lomond, and Dublin. We’ve posted a few here and have many more in the Live area which you can visit by clicking here.
Click on the images below to read reports from the band’s stellar concert at Ardgillan Castle in Dublin Sunday night…
Click below to read a review of the Manchester show just posted by the Manchester Evening News:
The summer tour continues to gain momentum this weekend moving through Manchester tonight (see setlist below), Loch Lomond Saturday, and Dublin on Sunday. Earlier this week, the band returned to Sheffield and Glasgow for makeup gigs at Hallam Arena and Glasgow Green, underneath the biggest outdoor big-top tent on
The band will dedicate a song at its June 19th concert in Dublin, Ireland, to the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi. The song will be broadcast via satellite television inside the Southeast Asian country of Burma, where Suu Kyi is held under arrest.
When we had to cancel the shows due to Mike Mills’ illness back in February, we were lucky to have a break planned for this week so that we could slot in the Glasgow makeup and the Sheffield makeup; the only problem in Glasgow was the unavailability of the S.E.C.C.
We have had quite a week. Here are some highlights, by the numbers:
Shows in torrential rain: 1 (Rock Am Ring)
Shows at Formula One racetracks: 2 (Nurburgring, Imola)
Shows with Green Day: 3 (Nurburgring, Nurnburg, Imola)
Days off in Rome: 4
Chestnuts unearthed
R.E.M’s June 3rd Rock Am Ring Festival performance will be broadcast by WDR in Germany today (listen between midnight Friday and 6:30am Saturday). For more information, please click here.