For fellow REM fans - Got this in by email today...
REM Releasing Live DVD
On October 16th, R.E.M. will release its first ever live CD/DVD in a career that has spanned 27 remarkable years. The dual package, titled R.E.M. Live , features 22 songs from the group's memorable performance at the Point Theatre in Dublin on February 27th, 2005. R.E.M. Live was filmed by acclaimed director Blue Leach (Depeche Mode, Snow Patrol) who accompanied R.E.M. on their 116-date tour into 33 countries in support of Around The Sun . Just two years earlier, Leach's deft camera work and artistic video mix during R.E.M.'s Manchester Move Festival performance made a strong impression on the band. Here, Leach skillfully brings together his signature techniques to capture R.E.M. doing what they do best at one of the most celebrated venues on their 2005 worldwide tour.
R.E.M. Live features songs spanning the band's many studio albums, including rare performances of "I Took Your Name" from 1994's Monster and "Ascent of Man" from the band's most recent studio album Around The Sun, as well as the singles ?(Don't Go Back To) Rockville,? (featuring bassist Mike Mills on lead vocals) from 1984's Reckoning , "The Great Beyond" from the Man on the Moon soundtrack, "Imitation of Life" from 2001's Reveal , and the previously unreleased crowd-pleaser "I'm Gonna DJ."
R.E.M. Live is not to be confused with R.E.M.'s recent "non-shows" at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin (June 30th-July 5th 2007). The actual show with actual songs actually did happen in February 2005, and it is sheer coincidence that it took place in Dublin other than the fact that when R.E.M. is in Dublin, great things seem to happen.
TRACK LISTING
I Took Your Name
So Fast, So Numb
Boy In The Well
Cuyahoga
Everybody Hurts
Electron Blue
Bad Day
Ascent Of Man
Great Beyond
Leaving New York
Orange Crush
I Wanted To Be Wrong
Final Straw
Imitation Of Life
The One I Love
Walk Unafraid
Losing My Religion
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
Drive
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
I'm Gonna DJ [previously unreleased]
Man On The Moon
For more info:
http://www.REMHQ.com
