R.E.M.

Hey!! Happy birthday @theeminus5.bsky.social !!

Thom Yorke’s Tour Diary: “All I want to do is run around waving my hands up and down like Björk.” The Tourist: Thom Yorke documents Radiohead’s 1995 tour in support of R.E.M.

Read Thom Yorke’s tour diary here: berto.fyi/ThomsDiary1995

Today is the 30th anniversary of R.E.M.’s show at Waldbuhne in Berlin. @bertisdowns.bsky.social reflects on that day in his post “A Musical Footnote to Some Significant History”
(www.instagram.com/p/DMz2SG-gul...) and Thom Yorke’s tour diary as Radiohead supported R.E.M.

🎂 Happy Birthday Bill!!

Photo— Karen Ryan

Peter and @lukehaines.bsky.social new album Going Down to the River… To Blow My Mind is out now on lovely vinyl! Get it here via Cherry Red: www.cherryred.co.uk/luke-haines-...

An update from Peter about his new group with Barrett Martin, Drink The Sea:

"Finally, the day has come! Drink The Sea is taking orders for vinyl copies of our two records. Details below, and we will see you on the road." - Peter

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From Jason Narducy, Michael Shannon & Friends: “We are excited to play Fables of the Reconstruction where it was recorded (London) and beyond. This is our first tour playing R.E.M. songs outside the U.S. Joining us on bass for UK/IRL shows will be our extremely talented friend, Ted Leo”

Lifes Rich Pageant was released on this day in 1986. The title was inspired by a line in the 1964 Pink Panther film A Shot in the Dark when Inspector Clouseau, says “It’s all part of life’s rich pageant” after he falls into a fountain. What’s your favorite track from “Pageant”?

From Verona, July 2008

Photos by David Belisle

This is fantastic and Colbert is a fucking superstar

Luke Haines, Peter Buck - Going Down To The River... To Blow My Mind Listen to Going Down To The River... To Blow My Mind by Luke Haines, Peter Buck.

The new studio album from Luke Haines and Peter is out now. Going Down To The River ...To Blow My Mind is available on CD, vinyl, streaming and download 👉 cherryred.co/BlowMyMind

You’re Gonna Be A 🌟

YouTube video by remhq All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star) (Official Music Video)

This week marks the anniversary of the release of "All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)" in 2001. It was the second single from REVEAL and was released on July 23rd and 24th in the UK & USA respectively.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHlp...

Looking down on Slane Castle, July 22, 1995, when the band played the monumental concert in Ireland—the first show after the brief stoppage of the tour in central Europe when Mike came down with abdominal issues necessitating emergency surgery and canceling a few shows through France and Spain.

This is an Ebet Roberts photo of Michael and Peter at the Beacon Theatre on July 21, 1984 during the Little America tour in support of Reckoning.

YouTube video by remhq R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Perfect Square '04)

“Losing My Religion” from Perfect Square, filmed at Bowling Green in Wiesbaden, Germany, July 19, 2003. The DVD/Video, Perfect Square, was released March 9, 2004.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLhD...

LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR—Jem Cohens most recent film is playing at the IFC in Manhattan all week. It is spectacular if you or anyone you know is in the city don’t miss this!

YouTube video by REMVEVO R.E.M. - The One I Love (Official Music Video)

On July 18 & 19, 1987, the band filmed the video for “The One I Love” with director Robert Longo at various places in and around Athens including the Morton Theatre, Michael’s house, The Grit & the countryside outside of Athens.
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Coming soon 🇮🇪 🇬🇧

From the time on April 2, 2008 when the guys appeared as (the first) musical guests on The Colbert Report playing “Supernatural Superserious” and “Hollow Man.”

🇮🇪 Tour poster hanging up in REMHQ from the Dublin, Ireland— Marlay Park shows, July 16-17, 2003.

Mojo has a nice article on Peter’s new band, Drink The Sea. They’ll be touring the UK and Europe in late November and December, dates coming soon! Drink The Sea includes Barrett Martin, Duke Garwood, Alain Johannes, and Lisette Garcia. Photos by @fettigtad.

From 20 years ago today—Patti Smith joined the band at Hyde Park for “E-bow the Letter.” The show that day had been moved from 7/9/05 due to the 7/7 attacks in London. As Bertis said in one of his later postcards reflecting on that time: “We all felt a strange mix of emotions throughout—still do.”

YouTube video by REMVEVO R.E.M. - Fall On Me

“Fall On Me,” the first single from the band’s fourth album, Lifes Rich Pageant, was released in the 🇬🇧 on July 14, 1986. The video was filmed and directed by Michael.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6v...

🎂 🎉 Happy Birthday to @bertisdowns.bsky.social today!!

Happy anniversary to “Nightswimming” which was released as a single in the UK on July 12, 1993.

Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 July ‘05

YouTube video by remhq R .E.M. "That Someone Is You" Live at Hansa Tonstudio

From July 10, 2010 at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin—“That Someone Is You” is one of the Collapse Into Now songs the band performed live in the Meistersaal that day…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYl8...

More photos from the two shows Peter and Kevn Kinney played (7-6 and 7-7) in Athens… these are by Karen Ryan 🙏

Some great shots from Monday night’s show at the Rialto Room—Peter with Kevn Kinney. Photos by Sanjeev Singhal