dublin

R.E.M. HQ's David Bell recently caught up with
Blue Leach, the video director for R.E.M.'s 2005 world tour and the director for the band's forthcoming DVD release, R.E.M. Live (out October 16th in dual CD/DVD package).

In the interview, Blue talks about his experience working with the band on the tour for Around The Sun, his impressions of R.E.M. Live, and his artistic ethos among other things...

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.

Here are my pictures from that unforgettable night:

http://picasaweb.google.com/eduacquarone

Enjoy them!

My pics of the two nights on Flickr

video on Youtube

The 3rd July I was lucky enough to catch the "Fables Of The Reconstruction night"!! Man.. when I heard "feeling gravity's pull" guitar's intro I just went crazy and what about Auctioneer and Kohoutek!?
Fables is one of my favourite rem album!
Then the 4th... Carnival Of Sorts and Harborcoat were the highlights for me! The new songs have a great energy and I saw the guys in top form, joking and laughing!

They're coming thick and fast now. REM rehearsal 1 - the DVD - is now up for download from

http://www.murmurs.com/torrents

It's a mothertapes product and I know from the REM Point Theatre DVDs I've got this should be really exceptional. I still cannot believe that the second Point Theatre show isn't professionally done.

At 3.75GB I'm not sure how long it'll take to download, but should be worth every minute. The more people downloading and sharing the quicker it'll be for everyone - so get downloading...

For anyone not monitoring murmurs.com (are there such people?) the two 'not a show's I was at (Tuesday and Wednesday night at the Olympia) are up on

http://www.murmurs.com/torrents/

for download. Haven't quite finished downloading them myself, but I feel almost as excited as when I was in the queue for the show - OK maybe not quite that excited - but I've had my fingers crossed for this...here's hoping the quality is good..

We met Simon , Sue, James from oddfellows + Lizzy , Merv and Seb i think from MYREM + 2 people from Italy

Think Simon, Sue & James second name is Harrison as James is administrator on oddfellows

Having difficulty contacting them .

Noticed a thread on oddfellows from James where he mentions us but forgot our names (2 people from Scotland)

We are Colin & Tricia from Scotland

Tried to join oddfellows to send an e mail but cannot seem to register

CAN ANYONE HELP ????

Hi Everyone,

It's not professional, nor is it Shakespeare, but I have written down my impressions of last night's (night five's) "live rehearsal" in Dublin. You can find it on my site Songs That Saved Your Life.

I hope, at least, that it will help to organize your own memories. Be kind, friends. :)

What a wonderful time my son and I have had in Dublin! First of all the show on Sunday. The band was at their very best in a wonderful mix of great new songs and lovely old songs, like Sitting Still, These Days and many more. This was the best R.E.M. performance I've seen up to now!

Some pics shot from the circle seats on Saturday night. (Hosted at flickr).

Enjoy

http://tinyurl.com/2njkhp