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US law firm sues Keith Richards look-alike

2009-03-02T16:18:00.011+01:00

Admittedly, there isn't a lot happening in the region I'm from and also if something's happening, it usually doesn't reach the outside world. So I'll try it this way ...

According to a local newspaper (no online source available), US lawfirm Greenberg & Traurig's sueing a small local Jeans label for using a Keith Richards look-alike in their ad. T&G is of the opinion that the photos impinge upon Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards rights and furthermore upon Mick Jagger's rights.
Maybe it wasn't that good either to let the girl next to him wear a shirt saying "Who the Fuck is Mick Jagger".

The fame of the Richards look-alike (an Austrian living in Miami, FL) however isn't that new: Paparazzis already sold several photos of the fake Richards to newspapers ...

But after all that's the best publicity C.R.A.F.T. could have received ... even with Keith Richards (who did a similar thing with Louis Vuitton some time ago) it couldn't have been better :-D

Keith Richards pic source here

R.E.M. Setlist Dornbirn, January 26 2009

2008-12-12T14:11:00.003+01:00

As you might have noticed, the R.E.M. tour is over and the date of this setlist is in the future -
actually it's my birthday and my hometown - and here's the setlist I'd like them to play when they surprise me with a special gig :-)

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
These Days
Living Well is the Best Revenge
The Wake-up Bomb
Disturbance at the Heron House
So Fast, So Numb
Superman
--Acoustic set
Gardening at Night
Country Feedback
I Believe
Blackbird
Half A World Away
--
Walk Unafraid
She Just Wants To Be
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
So. Central Rain
The One I Love
Animal
Shiny Happy People
Bad Day

Nightswimming
Driver 8
World Leader Pretend
I'm Gonna DJ
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
I Wanna Be Your Dog

1. Opening
I like it to get blown away after the band hits the stage. So I chose my favourite R.E.M. song first, which is Kenneth, to get started.
Followed by some other rocky tunes. These Days as it's one of my favourites and I never heard it live - and to complete the rockstart, my favourite from Accelerate, Living Well is the Best Revenge. To get a bit down after the furious start, The Wake-Up Bomb is quite right, as it does rock but not as quite as the former three do.
Heron House is also among the tunes I never heard live and it's also a good song to relax, sing to and think about. And that's what you should do before you get blown away again by So Fast, So Numb and then, as last part of the opening set, Superman, which R.E.M. hardly performs live these days.

2. Acoustic set
After loving their unplugged albums, I saw some songs performed acoustic live this year in Stuttgart. And I like it. So I chose to add an acoustic set to my setlist. As acoustic opener, Gardening At Night will do well. It's a song they rarely play - just once on their 2008 tour (Vancouver) and only 12 times in the last 20 years!
Then Country Feedback with its fantastic solo and followed by a short transition to Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" before coming back to Country Feedback and starting into I Believe with the opening lines I just know from one of the unplugged bootlegs ("Hey man I'm making a move, tonight I'm so much stronger than you, I am so much stronger, I am so much stronger than you"). Then comes the part when I'll join the stage and play the Beatles tune Blackbird on the guitar with Michael singing.
Finally Half A World Away, Ken Stringfellow may join the stage if he likes to.

3. Third set
Walk Unafraid is live so much better than on the album - I'm not saying that I don't like the album version, but it sends shivers down my spine each time I hear it live. Then She Just Wants To Be, my favourite from the "Reveal" album, and only seen once live during their 2003 tour. I've never seen Rockville live and I'd love to hear Mike sing it - so it got included just before South Central Rain with its amazing intro.
The One I Love is the song where I got high five from Michael this year in Stuttgart - so it must be on the setlist. Hey what's the big deal with the next song? I've got to admit that initally liked Animal more than Bad Day when they presented their two new songs on the "In Time"-Tour - but now they're kind of equal for me - and Bad Day's on the list, so Animal must be there too.
Alright, usually they won't play Shiny Happy People anymore, as reason Michael said something like that they're passed this period ... but it's a very special concert so there must be a special thing like that.
To rock the audience once again Bad Day's just right, it's also a great closer.

4. Encore
I chose a ballad to open the encore. I never heard Nightswimming live - and it's on my favourite R.E.M. album. I love Driver 8. There's nothing more to say. The album Green is a great one - my favourite track is without doubt World Leader Pretend. It's also a great song to be followed by a real rocky tune, just like I'm Gonna DJ is. Then It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - which used to be their closer for many years. It
ought to be the closer this time as well, but I really liked it how Michael stayed on the stage three years ago in Stuttgart and broke into Iggy Pop's I Wanna Be Your Dog. A real frenzy for the ultimate closer.

5. Waiting List
Yep, I didn't include songs that are part of almost each and every R.E.M. gig such as Drive, Man on the Moon, Everybody Hurts or, of course, Losing my Religion. Well I didn't want to include too many songs for they might decide not to come and play this set :-)
But R.E.M. decides to include those four into their set - I won't contradict.

If you're Michael, Mike or Peter and like my setlist, , I surely can arrange a gig. It'd be in the alps, it's snowy andthe next ski-resort is just under an hour away ;-)

R.E.M. Setlist Mexico, November 18 2008

2008-11-19T08:45:00.002+01:00

R.E.M.'s gig in Mexico City was the last gig of their 2008 Accelerate Tour. Good time to thank remroaddog for twittering the setlists and all readers of this blog and the active people on setlist.fm for sharing their setlists and correcting and discussing them. Here's the setlist of their final concert:

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and yes. I missed the Lima setlist, thanks Marianella for giving it to me. One more question remains: what do I do with this blog now ... any ideas? :-)

#remmexico

R.E.M. Setlist Caracas, November 16, 2008

2008-11-17T09:23:00.001+01:00

Guys your so fast adding the R.E.M. setlists, I can't believe it :-) here the Caracas setlist

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#remcaracas

R.E.M. Setlist São Paulo, November 11 2008

2008-11-12T08:42:00.001+01:00

Alright, I got no chance anymore to add the setlists myself, someone's always faster than me :-) thanks Diego Maia this time! Today's widget has the Brazilian colours :-)

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#remsao2

R.E.M. Setlist São Paulo, November 10 2008

2008-11-11T09:06:00.003+01:00

Both R.E.M. and you guys really rock. Was it just me who added all their setlists on setlist.fm, I now don't get even the slightest chance to add them as one of you has already done it :-) thanks guys, here's the set

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#remsao

R.E.M. Setlist Rio de Janeiro, November 9 2008

2008-11-10T08:40:00.002+01:00

R.E.M.'s second gig in Brazil took them to Rio de Janeiro. Here's what they played:

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By the way, this is the first time I hadn't to edit the R.E.M. setlist on setlist.fm myself ... thank you Bruno Linhares :-)

#remrio

R.E.M. Setlist Porto Alegre, November 6 2008

2008-11-07T08:45:00.001+01:00

Obviously South America loves R.E.M. and R.E.M. loves South America, but one who doesn't like South American Cell-networks is twitter: the tweets always get mixed up, please help me arranging the songs, I'm pretty sure most of the order is correct, but some songs may not be in right place

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#rembrazil

R.E.M. Setlist Santiago de Chile, November 4, 2008

2008-11-05T08:56:00.002+01:00

They really added a concert in Chile - silently. remroaddog's tweets got messed up again, so please help me arranging the right order and getting all songs in it. Just edit it on setlist.fm or post a comment here!

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Again, this setlist seems incomplete, please either edit it on setlist.fm or post a comment and I'll do it!

#remchile2

R.E.M. Setlist Santiago de Chile, November 3, 2008

2008-11-04T08:36:00.002+01:00

R.E.M. rocked Chile last night, here are the songs I could puzzle together from the tweets:

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please help me bringing them into the right order as the tweets got messed up. Feel free to either edit them yourself on setlist.fm or post a comment and I'll do it, thanks!

#remchile

R.E.M. Setlist Buenos Aires, November 1, 2008

2008-11-03T08:39:00.001+01:00

R.E.M. rocked Argentina on Saturday - no Everybody Hurts but a hell of a setlist though :-)
here it is:

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#rembuenos

R.E.M. Setlist Bogotá, October 29 2008

2008-10-30T08:35:00.001+01:00

Chevere! R.E.M. played Colombia for the first time, I couldn't be there, but according to @remroaddog it must have been a very very very loud audience :-)
here's what they played:

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#remcolumbia

R.E.M. Setlist New Orleans, October 26, 2008

2008-10-27T08:55:00.001+01:00

It's Austria's national holiday and R.E.M. plays in New Orleans ... not really a connection between the two events, but a good opening sentence for the New Orleans setlist:

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If you were there and you're sure there's an error in it, feel free to either edit the setlist on setlist.fm or post a comment, and I'll do it for you

#remnola

R.E.M. Setlist Dallas, October 24, 2008

2008-10-27T08:53:00.002+01:00

They're back! Before R.E.M. heads to South America, they play two gigs in the US ... here's the setlist of the first one, in Dallas:

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If the setlist contains errors, feel free to either edit the setlist on setlist.fm or post a comment and I'll do it!

#remdallas

Paul McCartney Setlist, May 17 2003, München

2008-10-09T10:47:00.004+02:00

R.E.M.'s on vacation until they continue their tour at the end of October in Dallas ... so I thought I provide a setlist of a concert I've been to and is one of my favourites. It's Paul McCartney in Munich back in 2003 on his "Back In The World Tour". It was the first time I've seen Paul and I was amazed ... no maybe about it

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#macca

R.E.M. Setlist Athens October 5, 2008

2008-10-06T08:49:00.002+02:00

R.E.M. rocked Athens last night. But it wasn't the Athens they come frome (the one in Georga), nope, it was the Athens in Greece and it was a free concert. 50,000 attending. Come on come on!
Here's the setlist

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feel free to edit the setlist on setlist.fm or post comments if you were there!

#remathens

R.E.M. Setlist Istanbul October 4, 2008

2008-10-05T14:32:00.000+02:00

R.E.M. rocked Istanbul yesterday ... one of the cities I'd love to visit someday... here's what the played:

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Feel free to edit the setlist on setlist.fm if it contains errors, as usual, I took the notes from remroaddog on twitter ... hope they're right? right! ;-)

#remistanbul

R.E.M. Setlist Madrid October 1, 2008

2008-10-02T08:38:00.001+02:00

So the second bull fighting arena got rocked yesterday, here's what R.E.M. played ... again using this cool widget from setlist.fm :-)

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#remmadrid

R.E.M. Setlist Murcia September 30, 2008

2008-10-01T09:52:00.005+02:00

So, R.E.M. rocked Spain yesterday. They played in a Bull Fighting Arena (Plaza de Toros) ... which is definitely something their opposed to ... Bull fighting, not the arena itself :-)

Here's what they played:

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I found this new site setlist.fm ... so if you find any mistake in the setlist. If I missed something ... please both edit it on setlist.fm (see the link above?) and tell me in comments, I always want to know it if I did something wrong :-)

#remmurcia

R.E.M. Setlist Torino September 27, 2008

2008-09-29T08:44:00.004+02:00

R.E.M.'s second italian gig took place in Torino! Here's what they played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Begin The Begin
What's The Frequency Kenneth
I Took Your Name
The Great Beyond
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Exhuming McCarthy
Animal
Hollow Man
Electrolite
Driver 8
I'm Gonna DJ
She Just Wants to Be
Auctioneer
The One I Love
Until the Day Is Done
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Imitation of life
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Walk Unafraid (Encore) thanks chiara!
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Is the encore right? remroaddog didn't twitter the encore ...

#remtorino

R.E.M. Setlist Bologna September 26, 2008

2008-09-29T08:36:00.002+02:00

alright R.E.M. rocked italy this weekend, here's the setlist of the first show ... in Bologna

wow 28 ...

#rembologna

R.E.M. Setlist Zürich September 24, 2008

2008-09-25T08:33:00.003+02:00

R.E.M. were as closest as they can be to my hometown, just an hour away. But I couldn't go :-(
Anyway this is what the played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Horse To Water
I Took Your Name
Fall On Me
Drive
Ignoreland
Man Sized Wreath
7 Chinese Brothers
Just a Touch
Hollow Man
The Great Beyond
Circus Envy
She Just Wants to Be thanks to wenty-nine
Departure
The One I Love
I've Been High
Let Me In
Walk Unafraid
Bad Day
Imitation of life
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Exhuming McCarthy (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

alright, this is what they played according to remroaddog ... is the setlist right?

#remzurich

R.E.M. Setlist Munich September 23, 2008

2008-09-24T08:33:00.004+02:00

R.E.M. rocked München last night. München's just two hours from my hometown, but unfortunately I couldn't be there :-(
This is however what they played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
So Fast, So Numb i love this song ...
I Took Your Name
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Just a Touch
So. Central Rain
Hollow Man
The Great Beyond
Time After Time
She Just Wants to Be
Horse To Water
The One I Love
Electrolite
I've Been High
Let Me In
Walk Unafraid
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Country Feedback (Encore) I knew they'll play it!
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

damn, what a great setlist! and i couldn't be there ... would have gone to the concert rather than to the Oktoberfest :-)
but please confirm that they did horse to water and not great beyond twice...

Edit: Thanks to mat_munich for telling me the h2w and bad day thing

#remmunich

R.E.M. Setlist Geneva September 21, 2008

2008-09-22T08:54:00.004+02:00

After rocking Luxembourg they R.E.M. rocked Geneva yesterday ... if they know about Switzerland's 1:2 defeat last week? :-) This is what they played:

These Days
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive thanks to the anonymous comment
Driver 8
I Took Your Name
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Until the Day Is Done
Electrolite
Animal
Hollow Man
Get Up
Sitting Still wooow
Pretty Persuasion
The One I Love
Fall On Me
Let Me In
Imitation of life
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

25 songs? must have missed at least one ... haven't I?

#remgeneva

R.E.M. Setlist Luxembourg September 20, 2008

2008-09-22T08:45:00.004+02:00

R.E.M. rocked Luxembourg! According to remroaddog, Peter Buck's Rickebacker is back ... woohoo! This is what they played:

Soundcheck:

Concert:

well remroaddog didn't write Losing My Religion, but I guess they played it somewhere in the encore, right?

#remluxembourg

R.E.M. Setlist Hamburg September 18, 2008

2008-09-19T08:34:00.004+02:00

R.E.M. rocks all over Germany 'these days', last night Hamburg! Here's what they played:

These Days
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
I Took Your Name
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Little America thanks to the comment by hardi krueger ... if this is his real name :)
Drive
Ignoreland
World Leader Pretend my favourite
Man Sized Wreath thanks to the anonymous comment for telling me
Hollow Man
The Great Beyond
Circus Envy
Just a Touch
Time After Time
The One I Love
Sweetness Follows
I've Been High
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Animal (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Alright, remroaddogs' tweets were incomplete ... obviously there's no I've been high and some 3 to 4 other songs must be missing. Please help me out (again) :-)

#remhamburg

R.E.M. Setlist Oberhausen September 17, 2008

2008-09-18T08:35:00.003+02:00

R.E.M. is slowly approaching my hometown. Yesterday they played in Germany again, this time in Oberhausen. This is what they played according to remroaddog ... thanks to her by the way.

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
I Took Your Name yeah! this was their regular opener of their last tour (2005)
Second Guessing
Drive
Walk Unafraid
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
The Great Beyond
Hollow Man
Circus Envy
Just a Touch for the first time in 19 years, thanks to elbunk for telling me
Electrolite
The One I Love
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
I've Been High
Let Me In
Bad Day
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Imitation of life (Encore)
Sing for the Submarine (Encore) wow, world debut (apart from the soundcheck in copenhagen ;-))
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

hmmm.... seems like I missed one or two songs. remroaddog got over the limit sometimes :-). Please help me out guys!

#remoberhausen

R.E.M. Setlist Vilnius September 14, 2008

2008-09-15T08:42:00.003+02:00

R.E.M. rocked the third of the baltic states, Lithuania, yesterday. As I said in a previous post, the one who beat Austria 2:0 last week, so there must have been a lot of enthusiasm left for R.E.M. ;-)

This is what they played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
These Days
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Walk Unafraid thanks Paulius
Animal
Ignoreland
Hollow Man
Disturbance At The Heron House
Electrolite
Circus Envy
I'm Gonna DJ
The Great Beyond thanks again Paulius :-)
Driver 8
Imitation of life
The One I Love
Sweetness Follows
Let Me In
Bad Day
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

remroaddog wrote that it was a very very enthusiastic, good crowd :-) but did they play "only" 25 or did I miss some songs? help me out please :-)

Edit: thanks to Paulius for telling me the songs I missed

#remlithuania

R.E.M. Setlist Riga September 13, 2008

2008-09-15T08:35:00.002+02:00

Alright, R.E.M. rocked the second baltic state in a row, it was Riga in Latvia

Bad Day
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Walk Unafraid
Drive
These Days
Man Sized Wreath
Harborcoat
Ignoreland
The Great Beyond
Hollow Man
Welcome To The Occupation
Cuyahoga
The One I Love
Electrolite
Fall On Me
What's The Frequency Kenneth that late? cool
I've Been High
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
I'm Gonna DJ
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Animal (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

#remlatvia

R.E.M. Setlist Tallinn September 11, 2008

2008-09-12T08:12:00.003+02:00

R.E.M. rocked Tallinn in Estonia yesterday ... must have been a great relief after their fooball team's 0:7 defeat against Bosnia ... just kidding ... and we lost 2:0 in Lithuania by the way :-)
remroaddog's tweets are in strange order to day, so I try to put them in correct order ... but please help me out
Here's what R.E.M. played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Bad Day
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Pop Song '89 wooooohoooo
Disturbance At The Heron House
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Driver 8
The Great Beyond
World Leader Pretend alright, that's my favourite R.E.M. tune, they played it! I missed it :-(
Hollow Man
Time After Time
Ignoreland
Strange Currencies dedicated to Michael Hutchence
I've Been High
Let Me In
Horse To Water
The One I Love
Electrolite
Orange Crush
I'm Gonna DJ
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Country Feedback (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Alright, I almost certainly mixed up the order somehow, so please tell me the correct order in the comments :-)

By the way: according to remroaddog, Peter Buck played on a Telecaster tonight, so he didn't get his guitar back :-(

#remtallinn #remestonia

R.E.M. Setlist Helsinki September 9, 2008

2008-09-10T08:29:00.005+02:00

R.E.M. rocked Finland yesterday and this is what they played:

What's The Frequency Kenneth yeah, my favourite opener
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Bad Day
So. Central Rain second time after Stuttgart, must have pissed in helsinki as well :-)
Turn You Inside-Out
Circus Envy woohoo a new one on this tour (?)
Man Sized Wreath thanks to the anonymous comment
The Great Beyond
Hollow Man
Cuyahoga
Accelerate
The One I Love
Ignoreland
1,000,000 woooow
Electrolite
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Losing My Religion
Find the River never heard that Automatic tune live :-(
Let Me In
Little America another new song from reckoning!
Horse To Water
I'm Gonna DJ
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
At My Most Beautiful (Encore) again with Ken Stringfellow
Orange Crush (Encore) with the Editors ...
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore) also with editors, thanks Antti
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Wow, whole lot of surprises! Cuyahoga, Little America, 1,000,000, Find The River ... so cool. Hope it was as "cool" in the rain as it was in Stuttgart ... it couldn't have pissed more :-)

The only drawback: according to remroaddog, Peter's guitar was stolen last night. So if you have any info, let remHQ.com know or post a thread on murmurs.com they will know how to contact the right people!

Edit: I added Man Sized Wreath and Hollow Man, thanks to the comments!
Edit2: Alright, they played Little America and Circus Envy in Prague, thanks to the comment for pointing that out

#remhelsinki

R.E.M. Setlist Stockholm September 7, 2008

2008-09-08T08:18:00.003+02:00

The guys rocked Sweden yesterday. Here's what the played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
So Fast, So Numb
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Animal
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Driver 8
The Great Beyond
Electrolite
Disturbance At The Heron House love that one
I'm Gonna DJ
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
7 Chinese Bros.
The One I Love
Sweetness Follows
Let Me In
These Days
Imitation of life
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
At My Most Beautiful (Encore) again with Ken Stringfellow
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Can anyone confirm the setlist ... yesterday I missed Fall On Me, did they play it yesterday as well?

#remstockholm

R.E.M. Setlist Copenhagen September 6, 2008

2008-09-07T13:22:00.003+02:00

R.E.M. rocked Denmark's capital yesterday and of course remroaddog was twittering again. And she, yepp I'm now sure it's a her :-), did a great job again. Here's the setlist:

Soundcheck:

Concert:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Bad Day
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Departure wow, think they didn't play that on their tour so far ...
The Great Beyond
Ignoreland
Hollow Man
Electrolite
Fall On Me thanks to the anonymous comment!
Exhuming McCarthy yes! they play it more often
I'm Gonna DJ
Get Up another new one
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Auctioneer
The One I Love
Final Straw i love that one, the only one they played from around the sun so far, right?
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Imitation of life
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Country Feedback (Encore)
At My Most Beautiful (Encore) again with Ken Stringfellow
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

That's a huge difference to other bands: the setlist of R.E.M. seems to be always different. They add new songs, mix it with old songs and even play new versions of old songs ... great :-)

#remcopenhagen

R.E.M. Setlist Bergen September 4, 2008

2008-09-05T08:23:00.003+02:00

remroaddogs's tweets were even more personal yesterday - that's really cool. And here's the setlist he (she?) twittered ... on one page compiled:

These Days
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Harborcoat
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Wolves, Lower what a surprise ... wow
Walk Unafraid
Hollow Man
The Great Beyond
Imitation of life
Electrolite
Animal
Horse To Water
Fall On Me
The One I Love
I've Been High
Let Me In
I'm Gonna DJ
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
At My Most Beautiful (Encore) again without me :-(
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

I hope the setlist is right and you enjoyed the concert ... maybe I'll be in Munich or Zürich, depends on my money :-)

#rembergen

R.E.M. Setlist Oslo September 3, 2008

2008-09-04T08:12:00.002+02:00

After a hot (and sometimes very rainy) open-air tour, R.E.M. moved to an indoor place for the first time in a while ... they rocked Oslo. And this is what they played:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Begin The Begin
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Driver 8
Man Sized Wreath
Ignoreland
Hollow Man
Imitation of life
West of the Fields wow, never heard that one live
Houston another one from accelerate they didn't play in a while
Electrolite
The Great Beyond
I'm Gonna DJ
Turn You Inside-Out woooow
Exhuming McCarthy
The One I Love
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
At My Most Beautiful (Encore) I'd love to hear that one live :-(
Pretty Persuation (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Some surprises again - inside-out, mccarthy or houston ... and of course at my most beautiful, they should play more tunes from the up album ... well at least two or three more. can anyone who was there confirm the setlist?
#remoslo

R.E.M. Setlist London August 30, 2008

2008-08-31T10:30:00.004+02:00

The guys rocked Twickenham yesterday - I'm a huge London fan and could slap myself in the face for not having ever been to a concert or football game there ... nevermind, this is what they played yesterday:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
These Days
The Wake-up Bomb nooo! they played it again :-(
What's The Frequency Kenneth what a rock opener! didn't you get exhausted after those 4? :-)
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Disturbance At The Heron House did they really play it or was it just Michael explaining?
Ignoreland
Walk Unafraid
Hollow Man
Fall On Me
Electrolite
The Great Beyond
I'm Gonna DJ
Exhuming McCarthy they played it again!!
The One I Love
I've Been High
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Perfect Circle (Encore) wooooow! can't believe it
Country Feedback (Encore) thanks to the guys in the comments for telling me!
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Wow, some real surprises, must have been a great show. Can anyone who's been there confirm the setlist and the fact that it was a great show? :-D

#remlondon

R.E.M. Setlist Paris August 28, 2008

2008-08-29T09:19:00.003+02:00

R.E.M. rocked the capital of France last night! Here's the setlist:

Bad Day again as opener, great choice isn't it?
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
The Great Beyond
Ignoreland
Hollow Man
Electrolite
Imitation of life
I'm Gonna DJ
The One I Love
Fall On Me
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

so "only" 20 songs yesterday, but that's their usual amount the play on festivals. So anyone who was there: is my posted setlist right? and how was the crowd like? I saw REM once on a festival and it just wasn't the same ... the crowd in general knew about 3 songs ... which is kinda weird if you compare it to REM concerts ...

And it was in France, so I have to post the song that's in my head all the time these days, it's not REM ... but it's great anyway: Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera ... what a tune!

#remparis

R.E.M. Setlist Southampton August 27, 2008

2008-08-28T08:56:00.003+02:00

So yesterday the guys were rocking the south of England! They started off with Bad Day! That's just an amazing opener, never heard them opening with it!

Bad Day
Living Well Is The Best Revenge
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Fall On Me
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Begin The Begin birdie in the hand! :-)
Hollow Man
The Great Beyond
Ignoreland
Animal
Electrolite
I'm Gonna DJ
Pretty Persuation
The One I Love
7 Chinese Bros.
Nightswimming never heard that one live :-(
Let Me In
Auctioneer
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Imitation of life (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Looks like a complete different order of their songs again. Can anyone who was there confirm the setlist? I got it from remroaddog's tweets again ...

Great idea to close the regular set with end of the world - I'm wondering if some fans that were used to hearing end of the world as the final song of the encore, as R.E.M. did up to the "Around The Sun" tour (correct me if I'm wrong), left early and missed the encore :-D
#remsouthampton

R.E.M. Setlist Cardiff August 25, 2008

2008-08-26T08:58:00.004+02:00

For yesterday's concert, remroaddog was twittering again, yay! He (she?) even included the soundcheck!

Soundcheck:

Setlist:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
These Days come on they played it again without me :-)
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Exhuming McCarthy
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Harborcoat
Ignoreland
Bad Day
Pilgrimage
Hollow Man
Driver 8
Electrolite
New Test Leper
I'm Gonna DJ
The Great Beyond
The One I Love
Sweetness Follows
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Country Feedback (Encore) ...noooo missed country feedback :-(
Disturbance At The Heron House (Encore) ... again one of my favourites :-(
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

OMG they played some real rarities, Pilgrimage even the first time in Europe ... sounds like one of R.E.M.'s concert highlights so far ...

Anyone who was there: I heard they moved the concert from Millenium Stadium to the CIA ... how many people were there? Was it sold out? And how does it feel to hear Country Feedback and Heron House before rocking end of the world? :-)
#remcardiff

R.E.M. Setlist Manchester August 24, 2008

2008-08-25T11:14:00.008+02:00

Hey folks, please help me complete the setlist - I usually compile the cryptic infos from remroaddog on twitter, but unfortunately he (she?) didn't twitter anything but the encore, so please attendees of yesterday's concert, help me :-)

Edit: This is the correct setlist according to the REM website - can anyone confirm it? ... as remhq is not always right - they missed some songs of the Stuttgart/Rhine and Würzburg show

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
These Days definitely one of my favourites :-(
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Fall On Me
Ignoreland thanks to the anonymous comment for pointing out
Walk Unafraid seems like the playing it almost everytime - except stuttgart :-(
Hollow Man
I'm Gonna DJ
Electrolite
Pretty Persuation
The Great Beyond
So Fast, So Numb i love this song ...
7 Chinese Bros.
The One I Love (did Michael meet the audience like he did in Stuttgart? :-)
I've Been High
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Mr. Richards (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

thanks to Andy for pointing me to the right setlist ...

this time some parts of the setlist were very similar to the Rhine concert, but great anyway. does anyone know why they don't play Everybody Hurts on this tour?

I just saw that the concert actually was at Old Trafford - well that's a huge stadium. They don't fill stadiums in Germany or Austria - in Stuttgart e.g. there were about 10.000 people (rough estimate) ... did they sell out Old Trafford?

#remmanchester

R.E.M. Setlist Würzburg August 22, 2008

2008-08-23T12:17:00.004+02:00

AFAIK this was R.E.M.'s last open-air concert in Germany this year, but they'll be back in a month or so ...

Couldn't be in Würzburg, but here's the setlist anyway:

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Second Guessing (wow)
What's The Frequency Kenneth
The Wake-up Bomb noooooo! missed that :-(
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
7 Chinese Bros.
The Great Beyond
Hollow Man
Walk Unafraid missed that again :-(
Ignoreland
Electrolite
Maps And Legends one of my favourites :-(
Animal
Time After Time ... never heard that one live
The One I Love
Nightswimming
Let Me In
Bad Day
I'm Gonna DJ
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Again a lot of different songs compared to their other Germany concerts - that's one of the things I appreciate most :-) Somehow they "only" played 24 songs - it was 26 in the two previous concerts. As I said I couldn't be there - if I missed out a song, please tell me in the comments! #remwurzburg

Edit: ha! I was right being suspicious, they did play 27 in fact! thanks to the anonymous comment!

Edit: according to a visitor, they played "The One I Love" and "Time After Time" for someone of the band having had a recent split-up with his partner. Poor guy! But that's the right cure for a heart-ache, R.E.M. playing some songs for you, isn't it? :-)

R.E.M. Setlist Rhine Loreley August 20, 2008

2008-08-21T09:58:00.005+02:00

Unfortunately, I couldn't be there - and, as it seems, they didn't play End Of The World, which was for me one of the best parts in Stuttgart the day before yesterday ...
Does anybody know why the don't play Everybody Hurts anymore?

Living Well Is The Best Revenge
These Days never seen that one live so far :-(
What's The Frequency Kenneth
Drive
Man Sized Wreath
Driver 8
Ignoreland (thanks Sven for telling me ;-))
Hollow Man
Fall On Me
Electrolite
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville (really missed it in stuttgart)
The Great Beyond
Walk Unafraid missed that one too :-(
Begin The Begin saw that one as second song in locarno 5 years ago :-)
Country Feedback saw that one in Nürnberg 3 years ago - anyone knows the unplugged version with like a rolling stone in the end?
The One I Love
I've Been High
Let Me In
Horse To Water
Bad Day
Orange Crush
Imitation of life
Supernatural Superserious (Encore)
Losing My Religion (Encore)
7 Chinese Bros. (Encore)
I'm Gonna DJ (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

Damn, missed that concert, remroaddog was twittering about an intimate atmosphere - well stuttgart wasn't big ... but more intimate is always good. i love club atmospheres :-)

I took the setlist from remroaddog's tweets, can anyone confirm that setlist? #remrhine

R.E.M. Setlist Stuttgart August 19, 2008

2008-08-20T17:38:00.002+02:00

Great show, I loved it, here's the setlist:

Supernatural Superserious
Living Well Is The Best Revenge (yay!)
What's The Frequency Kenneth (yayyay!)
Fall On Me
Drive
So Fast, So Numb
Man Sized Wreath
So. Central Rain (yayayay!)
Ignoreland
Hollow Man
Bad Day (yayayayay)
Auctioneer
The Great Beyond
Welcome To The Occupation
Electrolite
Sweetness Follows (yayayayay)
Let Me In (wow!)
The One I Love
Horse To Water
Orange Crush
I'm Gonna DJ (yayayayay)
Imitation of life
Losing My Religion (Encore)
Pretty Persuation (Encore)
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Encore)
Man On The Moon (Encore)

woohoooooo! I never understood the frequency! #remstuttgart