absolutely great

If someone can't record the FM, it will be available on the bbc radio player for 7 days afterwards

Tune in now if you want to hear exclusive REM interviews, tracks from Accelerate, and a full hour from the Albert Hall live ;)

Is it still the news at the moment? Thats what I'm hearing...

yeah... there's gonna be some more interview next and later on - finally - the live-show :D

well it was 9.02pm when you posted :P

Yep, my bad :rolleyes:

 

Sounding good right now though!

Losing My Religion into The Great Beyond :dance:

wohoo! The Great Beyond!! :dance:

Losing My Religion into The Great Beyond :dance:

much better than

 

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends :stunned::dozey::P

Any excuse to complain :dozey: :lol:

REM: Chris Martin named our new single

 

 

Band reveal how Coldplay frontman helped out

 

REM have revealed that their close pal Chris Martin helped them name new single 'Supernatural Superserious'.

 

The song, which is the first track to be lifted from new album 'Accelerate', was originally called 'Disguised' after being previewed at the band’s five-night run at Dublin's Olympia Theatre last summer.

 

However, according to REM's frontman Michael Stipe, the track was renamed after a bit of advice from the Coldplay frontman.

 

He told Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1: "We were in London, in Soho, mixing the record and Chris Martin was working on the Coldplay record as well, and he's great friends with the band.

 

"He was listening to the song, and said 'It's a great song but a crap title, you have to change it'. He offered this title and we went with it."

 

'Accelerate' is released next week (March 31).

 

The band will be playing a gig at the iTunes store in Regent Street, central London tonight (March 26). NME.COM will be bringing you a full report shortly after the show ends.

 

The US rockers also played in the UK capital’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday (March 24), where they played nine songs from the new album.

 

http://www.nme.com/news/rem/35425

Chris should have named the R.E.M. song 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends', and steal the title 'Disguised' for his own new album

i just read that

REM, Royal Albert Hall, London

 

Close your eyes and the years fall away. An inventive arpeggio on a Rickenbacker; a melodic bass line; sharp staccato drumming as the singer attempts to communicate to an unreceptive world. But this wasn't a relatively unknown Georgian quartet playing a cold December night in the pre-Lion King Lyceum; this was the Royal Albert Hall, the best part of a quarter of a century later, and REM were rediscovering a love of spontaneity and precision. That December, the opening song was "Second Guessing"; this time, it was "Living Well Is the Best Revenge", with the band taking their new album's title, Accelerate, to heart and picking up the pace. What followed was the majority of the new album interspersed with a few choice favourites from the Nineties. The band's earlier work, with which the new material resonates rather than repeats, was unrepresented.

 

 

The songs were delivered with an intensity and a passion only intermittently apparent the last time REM played in London, just over the road in Hyde Park. This re-energised REM delivered a strong set of short, to-the-point new songs with strong melodies, choruses and typical Michael Stipe lyrics: "Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?/ Where is the cartoon escape hatch for me?" Forty minutes passed, punctuated by "Drive", "Electrolyte" and "Final Straw", before things slowed as Stipe introduced "a beautiful song". The opening notes of "Losing My Religion" on the mandolin elicited the biggest cheer of the night, not surprising given the unfamiliarity of much of the material played.

 

The singer's introduction to this classic track, in which he referred to Dick Cheney's "they were all volunteers" response to the news of the 4,000th US serviceman to die in Iraq, was the only overt political comment. The joker in Stipe, however, was much in evidence. The highlight was when he persuaded the lead guitarist, Peter Buck, to speak on stage. "It takes the Royal Albert Hall to get Peter to speak on the lead mic," he giggled, while extracting stories about the venue from each of his band mates. "Man on the Moon" completed a set in which 16 songs were delivered in little more than an hour. The frustrating brevity of the set was alleviated by the quality of the new songs and their passionate delivery.

 

The support acts also compensated. The opening bands, Foals and the Duke Spirit, showed flashes of promise, but battled with a dreadful sound mix, and Robyn Hitchcock on guitar and John Paul Jones on mandolin played an acoustic set of gently seductive beauty, a counterpoint to the aural assault to follow.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/you-write-the-reviews-rem-royal-albert-hall-london-801644.html

anyone get the album?

anyone get the album?

 

Yeah, I bought it on wednesday :D

I think at the moment my three favourite tracks are Living Well, Supernatural Superserious & I'm Gonna DJ :D

I pre-ordered it.

Expect to receive it some time next week.

Yeah, I bought it on wednesday :D

I think at the moment my three favourite tracks are Living Well, Supernatural Superserious & I'm Gonna DJ :D

 

so its good?

so its good?

 

U kidding?

It's the best album released this year!

Going to see them in June.. ! I am really looking forward to it.. :D

anyone get the album?

 

I bought it, still haven't opened it up yet....

Local newspapers told its their best album since out of time

so its good?

 

its brilliant!

then i think i'll get it....

 

i want to see them live but i have finals the next day so thats not happening