By James Finlayson 06.28.99 Sonicnet R.E.M. played hits and vintage nuggets, Al Green mixed gospel with classic soul and Orbital brought techno music to the so-called “jazz/world” stage at Glastonbury Festival. This year’s edition of the event drew more than 100,000 music fans to farmland in southwestern England over the weekend. The three-day, multiple-stage festival [...]
By James Bedding 06.28.99 London Evening Standard Rating: 3 stars “We finally made it to Glastonbury!” yelled frontman Michael Stipe as he opened REM’s headline slot on Friday night, at the end of a day that had festival-goers stripped and sizzling in their tens of thousands from the Pixie Power Stage to the Sacred Sauna-Chillout. [...]
06.26.99 New Musical Express Peter Buck from REM on the tunes that made him a maaan! Song To Drive Down to Glastonbury: ‘Atlantis’ – Donovan “It has that Glastonbury vibe to it, doesn’t it? Ancient Celts, that sort of thing. We actually played that song once, it was pretty great. We hired a string section, [...]
By Garry Mulholland 06.23.99 Time Out Magazine “My biggest fear is that I start to come across as sentimental or menopausal. ‘Splutter!’” Michael Stipe has an odd but endearing laugh. It rears up from his throat in the middle of sentences, throws his deep, quiet speaking voice into a sudden spluttering cough, then disappears again, [...]