By Cat Mantione Holmes
08.31.99
Athens Daily News
R.E.M. instantly brought the crowd of roughly 6,000 people at Chastain Park to its feet Sunday night with the rocker ”Lotus” from the band’s latest album ”Up” and kept fans on the edge of their seats all night long.
On a stage bristling with Dada-esque candy-colored neon shapes, the threesome that [...]
By Brian Hiatt
08.30.99
Sonicnet
The nation’s largest police group has added David Byrne, Sting, Michael Stipe and Chumbawamba to its boycott list, based on those artists’ support of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The Fraternal Order of Police will post the list on its website (www.grandlodgefop.org) later this week, FOP legislative assistant Tim Richardson said Monday (Aug. 30).
Rock band [...]
08.30.99
Launch
It was a reunion of sorts Sunday night (Aug. 29) when former R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry walked onstage to embrace his former bandmates during the first show of the band’s three-night stand at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta.
The show marked R.E.M.’s first date in Georgia since the drummer announced that he was leaving the [...]
By Miriam Longino
08.29.99
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Whatever preconceived notions people have about us, I hope they will be surprised. We thrive on contradiction. We all do, as human beings. We as a band personify that.”
– R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe
“I see R.E.M. right now as a band that is still trying to discover what its footing is in wake [...]