By Tom Lasseter 07.25.99 San Jose Mercury News A grass-roots campaign against a local hospital’s plan to expand into surrounding neighborhoods has all the hallmarks of civic activism that this college town is known for: yard signs, petitions, meetings, protests and, of course, the support of one of the world’s most successful rock bands, R.E.M. [...]
By Tom Lasseter 07.25.99 New York Times A grass-roots campaign against a local hospital’s plan to expand into surrounding neighborhoods here has all the hallmarks of civic activism that this college town is known for: yard signs, petitions, meetings, protests and, of course, the support of one of the world’s most successful rock bands, R.E.M. [...]
By Stuart Clark 07.23.99 Hot Press The band were adamant. They’d do a few promo shows to coincide with Up’s release, but other than that they weren’t going back on the road again. Eight months later and REM are locked into a world tour that’s likely to have them eating hotel grub until September. Numerous [...]
By Peter Murphy 07.23.99 Hot Press (I) Daysleeper From one R.E.M.-state into another. It’s the tremulously tender hour of 11.59 am in the Loews Hotel Vogue, 1425 de la Montagne, downtown Montreal, when Michael Stipe is surprised awake by an Irish journalist seeking an interview. Through the smog of jet-lag, the singer blearily surveys his [...]
07.22.99 Yahoo! Chat Yahoomc: OK, folks — Here he is — Michael Stipe! michael_stipe_live: I’m calling from Athens, with my shirt off, by the pool, catching the last ten minutes of sun- hello, everyone! michael_stipe_live: That’s Athens, Greece, not Athens, Georgia. seashower asks: I loved the photo on the cover of Hi-Fi, will Michael be [...]
By Ballard Lesemann 07.21.99 Flagpole Magazine Tony Eubanks, former co-owner of the High Hat Music Club, has been part of the Athens music scene since Michael Stipe owned a comb. Tony just got back from hearing R.E.M. in Europe and agreed to share with Flagpole Music Editor Ballard Lesemann a few observations on the tour. [...]
By Kevin Bourke 07.19.99 Mancester Evening News Shiny, happy people they may not be but on Saturday’s showing at the Manchester Evening News Arena, R.E.M. just might be the most exciting and stimulating rock band in the world right now. In the face of the sorry spectacle that is most contemporary pop music, R.E.M. are [...]
By John Metzger 07.14.99 The Music Box 4 1/2 out of 5 stars Since releasing the magnificent masterpiece Automatic for the People in 1994, R.E.M. has been stuck in a rut. Monster seemed to be created for the purpose of a large arena tour, containing songs that were virtually loud retreads of the band’s older [...]
By Gary Graff 07.01.99 Wall Of Sound Fans who have taken in R.E.M.’s world tour dates in Europe so far have been delighted by changing set lists and the appearance of several older tracks that the group has not performed in years – including “Pilgrimage,” “Cuyahoga,” “Life and How to Live It,” and “Driver 8.” [...]
By Danny Eccleston 07.01.99 Q Magazine R.E.M’s first UK show for real people since 1995 will be at Earl’s Court on June 22, but we’ve been waiting for longer (in spite of yearly rumours) for R.E.M. to play Glastonbury. “Glastonbury have approached us every year for the last ten, and each time we turned them [...]