Fired up ready to go: wired, tired, inspired. It was quite a night in Santiago: I really admired the band for the show and their ability to pour themselves into the music for the moment, especially as focused as all of us are on the election. We all watched in the hours before the stage … Continue reading Postcard from the Day After – 2008
Category: R.E.M. Postcards Etc.
Postcard from South America – 2008
We are a week into this final leg of the 2008 tour and what a week it has been–R.E.M. played Dallas, the first time in Texas since the SXSW show at Stubbs that in a sense kicked off the year’s travels, then on to New Orleans where the band finally got to play Voodoo Fest, … Continue reading Postcard from South America – 2008
Top Ten Tour 2008
Bertis lists his top ten highlights of the summer tour here. For the rest, please go here.
Postcard from the Strong Finish – Final Weekend For Europe 2008
We had a couple of days in Istanbul, and since we had never been there, everyone enjoyed seeing the sights, discovering the blends of cultures, in this sprawling, bustling city. And the show was on a spectacular site, hard on the bank of the Bosphorus, with illuminated mosques dotting the hillside in Asia across the … Continue reading Postcard from the Strong Finish – Final Weekend For Europe 2008
Notes from the Airport – 2008
On the way to Istanbul, so not much time to update today . . . Madrid was magical, the place LAS VENTAS (very Verona Arena-like in dimensions and shape and crowd, but okay maybe not quite as old!) is the premier bullring in Spain and quite a venue for a rocking show. Somehow over the … Continue reading Notes from the Airport – 2008
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