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R.E.M. Reveals World Tour
R.E.M.'s ready to take life's rich pageant on the road again.
After a four-year layoff from touring, the alternaband has announced plans for a world trek in the summer of 2003 to be followed by a swing through North America set for the fall.
R.E.M. will kick things off with an appearance at England's famed Glastonbury Festival on June 27 and continue with stops in 18 Euro cities, including: Berlin, Vienna, Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin, Naples and their first ever gig in Warsaw.
The group will then cross the Atlantic for its first full-blown Stateside circuit since 1999's outing for Up. (The band did only a handful of promotional gigs in support of 2001's commercially disappointing Reveal.) Dates for the U.S. portion won't be announced until after the New Year. The rockers are also planning to perform additional shows around the rest of the globe through 2004.
The jaunt will help mark the 20th anniversary of R.E.M.'s first release, Murmur.
Performing live is something of an anomaly for the band, considering that during its two decade career, R.E.M. has hit the road on average once every five years--in 1989 after the release of Green, which broke them into the mainstream, and again in 1994 in support of Monster.
But the Athens, Georgia, trio says it's about time to hit the road.
"We have been locked up in the studio and are anxious to see the outside again. So we will spend some of the next year on tour with other people who love music," says frontman Michael Stipe in a post on R.E.M.'s Website (www.remhq.com).
Similar sentiments were shared by guitarist Peter Buck, who undoubtedly would like to erase the embarrassing memory of his arrest and eventual acquittal on charges stemming from an alleged booze-fueled air-rage incident in April 2001.
"My kids have been asking me for the past couple of years, 'When do we get to go back on the tour bus?' So I am really excited about next summer and fall, especially that we will finally get to play Warsaw and return to Glastonbury," said Buck.
Bassist Mike Mills is also feeling it: "I have missed being on the road and can't wait to hit it again."
Of course, the one member who won't be returning is the band's founding drummer Bill Berry, who retired from the group in 1997 after suffering a life-threatening brain aneurysm.
In other R.E.M.-related news, the band plans to release its landmark 1987 album, Document, which featured the classics as "The One I Love," "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and "Finest Worksong," as a DVD-Audio disc on January 28 and will release a best-of compilation on CD in October.
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