R.E.M 19 July 1999 - Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland
support: Feeder
set: Lotus / What's The Frequency, Kenneth? / Wake-Up Bomb / Suspicion / Daysleeper / Electrolite / The Apologist / Half A World Away / Everybody Hurts / Sweetness Follows / The Great Beyond / The One I Love / At My Most Beautiful / Find The River / Losing My Religion / Pop Song 89 / Walk Unafraid / Man On The Moon
encore: Have You Ever Seen The Rain? / Hope / Why Not Smile / Crush With Eyeliner / Tongue / Fall On Me / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
notes: First 2 songs of the encore again were Stipe solo
The tracks are arranged in Disc One/Disc Two folders with the break coming just before Losing My Religion. Files 1-14 are in Disc One. Files 15-25 are in Disc Two.
As always the setlist is taken from Darryl White's incomporable and essential REM Timeline ( www.remtimeline.com - your one stop shop for all matters related to REM shows and setlists).
This is the fourth of the UK shows that I recorded during the Up Tour and the first of the three shows that they played at Stirling Castle. The weather was appalling - cold, wet and miserable. In other words, a typical Scottish summer. Between Sweetness follows and Great Michael talks about how cold he is and how he hadn't been as cold as this since February that year.
I was standing Peter side of the stage about 30 metres back from the PA. The mic was duck taped to the top of of my umbrella. I seem to remember being challenged by one of the Security Gorillas (During Wake Up Bomb?) and asked what I was doing. I can't remember how I responded but it obviously didn't stop those tapes rollin'! I don't remember this show sounding as good as it actually does. There's a little bit of bass drum 'thump' but that doesn't hurt none.
Recording Lineage: Sony ECM - MS 907 electret condensor mic>Sony MZ-R35 MD recorder N.B. in MONO mode> Cool Edit 2000 (with no tweaking at all!) >CDWav>flac level 6
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Disc One 70:43
01. Lotus
02. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. The Wake-Up Bomb
04. Suspicion
05. Daysleeper
06. Electrolite
07. The Apologist
08. Half A World Away
09. Everybody Hurts
10. Sweetness Follows
11. The Great Beyond
12. The One I Love
13. At My Most Beautiful
14. Find The River
Disc Two 50:51
01. Losing My Religion
02. Pop Song 89
03. Walk Unafraid
04. Man On The Moon
encore:
05. Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Stipe solo)
06. Hope - Birdland (Stipe solo)
07. Why Not Smile (Mills & Stipe)
08. Crush With Eyeliner
09. Tongue
10. Fall On Me
11. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Timeline notes: First 2 songs of the encore again were Stipe solo.
Notes:
-MS gets the crowd to whistle after Wake Up Bomb
-Before The Apologist MS "This song is about some poor guy went through some kind of alternative therapy and became a horrible monster". After the song he comments on Peter's shirt and goes on to discuss his experiences with dry cleaners while on this tour
-Little static during Everybody Hurts
-After Sweetness Follows MS makes his comments on the weather noted above. He goes on to say "I usually put on a couple layers of clothes on just to kind of psychically protect myself and also for theatrical excess. But tonight it was actually because I was fucking freezing". As he begins to introduce the next song he is interrupted: "What? Pick up the hat? No. I have a show to perform here. You pick up the hat. [giggles] Talk to your therapist. Ok I'll pick up the hat. [someone plays the Close Encounters music] If you think for one second I'm going to put this on my head you got another think coming. Yeah it's called head lice, we have it in Georgia too".
-Before Walk Unafraid MS notes the Scottish have the best cheekbones.
-MS ad-libs some lyrics to Hope, about Thursdays in Athens.
-Fall On Me is introduced as 'A song that is older than time...and Mel
Gibson".
Grade: C