20 July 1999 - Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland
support: Stereolab
set: Lotus / Wake-Up Bomb / So Fast, So Numb / Fall On Me / Suspicion / Daysleeper / How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us / Driver 8 / Sweetness Follows / The One I Love / E-bow The Letter / The Great Beyond / Losing My Religion / At My Most Beautiful / Pretty Persuasion / Star 69 / Walk Unafraid / Man On The Moon
encore: Falls To Climb / Why Not Smile / What's The Frequency, Kenneth? / Tongue / Cuyahoga / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The tracks are arranged in Disc One/Disc Two folders with the break coming just before Losing My Religion. Files 1-12 are in Disc One. Files 13-24 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 fifth of the UK shows that I recorded during the Up Tour and the second of the three shows that they played at Stirling Castle. The weather wasn't quite as bad as the previous night but it was still cold. Michael again complains of how cold he is.
I was standing Mike side of the stage about 20 metres back from the PA. with the mic duck taped to the top of of my umbrella. There was lot of wind drift that you can hear on the recording but it still sounds pretty good
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 59:09
01. Lotus
02. Wake-Up Bomb
03. So Fast, So Numb
04. Fall On Me
05. Suspicion
06. Daysleeper
07. How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
08. Driver 8
09. Sweetness Follows
10. The One I Love
11. E-bow The Letter
12. The Great Beyond
Disc Two 57:27
01. Losing My Religion
02. At My Most Beautiful
03. Pretty Persuasion
04. Star 69
05. Walk Unafraid
06. Man On The Moon
encore:
07. Falls To Climb
08. Why Not Smile
09. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
10. Tongue
11. Cuyahoga
12, It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Notes:
-After Daysleeper MS asks the audience to vote whether or not he is singing in pitch. Then "what? Mikes not singing in pitch? You got to talk to him about that". He points out the accuser to Mike who says "I knew it was you. I'll sort you out later". MS goes on to ask the crowd to share their heat with him "Can you share some of that heat with me because I'm freezing my...umm...I'm cold. I'm real cold [MM] And it's real small".
-MS acknowledges someone wearing a Fables shirt after Driver 8 then cracks a joke about the local(?) soccer team.
-MS after Sweetness Follows "I love it when people are looking right at me and I look right at them and they look behind themselves like [demonstrates] 'He didn't just look at me'. Yeah you with your hand at your mouth, yeah. Hi, how are you? You see the details of my face? I can see the same excet there's about 7,000 more of you. But you look like the surface of a tongue if I think about it real hard. Like each one of you is one of those little bumps on your tongue. Have you ever looked at your tongue that closely? That's kind of sad. I haven't. Well maybe I have".
-Before TOIL MS sarcastically introduces it as Peter's favorite song. After the song MS "We've done Peter's song, now we're gpoing to do my favorite song and I hope to god I don't forget the words". After the song he expresses some relief "I did it! I didn't fuck up one word". He also checks in with the people in the back by the toilets "Does it smell bad back there?". He goes on to admit to tripping over his mic cord in Dublin "Last week I got so excited I wrapped a cord around myself and fell down in front of 24,000 people in Dublin. It was really embarassing. I hit the stage really hard".
-After Great Beyond MS "This 'wear the hat' thing has got to come to a screeching halt. Ok I wore the hat. Now you want it back? Forget about it! This is mine! I'll cherish it for the rest of my days. Here you can have this ugly ass Nike hat. I hate that swoosh shit".
-Pretty Persuasion gets one of 5 outings on Up Tour.
-Before WTFK? MS has everyone turn around & look at the sky, then has everyone give their neighbor a hug. What a lovefest this is! Who needs Woodstock, New York?"
Grade: C