R.E.M.
Cardiff INternational Arena
Cardiff
Wales
25.08.2008
Audience recording by Patrick (remfan72.net)
Lineage:
1-ISI-SEHM-1-Innovative Specialists Binaural Ear Mounted Microphones
(TFB-2 cardioid) Deluxe Audio Technica Cardioid > 1-SP-SPSB-6-Battery
Box with Bass Roll Off (set at 107 Hz) > Edirol R09 (WAV, 16 bit, 44,1 kHz)
> USB transfer to PC > Audacity > flac frontend > MakeTorrent 2
Setlist:
CD 1:
01. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
02. These Days
03. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
04. Exhuming McCarthy
05. Drive
06. Man Sized Wreath
07. Harborcoat
08. Ignoreland
09. Bad Day
10. Pilgrimage
11. Hollow Man
12. Driver 8
13. Elctrolite
14. New Test Leper
15. I'm Gonna DJ
CD 2:
16. The Great Beyond
17. The One I Love
18. Sweetness Follows
19. Let Me In
20. Horse To Water
21. Orange Crush
22. Imitation Of Life
23. crowd
encore:
24. Supernatural Superserious
25. Losing My Religion
26. Country Feedback
27. Disturbance At The Heron House
28. band intro
29. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
30. Man On The Moon
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Notes:
-Setlist highlights: Exhuming McCarthy (11), Pilgrimage (2), New Test Leper (1, final performance of the track), Sweetness Follows (16), Country Feedback (16), Disturbance At The Heron House (17).
-After Exhuming McCarthy MS "More on that later". Then possibly breaks his mic stand.
-After Drive MS gives out something sweaty and muses on the possibility of being cloned. He the unveils his plan to have Rush Limbaugh, Bill Reilly and Dick Cheaney on a raft in the middle of the ocean without a paddle. He adds they hate the government, then notes the opening of the Democratic Convention in Denver, CO.
-Before Harborcoat, MS notes he was "a pretention little fuck at the age of 24".
-Before Ignoreland MS notes the influence The English Beat had on the band and once again notes they hate the government
-Before Pilgrimage MS Relays that PB notes it's the first time they've played the song in Europe
-MS sings a line of an Editors(?) song, then sends Driver 8 out to that band.
-New Test Leper is sent out to The Guillemots and MS adds "It's one of my favorite songs we've ever written".
-Before I'm Gonna DJ, MS notes it's origin in Seattle at the WTO riots and the new revolution.
-After LMR MS notes he has broken his IEM as well. He notes that Country Feedback is his request
--Before Country Feednack MS notes he has broken his IEM as well and that Country Feedback is his request. PB solo 1:22.
-MSbefore D@THH "Sometimes I write down parts of lyrics or ideas and they sit in a notebook. Since 1992 I think Automatic For The People was the first album that I wrote on a computer instead of on a typwriter. I hate my handwriting. I hate my speaking voice in fact. I really love my singing voice but I don't like the way I talk. Anyway, there's an objectivity that computers offer as we all know at this point...and i just lost my train of thought....got it. So the title of this next song sat in a notebook sometime in the early 1980s for about four years and I never understood quite where it came from. Today I was on Marylebone road in London, driving here in fact, driving to the train station so I come here and I passed by this place. And it's the second time I actually always never remember that this is where that came from. So we passed by this place, I don't know what the fuck it is, it might be some municipal insurance company but the name of it is Heron House. So I looked at that sometime, I think it must have been the terrible winter of 1985. Reagan had been re-elected, we were in London in the coldest flat imaginable trying to make our third album and trying to do something great and I drove by that place and we re-wrote Animal Farm by George Orwell".
Grade: C