R.E.M.
Hallenstadion - Zürich, Switzerland
Wednesday September 24th 2008
01. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
02. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. Horse To Water
04. I Took Your Name
05. Fall On Me
06. Drive
07. Ignoreland
08. Man-Sized Wreath
09. 7 Chinese Bros.
10. Just A Touch
11. Hollow Man
12. The Great Beyond
13. Circus Envy
14. She Just Wants To Be
15. Departure
16. The One I Love
17. I’ve Been High
18. Let Me In
19. Walk Unafriad
20. Bad Day
21. Imitation Of Life
22. Orange Crush
23. Encore Break
24. Supernatural Superserious
25. Losing My Religion
26. Exhuming McCarthy
27. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
28. Man On The Moon
Source: Neumann KM140's > AETA PSP3 > R09
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Notes:
-Setlist highlights: I Took Your Name (16), Just A Touch (7), Circus Envy (9), She Just Wants To Be (18), Departure (7, last performance), Exhuming McCarthy (11)
-Standard intro to Ignoreland
-Just A Touch is introduced as The first song of the evening that addresses teenage humiliation face to face.
-Before Circus Envy MS notes the song contains MM's favorite line in an R.E.M. song in several years.
-Exhuming McCarthy is dedicated to Sarah Palin "The recently discovered governor of Alaska. What a joke". He goes on to note that it was in 1975 when he discovered music and decided to put a band together.
Grade: B
-venue acoustics not so great