After a four-year absence from the road, R.E.M. accept amorphous to set dates for a 2003 apple tour. The aboriginal set of appearances activate with a June 27th stop at the Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. Eighteen stops, predominantly festivals, accept been set throughout Europe, to blanket July 26th in France.
The European run will be followed by a set of North American dates in the fall, R.E.M.'s aboriginal all-encompassing bout aback the absolution of Up in 1998. That airing was the band's aboriginal after co-founding affiliate and bagman Billy Berry. R.E.M. enlisted bagman Joey Waronker, and multi-instrumentalists Scott McCaughey and Ken Stringfellow to ample out the sound, and the three accept been arena with the accumulation since.
"I anticipate the bout in 1999 fabricated us apprehend that we're a different band, but we're still a band," guitarist Peter Buck said. The accumulation fabricated several promotional appearances abaft its endure album, 2001's Reveal, but didn't set a abounding touring schedule. Buck, frontman Michael Stipe and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mills accept been in Vancouver alive on the aftereffect to Reveal, which is appointed for absolution next year.
"We accept been bound up in the flat and are afraid to see the alfresco again," said Stipe. Added Buck, "My kids accept been allurement me for the accomplished brace of years, 'When do we get to go aback on the bout bus?' So I am absolutely aflame about next summer and fall, abnormally that we will assuredly get to play Warsaw and acknowledgment to Glastonbury."
Also on the calendar for 2003 is a new R.E.M. "best of" compilation, admitting data accept not yet been set.
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