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REM live at the Olympia

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  • 24-08-2009 4:00pm
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    Rebelheart
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    Pretty cool story. Remember a couple of years back when Phantom FM offered free tickets to listeners who wanted to see REM - yes, the REM - live in the Olympia?

    Well a couple of us got them and apparently REM just did the entire gig for free and didn't charge anybody in. That in itself made them fairly cool, particularly having paid a fair bit to see them in Ardgillan Castle a couple of years before. Well, in today's paper the band has just announced that it's next worldwide album release is REM Live at the Olympia.

    Fair play to them.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0824/breaking37.htm


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    tarbuck
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    Yes, fair play to them for giving away a free album. Oh, wait!

    (A lot of bands release live albums from Ireland merely because we are the loudest drunkests concert goers in the western world and we'll cheer any auld shíte).


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    Quint
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    You're lucky you got the prizes, 2 of my mates won stuff off Phantom and never got them.


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    Rebelheart
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    tarbuck wrote: »
    Yes, fair play to them for giving away a free album. Oh, wait!

    (A lot of bands release live albums from Ireland merely because we are the loudest drunkests concert goers in the western world and we'll cheer any auld shíte).


    Jesus, aren't you miserable ... in that endearingly (ahem) Irish way?


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    Rebelheart
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    Quint wrote: »
    You're lucky you got the prizes, 2 of my mates won stuff off Phantom and never got them.

    Yeah, a friend actually won them but I went along with him. Automatic for the People all those years ago is still one the best albums I've ever listened to. It still sounds as fresh as it did in the 90s. And they seem like down-to-earth lads and that sort of thing matters in my book.


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    lordgoat
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    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Pretty cool story. Remember a couple of years back when Phantom FM offered free tickets to listeners who wanted to see REM - yes, the REM - live in the Olympia?

    Well a couple of us got them and apparently REM just did the entire gig for free and didn't charge anybody in.     That in itself made them fairly cool, particularly having paid a fair bit to see them in Ardgillan Castle a couple of years before. Well, in today's paper the band has just announced that it's next worldwide album release is REM Live at the Olympia.

    Fair play to them.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0824/breaking37.htm


    Eh, are you saying the whole olympia gig was free, if so you are completely wrong.

    There was always going to be a live CD/DVD of the gigs.

    www.remdublin.com has been up for quite a while now and there are previews of a few songs.


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