robertandrews's blog

Excellent, excellent stuff. Flew over on Thursday morning, met some Murmurs folk queueing to make their standing tickets count, wondered off, wondered back and saw a special, unique performance.

The new songs are strong, fresh and driving.

Geeked out at a nearby unofficial R.E.M. aftershow party (every other track an R.E.M. track, plus videos) - much singing and Guinness with Julia, Tim, Amanita, Dave and Stephanie. A pleasure to hang out with you guys - I had such a good time.

Anyone want to sit down on Thursday and would swap their standing ticket with me... ?

So I hopped over to Dublin this weekend with some friends. Call it a reccé ;)

I was pleasantly surprised by a number of R.E.M. moments of zen. So, As an indication of how much this city must like R.E.M., by means of warming up for the next couple of weeks...