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REM to release rehearsals
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 26 August 2009
REM have announced details of a new live album featuring “working rehearsals”, one of which went on to make up their 2008 album ‘Accelerate’. The 39 tracks were recorded during a five night residency at Dublin’s Olympia club in July 2007.
Guitarist Peter Buck said of the shows, which were performed in front of friends, family and fan club members: “[They were an] experiment in terror, trying to do something we hadn’t done before. Every second we were playing something we didn’t know all that well. Which was kind of good – there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show”.
The two-disc album, ‘Live At The Olympia’, is set for release on 26 Oct.
