R.E.M. will release a live CD/DVD, the first ever of their 27-year career, on Warner Bros. Records on October 16th, 2007. Titled R.E.M. Live, the 22-track audio and visual package captures singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills doing what they do best at a dynamic show at the Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, on February 27, 2005.
Directed by Blue Leach (Depeche Mode), R.E.M. Live features songs spanning the band’s many studio albums, including the singles “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville,” (featuring bassist Mike Mills on lead vocal) from 1984’s Reckoning, “The One I Love,” from 1987’s Document, “Orange Crush,” from 1988’s Green, “Losing My Religion” from 1991’s Out of Time, “Everybody Hurts” and “Man On The Moon” from 1992’s Automatic For the People, plus a rare performance of “Ascent of Man” from the band’s last studio album, 2004’s Around the Sun.
