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Picking up where I just left off a few hours ago...
We left our hotel to find some dinner, but decided that we weren't actually too hungry. So, we settled for a good Irish liquid dinner before the show and just found a Thai place around the theater afterwards. It made a little difference when we arrived for today's show because we just had general admission tickets instead of balcony seats. We were in probably the first 100-150 people in line, so our spot on the floor ended up being pretty good (20-25 feet from the stage). Being downstairs really showed how small this theater was. The general admission floor area was quite small, so even someone in the very back would have a pretty good view. Also, interestingly, I noticed right away that there was a gentle slope on the floor rising towards the back. This meant that even some shorter people have a fighting chance to see over the heads of the taller people crowded up front.
R.E.M. made it on stage again around 9:15 and busted right into the same song they opened with yesterday, although I still couldn't figure out a title for it. The old songs were almost all different until the encore, so everybody who had been there the night before got a good new mix of old stuff. By a show of hands, it looked like that this was the second show for quite a few of us. The old stuff that they played tonight started with "Drive," and then (again from a fuzzy memory) "Wolves, Lower" (the song I would've requested from Scott had I thought of it!!), "Disturbance at the Heron House," "Second Guessing," "These Days," "Electrolite," "I've Been High" (a brilliant acoustic guitar/piano version)...and I feel like I'm forgetting one. Anyhow, the second time around I'm getting a better feel for the new ones. I think the best way to describe them is to look at the old songs that they've been playing...and these fit in really well. I think that it's telling that on all of the electric guitar-driven new songs (and that's most of them), Peter is playing his trusty black Rickenbacker. I guess the songs just really have a great Rickenbacker-into-overdriven-AC30 sound, and if that idea excites you then you're going to love the new album. Also, speaking of the album, someone yelled out to Michael asking when it would be out, and he just replied "We're still writing the songs!" so don't expect to see anything on the shelves soon.
Tomorrow we're leaving Dublin and heading back across the country to meet some friends in Limerick. Yes, this means that we're going to only two of the five shows here, but I'll leave it to my torrenting friends to fill in the gaps of the next three shows that I'll miss in person. Before I go to bed I'm going to get some pictures uploaded from my camera, so I'll have a lot to show on Flickr soon. I probably took over 100 photos tonight, since the theater didn't seem to mind cameras at all so I just brought in my D70 with the 18-200 VR lens. Wow, I got some great shots, especially since I was so close. Anyhow, goodnight.
Jerad posted this in Live | Comments (2)
Great reviews. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: dumbek at July 3, 2007 10:10 PM
Oh yeah, "Sitting Still" was the song I'd forgotten. I'm not sure how the second Murmur song I've seen them play slipped by me.
Posted by: Jerad at July 4, 2007 07:58 PM
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