notes: Rehearsal for first performance
5 April 1980 - St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Athens, GA
support: The Side Effects
possible set:(1st Set) - I Can't Control Myself / God Save The Queen / Narrator / Just A Touch / Baby I / Action / Needles And Pins / Hippy Hippy Shake / There She Goes Again / All The Right Friends / Shakin' All Over / Secret Agent Man / A Girl Like You / Permanent Vacation / I Can Only Give You Everything / Dangerous Times / Different Girl / Mystery To Me / (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone / Lisa Says / Nervous Breakdown / Schéhérazade
(2nd Set) - Honky Tonk Women / One Nation Under A Groove / Roadrunner / California Sun / Gloria
notes: First ever R.E.M. performance. Some reports have the band playing under the name 'Twisted Kites', other reports claim there was no band name. Song order is not known (although I Can't Control Myself and God Save The Queen have been acknowledged to be the first two songs played) and it's not known what other songs were played
18/19 April 1980 - St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Athens, GA
event: Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe decide on the name R.E.M. over Negro Eyes, Slut Bank and Cans Of Piss
19 April 1980 - 11:11 Koffee Club, Athens, GA
audience: approx. 150
notes: First gig under the name R.E.M. The show was ended around 2am when police closed it down due to the venue being unlicensed
6 May 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
supporting: The Brains
set included: Shakin' All Over / Secret Agent Man / (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
13 May 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
support: The Swindles
set included: Shakin' All Over
15 May 1980 - Memorial Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
supporting: The Brains
notes: This show was originally planned for Legion Field but was forced indoors due to rain
16 May 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
supporting: Pylon
21 May 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
support: The Smarts
30 May 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
support: The Teeveez set: Baby I / Route 66 / Scheherazade / Lisa Says / Mystery To Me / Chappaquiddick (She Said) / All The Right Friends / A Girl Like You / Dangerous Times / Mediocrity / Shakin' All Over / I've Got A Charm / Body Count / A Different Girl
3 June 1980 - The Mad Hatter, Athens, GA
6 June 1980 - Wuxtry Records, Atlanta, GA
tracks included: Dangerous Times / All The Right Friends / Different Girl / Narrator / Just A Touch / Baby I / Mystery To Me / Permanent Vacation
notes: A pre-show practise session, recorded by video camera with the intention to produce a promotional clip for getting further bookings, which was never pursued. This performance spawned the first unofficial bootleg cassette titled 'Slurred', and can now be found on the CD bootleg "Early Movements", and the LP bootlegs "Chronic Murmurings" and "Pretty Pictures"
6 June 1980 - The Warehouse, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Space Heaters, Red Meat and Sprouts
7 June 1980 - WUOG Radio, University Of Georgia, Athens, GA
notes: Interview with Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe
7 June 1980 - High Shoals Beach, High Shoals, GA
supporting: Stillwater
notes: According to Michael during the KCRW performance on 3 April 1991, Bill had drunk too much prune juice at this particular show, and had to sneak out into the bushes to relieve himself
30 June 1980 - The Mad Hatter, Athens, GA
5 July 1980 - Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA
support: The Basics, The Rabbits
9 July 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: Benefit show for John Kupris, Judge (a friend of Bertis?)
15 July 1980 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Gang Of Four
16 July 1980 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Gang Of Four
18 July 1980 - The Station, Carrboro, NC
notes: Jefferson Holt, who attends all three NC shows, sees R.E.M. for the first time
19 July 1980 - The Station, Carrboro, NC
21 July 1980 - The Pier, Raleigh, NC
encore included: Gloria
notes: Gloria featured Joe Thomas on guitar
22 July 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
28 July 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: peformance by band 'Pre-Cave', featuring Tom Smith, Carol Levy and Michael Stipe
1 August 1980 - Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA
support: The Restraints
6 August 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: Benefit show in aid of the 40 Watt Club
13 August 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
17 August 1980 - Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA
19 August 1980 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
support: Love Tractor
23 September 1980 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
24 September 1980 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
set included: Hippy Hippy Shake
3 October 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
4 October 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
set: Nervous Breakdown / Just A Touch / A Girl Like You / Dangerous Times / There She Goes Again / I Can Only Give You Everything / All The Right Friends/ (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Body Count / Hippy Hippy Shake / Action / Narrator / Hey Hey Nadine / Gardening At Night / Scheherazade / Lisa Says / Mystery To Me / (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone / Permanent Vacation / Gloria-Shakin' All Over-Respect / White Tornado
notes: This show can be found on the vinyl bootleg "Bodycount At Tyrone's" and the CD bootleg "20th Century Boys Vol. 2", minus Nervous Breakdown, Gloria-Shakin' All Over-Respect and White Tornado. This is the earliest R.E.M. show to be bootlegged
8 October 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
30 October 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: peformance by band 'Nest (adj)', featuring Tom Smith, Carol Levy and Michael Stipe
6 November 1980 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
support: Little Tigers
20 November 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: Benefit show in aid of the 40 Watt Club
6 December 1980 - Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA
audience: 4,000
supporting: The Police
notes: During the last song Michael invited anyone to come up on the stage and dance if they could get past security. The stage got packed.
20 December 1980 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
16 January 1981 - The Milestone, Charlotte, NC
17 January 1981 - The Milestone, Charlotte, NC
30 January 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
set: Just A Touch / Sitting Still / Dangerous Times / There She Goes Again / Get On Their Way (Get On Back Home) / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Shaking Through / Wait / Windout / Gardening At Night / Ages Of You / Schéhérazade / Lisa Says / Mystery To Me (2 Girls) / Chappaquiddick
encore: White Tornado / (Aunties Quilt) / I Can't Control Myself / Skank / Gloria-Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together-Respect / Tighten Up / Route 66 (w/Paul Scales) / Shakin' All Over
notes: Stipe says this is the first ever performance of 'Get On Their Way', which was titled 'Get On Back Home' at this show. Also the first known performance of 'Shaking Through' and 'Skank'
31 January 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
5 February 1981 - New York, New York, Augusta, GA
set included: (Theme From) The Monkees / Nervous Breakdown / Rave On / Tighten Up / Walk, Don't Run / Do You Love Me / Just Like Me / For Your Love / Route 66 / (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone / Gloria
8 February 1981 - Bombay Studios, Smyrna, GA
event: The band make their first studio recording. The following tracks are recorded with studio owner and producer Joe Perry: Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / Radio Free Europe / Shaking Through / Mystery To Me / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Narrator / White Tornado
14 February 1981 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: peformance by band 'Boat Of', featuring Tom Smith, David Gamble, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Carol Levy and Michael Stipe
20 February 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Joe 'King' Carrasco
21 February 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Joe 'King' Carrasco
13 March 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
set: Radio Free Europe / Burning Down / Dangerous Times / All The Right Friends / Shaking Through / Body Count / Pretty Persuasion / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Hey Hey Nadine / That Beat / Sitting Still / 9-9 / Windout / Gardening At Night
notes: May not be the complete show. There is some conjecture as to whether this is the true date and venue of this show, which is currently being investigated.
First known performance of 'Radio Free Europe' and '9-9' (given the holes in the timeline for this period, probably not their debut performances though)
14 March 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
19 March 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
supporting: Pylon
support: Love Tractor, Method Actors, The Side Effects
26 March 1981 - K.O. Jam's, Murfreesboro, TN
27 March 1981 - Cantrell's, Nashville, TN
28 March 1981 - The Milestone, Charlotte, NC
31 March 1981 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
notes: The bootleg 'T.G.I.F.' lists the show as this date, but is in fact 6 November 1981, although this show did take place, as confirmed by the poster.
About the venue itself, from an interview by David Fricke with Peter Buck on 15 November 1990 taken from The Rolling Stone Files book (pg. 114): "There was a place in Greensboro, North Carolina, called Friday's. It was a pizza parlor, and the guy had bands play. It was an L-shaped room; you could see through the bar to the ovens, with the guy with the long stick with pizzas on it, and see us, too. He'd charge a dollar, we'd get 150 people in there, and we'd get the door. People would let us sleep on the floor. There were clubs like that in every city"
Poster
2 April 1981 - New York, New York, Augusta, GA
set 1: Rave On / Burning Down / A Girl Like You / Get On Their Way / There She Goes Again / Pretty Persuasion / Body Count / A Different Crowd / Action / Narrator / Hey Hey Nadine
set 2: Dangerous Times / All The Right Friends / Little Girl / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Windout / Gardening At Night / Wait / Scheherzade / Lisa Says / Mystery To Me / Gloria
set 3: White Tornado / Just A Touch / I Can't Control Myself / 9-9 / In The Nighttime / Pills / Nervous Breakdown / Baby I / Permanent Vacation
3 April 1981 - Memorial Gymnasium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
supporting: Joe 'King' Carrasco
support: Jason And The Nashville Scorchers
notes: There is a tape in circulation claiming it is this show, however that can't be substantiated yet. It is currently thought to be on 13 March 1981, however some more investigating it taking place to determine the true date and venue. There is no dispute however that this show took place, just not the recording is of this show.
4 April 1981 - The Station, Carrboro, NC
notes: After this show, the band offer Jefferson Holt the position of full-time manager
6 April 1981 - The Pier, Raleigh, NC
10 April 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
set 1: Rave On / Burning Down / A Girl Like You / Get On Their Way / There She Goes Again / Pretty Persuasion / Body Count / Different Girl / Action / Narrator / Hey Hey Nadine / Baby I / Permanent Vacation
set 2: Radio Free Europe / Sitting Still / Dangerous Times / All The Right Friends / Shaking Through / Little Girl / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Windout / Gardening At Night / Wait (w/Lynda & Cyndi Stipe) / Schéhérazade / Lisa Says / Mystery To Me
encore: White Tornado
notes: This show was originally thought to have been from 10 January 1981, but has been attributed to this date instead because:
1. At the end of Get On Their Way at the 30 Jan 81 show, Stipe says that was the first time they've played that - and sounds very basic as well - they called it Get On Back Home - therefore it is an older set than the 30 Jan show.
2. The setlist is virtually identical to the 2 April setlist - it is easy to get the numbers wrong - 1/10//81 v 4/10/81.
This show can be found on the vinyl bootlegs "Georgia Peaches - Ripe!", as well as an edited version on "So Much Younger Then". The double CD bootleg "Tyrone's Athens 1981" also features the show, minus Rave On and White Tornado. 'Burning Down' comes after 'Action' on these bootlegs, however a new recording has been unearthed where Burning Down appears to have been played after Rave On instead. After hearing the new version, it's now my view Burning Down should be second in the setlist, and not after Action.
11 April 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
15 April 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
tracks recorded: Sitting Still / Sitting Still (incomplete fast version) / Radio Free Europe / White Tornado (1) / White Tornado (2)
notes: First recording session with Mitch Easter. These tracks were recorded for R.E.M.'s Cassette Set audio tape, to be sent out to clubs, magazines, and record companies. The Cassette Set features 'Sitting Still', 'Radio Free Europe' and 'White Tornado' (2). Also on the cassette are small clips of the fast version of 'Sitting Still', and the first take of White Tornado, which is halted half way through due to some wrong notes by Peter Buck. About 400 copies of the set were produced
23 April 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Mitch Easter remixes 'Radio Free Europe' from 15 April, creating 'Radio Free Europe (Dub Mix)'. The mix made it onto some copies of the Cassette Set, and also the LP bootleg 'Smokin' In The Boys Room', and CD bootlegs 'Rave On', and 'Essential Demos Vol. 1'
24 April 1981 - B&L Warehouse, Athens, GA
supporting: XTC
set included: Gardening At Night
12 May 1981 - Tyrone's OC, Athens, GA
set 1: All The Right Friends / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Body Count / Just A Touch / Sitting Still / Permanent Vacation / Get On Their Way / Shaking Through / Romance / Laughing / Pretty Persuasion / 9-9 / Windout / Gardening At Night / White Tornado
set 2: That Beat-Skank / Smalltown Girl / Burning Down / Dangerous Times / There She Goes Again / Stumble
set 3: Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore: The Lion Sleeps Tonight-Stranded In The Jungle-Skank / That Beat
notes: This majority of this show can be found on the CD bootleg "That Beat In Time", albeit in a different order
14 May 1981 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
22 May 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
24 May 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: The band return to the Drive-In with Johnny Hibbert to record overdubs for 'Radio Free Europe'
25 May 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Radio Free Europe and Sitting Still are mixed by Johnny Hibbert for proposed release on his Hib-Tone record label
2 June 1981 - Von Hemmon's, Columbia, SC
set: Body Count / Just A Touch / Sitting Still / Hey Hey Nadine / That Beat / Mystery To Me / Burning Down / Romance / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
notes: This show was originally thought to have been on 2 February 1981 but further evidence suggests it took place on this date
2-3 June 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Mitch Easter mixes his own version of 'Radio Free Europe'
3 June 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
4 June 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
notes: 2 sets, the early set included There She Goes Again
5 June 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
supporting: 999
6 June 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
supporting: 999
June 1981 - Bombay Studios, Symrna, GA
notes: The band return to Bombay with Johnny Hibbert. They bring with them the two versions of 'Radio Free Europe', the one mixed by Hibbert, and the other mixed by Easter, and use the studio to decide which one to put on the Hib-Tone single. Hibbert's mix wins and can be found on the original Hib-Tone single. Easter's mix can be found on the Eponymous album
13 June 1981 - Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
notes: Playing at the summer ball whose theme was 'Lust In Space'. From the Q magazine R.E.M. special (pg. 118): "'Princeton Guys', recalls Buck. 'The young hearts and minds of America, walking around with big aluminum foil penises. We got five encores and people were throwing their metal dildos onstage'"
17 June 1981 - The Ritz, New York, NY
supporting: Gang Of Four
18 June 1981 - The Ritz, New York, NY
supporting: Gang Of Four
19 June 1981 - The Left Bank, Mount Vernon, NY
supporting: Gang Of Four
20 June 1981 - Emerald City, Cherry Hill, NJ
supporting: Bunnydrums / Gang Of Four
21 June 1981 - The Bayou, Washington D.C.
supporting: Gang Of Four
23 June 1981 - Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Gang Of Four
24 June 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
supporting: Gang Of Four
July 1981
event: Radio Free Europe/Sitting Still released on Hib-Tone Records
July 1981 - Club Foot, Austin, TX
supporting: The Judy's
support: The Make
July 1981 - Club Numbers, Houston, TX
notes: The band were forced to play a version of 'Whole Lotta Love' for six people glowering at the band from the urine soaked dancefloor
16 July 1981 - The Ritz, New York, NY
23 July 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
24 July 1981 - Night Gallery, Athens, GA
24 July 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
August 1981 - Art Department, University Of Georgia, Athens, GA
notes: It's possible this show took place in either December or Jan-Feb 1981
6 August 1981 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
7 August 1981 - The Station, Chapel Hill, NC
19 August 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
20 August 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
25 August 1981 - The Scorpio, Charlotte, NC
notes: This show was billed as "Charlotte's First Gay New Wave Disco and Costume Party", The Scorpio apparently being a lesbian bar. Tickets were $3 benefitting a variety of gay/lesbian charities
Poster
September 1981 - Unknown Venue, Philadelphia, PA
16 September 1981 - Pilgrim Theater, New York, NY
supporting: The Bloods
set: Ages Of You / White Tornado / 1,000,000 / Shaking Through / Romance / Laughing / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat
19 September 1981 - Emerald City, Cherry Hill, NJ
supporting: Bow Wow Wow
22 September 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
set:Ages Of You / 1,000,000 / Shaking Through / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Body Count / Just A Touch / Little Girl / Wait / Sitting Still / I Can't Control Myself / Burning Down / Get On Their Way / Romance / Laughing / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat / Gardening At Night / Windout / 9-9 / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore: White Tornado / There She Goes Again (w/Vic Varney) / Stumble-Skank-Saturday Night
23 September 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
set 1: Just A Touch / Ages Of You / 1,000,000 / Get On Their Way / There She Goes Again / Action / Wait / Sitting Still / Permanent Vacation / Mystery To Me
set 2: White Tornado / I Can't Control Myself / Burning Down / Shaking Through / Laughing / Romance / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat / Stumble / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore: The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Skank / Gardening At Night / Windout / 9-9
2 October 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: The band arrive and set up their equipment
3 October 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
basic tracks recorded: 1,000,000 / Ages Of You / Gardening At Night / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Stumble / Shaking Through / White Tornado / 9-9 (attempted but abandoned)
notes: Apart from 9-9 all tracks are available in some format or another. 1,000,000 and Stumble made it onto the Chronic Town EP. Ages Of You and Carnival Of Sorts can be found on the LP bootlegs Chronic Murmurings and Really Exciting Music and the CD bootleg The Essential Demos Vol. 1. Gardening At Night was released on Eponymous. Shaking Through is available on Essential Demos Vol. 1, and White Tornado is on the LP bootleg Really Exciting Music
4 October 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Jazz Lips is recorded
5 October 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Easter mixes tracks
7-8 October 1981 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Final mixing sessions
8 October 1981 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
set included: Paint It, Black / Pills / California Dreamin' / I Was Just Watching / Through With You / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Joined on stage by members of The Side Effects, Oh-Ok and Pylon
9 October 1981 - Von Henmon's, Columbia, SC
20 October 1981 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
support: The dB's
23 October 1981 - Zappa's, Brooklyn, NY
early set: Ages Of You / Shaking Through / There She Goes Again / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / That Beat / Mystery To Me / Permanent Vacation / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
late set: Just A Touch / 1,000,000 / I Can't Control Myself / Burning Down / Unknown / Pretty Persuasion / Stumble / Improv instrumental (drum kit has a problem) / Gardening At Night / Windout / 9-9 / Radio Free Europe
notes: Described by Peter as one of the most pitiful moments in the band's career - "There were six people there. Maybe eight. The guy said he'd feed us, he gave us a box of Kentucky Fried Chicken that he'd sat under a drip in the ceiling so that it was covered in water; we lost $150 because we drank, and we didn't realise he was charging us for drinks; I got in a fight with a skinhead outside in the parking lot; and we got lost for four hours in Brooklyn before the show" - from It Crawled From The South, Marcus Gray (first edition, pg.43)
24 October 1981 - The Left Bank, Mount Vernon, NY
supporting: Siouxsie and the Banshees
25 October 1981 - The Mudd Club, New York, NY
notes: Apparently due to the small number of people in attendance, the club owner refused to pay the band any money, so they played the show for free
October 1981 - The Cellar, Queens College, Flushing, NY
support: The Bongos
notes: It's possible that The Bongos were the headlining band
29 October 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
31 October 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
November 1981 - Cantrell's, Nashville, TN
support: Jason and the Nashville Scorchers
November 1981 - Antenna, Memphis, TN
support: Barking Dogs
5 November 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
6 November 1981 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
set 1: Just A Touch / Burning Down / Ha (We Get Paid For It) / Shaking Through / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / There She Goes Again / Permanent Vacation / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat / Mystery To Me / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
set 2: Rave On / Ages Of You / I Can't Control Myself / Laughing / Romance / Chained To The Wall / Sitting Still / Wolves, Lower / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Radio Free Europe / Stumble / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: This show can be found on the CD bootleg 'T.G.I.F', minus Stumble and Carnival Of Sorts. The bootleg lists the date as 31 March 1981, but is in fact this date. 'Ha (We Get Paid For It) is the arbitrary title of this song, it's unknown what the true intended title was, as it was quickly dropped from the set and wasn't recorded in the studio
7 November 1981 - Viceroy Park, Charlotte, NC
set 1: Just A Touch / Burning Down / Shaking Through / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / There She Goes Again / Permanent Vacation / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat / Mystery to Me / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
set 2: Ages Of You / I Can't Control Myself / Ha (We Get Paid For It) / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Wolves, Lower / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe
13 November 1981 - 688 Club, Atlanta, GA
support: Let's Active
notes: Peter Buck joins Let's Active during this, their debut show. In return members of Let's Active join R.E.M. for their encore
17 November 1981 - Merlyn's, Madison, WI
set 1: Sitting Still / Mystery To Me / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
set 2: Ages Of You / 1,000,000 / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Wolves, Lower / Pretty Persuasion / Stumble / Gardening At Night
notes: Set 1 is incomplete, as the person who taped the show got there late. For those with a copy of the show, Gardening At Night is cut off due to the taper accidentally recording over the end of REM's set with another artist, hence set 2 being incomplete as well. It's fairly safe to assume 9-9 and Windout would have followed, with Radio Free Europe or Skank likely to end the set
23 November 1981 - Off The Wall Hall, Lawrence, KS
support: The Mortal, Micronotz
notes: This show was originally thought to have occurred on 23 November 1982, however a poster confirms it as this date
Poster
26 November 1981 - First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, MN
set 1: Romance / Sitting Still / Mystery To Me / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
set 2: Ages Of You / There She Goes Again / Pretty Persuasion / Stumble / Permanent Vacation / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / That Beat / Wolves, Lower
encore: White Tornado / Radio Free Europe / Skank
notes: Set 1 is incomplete, probably missing the first six songs, as it seemed to be standard to play 10 songs per set.
From an interview by David Fricke with Peter Buck on 15 November 1990 taken from The Rolling Stone Files book (pg. 114): "Minneapolis was very good to us from the beginning. We played to twenty people on Thanksgiving 1981, and every one of them came up to us afterwards and invited us to their house for a party". From the tape I've heard I think he's accurate in his crowd count.
Despite Peter's fond memories, there still seems to be a lot of heckling occurring through the show. During 'Mystery To Me' Michael adds 'Go home yourself!' and also 'Trying to look so cool/I Bet you think the Clash are really boss'. Before 'Permanent Vacation' he adds 'We ain't faggots, we're Georgians'. During '9-9', half the audience seems to invade the stage, and some person can be heard howling into the microphone. When the song is over, Michael can be heard to say 'who the fuck are you?'. After 'Windout' he then says 'if anyone else wants to dance on stage you have to ask first'.
As if Skank wasn't an unusual song already, on this occasion Stipe's lyric consisted of the phrase 'The opposite of plethora is dearth' for the most of the song, but not before someone in the audience managed to scream into the microphone 'come to Ann Arbor, Michigan!'.
In an interview a year later, Michael and Peter claimed that they accidentally hurtled themselves towards the drums, resulting in the drums, Bill, Michael and Peter all falling 10 feet off the stage onto 3 unsuspecting people, who being hardcore, loved it. Michael then claimed they stole Peter's shoes and made him sign them. Whether this is true, or something made up during a dull interview you can decide. Unless it happened before the show started being recorded, it isn't audible to my ears!
November 1981 - University Of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
supporting: Oingo Boingo
2 December 1981 - Memorial Gymnasium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
supporting: U2
4 December 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
5 December 1981 - Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
13 December 1981 - Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, GA
supporting: Bow Wow Wow
29 December 1981 - Roseland Ballroom, New York City, NY
support: Bush Tetras
supporting: Gang of Four
1 January 1982 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
2 January 1982 - Cats Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC
8 January 1982 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
event: Tanzplagen show took place on this night. Later that night after the venue closed Tyrone's burns down due to a faulty heater. R.E.M. were scheduled to play the venue with support from Tanzplagen at a later date, however because of the destruction of the club this did not happen. Mike later commented that one thing that did survive the fire was his bar tab.
14 January 1982 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: Benefit show for Tyrone's O.C.
22 January 1982 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
set 1: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Unknown / There She Goes Again / Sitting Still / That Beat / Pretty Persuasion / Mystery To Me / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
set 2: Ages Of You / Catapult / Shaking Through / Laughing / Romance / Ghostriders In The Sky / Permanent Vacation / 1,000,000 / Wolves, Lower / Radio Free Europe
notes: The unknown song sounds to me like a cross between Talk About The Passion and Romance, with a bit of Pilgrimage thrown in. I've seen some lists claiming it's either an early version of Talk About The Passion or Pilgrimage, but personally I think it sounds nothing like them and is a song in its own right. This show can be found on the CD bootleg 'File Under Kudzu'. This show is listed on that boot as being at the 40 Watt Club in Athens in January 1983, however this is the correct date and location
23 January 1982 - Viceroy Park, Charlotte, NC
support: Let's Active, Hit and Run Theatre Troupe
set: Ages Of You / Catapult / Shaking Through / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Permanent Vacation / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / 1,000,000 / Wolves, Lower / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Stumble / Ghost Riders In The Sky
notes: Paid attendance for the show was 298 (actual attendance probably 350-400) . . . I think this would have far exceeded the capacity of any place they had played (as headliners) prior to that. REM were paid $680 for that show (far more than they had ever been paid before I'm sure) and rider expenses were $10 (not counting room and board at my house) - Keith Stern
27,28 January 1982 - Winston-Salem, N.C. Drive-in Studio
tracks recorded: Wolves, Lower (fast version) / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Catapult (attempted but abandoned)
notes: Wolves can be found on the CD bootlegs Essential Demos Vol. 1 and Early Movements, and the LP bootleg Chronic Murmurings. This version of Carnival Of Sorts can be found on the Chronic Town EP
30 January 1982 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
support: The Neats
1 February 1982 - Studio C, RCA Studios, New York, NY
first session/reel: Romance / Wolves, Lower / Laughing
second session/reel: Shaking Through / Catapult / Stumble / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Demos recorded for RCA with producer Kurt Munkacsi. Main backing tracks recorded with some harmony/backing vocals. All of the above can be found on the CD bootleg Early Movements, and on the LP bootlegs Pretty Pictures and Chronic Murmurings. Romance, Laughing and Catapult can be found on Essential Demos Vol. 1
2 February 1982 - Studio C, RCA Studios, New York, NY
notes: Extra parts added to the backing tracks recorded 1 February: Romance (backing vocals, extra guitar) / Wolves, Lower (lead/backing vocals, extra guitar) / Laughing (lead vocals, extra guitar) / Shaking Through (extra, guitar) / Catapult (lead/backing vocals, extra guitar) / Stumble (lead vocals) / Carnival Of Sorts (extra guitars, twelve-string guitar)
3 February 1982 - Danceteria, New York, NY
4 February 1982 - Danceteria, New York, NY
5 February 1982 - Streets, Boston, MA
notes: First Boston appearance, previously thought to be in September
6 February 1982 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
supporting: The Necessaries
8 February 1982 - Studio C, RCA Studios, New York, NY
notes: Further parts are recorded to add to the demo tracks: Laughing (piano, extra snare) / Shaking Through (lead/harmony vocals, two piano tracks, twelve string guitar) / Catapult (extra guitar/drums, tom-tom) / Carnival Of Sorts (lead/backing vocals, extra snare)
14,15 February 1982 - Winston-Salem, N.C. Drive-in Studio
notes: Further mixing and overdubs recorded for the Chronic Town EP, with producer Mitch Easter
22 February 1982 - Studio C, RCA Studios, New York, NY
notes: The band return to add yet more tracks to the RCA demos: Romance (lead vocals) / Stumble (twelve-string guitar)
2 March 1982 - Winston-Salem, N.C. Drive-in Studio
notes: Mitch Easter remixes the fast version of Wolves, Lower recorded at the Drive-In in January
4 March 1982 - Winston-Salem, N.C. Drive-in Studio
notes: Easter remixes versions of 1,000,000 and Stumble, which were recorded on 3 October 1981
6 March 1982 - Off The Wall Hall, Lawrence, KS
support: Get Smart!
9 March 1982 - Sterling Sound, New York, NY
notes: Chronic Town is mastered by Mitch Easter and Greg Calbi
10 March 1982 - The Mad Hatter, Athens, GA
12 March 1982 - The Beat Exchange, New Orleans, LA
April 1982 - Von Henmon's, Columbia, SC
2 April 1982 - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
supporting: Joe 'King' Carrasco, Jason and the Nashville Scorchers
14 April 1982 - Toad's Place, New Haven, CT
supporting: The Ventures
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / 1,000,000 / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Catapult / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / White Tornado
17 April 1982 - Hitsville, Passaic, NJ
supporting: Brian Brain
23 April 1982 - Club C.O.D., Chicago, IL
24 April 1982 - Merlin's, Madison, WI
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Ages Of You / Shaking Through / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / That Beat / Catapult / Radio Free Europe / Wolves, Lower / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore: White Tornado / West Of The Fields / Stumble-Apache-Skank / There She Goes Again-We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
notes: Apache is a Shadows song, played as a burst between Stumble and Skank. This show can be found on the bootleg CD "Carnival Of Sorts"
26 April 1982 - First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, MN
set: Ages Of You / 1,000,000 / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Shaking Through / Laughing / Sitting Still / West Of The Fields / Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / That Beat / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
30 April 1982 - Hot Klub, Dallas, TX
supporting: The Telefones
May 1982 - IRS Offices, New York, NY
event: R.E.M. travel to New York to sign a five album contract with IRS records
May 1982 - Clutch Cargo's, Detroit, MI
14 May 1982 - Atlanta Arts Festival, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
set: West Of The Fields (false start) / West Of The Fields / 1,000,000 / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 2: Ages Of You
notes: The first ever live broadcast of a complete R.E.M. show. After a false start on 'West Of The Fields' after a minute or so, Bill announces that is their longest song. First known performance of 'Pilgrimage'.
This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Radio Free Georgia"
20 May 1982 - The Mad Hatter, Athens, GA
support: Babylon Dance Band
31 May 1982
event: IRS press release announcing that they have signed R.E.M.
1 June 1982 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
tracks recorded: Wolves, Lower (slower version) / Gardening At Night (vocal track and acoustic guitar added to October 1981 version)
notes: Additional Chronic Town sessions, with producer Mitch Easter
2 June 1982 - Drive-In Studio, Winston-Salem, NC
notes: Mitch Easter and Don Dixon mix Wolves from 1 June
4 June 1982 - Augusta College, Augusta, GA
support: Jason and the Nashville Scorchers
notes: This show was a semi-private graduation party. Apparently as it was a Safari theme night, R.E.M. played The Lion Sleeps Tonight. It's not known what other songs were played
25 June 1982 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
set: Radio Free Europe / Laughing / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Unknown / Wolves Lower / Romance / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore: White Tornado / We Walk / West Of The Fields / Sitting Still / Ages Of You / Stumble-Skank
notes: The unknown song is a new song that wasn't played again, or at least not recorded again by anyone. Between Boxcars and White Tornado the drum machine is turned on and the opening chords of Perfect Circle are played, however after a little while the song is aborted and not attempted again.
June 1982 - Legion Field, University Of Athens, GA
support: Jason and the Nashville Scorchers
June 1982 - The Nightflight Club, Savannah, GA
2 July 1982 - The Strand Cabaret, Marietta, GA
support: Love Tractor
set: West Of The Fields / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Romance / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / That Beat / Pretty Persuasion / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / There She Goes Again / Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / Laughing / Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: For the first half of the song Sitting Still is played at half speed, before they kick into normal speed. It also contains the first known live performance of Perfect Circle (complete with drum machine). This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Do the Strand", which includes a version of the song 'Crazy' from another performance
22 July 1982 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL
25 July 1982 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
6 August 1982 - Hot Klub, Dallas, TX
support: Disbanned
7 August 1982 - Club Foote, Austin, TX
supporting: The Motels
notes: Peter apparently was not too fond of the headlining act - "Boy, did I hate them. They were so rude to us. They made us move our drums closer to the front of the stage so we couldn't move. The cymbals kept hitting me in the back all night long. We just cooked, walked off stage and said, 'Follow that!'" - from It Crawled From The South (Marcus Gray, first edition, pg. 46)
August 1982 - 'Hot Legs Contest', Albuquerque, NM
notes: R.E.M. were paid not to pay, the venue owner getting more nervous that the crowd wouldn't appreciate their brand of rock'n'roll
August 1982 - San Diego, CA
notes: This was the opening show of their west coast tour, in a bar with about 40 people in attendance. The actual date would be somewhere between the 9th and 18th of August
August 1982 - Galactica 2000, Sacramento, CA
19 August 1982 - The Music Machine, Los Angeles, CA
support: The Plugs
August 1982 - Madam Wong's, Los Angeles, CA
23 August 1982 - I-Beam, San Francisco, CA
24 August 1982
event: Chronic Town released
24 August 1982 - Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA
support: Ifthenwhy, The Renegades
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Wolves, Lower / We Walk / Pilgrimage / Laughing / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Catapult / Moral Kiosk / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
25 August 1982 - Berkeley Square Club, Berkeley, CA
support: The Uptones
30 August 1982 - Ichabod's, Fullerton, CA
support: The Untouchables
31 August 1982 - Club Lingerie, Los Angeles, CA
supporting: The Suburbs
notes: The video for 'Wolves, Lower' was filmed during this show
September 1982 - Portland, OR
supporting: Gang Of Four
September 1982 - The Palace, Los Angeles, CA
supporting: Gang Of Four
notes: There were possibly 2 shows at The Palace, though this or the date can't be confirmed, but at least one show did take place
9 September 1982 - Perkin's Palace, Pasadena, CA
support: Translator
supporting: Gang Of Four
10 September 1982 - Country Club, Reseda, CA
support: The Untouchables
supporting: The English Beat
notes: Following the upbeat Untouchables, R.E.M. came on and played some weird slow psychadelic music. The boos started by the 2nd song, when the crowd realized it wasn't just an opener, it was the act itself, and Michael Stipe was onstage acting rather gay. At first it was boos, but then in the third song it started with cups of beer and then various small objects were thrown at Stipe on the stage, with some striking him square on the cheek. Ouch! R.E.M. quickly left the stage, and shortly thereafter The English Beat came on and restored dance music to the hall
11 September 1982 - Adams Avenue Theater, San Diego, CA
supporting: Gang of Four
12 September 1982 - The Cellar, Phoenix, AZ
supporting: Gang of Four
13 September 1982 - Wild Cat House, Tucson, AZ
supporting: Gang of Four
14 September - U.A. Ballroom, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
supporting: Gang of Four
16 September 1982 - U.N.M. Ballroom, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
supporting: Gang of Four
20 September 1982 - Parody Hall, Kansas City, MO
September 1982 - The Drumstick, Lincoln, NE
support: Let's Active
notes: While not sure of the exact date, it is thought this show is close to the Minneapolis show below.
From the Q magazine R.E.M. special (pg. 118): "'You would logically think it was a real hip, trendy club', says Berry, 'but you get there and it's a fried chicken restaurant. No stage. You do a soundcheck and there are families eating, and they're putting hot dog buns in their ears so they don't hear you'".
From Robert J Crisler: "The Drumstick was an interesting place. I remember when I was a kid, staying over at a friend's house, going to Mass the next day, and celebrating afterward with a pattie melt at the Drumstick when it was purely a chicken restaurant. The Lohmeiers had a kid, Tim, with stars in his eyes and a beer in his fist. He grew up, commandeered the place in the night hours, used the other definition of the name, and proceeded to make local history. Everyone who was anyone went through there. X, the Feelies, REM, Dwight Yoakam when he was too authentic for Nashville. The building was razed and replaced with a McDonald's around 1991. As Mills says, you might have thought it was hip and trendy, and it was, in a way ... the place was real and gritty in a way that kept the brainless at a distance. It didn’t have a stage, just a six-inch riser that was sort of a stage, set against the glass at the front of the restaurant. The place was done up in old brown drapes and wagon wheel chandeliers.
The best years of my life were spent in a chicken shack. I can only hope for more undiscovered chicken shacks."
Picture from show
September 1982 - Howard Street Tavern, Omaha, NE
19 September 1982 - Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK
supporting: The Producers
22 September 1982 - First Avenue Club, Minneapolis, MN
supporting: The Hypstrz
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / There She Goes Again / Sitting Still / Romance / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / Moral Kiosk / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Perfect Circle / White Tornado / Ages Of You / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 2: Skank
23 September 1982 - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Moral Kiosk / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Last Date / Ages Of You / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
24 September 1982 - Huff Gym, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / We Walk / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Moral Kiosk / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / White Tornado / Ages Of You / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / That Beat / Skank
25 September 1982 - Stages Music Hall, Chicago, IL
supporting: Gang of Four
26 September 1982 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL
supporting: Gang of Four
September 1982 - Unknown Venue and Town, OH
supporting: Gang of Four
29 September 1982 - Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH
supporting: Steve Forbert and The Flying Squirrels
set included: Gardening At Night / Wolves, Lower
30 September 1982 - Heaven, Pittsburgh, PA
supporting: Gang of Four
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / We Walk / Laughing / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Ages Of You / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / West Of The Fields / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
1 October 1982 - Empire Theatre, Richmond, VA
supporting: Gang of Four
notes: Nona Hendryx was originally scheduled to support, but she cancelled and R.E.M. took her place
2 October 1982 - City Gardens, Trenton, NJ
set: Romance / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Ages Of You / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Sitting Still / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Radio Free Europe
notes: Most likely either missing the encore, or this was an edited radio broadcast (which is what I think it is). This show was originally thought to have been on 16 November 1982, however that was the date this show was broadcast on the radio
4 October 1982 - The Living Room, Providence, RI
support: The Debutantes
5 October 1982 - The Metro, Boston, MA
supporting: Gang of Four
set included: Radio Free Europe / Catapult
6 October 1982 - Toad's Place, New Haven, CT
support: Peter Holsapple
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
8 October 1982 - Peppermint Lounge, New York City, NY
supporting: The Fleshtones
9 October 1982 - Marble Bar, Baltimore, MD
support: Peter Holsapple
set included: Wipeout / Drug Train / Gardening At Night / Neverland
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Gardening At Night and Neverland
10 October 1982 - The Pier, Raleigh, NC
support: Peter Holsapple
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / There She Goes Again / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
encore 2: Rave On / Gloria
notes: Great show, during the encore Stipe asks for requests that they don't know, so some guy shouts out for 'Black and White' which is a Peter Holsapple song. Some other person shouts for 'What's New Pussycat?', to which Stipe laughs and says he'd love to, and he sings a few bars of it.
Berry, Buck and Mills joined Holsapple for 'Neverland' at the end of his set. Mitch Easter joins R.E.M. for several songs during their set.
This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Rave On", minus Gloria. The entire show was filmed by a local cable channel (presumably where the audio for the bootleg comes from), and an edited dvd of the show has now appeared on the trading circuit
11 October 1982 - The Milestone, Charlotte, NC
support: Peter Holsapple, The Power Glides
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Romance / 1,000,000 / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 2: Windout / Rave On
encore 3: Skank
notes: The band joined Peter Holsapple on stage for 'Neverland' at the end of his set
13 October 1982 - Scoundrels, Richmond, VA
support: Peter Holsapple
14 October 1982 - Striders Concert Hall, Columbia, SC
support: Peter Holsapple, Daystar
set included: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Wolves, Lower / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Gloria
15 October 1982 - Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA
support: Peter Holsapple, Jason and the Nashville Scorchers
21 October 1982 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
support: Blackwater, Peter Holsapple
set included: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / After Hours - 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe / White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Stumble-Skank / Neverland
notes: Peter Holsapple joined the band on stage for Neverland
22 October 1982 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
support: Blackwater, Peter Holsapple
set included: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / 1,000,000 / Gardening At Night / 9-9
28 October 1982 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
support: Peter Holsapple, Jason and the Nashville Scorchers
set: Seven Chinese Brothers / Laughing / Wolves, Lower / Sitting Still / Catapult / Gardening At Night / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Neverland / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Peter Holsapple joined the band on stage for Neverland
29 October 1982 - Student Center Ballroom, Georgia Institute Of Technology, Atlanta, GA
set included: Judy / Sitting Still
notes: Show consisted of two sets, with the homecoming queen finalists announced between sets. Michael opened the first set by reading words from Georgia Tech fight song "Ramblin' Wreck" from a pamphlet. Peter Holsapple plays at least in the second set. Tapes labelled as this show are in circulation but are actually the 2 October show in Trenton
October 1982 - Legion Field, University Of Georgia, Athens, GA
support: Peter Holsapple
November 1982 - Moonshadow Saloon, Atlanta, GA
notes: Pre-tour farewell show
5 November 1982 - The Bayou, Baton Rouge, LA
support: Peter Holsapple, Disappointed Parents
notes: Cover charge for this show was $3
6 November 1982 - WUTL Radio, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
notes: Interview with Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe
6 November 1982 - Tupelo's Tavern, New Orleans, LA
support: Peter Holsapple
set: Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Wolves, Lower / Laughing / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / 1,000,000 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / Neverland / Gloria / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 2: Last Date / West Of The Fields
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Neverland and Gloria. This show is available on the CD bootleg "Sound Emporium", minus Last Date and West Of The Fields.
8 November 1982 - Old Music Town Hall, Birmingham, AL
support: Peter Holsapple, The Roys
10 November 1982 - WUTK Radio, University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
notes: Interview with Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe
10 November 1982 - Hobo's, Knoxville, TN
support: Peter Holsapple, Smokin' Dave and the Premo Dopes
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sloop John B / Sitting Still / Moral Kiosk / After Hours / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields
encore: Last Date / Ages Of You / We Walk / Judy / Neverland / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / There She Goes Again
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Sloop John B, Judy and Neverland
11 November 1982 - Sarratt Theater, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
support: Peter Holsapple, The White Animals
12 November 1982 - Antenna Club, Memphis, TN
support: Peter Holsapple
13 November 1982 - Unknown venue and town, IL
support: Peter Holsapple
14 November 1982 - Unknown venue, Bloomington, IN
support: Peter Holsapple
15 November 1982 - The Blue Note, Columbia, MO
support: Peter Holsapple
16 November 1982 - Lawrence Opera House, Lawrence, KS
support: Micronotz
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Seven Chinese Brothers / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe
notes: Most likely missing the encore. This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Listen Harder"
19 November 1982 - Hobo’s, Knoxville, TN
support: Peter Holsapple
20 November 1982 - Saint Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI
notes: The Thompson Twins also played at this show. It's unclear if they supported or headlined
21 November 1982 - Joe's Star Lounge, Ann Arbor, MI
23 November 1982 - The Chateau Lounge, Albany, NY
support: Peter Holsapple
set included: Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Sloop John B / Judy / Neverland
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Sloop John B, Judy and Neverland
24 November 1982 - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
audience: 13,000
supporting: The English Beat, Squeeze
25 November 1982 - Peppermint Lounge, New York, NY
support: Peter Holsapple
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Shaking Through / Seven Chinese Brothers / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Last Date / We Walk / Judy / Neverland / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Judy and Neverland
26 November 1982 - The East Side Club, Philadelphia, PA
support: Red Buckets
27 November 1982 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
support: Peter Holsapple
set: Ages Of You / Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Laughing / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / Catapult / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Ghostriders In The Sky / We Walk / Sloop John B / Judy / Neverland / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Sloop John B, Judy and Neverland
28 November 1982 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
support: Underheaven
29 November 1982 - After Sundown, Blacksburg, VA
support: Not Shakespeare
notes: The R.E.M. part of the show was cancelled, possibly due to Stipe spraining his knee. Not Shakespeare did play however and admission was was not charged. The band's management promised to play for cost in the future, which they did on 2 May 1983
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2 December 1982 - UPS Club, Greenville, SC
support: The Twist
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Wolves, Lower / White Tornado / Ages Of You / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / 1,000,000
notes: May not be the complete show
6 December 1982 - Park Avenue Club, Orlando, FL
support: Swingin Diamonds
7 December 1982 - Agora Club, Miami, FL
support: The Kids
11 December 1982 - Saenger Theater, Mobile, AL
December 1982 - Badger’s Den, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
December 1982 - Living Room, Providence, RI
December 1982 - Unknown studio, Boston, MA
notes: Producer and demo trial for the Murmur LP. Catapult was recorded, with producer Stephen Hague adding synthesisers to the track. The collaboration was not pursued. This recording is not available anywhere
31 December 1982 - Rumors Nightclub, Decatur, GA
January/February 1983 - The 900 Room, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
set included: Gardening At Night / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars), and presumably much of the Murmur material
notes: This show occurred sometime during the recording of Murmur while the band were in Charlotte, exact date has not yet been determined. Stipe's microphone stand broke, and the band did a couple of instrumentals while duct tape was hunted down
6,7 January 1983 - Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
track recorded: Catapult
notes: Second trial recording session for Murmur with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. Catapult was recorded, mixed and completed over these two days, and is the version that made it onto Murmur
11 January 1983 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
support: Shelf Life
12 January 1983 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
support: Art In The Dark
20,21 January 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
tracks recorded: Radio Free Europe / Laughing / Talk About The Passion / Moral Kiosk / Perfect Circle / Catapult / 9-9 / Shaking Through / We Walk / West Of The Fields / Ages Of You / Romance
notes: Murmur sessions continue with Mitch Easter and Don Dixon. The backing track to the Hib-Tone version of Sitting Still is remixed and adjusted, and a new vocal track is added. This recording of Romance is not available anywhere. Ages Of You can be found on the various artists compilation 'Live For Life'. The rest of the tracks can be found on Murmur
24,27 January 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
notes: Murmur sessions continue
1-3 February 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
7-10 February 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
12 February 1983 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
13-16 February 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
17 February 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
tracks recorded: That Beat / All The Right Friends / Tighten Up / There She Goes Again / Moon River / Pretty Persuasion
notes: All tracks are recorded live to two-track. They can all be found on the CD bootleg 'Stab It And Steer It'. There She Goes Again can also be found on Dead Letter Office (along with All The Right Friends on the IRS reissue). The IRS years version of Reckoning also includes Tighten Up, Moon River and Pretty Persuasion
18-23 February 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
notes: Murmur sessions continue
12 March 1983 - 9:30 Club, Washington DC
support: Let's Active
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Laughing / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: Last Date / Ages Of You / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Mike introduces Last Date as 'this is a slow dance song as I can tell you have plenty of room'. This show can be found on the CD bootleg "The Sound And The Fury" as well as "Unauthorised Live Volume 2"
17 March 1983 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
support: Chain of Command
18 March 1983 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
support: Bang
19 March 1983 - I&I Club, Athens, GA
notes: This show was 'Teen Nite', no alcohol and no one over 19 allowed
26 March 1983 - Page Auditorium, Durham, NC
supporting: The English Beat
27 March 1983 - Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
supporting: The English Beat
set: Catapult / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe / Seven Chinese Brothers / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
Late March 1983 - Bandshell, Daytona, FL
audience: 20,000
supporting:The English Beat
31 March 1983 - University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
supporting:The English Beat
set included: Gardening At Night / Stumble / Wolves, Lower
2 April 1983 - University Of The South, Sewanee, TN
support: Jason and the Scorchers
5 April 1983 - Memorial Gymnasium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
support: Jason and The Scorchers
notes: Jason and The Scorchers guest on a few songs
7 April 1983 - Bogarts, Cincinnati, OH
supporting:The English Beat
8 April 1983 - Grand Ballroom, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
supporting:The English Beat
9 April 1983 - Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
supporting:The English Beat
10 April 1983 - Grand Circus Theater, Detroit, MI
supporting:The English Beat
12 April 1983 - Alumnae Hall, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
supporting:The English Beat
12 April 1983
event: Murmur released
13 April 1983 - Kearney Auditorium, St. John Fisher University, Rochester, NY
supporting: The English Beat
14 April 1983 - Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
supporting: The English Beat
16 April 1983 - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
supporting: The English Beat
17 April 1983 - Le Spectrum, Montreal, Canada
supporting: The English Beat
18 April 1983 - Palestra, University Of Rochester, Rochester, NY
supporting: The English Beat
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Wolves, Lower / Talk About The Passion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
notes: This show can be found on the vinyl bootleg "L.I.V.E.", the first R.E.M. bootleg ever to be released. Previously thought to be 13 April
19 April 1983 - Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
supporting: The English Beat
20 April 1983 - Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT
supporting: The English Beat
22 April 1983 - Walter Brown Arena, Boston, MA
supporting: The English Beat
set included: Moral Kiosk / Radio Free Europe / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage
23 April 1983 - Agora Ballroom, Hartford, CT
supporting:The English Beat
24 April 1983 - Fountain Casino, Aberdeen, NJ
supporting:The English Beat
26 April 1983 - Spize Club, Farmingdale, NY
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Shaking Through / Romance / Wolves, Lower / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore: White Tornado / Ages Of You / Seven Chinese Brothers / Radio Free Europe / Pills
28 April 1983 - Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ
support: The Bongos
set included: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe / Secret Agent Man
29 April 1983 - The Living Room, Providence, RI
support: Arms Akimbo, Prisoners Of Beat
30 April 1983 - The Ritz, New York, NY
support: The Individuals
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Laughing / Wolves, Lower / Seven Chinese Brothers / Romance / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: Perfect Circle / Ages Of You / There She Goes Again / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Does Your Mother Know? / Skank
2 May 1983 - After Sundown, Blacksburg, VA
support: Not Shakespeare
notes: The make-up show for the cancelled 29 November 1982 show. Oh! OK! was also advertised as support but they did not play. The show was booked by WUVT, Virginia Tech's radio station. Living up to their promise, entry to the show was $2
Flyer
3 May 1983 - The Pier, Raleigh, NC
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Pilgrimage / Laughing / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Moral Kiosk / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Walk, Don't Run / Ages Of You / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: Perfect Circle / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
4 May 1983 - PB's Scott Music Hall, Blowing Rock, NC
May 1983 - Love Auditorium, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
audience: 1,500
May 1983 - Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA
May 1983 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
21 May 1983 - Navy Island, St. Paul, MN
support: The Suburbs, Let's Active
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Seven Chinese Brothers / Romance / Harborcoat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Ages Of You / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
21 May 1983 - St. Paul, MN
notes: After their Navy Island show, R.E.M. played in a bar in St. Paul, using another band's equipment
22 May 1983 - The Palms, Milwaukee, WI
audience: 300
support: Let's Active
set included: Aquarius / Sitting Still / Perfect Circle / We Walk
23 May 1983 - Headliners, Madison, WI
support: Let's Active
set included: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Moon River / There She Goes Again / In The Year 2525 / We Walk
25 May 1983 - Park West, Chicago, IL
support: Let's Active, The dB's
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Sitting Still / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Laughing / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: In The Year 2525
notes: most likely the show finished with Carnival Of Sorts and possibly Skank, however this can't be confirmed as no more of the show was recorded
26 May 1983 - Jake's, Bloomington, IN
support: Let's Active
28 May 1983 - The Drumstick, Lincoln, NE
support: Playground
set included: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
29 May 1983 - VFW Hall, Kansas City, MO
support: The Embarrassment, Let's Active
Poster
30 May 1983 - Uptown Theatre, Kansas City, MO
support: Let's Active
1 June 1983 - Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
supporting: The English Beat, Bow Wow Wow
set: Radio Free Europe / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
4 June 1983 - Charlies, Dallas, TX
support: Let's Active
notes: “This was a pool hall and had NO advertising, NO flyers, NO tickets. Only word of mouth and I didn't even hear about it until a few days before the gig. Only about 25 or so there.” George Gimarc, author of Post Punk Diary
5 June 1983 - The Night Life, Austin, TX
support: Let's Active, Vital Signs
notes: The flyer for this show claimed it was to be recorded for the 'King Biscuit Flower Hour', however as yet no recording has surfaced on the trading circuit
6 June 1983 - Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, TX
support: Let's Active
set included: Radio Free Europe / Route 66 / Secret Agent Man / (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone / Pills
notes: The band didn't go down well at the military base, with shouts of 'you're gonna die, faggots!' coming from the audience. Stipe and Buck then played this up by 'kissing and rubbing butts'. At this point, tired of not being able to dodge incoming missiles, Bill left the stage, and Sara Romweber from Let's Active took over. Peter claims 'At the end, they booed so loud we came back and did an encore!'
7 June 1983 - Roxy, Lubbock, TX
support: Let's Active
set included: (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
notes: From an eyewitness who was at this show: "I saw Michael and Peter before the show talking to a punker with a shaved head.
Let's Active opened to about 30 souls and people kept asking Mitch the name of the band between songs. Seems no one could understand it!
So when REM started playing they played very fast and VERY loud and Michael danced like a dervish and it was marvelous. So this punker guy starts slam dancing and people who weren't into it sort of moved away but he bumped into this cowboy's girlfriend and the guy started to lay into our punk friend. Well Peter saw this from the stage, put down his guitar mid-song, and jumped off the stage into the crowd to break the fight and presumably prevent the diminutive punk from getting his ass kicked. He told the astonished cowboy "This is a friend of mine. If you want to fight, wait till after the show and I will fight you outside." The cowboy cooled off and Peter got back up on stage and finished the set.
I partied with them after the show and told Peter I thought that was a cool thing to do. He just said it was no big deal." - C. Holbert
9 June 1983 - The Music Machine, Los Angeles, CA
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Catapult / Moral Kiosk / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / I Can't Control Myself / I Can Only Give You Everything / Route 66 / California Dreamin'
notes: Joined by Peter Zaremba and Keith Streng of The Fleshtones, on vocals and harmonica for I Can't Control Myself, I Can Only Give You Everything and Route 66
10 June 1983 - Spirit Club, San Diego, CA
support: Let's Active
11 June 1983 - Palace Theater, Hollywood, CA
support: Let's Active
13 June 1983 - Galactica 2000, Sacramento, CA
support: Let's Active
14 June 1983 - Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA
support: The Renegades, Let's Active
soundcheck: I Walk The Line (snippet) / West Of The Fields / Seven Chinese Brothers
set: Sitting Still / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Romance / Wolves, Lower / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ghostriders In The Sky / Ages Of You / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: There She Goes Again / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
16 June 1983 - Six Flags Magic Mountain Club, Valencia, CA
support: Let's Active
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Harborcoat / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / 1,000,000 / West Of The Fields / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
17 June 1983 - The Concert Factory, Costa Mesa, CA
18 June 1983 - 1901 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA
support: Mr Potatohead
notes: During the performance at the Old Waldorf Michael Stipe announced the details of this show to the crowd. No concert venue is known to have existed at this address, so it was probably a hastily arranged semi-private gig
19 June 1983 - Los Angeles, CA
support: Let's Active
20 June 1983 - Keystone, Berkeley, CA
support: Let's Active, Bad Atitude
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Romance / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: Shaking Through / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
21 June 1983 - The Keystone, Palo Alto, CA
support: The Lloyds, Agent
22 June 1983 - The Stone, San Francisco, CA
support: The Lloyds, Victims Of Technology
27 June 1983 - Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO
29 June 1983 - The 20's Nightclub, Omaha, NE
30 June 1983 - The Bluenote, Columbia, MO
support: The Bel-airs
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Romance / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Last Date / There She Goes Again / We Walk / Pills / 1,000,000
encore 2: Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
1 July 1983 - Six Flags Over Mid America, St. Louis, MO
set included: Sweet Jane
2 July 1983 - The Chase, Indianapolis, IN
set included: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Shaking Through
3 July 1983 - Summerfest Rockstage, Milwaukee, WI
5 July 1983 - Pirate's Cove, Cleveland, OH
support: Hungry Young Men, The Replacements
set included: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Catapult
8 July 1983 - Saint Andrew's Hall, Detriot, MI
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Moon River / Harborcoat / Catapult / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Last Date / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: In The Year 2525 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
9 July 1983 - Larry's Hideaway, Toronto, Canada
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Moon River / There She Goes Again / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore: We Walk / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: A very vocal crowd at this show makes this show memorable.
audience member: "Play something for Joe Santos!"
Stipe: "for Joe who?"
audience member: "Santos!"
Stipe: "ok, this song is for Joe Santos"
Laughing is played
Later the crowd shouts out for There She Goes Again until they finally give in and play the song (prefacing it with a great Moon River). By the time the encore starts Stipe gets totally fed up with people shouting out for songs:
audience: "shaking through!"
Stipe: "no no no no no no no!"
audience: "shaking through!!"
Stipe: "no no!"
audience: "shaking through!!!"
Stipe: *makes gagging sound*
We Walk is played
This show is available in full on the CD Bootleg "Rising", and incomplete on the bootleg "Mada Mada"
13 July 1983 - Paradise Theater, Boston, MA
support: The Replacements
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: California Dreamin' / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: The band sing Happy Birthday to Bertis between 9-9 and Moral Kiosk. This show can be found on the vinyl bootleg "Return of the Rickenbackers"
14 July 1983 - The Living Room, Providence, RI
support: Parallel 5th
notes: The Brown University radio station (WBRU) announced during the day that there was some new band coming to town, and if you said "Rumplestiltskin" at the door, you'd get in for $5
15 July 1983 - Fountain Casino, Aberdeen, NJ
support: The Replacements
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / That Beat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Moon River / There She Goes Again / White Tornado / California Dreamin' / Ages Of You
encore 2: We Walk / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
17 July 1983 - Toad's Place, New Haven, CT
support: The Replacements
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Romance / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Ages Of You / Time After Time (Annelise) / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: Eight Miles High / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: Time After Time is played live for the very first time
20 July 1983 - Ripley's, Philadelphia, PA
support: The Replacements
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Laughing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: White Tornado / Time After Time (Annelise) / We Walk / Eight Miles High / Roadrunner / 1,000,000
encore 2: Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: Another great show, the band in great form and sounding excited the tour is close to ending. Before they play their first song Stipe says "hi, we're Stevie Ray Vaughan and this is our set" and then after the song finishes says "we're not really Stevie Ray Vaughan, that was a bad joke".
Later after We Walk is played...
Stipe: "wait a minute, we're gonna have a vote, we have two choices here, you can either hear Roadrunner or Eight Miles High...ok...wait..."
audience shouts out their preferences, with Bill joining in shouting out Roadrunner...
Stipe: "we'll do both of 'em"
Eight Miles High and Roadrunner from this show are available on the CD bootleg "Covering Them" or "Covering 'Em"
21 July 1983 - Much More Club, Broad Street, Richmond, VA
23 July 1983 - Baity's Backstreet Rock Garden, Winston-Salem, NC
support: Let's Active
July 1983 - Outside 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
notes: Michael Stipe with 2 friends are "faking their way through Nino Rota-style Italian cafe music"
12 August 1983 - Civic Center, Hartford, CT
audience: 16,000
supporting: The Police
set included: Talk About The Passion / Radio Free Europe
13 August 1983 - Civic Center, Hartford, CT
audience: 16,000
supporting: The Police
15 August 1983 - Scope Auditorium, Norfolk, VA
supporting: The Police
18 August 1983 - Shea Stadium, Flushing, NY
audience: 67,000
supporting: Joan Jett, The Police
set: 1,000,000 / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
20 August 1983 - JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA
supporting: Madness, Joan Jett, The Police
set: Pilgrimage / Harborcoat / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
21 August 1983 - Capital Centre, Landover, MD
audience: 18,000
supporting: The Police
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Gardening At Night / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
22 August 1983 - Capital Centre, Landover, MD
audience: 18,000
supporting: The Police
26 August 1983 - Six Flags Over Georgia, Atlanta, GA
support: The Killer Whales
29 August 1983
event: Murmur is released in the UK
30 September 1983 - Stichcraft, Athens, GA
support: Community Trolls
set 1: I Got You Babe / Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / Pills / 1,000,000 / Camera / Talk About The Passion / Little America / All The Right Friends / Letter Never Sent / Just A Touch / Secret Agent Man / Hootenanny / Route 66 / Windout / 9-9
community trolls set: Six Stock Answers / My Roof Your Roof / Pale Blue Eyes / Tainted Obligation / Sweet Jane
set 2: Folsom Prison Blues / Rave On / 20th Century Boy / Seven Chinese Brothers / Crazy / That Beat / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: A very unusual show, it sounds like they had a few too many pre show cocktails before going out, in particular I Got You Babe, with Mills and Stipe butchering the song is hilarious, and Six Stock Answers sounds (in my humble opinion) absolutely awful, which makes this show a must have!
The Community Trolls is comprised of Stipe and Matthew Sweet
This show can be found on the CD bootlegs "20th Century Boys' Volume 1" and "20th Century Boys' Volume 2"
3 October 1983 - Legion Field, Athens, GA
support: Oh Ok, Land Sharks
set: Moral Kiosk / Letter Never Sent / Camera / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / West Of The Fields / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Wolves, Lower / Crazy / All The Right Friends / Little America / 1,000,000
encore 2: Shaking Through / Perfect Circle / Pretty Persuasion / 20th Century Boy / Pale Blue Eyes / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Joined on stage by Matthew Sweet for "Pale Blue Eyes", Vanessa Briscoe for "Crazy" and Paul Edwards for "Perfect Circle". So. Central Rain is played live for the very first time
4 October 1983 - University Of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
audience: 1,000
support: Let's Active
6 October 1983 - Late Night With David Letterman, NBC Studios, New York, NY
set: Radio Free Europe / So. Central Rain
notes: First ever television appearance. Mike introduces So. Central Rain as "a song too new to be named"
7 October 1983 - Ontario Theater, Washington DC
support: The Replacements, Let's Active
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Camera / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / West Of The Fields / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / Wolves, Lower / Crazy / 1,000,000
encore 2: I Can't Control Myself / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
8 October 1983 - Irvine Auditorium, University of Penn., Philadelphia, PA
support: Pretty Poison, Let's Active
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / 20th Century Boy / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / West Of The Fields / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Wolves, Lower / Camera / We Walk / There She Goes Again / 1,000,000
encore 2: Crazy / Little America / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
9 October 1983 - Busch Student Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
support: Let's Active
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Shaking Through / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Just A Touch / Pretty Persuasion / West Of The Fields / Second Guessing / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Camera / We Walk / Little America / 1,000,000
encore 2: Wolves, Lower / 20th Century Boy / Pills / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
10 October 1983 - The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY
support: Let's Active
11 October 1983 - New York, NY
support: Let's Active
12 October 1983 - The Skyway, Scotia, NY
support: Let's Active
set included: Don't Fear The Reaper
13 October 1983 - The Living Room, Providence, RI
support: Let's Active
14 October 1983 - Memorial Gymnasium, University of Maine, Orono, ME
support: Let's Active, B. Willie Smith
15 October 1983 - Colby Hall, Waterville, ME
support: Let's Active
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Siting Still / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / West Of The Fields / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Second Guessing / Wolves, Lower
encore: White Tornado / 1,000,000 / Camera / Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe
notes: The following recount of this show by Robert Wiggin throws this setlist up in the air:
"My firends and i got put on the guest list for the show at Colby by the road crew cause they had worked helping them set up at the University of Maine the night before, and kinda hinted that they'd help out afterward the next night too. ;) The show at Colby began with Michael wearing a huge patch of gauze over his left eye, as he had somehow gotten injured after the previous night's show, i believe at some after show party. I believe he made mention that he had scratched his cornea.
Anyway, the crowd was much smaller than the night before, maybe 300 people at most, and not completely receptive to their music. There was one particular obnoxious drunk kid down front with a bottle of jack daniels, constantly yelling for them to "play some rock and rooooll", generally heckling and being disruptive. Mike Mills gestured for him to approach the stage, i guess asked the guy for his bottle, and took a huge pull from it. There were some conferences around the drum riser, and a song or two later, Michael took a running start from the back of the stage, and launched himself into the sparse crowd gathered down front. You know, being real rock and roll. They of course instantly parted, and Michael slammed into the floor hard, was probably a bit dazed, and i think was helped back up, and then backstage by some of the roadies.
At this point, the band just said screw it, and left the stage. Peter was down back to the left of the stage right afterward, looking for the drunk guy, and i heard him say, 'you just don't do that where we come from'.
I know they didn't do a full set, let alone come back on stage for encores."
17 October 1983 - Drumlin's, Syracuse, NY
support: Let's Active
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / West Of The Fields / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / Windout / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore: White Tornado / Wolves, Lower / Camera / Pale Blue Eyes / 20th Century Boy / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: The gig took place, literally, in the basement hall of a country club. There were maybe a hundred people ([possibly more, but it was definitely a small crowd) gathered in front of the stage when Let's Active kicked off a great opening set. R.E.M hit the stage quite late, with Stipe again wearing the eye patch he had on the previous night, explaining and complaining that hospital personnel balked at giving him some medication for his injury because his appearance led them to conclude that he might abuse it. His hair was quite long and he was in camouflage jacket.
The show got under way, and by mid-point, the band was absolutely on fire. The audience gathered in a tight scrum in front of the stage and moved and rocked and swayed and pogoed as one! I remember Stipe leaning into the crowd wailing away on one tune.
After the show, I was standing in line for the rest room behind Peter Buck and remember telling him "That was the finest example of rock and roll as physical pleasure that I have ever experienced."
I still remember the show as absolutely powerful and astounding and beautiful. - Daniel Murray
20 October 1983 - Metro, Boston, MA
support: Let's Active
21 Ocotber 1983 - Student Union, Queens College, Queens, NY
support: The Neats
set: Wolves, Lower / Moral Kiosk / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Catapult / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Second Guessing / 1,000,000 / Camera / Pale Blue Eyes / Lies / Little America / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Eric Martin of The Neats guests on Lies, which is a Neats song from their "The Monkey's Head in the Corner of the Room" mini album from 1982.
The venue was originally listed as Colden Auditorium, however they actually played on the 4th floor of the Student Union, which is a 150-200 person capacity room used for events and local bands to play.
'Let's Active was originally billed as opening for REM but something happened and the Neats ended up playing. My pal who worked on the radio station was friends with Lets Active and was hoping to catch a ride with them (& REM) back into the city that night as they were going to attend another gig. Needless to say with no Lets Active..there was no ride. But he did get a chance to hang out with Mike Mills and Peter Buck beforehand and show them to local shopping strip a few blocks away. Once there, Mike ended up going to a crappy discount store and picked up a pair of new sneakers for $2 or something!' - Jeff Cuyubamba
22 October 1983 - Connecticut College, New London, CT
support: Let's Active
30 October 1983 - The Cutting Edge (TV), New York, NY
30 October 1983 - "Livewire", Nickelodeon TV, New York, NY
notes: R.E.M. perform So. Central Rain and Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars), and answer questions from the teenage audience
31 October 1983 - Peppermint Lounge, New York, NY
supporting: The Fuzztones, The Cramps
set: 20th Century Boy / I Can't Control Myself / Crazy / Pale Blue Eyes / So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star / Femme Fatale / Secret Agent Man / Burning Hell / Pills / D.O.A. / I Can Only Give You Everything
notes: Playing under the name "It Crawled From The South"
9 November 1983 - Elliot Mazer Demos - Rhythmic Studios, San Francisco, CA
tracks recorded: That Beat / Walter's Theme / Walter BBQ Ad / Cushy Tush / Burning Down / All The Right Friends / Windout / Femme Fatale / Burning Hell / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Skank / All The Right Friends / So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Little America / Camera / Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Seven Chinese Brothers / Just A Touch / Pretty Persuasion / Pale Blue Eyes / Time After Time (Annelise) / Ages Of You
10 November 1983 - Kabuki Theater, San Francisco, CA
support: The Neats, Let's Active
set: Walter's Theme-Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Burning Down / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore: Wolves, Lower / Sweet Jane / Femme Fatale / Camera / Lies / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Andy Gill and John King from Gang of Four joined the band for Sweet Jane. Eric Martin from the Neats sings lead on Lies, a Neats song.
11 November 1983 - Beverly Theater, Los Angeles, CA
support: The Neats, Let's Active
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Burning Down / Talk About The Passion / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Wolves, Lower / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Moral Kiosk / Camera / Pale Blue Eyes / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: 20th Century Boy / Crazy / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
12 November 1983 - Montezuma Hall, SDSU Campus, San Diego, CA
support: Let's Active
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Wolves, Lower / Pretty Persuasion / Catapult / Just A Touch / West Of The Fields / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Barney Miller Theme / Moral Kiosk / Camera / We Walk / Little America / 1,000,000
encore 2: 20th Century Boy / Femme Fatale / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
18 November 1983 - "The Tube", Channel 4 TV, Newcastle, England
set: Radio Free Europe / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion
notes: First ever UK television appearance
19 November 1983 - Dingwall's, London, England
support: Recognition
set included: Laughing / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Radio Free Europe
22 November 1983 - The Marquee, London, England
support: Jerry Floyd
set: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Second Guessing / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 1: Wolves, Lower / Camera / 1,000,000
encore 2: Chicken Train / Barney Miller Theme / Femme Fatale / Radio Free Europe
notes: Stipe begins the show by saying "We're R.E.M., actually we're not, they couldn't make it so we're here in their place, playing all the hits of the day"
23 November 1983 - The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
24 November 1983 - Les Baines Douches, Paris, France
set: Letter Never Sent / Femme Fatale / Pilgrimage / So. Central Rain / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Not the complete set, just what was broadcast on French radio
25 November 1983 - Exo-7, Rouen, France
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Moral Kiosk / Little America / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe
encore: Pale Blue Eyes / Camera / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Wolves, Lower
28 November 1983 - St. Petersburg, FL
2 December 1983 - UPS Club, Greenville, SC
11 December 1983 - Friday's, Greensboro, NC
support: UV Prom
notes: Final ever show at Friday's before it was turned into a Subway fast food outlet. UV Prom featured Joe Romweber, brother of Dexter Romweber (Flat Duo Jets) and Sarah Romweber (Let's Active)
8-10,12-15 December 1983 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
tracks recorded: Reckoning tracks, plus Ages Of You, Burning Down, Windout (2 takes), White Tornado, Gardening At Night (acoustic), Just A Touch, Mystery To Me, Voice of Harold, Pale Blue Eyes, Femme Fatale, King of the Road/Walter's Theme, Burning Hell (instrumental)
notes: Recording sessions for Reckoning start, with producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon
10,12-16 January 1984 - Studio A, Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, NC
notes: Reckoning sessions continue. Tracks recorded: Harborcoat / Seven Chinese Brothers / Time After Time (Annelise) / Little America / Second Guessing / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Pretty Persuasion / Camera / So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) (Video Vocal) / White Tornado / Ages Of You / Voice Of Harold / Burning Down / Windout / Windout (With Friends) / Burning Hell (Instrumental) / Mystery To Me / Live To 2-Track: Gardening At Night (Acoustic) / Gardening At Night / Femme Fatale / Walters Theme-King Of The Road / Pale Blue Eyes / Just A Touch / Ages Of You (Remixed from Murmur sessions)
31 January 1984 - The Moonshadow Saloon, Atlanta, GA (L.E.A.F. Benefit)
support: UV Prom
14 February 1984 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
set: Bangkok / With A Girl Like You / I'm Through With You / Walk, Don't Run / Personality Crisis / Narrator / Pipeline / Needles And Pins / California Sun / Government Center / Hippy Hippy Shake / (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone / Permanent Vacation / Jump / Color Me Impressed
notes: Hindu Love Gods - Berry, Buck, Mills, and Bryan Cook
29 February 1984 - 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
support: Wheel O'Cheese (AKA Love Tractor)
set: Up On The Cross / Boom Boom Mancini / Trouble Waiting To Happen / Werewolves of London / Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight (w/ Cook) / Little America (w/ Stipe) / Second Guessing (w/ Stipe) / Gloria / Rebel Rebel / Wild Thing
notes: Hindu Love Gods - Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, Bryan Cook and Warren Zevon
8 March 1984 - Mad Hatter Ballroom, Athens, GA
support: Art In The Dark
9 March 1984 - Mad Hatter Ballroom, Athens, GA
support: The Night Porters
concert ticket
15 March 1984 - Bandshell, Daytona Beach, FL
22 March 1984 - Indoor Track and Tennis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
support: Hüsker Dü
set included: Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Wolves, Lower / Radio Free Europe / We Walk
23 March 1984 - The Rat, Boston, MA
support: Scruffy The Cat, Hüsker Dü, Kilkenny Cats
set included: The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Pale Blue Eyes / Crazy / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / 20th Century Boy / Paint It, Black
7 April 1984 - Amsterdam, Holland
notes: Various press interviews
8 April 1984 - The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
support: My Bloody Valentine
set: Second Guessing / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / Crazy / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Pretty Persuasion / Falling In Love Again / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Little America / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Wolves, Lower / Chicken Train / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
9 April 1984 - De Vrije Vloer, Utrecht, Holland
set included: The Lion Sleeps Tonight / 20th Century Boy
10 April 1984 - De Effenaar, Eindhoven, Holland
set: Time After Time (Annelise) / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / That Beat / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Little America / Radio Free Europe
encore: Radar Love / Second Guessing / Pale Blue Eyes / 1,000,000
12 April 1984 - Odeon, Münster, West Germany
13 April 1984 - Knust, Hamburg, West Germany
14 April 1984 - Knust, Hamburg, West Germany
14 April 1984
event: Reckoning released
15 April 1984 - Luxor, Cologne, West Germany
17 April 1984 - Radio Station, Rouen, France
notes: Interview with Mills and Buck
17 April 1984 - Exo-7, Rouen, France
support: Flooflash
set: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Moral Kiosk / Crazy / Talk About The Passion / Seven Chinese Brothers / Pilgrimage / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Time After Time (Annelise) / That Beat / Mystery To Me / Little America
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Chicken Train / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / 1,000,000
encore 2: Barney Miller Theme / We Walk / Pills / Radio Free Europe
notes: This show is available on the bootleg CD "Toto This Isn't Athens Anymore"
18 April 1984 - Club West Side, Lyon, France
set: Radio Free Europe / Catapult / Crazy / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Time After Time (Annelise) / Little America / 1,000,000
notes: Not the complete show
19 April 1984 - Maison de Peuples, Clermont-Ferrand, France
20 April 1984 - Paris, France
notes: Various press interviews
20 April 1984 - Theatre El Dorado, Paris, France
set: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Moral Kiosk / Catapult / Pilgrimage / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain / Harborcoat / Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Time After Time (Annelise) / Just A Touch / Little America / Pale Blue Eyes
encore 1: Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe / We Walk / 20th Century Boy / 1,000,000
encore 2: Walters BBQ / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Talk About The Passion / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
concert ticket
23 April 1984 - London, England
notes: Various press interviews
24 April 1984 - Tin Can Club, Birmingham, England
supprot: 154
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / There She Goes Again / Mystery To Me / Pilgrimage / Just A Touch / Letter Never Sent / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Second Guessing / Little America / Pale Blue Eyes / Moral Kiosk / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / 1,000,000
encore 2: We Walk / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
25 April 1984 - The Gallery, Manchester, England
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Moral Kiosk [part] / Walk, Don't Run / If I Had A Hammer / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Moral Kiosk / Just A Touch / Seven Chinese Brothers / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Harborcoat / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Barney Miller Theme / Walters Theme / Second Guessing / Time After Time (Annelise) / Femme Fatale
encore 2: California Dreamin' / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: The PA blew up during 'Moral Kiosk', resulting in the band playing the instrumental 'Walk, Don't Run' and then the folk song 'If I Had A Hammer' until it was fixed. Between 'If I Had A Hammer' and 'So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star' Michael says "The first time this has ever happened to us, and we're going to celebrate with a really bad song"
26 April 1984 - The Warehouse, Leeds, England
set: Second Guessing / Catapult / Just A Touch / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Harborcoat / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Time After Time (Annelise) / Pretty Persuasion
encore 2: 1,000,000 / We Walk / Talk About The Passion / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
27 April 1984 - Nightmoves, Glasgow, Scotland
29 April 1984 - Carioca Club, Worthing, England
support: The American Girls, The Bright Young Things
set: Fever / Second Guessing / Just A Touch / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers - Voice Of Harold / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Femme Fatale / Harborcoat / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / So. Central Rain / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore: (Don't Go Back to) Rockville / Pretty Persuasion / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars)
30 April 1984 - The Marquee, London, England
support: The American Girls
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Moral Kiosk / Burning Down / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Little America
encore 1: We Walk / Second Guessing / 1,000,000
encore 2: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Time After Time (Annelise) / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) [part] / Chicken Train / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: The first time Carnival Of Sorts is played there is an equipment breakdown, so Michael fills in the time with Chicken Train, before the problem is fixed and Carnival Of Sorts is played again
1 May 1984 - Capital Radio, England
notes: Interview with Buck
1 May 1984 - The Marquee, London, England
support: The Escape Club
set: Second Guessing / Just A Touch / Catapult / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / Pretty Persuasion / Moral Kiosk / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: We Walk / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Does Your Mother Know?
encore 2: Pale Blue Eyes / I Can't Control Myself / Tusk / Skank
1 June 1984 - Bourbon Street Club, Athens, GA
set included: Color Me Impressed / White Light, White Heat / There She Goes Again / Government Center / Broken Whisky Glass / Little Willie / Authority Song / Personality Crisis / Hang On Sloopy / Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight
notes: Hindu Love Gods show, with Berry, Buck, Mills and Bryan Cook
9 June 1984 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Second Guessing / Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Harborcoat / Seven Chinese Brothers / Pretty Persuasion / So. Central Rain / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 1: Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 2: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Do You Believe In Magic / Gloria
notes: Performance for 'Rock Influences: Folk Rock' on MTV. Roger McGuinn guests on 'So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star' and 'Gloria'. John Sebastian guests on 'Do You Believe In Magic' and 'Gloria'. First performances of Driver 8, Old Man Kensey and Hyena. The performance was broadcast on 17 July
14 June 1984 - The Cutting Edge TV, Los Angeles, CA
set: (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Time After Time (Annelise) / Femme Fatale / Louie Louie / Smokin' In The Boys' Room / Driver 8 / Trains (I Can Stretch My Hand Out) / Wendell Gee
notes: First ever public performance of Wendell Gee, which was supposedly written on this day as well. The performance was broadcast on 29 July
16 June 1984 - Star Palace, Fresno, CA
support: Dream Syndicate
17 June 1984 - The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Moral Kiosk / Wolves, Lower / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Good Advices / So. Central Rain / Harborcoat / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Driver 8 / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore: Ghost Riders In The Sky / 20th Century Boy / We Walk / Second Guessing / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
18 June 1984 - Mission Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Second Guessing / Hyena / Catapult / Seven Chinese Brothers / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Good Advices / So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Driver 8 / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore: Moral Kiosk / Time After Time (Annelise) / 1,000,000 / Chicken Train / Femme Fatale / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
19 June 1984 - "Rock of the 80's" (TV), Palace Theater, Hollywood, CA
other acts performing: INXS, Simple Minds, Human League
set: Sitting Still / Radio Free Europe / Little America
20 June 1984 - Racetrack, Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, San Diego, CA
audience: 9,000
support: Army Of Love
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Driver 8 / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore: White Tornado / Ghost Riders In The Sky / 1,000,000 / Pale Blue Eyes / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
22 June 1984 - Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, CA
audience: 4,400
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Harborcoat / Catapult / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Pilgrimage / Moral Kiosk / Camera / Letter Never Sent / Pretty Persuasion / So. Central Rain / Radio Free Europe / Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / West Of The Fields / Little America / [Velvet Underground song] / Chicken Train / Old Man Kensey / Driver 8 / Unknown / Unknown / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Setlist is most likely in the wrong order. The Velvet Underground song is most likely Femme Fatale. The unknown songs are probably Hyena and Windout, but can't be confirmed. Stipe performed this show sitting on a stool due to a surfind accident in Del Mar
23 June 1984 - Mountain Aire Festival, Angels Camp, Calaveras County, CA
supporting: The Plimsouls, Berlin, The Motels, Ratt, Huey Lewis and the News, The Cars
24 June 1984 - Mountain Aire Festival, Angels Camp, Calaveras County, CA
supporting: The Plimsouls, Berlin, The Motels, Ratt, Huey Lewis and the News, The Cars
24 June 1984 - Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Second Guessing / Seven Chinese Brothers / Hyena / Camera / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Driver 8 / Harborcoat / Good Advices / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Little America
encore 1: White Tornado / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Radio Free Europe / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: Femme Fatale / Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: Stipe sits for the entire show due to a surfing accident in Del Mar (Stipe: "The more astute of you may have noticed that I'm sitting down this evening...well I was out boxing some waves in the ocean in Del Mar..." audience member: "Bullshit!" Stipe: "this is the truth, I challenged the ocean and it bit me").
26 June 1984 - Starry Night, Portland, OR
audience: 1,000
support: Dream Syndicate
27 June 1984 - Music Hall, Seattle, WA
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Moral Kiosk / Driver 8 / Catapult / Hyena / Camera / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Sitting Still / Burning Down / Pale Blue Eyes / 1,000,000
encore 2: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: This show is available on many bootlegs, including "Boston 1984" (sic), "Blue", "Pleasant Dreams", "Rock and Roll Stars" and "We're Blinking Just As Fast As We Can"
28 June 1984 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC, Canada
support: Dream Syndicate
30 June 1984 - Mardi Gras Club, Boise, ID
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Second Guessing / Driver 8 / Seven Chinese Brothers / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Behind Closed Doors / Hyena / Harborcoat / Good Advices / Barney Miller Theme / So. Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / 20th Century Boy / Femme Fatale / Moral Kiosk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
1 July 1984 - State Fairgrounds Coliseum, Salt Lake City, UT
support: Dream Syndicate
2 July 1984 - The Bamboo Bar, Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, CO
support: Dream Syndicate
3 July 1984 - Rainbow Music Hall, Denver, CO
audience: 1,425
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Second Guessing / West Of The Fields / Driver 8 / Camera / Good Advices / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Pale Blue Eyes / Pretty Persuasion / Just A Touch / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Gardening At Night / Unknown / 9-9 / Windout
encore 2: Barney Miller Theme / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Gloria
notes: The unknown track between Gardening At Night and 9-9 sounds a little like Chicken Train, but it can't be confirmed
5 July 1984 - Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe / Second Guessing / Letter Never Sent / Seven Chinese Brothers / Sitting Still / Hyena / So. Central Rain / Driver 8 / Time After Time (Annelise) / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America / Chicken Train-Jimmy Crack Corn-I Can Stretch My Hand Out / Wolves, Lower
encore 1: Barney Miller Theme / Camera / Harborcoat / Color Me Impressed
encore 2: There She Goes Again / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: Paul Westerberg guests on Color Me Impressed, and Steve Wynn guests on There She Goes Again
6 July 1984 - Summerfest Rockstage, Milwaukee, WI
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Second Guessing / West Of The Fields / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Pale Blue Eyes / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night-Chicken Train / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: There She Goes Again / We Walk / Little America
encore 2: Ghost Riders In The Sky / In the Year 2525 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
7 July 1984 - Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Femme Fatale / Radio Free Europe / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Letter Never Sent / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Harborcoat / Cushy Tush / Hyena / Pretty Persuasion / Little America / Second Guessing / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / King Of The Road / Walk, Don't Run
notes: This show was recorded by a local radio station, WXRT 93.1 FM, and broadcast twice: once at a length of 1 1/2 hours, the next time broadcast it was cut to fit a 1 hour timeslot. This show can be found on the CD bootlegs "Disturbances" (along with what is reportably the worst sound quality in bootleg history) and "Back To Rockville", as well as the vinyl bootleg "Live in Chicago"
8 July 1984 - Royal Oak Music Theater, Detroit, MI
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe / Catapult / Driver 8 / Camera / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Hyena / Harborcoat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore: Barney Miller Theme / Second Guessing / We Walk / 1,000,000
10 July 1984 - Variety Theater, Cleveland, OH
support: Dream Syndicate
11 July 1984 - Minnett Hall, Rochester, NY
audience: 600
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Femme Fatale / Second Guessing / Wolves, Lower / Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Camera / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Crazy / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: 20th Century Boy / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk / Moral Kiosk
encore 2: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
12 July 1984 - Le Spectrum, Montreal, Canada
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Moral Kiosk / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / West Of The Fields / 9-9 / Wind Out / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Talk About The Passion / Chicken Train / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Second Guessing
encore 2: Fever / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
13 July 1984 - Concert Hall, Toronto, Canada
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Second Guessing / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / So. Central Rain / Driver 8 / Shaking Through / Harborcoat / Medicine Show / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: The Lion Sleeps Tonight / In the Year 2525 / We Walk / Little America
encore 2: Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
15 July 1984 - Salty Dog Saloon, Buffalo, NY
support: Dream Syndicate
set: I Can Only Give You Everything / Radio Free Europe / Catapult / Driver 8 / Medicine Show [brief] / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Pale Blue Eyes / So. Central Rain / Sharp Dressed Man / Every Word Means No / Secret Agent Man / Smokin' In The Boys' Room / Does Your Mother Know? / Tusk / Crazy / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Pills / California Dreamin'
encore 2: Batman Theme-Second Guessing / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: About a minute of the Dream Syndicate song ‘Medicine Show’ was played between Driver 8 and Sitting Still. Michael says thanks to the band for opening up and says that he does a great Steve Wynn (for money!) and that Steve Wynn does a pretty good Michael
16 July 1984 - The Playpen, Wildwood, NJ
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Second Guessing / Just A Touch / Driver 8 / Time After Time (Annelise) / Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: White Tornado / There She Goes Again / Bandwagon / Sitting Still
encore 2: Chicken Train / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
17 July 1984 - Good Skates Roller Rink, Port Haven Music Hall, East Setauket, Long Island, NY
support: Dream Syndicate
set included: So. Central Rain / Windout / Femme Fatale / Radio Free Europe / Ghost Riders In The Sky / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
19 July 1984 - Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Femme Fatale / Second Guessing / Catapult / Driver 8 / Letter Never Sent / Sitting Still / So. Central Rain / Hyena / Harborcoat / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Ghost Riders In The Sky / There She Goes Again / Talk About The Passion
encore 2: Time After Time (Annelise) / Moral Kiosk / Camera / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: Steve Wynn guests on There She Goes Again. Ghost Riders was done as an instrumental (probably not complete), then Stipe and Wynn came out on stage with their arms and legs linked, 3-legged race style
20 July 1984 - West Hartford Agora Ballroom, Hartford, CT
audience: 2,000
support: Dream Syndicate
soundcheck: Driver 8 / Trains (I Can Stretch My Hands Out)
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Driver 8 / Shaking Through / Letter Never Sent / Sitting Still / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Second Guessing / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / 20th Century Boy / Moral Kiosk / Little America
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / Camera / Wild Thing
encore 2: We Walk - Behind Closed Doors / Smokin' In The Boys' Room / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
21 July 1984 - Beacon Theater, New York, NY
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Time After Time (Annelise) / Hyena / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Camera / Moral Kiosk / Chicken Train / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
encore 2: Femme Fatale / California Dreamin' / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
22 July 1984 - Beacon Theater, New York, NY
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Driver 8 / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Hyena / Shaking Through / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Wolves, Lower / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Second Guessing / Letter Never Sent / We Walk / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
encore 2: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
24 July 1984 - Warner Theater, Washington DC
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Hyena / So. Central Rain / Harborcoat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Camera / Pale Blue Eyes / Moral Kiosk / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
encore 2: Chicken Train / Crazy / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: At the end of Boxcars Michael rambles some words of what is assumed to be Skank, which go something like 'I was twenty-one, he was sixty-four / I said tip your hat to the man at the door / I said let me in, he said what for'
25 July 1984 - Pavilion Towers Ballroom, Virginia Beach, VA
support: Dream Syndicate
set included: Second Guessing / Talk About The Passion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Medicine Show / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
26 July 1984 - "Solid Gold Hits" - New York, NY
set: So. Central Rain
notes: Stipe sings the vocals live while the others mime their parts
27 July 1984 - War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro, NC
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Radio Free Europe / Catapult / Driver 8 / Letter Never Sent / Seven Chinese Brothers / Sitting Still / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Hyena / There She Goes Again / Harborcoat / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Camera / Pale Blue Eyes / Second Guessing
encore 2: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Trains (I Can Stretch My Hand Out) / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / California Dreamin' / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
review: This was a great show. They played in the War Memorial Auditorium (where the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra normally plays) so the acoustics were great. The band wasn't big enough yet to play the main Coliseum I guess. The encore numbers of Ghost Riders In The Sky and Carnival Of Sorts still stick out in my mind as highlights of the show - Tom Ivey
28 July 1984 - Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA
support: Dream Syndicate
set: Femme Fatale / Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Hyena / Sitting Still / Seven Chinese Brothers / Letter Never Sent / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Just A Touch / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Second Guessing / Little America
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / 1,000,000
encore 2: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Camera / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
notes: This show can be found on the bootleg CD 'Songs From Little America', minus Femme Fatale, Just A Touch and Skank. The CD doesn't give the date of the show, but it is this one
Mid August 1984 - Tate Center, Athens, GA
notes: Mills and Buck joined Dream Syndicate on stage for 1 or 2 songs
5 September 1984 - Pomona Valley Auditorium, Pomona, CA
support: Swimming Pool Q's
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Pilgrimage / Cushy Tush / Seven Chinese Brothers / Sitting Still / Hyena / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / 1,000,000 / Little America
encore 1: Second Guessing / California Dreamin' / Smokin' In The Boys' Room / Burning Hell / Louie Louie
encore 2: King of the Road / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / Femme Fatale / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
6 September 1984 - Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA
support: Swimming Pool Q's
set: Radio Free Europe / Moral Kiosk / Harborcoat / Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Kohoutek / So. Central Rain / Time After Time (Annelise) / Seven Chinese Brothers / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Wolves, Lower / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
encore 2: Driver 8 / Camera / Second Guessing
7 September 1984 - Fox Theater, San Diego, CA
support: The dB's
set included: Radio Free Europe / Seven Chinese Brothers / Letter Never Sent / Pretty Persuasion / Sitting Still / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / I Can Only Give You Everything / Behind Closed Doors / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
8 September 1984 - Palace West, Phoenix, AZ
support: The dB's
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9-Frogmore-Windout / Talk About The Passion / Kohoutek / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Driver 8 / Letter Never Sent / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Pilgrimage / Hyena / Just A Touch / Pretty Persuasion / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Second Guessing / Sitting Still / Femme Fatale / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / We Walk / After Hours / Sweet Home Alabama / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
9 September 1984 - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
support: The dB's
10 September 1984 - Albuquerque, NM
support: The dB's
set included: Sweet Jane / Sweet Home Alabama / Sex Bomb Baby
11 September 1984 - Macky Auditorium, University Of Colorado, Boulder, CO
support: The dB's
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Hyena / Pilgrimage / Kohoutek / Talk About the Passion / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kinsey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore: Moon River / Camera / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / Radio Free Europe / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
13 September 1984 - Music Hall, Omaha, NB
support: The dB's
notes: Stipe was in political mode for this show, telling the crowd that Reagan has to go (which was met with laughter as well as booing), and during Talk About The Passion he changed the lyric to 'talk about compassion'
Ticket stub
14 September 1984 - Hoch Auditorium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
audience: 2,000
support: The dB's
set included: Gardening At Night / Hyena / Kohoutek / Radio Free Europe / Wild Thing / Moon River
15 September 1984 - The Bowery, Oaklahoma City, OK
support: The dB's
set: Route 66 / Wolves, Lower / Harbourcoat / Time After Time (Annelise) / Femme Fetale / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Just A Touch / Pretty Persuasion / Kohoutek / 9-9 / Wind Out / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe
encore: Moon River / Unknown / Ghost Riders In The Sky / We Walk / Little America
16 September 1984 - Bronco Bowl, Dallas, TX
support: The dB's
set: Second Guessing / Pilgrimage / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / Kohoutek / Letter Never Sent / Sitting Still / Wolves, Lower / 9-9 / Windout / Pretty Persuasion / Old Man Kinsey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Harborcoat / Pale Blue Eyes / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Driver 8 / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Camera / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
18 September 1984 - Austin Opera House, Austin, TX
support: The dB's
set included: Harborcoat / Radio Free Europe / Seven Chinese Brothers / Moon River
19 September 1984 - Numbers 2 Nightclub, Houston, TX
support: The dB's
set included: So. Central Rain / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Moral Kiosk / 9-9 / Stumble / Second Guessing / Pilgrimage / Laughing / Talk About The Passion / West Of The Fields / Seven Chinese Brothers / Time After Time (Annelise) / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / Harborcoat / Moon River / Radio Free Europe / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Venue originally listed just as 'Numbers', but the original had closed down and 'Numbers 2' opened in its place. Michael Stipe was wearing a sport coat over and a colored T-shirt. Mike Mills mentioned at some point that when they came to play Houston in support of Murmur the previous year, they arrived in Houston to find the club they were scheduled to play that night closed and was out of business.
Before Pretty Persuasion, Stipe mentioned how drunk he was after they finished this song. During the song he had some kind of sticker or badge of some sort - and he tried to stick it on his sleeve while he was singing "put that on your sleeve" (he was unsuccessful because the sticker had lost its stick - not because he was too drunk)
The second encore was with the guitarist of the db's (the more famous guitarist who sang with the db's). They played a couple songs, ending with Boxcars. There was someone in the back of the room who kept yelling "Boxcars" every once in a while throughout the entire show, but he was the only person who yelled out a request at all. It seemed that Mike Mills talked the rest of the band into playing Boxcars for the last song (obviously in deference to the guy in the back of the crowd), and it was obvious that the db's guy was watching Peter Buck to see the chords played.
20 September 1984 - Hot Springs, AR
support: The dB's
21 September 1984 - War Memorial Auditorum, Nashville, TN
support: The dB's
set included: Moon River / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: The venue had ramps that led up from the audience to the stage, and the crowd kept edging up it until 10-50 people were on stage with the band, and at one point a security guard was getting too rough with a girl in the crowd (the hassle had been going on between the crowd and security for a while) and the guitar drops out of the mix as Peter dashes over to the other side of the stage to push the security man away. Then the crowd roared it's approval. Then, as more and more fans were emboldened to take the stage, two small kids were in danger of getting squashed, and Mike pulled them out and up onto their side of the microphones, (all this during "We Walk") and got them to sing "up, up, up, up" in the fade out. Then someone got them some posters, and asked what they wanted to hear, and the band responded with a final encore of Carnival Of Sorts
22 September 1984 - Foster Auditorium, University Of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
support: The dB's
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9-Frogmore-Windout / Talk About The Passion / Kohoutek / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Driver 8 / Letter Never Sent / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Pilgrimage / Hyena / Just A Touch / Pretty Persuasion / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Second Guessing / Sitting Still / Femme Fatale / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / Sweet Home Alabama / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Skank
23 September 1984 - Park Center, Charlotte, NC
audience: 1,200
support: The dB's
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / West Of The Fields / Talk About The Passion / Pilgrimage / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Just A Touch / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / Sitting Still / Moral Kiosk
encore 2: Happy Birthday / Moon River / We Walk / After Hours / 1,000,000 / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
25 September 1984 - Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, NC
support: The dB's
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Letter Never Sent / Kohoutek / Sitting Still / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / Time After Time (Annelise) / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: California Dreamin' / Wolves, Lower / Driver 8 / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Second Guessing / Oh Susanna / Jimmy Crack Corn / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Tusk
26 September 1984 - Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, NC
support: The dB's
set: Seven Chinese Brothers / Catapult / Radio Free Europe / 9-9 / Gardening At Night / Windout / Letter Never Sent / Kohoutek / So. Central Rain / Driver 8 / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / 1,000,000 / Hyena / West Of The Fields / Old Man Kensey / Second Guessing
encore 1: Moon River [twice] / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Little America
encore 2: Moral Kiosk / Talk About The Passion / Sitting Still / Pretty Persuasion
notes: Moon River is done twice. At the end of the first time (with one word left in the song) someone screams out "Fuck you!" to which Stipe yells back "If you don't like it, you can leave!". He and Mike immediately start over from the beginning. The same guy yells the same remark at the start of the second encore which Stipe replies curtly, "Fuck you, too!". There is another story that the fan was actually shouting, 'Fuck, YEAH!' in appreciation. Apparently the fan actually wrote a letter to the editor of one of the local papers hoping to clarify the incident.
The main set of this show can be found on the CD bootleg "Unreleased Live LP" and "We Are Having A Heavenly Time"
28 September 1984 - University Of South Florida Soccer Field, Tampa, FL
support: The dB's
set: Femme Fatale / Radio Free Europe / Seven Chinese Brothers / Harborcoat / Pilgrimage / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Kohoutek / Sitting Still / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Chicken Train / Second Guessing / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors-After Hours / In the Year 2525 / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Last Date / After Hours / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Sloop John B / Carnival Of Sorts / Skank-Tusk
29 September 1984 - Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
support: The dB's
set: Radio Free Europe / Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Camera / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Driver 8 / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Seven Chinese Brothers / Harborcoat / Just A Touch / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Barney Miller Theme / 1,000,000 / Little America
encore 1: Second Guessing / Talk About The Passion / Wolves, Lower
encore 2: Moon River / Ghost Riders In The Sky / There She Goes Again / We Walk
notes: Despite the name and date of the show on the bootleg CD, this show can be found on the CD "Philadelphia 1984", with Driver 8 and Sitting Still through to 1,000,000 cut out
30 September 1984 - The Bandshell, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
support: The dB's
soundcheck: Second Guessing
set: Second Guessing / Pilgrimage / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Harborcoat / Kohoutek / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Wolves, Lower / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Moral Kiosk / D.I.V.O.R.C.E. / Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah / Chicken Train / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / After Hours
2 October 1984 - McAllister Auditorium, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
support: The dB's
set: Femme Fatale / Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers-Voice Of Harold / Pilgrimage / Letter Never Sent / Kohoutek / So. Central Rain / Moon River / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9-Frogmore-Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Crazy / Talk About The Passion / California Dreamin' / 1,000,000
encore 2: Just A Touch / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk-Falling In Love Again-Behind Closed Doors-After Hours / Sloop John B / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Suspicious Minds
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Sloop John B and Suspicious Minds
3 October 1984 - Fulton Chapel, University of Mississipi, Oxford, MS
support: The dB's
5 October 1984 - Shyrock Auditorium, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
support: The dB's
set included: Moon River
6 October 1984 - Graham Chapel, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
support: The dB's
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / West Of The Fields / Kohoutek / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Hyena / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Barney Miller Theme / Chicken Train / Sitting Still / Letter Never Sent / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Second Guessing / Paint It, Black / In The Year 2525 / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / Femme Fatale / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Wendell Gee / I Can Only Give You Everything / Sloop John B / Born On The Bayou / Gloria
notes: Peter Holsapple and Rick Wagner guest on Sloop John B, Born On The Bayou and Gloria
7 October 1984 - Egyptian Theater, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
support: The dB's
8 October 1984 - Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI
support: The dB's
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Letter Never Sent / Hyena / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Driver 8 / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Barney Miller Theme / Second Guessing / Crazy / Kohoutek / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / See No Evil / Sloop John B / We Walk - Behind Closed Doors Medley / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star
10 October 1984 - Smith Center, George Washington University, Washington DC
support: The dB's
11 October 1984 - University Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
support: The dB's
12 October 1984 - Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ
support: The dB's
set: Harborcoat / Radio Free Europe / Hyena / Sitting Still / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Shaking Through / Driver 8 / Seven Chinese Brothers /Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Letter Never Sent / So. Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Second Guessing / We Walk / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Just A Touch / Sloop John B / Louie Louie
notes: Peter Holsapple guests on Sloop John B and Louie Louie, and Keith Streng of The Fleshtones guests on Windout. At the first encore, a huge birthday cake is rolled out and everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to Jefferson
13 October 1984 - University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT
support: The dB's
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / Driver 8 / Pilgrimage / West Of The Fields / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Sitting Still / Old Man Kensey / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / So. Central Rain / Femme Fatale / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Moon River / Camera / Time After Time (Annelise) / We Walk / Just A Touch
encore 2: Radio Free Europe / Sloop John B / I Can't Control Myself / Wild Thing
encore 3: So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
15 October 1984 - Fine Arts Center, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
support: The dB's
set included: Moon River / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / Sloop John B / In the Year 2525 / Barney Miller Theme / Tusk / Wild Thing
16 October 1984 - Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Providence, RI
support: The dB's
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Pilgrimage / Seven Chinese Brothers / Driver 8 / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / Sitting Still / Kohoutek / Just A Touch / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / So. Central Rain / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Camera / Time After Time (Annelise) / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / White Tornado / Moon River / Second Guessing / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk
17 October 1984 - Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA
support: The dB's
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Letter Never Sent / Hyena / Pilgrimage / Talk About The Passion / Kohoutek / So. Central Rain / Time After Time (Annelise) / West Of The Fields / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Seven Chinese Brothers / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe / We Walk / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
encore 2: Sloop John B / See No Evil / Wild Thing / So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star / Gloria - The Beat Goes On
notes: There is some confusion about this show because of a bootleg CD entitled "Philadelphia 1984" which claims it is this show, but is in fact 29 September 1984
31 October 1984 - Pier 10 Ballroom, Aloha Tower, Honolulu, Hawaii
support: Hat Makes The Man
set included: Femme Fatale / Harborcoat / Second Guessing / Pretty Persuasion / So. Central Rain / Talk About The Passion / Moon River / Radio Free Europe
4 November 1984 - Rehearsal Hall, Tokyo, Japan
4 November 1984 - Music School, Tokyo, Japan
notes: The band are interviewed and also perform an Allman Brothers song with some students
5 November 1984 - Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
support: Bakufu Slump
8 November 1984 - Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
support: Bakufu Slump
10 November 1984 - Yokohama University, Tokyo, Japan
support: Bakufu Slump
set: Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / So. Central Rain / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Talk About The Passion / Harborcoat / Hyena / (Don't Go Back to) Rockville / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / Catapult / Chicken Train / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Second Guessing / Radio Free Europe / Femme Fatale
notes: Auctioneer (Another Engine) makes its live debut. This show can be found on the CD bootleg "Live At Yokohama"
11 November 1984 - Gymnasium, Senshu University, Tokyo, Japan
support: Bakufu Slump
15 November 1984 - Tiffany's Ballroom, Newcastle, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Pale Blue Eyes / Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / Talk About The Passion / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / So. Central Rain / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Frogmore / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Second Guessing / Time After Time (Annelise) / We Walk-Falling In Love Again-After Hours-Behind Closed Doors / Just A Touch
encore 2: Moon River / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
16 November 1984 - Caley Palais, Edinburgh, Scotland
support: The Lucy Show
set: Second Guessing / West Of The Fields / Harborcoat / Chicken Train / Driver 8 / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Letter Never Sent / Talk About The Passion / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Hyena / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / 1,000,000 / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Pretty Persuasion / Femme Fatale / Wendell Gee / We Walk-Falling In Love Again-Behind Closed Doors-After Hours / Little America
encore 2: White Tornado / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Just A Touch
17 November 1984 - Piccadilly Radio, Manchester, England
notes: Interview with Peter Buck. Available on the interview bootleg cd 'Shiny Chatty People"
17 November 1984 - Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Sitting Still / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / 1,000,000 / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore: Moon River / Second Guessing / Talk About The Passion / Just A Touch / In the Year 2525 / We Walk / After Hours / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
notes: Missing the first few songs
18 November 1984 - Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Sitting Still / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Gardening At Night / 9-9-Hey Diddle Diddle-Frogmore / Windout / Old Man Kensey / 1,000,000 / Driver 8 / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Ghost Riders In The Sky / Radio Free Europe / Femme Fatale / Just A Touch
encore 2: Moon River / See No Evil / We Walk-Falling In Love Again-We Are Family-Behind Closed Doors-Tusk / Jimmy Crack Corn / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)-Tusk
20 November 1984 - "The Whistle Test" (TV), Studio 5, BBC Television Centre, London, England
other acts performing: The Fall / The Kinks / Edwin Starr / Little Feet
set: Moon River / Pretty Persuasion / Old Man Kensey
21 November 1984 - Rock City, Nottingham, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Harborcoat / Second Guessing / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / West Of The Fields / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / So. Central Rain / Sitting Still / Old Man Kensey / Gardening At Night / 9-9-Hey Diddle Diddle-Frogmore-Windout / Driver 8 / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: Wendell Gee / 1,000,000 / 20th Century Boy / Just A Touch
encore 2: We Walk-After Hours / See No Evil / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) / Moon River
notes: Partially broadcast by the BBC. At one point in the show Stipe tells the audience the heel of his shoe broke off and if he can have another shoe, so someone in the crowd throws their shoe up on stage. The part broadcast by the BBC can be found on many bootlegs, including "In The Wood", "Nottingham" and "Old Man Kensey". A complete soundboard recording is also in circulation
23 November 1984 - University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Femme Fatale / Moral Kiosk / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Hyena / Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Sitting Still / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / Radio Free Europe / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Moon River / Second Guessing / Bandwagon / We Walk-After Hours / 1,000,000
encore 2: Ghost Riders In The Sky / See No Evil / Wendell Gee / Just A Touch
24 November 1984 - University of Essex, Colchester, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Letter Never Sent / Happy Together / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Sitting Still / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9-Happy Together-Tusk-Frogmore / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Radio Free Europe / Little America
encore 1: I Can Only Give You Everything / See No Evil / Just A Touch
encore 2: Moon River / Wild Thing / Pale Blue Eyes / Pretty Persuasion
26 November 1984 - University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Femme Fatale / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / So. Central Rain / Color Me Impressed / Broken Whiskey Glass / Seven Chinese Brothers-Voice Of Harold / Driver 8 / Letter Never Sent / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Hyena / See No Evil / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe / Little America-Jimmy Crack Corn
encore 1: Second Guessing / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / We Walk-After Hours / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Camera / Just A Touch
27 November 1984 - University of Leicester, Leicester, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Just A Touch / Harborcoat / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / So. Central Rain / Seven Chinese Brothers / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Driver 8 / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Letter Never Sent / Gardening At Night / 9-9-Hey Diddle Diddle-Frogmore / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Radio Free Europe
encore 1: Second Guessing-After Hours / We Walk-Falling In Love Again-Behind Closed Doors / See No Evil / Little America
encore 2: Moon River / Wendell Gee / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
28 November 1984 - New Ocean Club, Cardiff, Wales
support: The Lucy Show
notes: Michael strained his neck during this show
29 November 1984 - Queensway Hall, Dunstable, England
support: The Lucy Show
set: Femme Fatale / 1,000,000 / Letter Never Sent / Camera / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / So. Central Rain / Old Man Kensey / Driver 8 / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Seven Chinese Brothers / 9-9 / Windout
encore: Moon River / Wild Thing / Pretty Persuasion
notes: Most likely there was another encore which was not recorded, or it's possible the show finished early due to the neck strain Michael suffered the previous night
concert ticket and pic from show
1 December 1984 - Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton, England
scheduled support: The Lucy Show
notes: This show was cancelled due to Michael straining his neck in Cardiff two night prior
2 December 1984 - Lyceum Ballroom, London, England
support: The Lucy Show, The Lyres
set: Second Guessing / Harborcoat / Seven Chinese Brothers / Hyena / Talk About The Passion / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / So. Central Rain / Good Advices / Letter Never Sent / Driver 8 / Gardening At Night / 9-9-Hey Diddle Diddle-Frogmore / Windout / Old Man Kensey / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: White Tornado / See No Evil / We Walk-Behind Closed Doors / 1,000,000
encore 2: Moon River / Wendell Gee / I Can Only Give You Everything / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
4 December 1984 - SFX Centre, Dublin, Ireland
support: The Lucy Show
set: Radio Free Europe / Harborcoat / Pilgrimage / Driver 8 / Talk About The Passion / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / So. Central Rain / Letter Never Sent / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / Little America
encore 1: Femme Fatale / Ghost Riders In The Sky / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Wolves, Lower
encore 2: Moon River / Wendell Gee / See No Evil / Just A Touch
notes: Steve Wickham, then of In Tua Nua and later The Waterboys, plays violin on Ghost Riders In The Sky, Rockville and Wolves, Lower. Presumably to aide in helping his neck, Michael wore a khaki legwarmer on his head for the entire show
6 December 1984 - The Circus, Oslo, Norway
set included: Hyena / Letter Never Sent / Driver 8 / Old Man Kensey / Pretty Persuasion / 1,000,000 / Second Guessing / Gardening At Night / 9-9 / Windout
notes: Taken from an FM Broadcast
31 December 1984 - Civic Center, Atlanta, GA
support: Guadalcanal Diary, Love Tractor
set: Old Man Kensey / Catapult / Hyena / Seven Chinese Brothers / Good Advices / So. Central Rain / Laughing / Harborcoat / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Talk About The Passion / Driver 8 / Pretty Persuasion / Gardening At Night / Atlantis / Wendell Gee / Shaking Through / (Don't Go Back To) Rockville / Little America
encore: Moon River / We Walk-After Hours / Crazy / Wild Thing
notes: The only known time Old Man Kensey has opened a show. In between Gardening At Night and Atlantis midnight strikes. Bagpipe music (unknown song), followed by chiming bells, and an instrumental rendition of Auld Lang Syne (with the bells and the Auld Lang Syne possibly being prerecorded) indicate the beginning of 1985
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