by Soozy » 7/17/2005, 2:41 am
I went to see REM in Hyde Park last night and they were REALLY good. 80,000 people all singing along = lots of fun. It was kind of a singles-heavy setlist, but there were some other great oldies thrown in too. It was the last night of the tour and they were in great spirits - they did Nightswimming and Michael Stipe sat on top of the piano/keyboard thing and was ruffling Mike Mills's hair. Then he just put his feet on the keyboard and Mike kept on playing and then at the end Michael leant down and gave him a kiss which seemed to confuse him a little! Ooooh and Patti Smith came on to do E-bow the Letter with them - that was amazing. And I got to see Livi (who some of you know) for the first time in about 18 months which was really great

Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.