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[robbbin]

On ABCTV2 Australia tomorrow sunday afternoon. Goes for an hour with no ads!

[Sibko]

R.E.M. at the BBC: Accelerating Backwards
5pm – 6pm ABC2
Sunday 29 November 2009
R.E.M. join the BBC to reminisce about their career, their creativity and their amazing back catalogue. Featuring 13 electrifying live performances recorded for a variety of BBC programmes, including Top of the Pops.


MMM i think this was posted as a DVD a while ago....found link http://www.murmurs.c...ad.php?t=113520

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Accelerating Backwards

BBC Worldwide and R.E.M collaboration

BBC Worldwide’s Music team have joined forces with supergroup R.E.M, fresh from their No. 1 album success with Accelerate, to produce a sixty-minute intimate retrospective of the band’s legendary performances at the corporation spanning 20 years titled Accelerating Backwards.

Filmed exclusively for the programme at the recent South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin Texas, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills take the viewer on an electrifying journey through thirteen of their most memorable performances on classic shows such as The Late Show and Top of the Pops. It also includes their first major TV appearance in 1984 on the iconic The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Accelerating Backwards came about through a close partnership with the band, their management and Warner Bros records and is the first in what the commercial arm of the BBC envisages will be a series of evocative music programmes utilising the archive to be sold to domestic and international broadcasters.

R.E.M examine their working methods, reminisce about their early ‘fruit-stealing’ days in London, reflect on the circumstances that brought them to share the screen with a troupe of dancing bears and also discuss the problems caused by the departure of original drummer Bill Berry.

Fans of the group will be further intrigued to hear Michael Stipe give a unique insight into his writing techniques, Peter Buck reveal his secret regret over signature song Losing My Religion, Mike Mills discussing the perils of live television.

Jon Mansfield, Head of Content Development, BBC Worldwide Music, said: “We’re delighted that the band, their management and record label were so willing to engage and participate in this project which celebrates the bands heritage and goes a long way to understanding their continued ability to make music that connects with audiences around the world. It is fantastic to be able to unlock this fantastic archive to be made available across the globe to international broadcasters for the eventual benefit of R.E.M fans everywhere.”



Bertis Downs, R.E.M’s Manager and advisor since their earliest days, said: “We think it is a touching and fun-filled retrospective, showing R.E.M. at their various stages of development through the eyes of BBC television viewers. Since the band has been going to the UK throughout its career, there really aren't any chapters missing, and with the early success of ACCELERATE, this programme ought to be of more than passing interest to both new and old fans of R.E.M."

Korda Marshall from Warner Bros Records said "We're obviously delighted that this great idea has finally come to fruition; the UK has always had a unique relationship with R.E.M, and some of these early live TV peformances from the band are very special, total fly-on-the-wall moments that capture just what made, and continues to make, this band so unique. In tandem with the BBC's production expertise and priceless catalogue of live footage, this will provide a superb retrospective of the band's career to date."

The full song list for Accelerate Backwards is as follows:
1. Moon River
2. Pretty Persuasion (1984)
3. Pop Song 89
4. Orange Crush (1989)
5. Losing My Religion
6. Half A World Away (1991)
7. Crush With Eyeliner (1995)
8. Man On The Moon
9. Daysleeper (1998)
10. Imitation of Life (2001)
11. So. Central Rain (2001)
12. All The Way To Reno (2001)
13. Leaving New York (2004)

bit more here

http://www.broadcast...1309200.article

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BBCW to raid archive for REM special

30 April, 2008 | By Michael Rosser
BBC Worldwide has teamed with REM to produce an intimate retrospective of the band's performances on BBC shows over the past 20 years.

The partnership is the first project to emerge from a new five-year strategy at BBCW intended to generate more money from the corporation's pop archive.

Accelerating Backwards is an hour-long look back at REM's performances on shows such as The Late Show and Top of the Pops. The collection of 13 performances also takes in their first major TV appearance in 1984 on The Old Grey Whistle Test.

Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills were filmed exclusively for the programme at the recent South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

BBCW head of content development Jon Mansfield said: “It is fantastic to be able to unlock this archive that will be made available across the globe to inter-national broadcasters.”

Edited by Sibko, 27 November 2009 - 03:54 PM.

[2headedcow]

I would love to record this.

Does anyone here in Australia have the ability to record from HD TV and then transfer to DVD?  I have a DVD hard drive recorder but is not a able to record HI Def TV.  

Will this ever be available on DVD?  :D

[surprisepig!]

Thanks for the heads up. I will have the recorder ready.

[2headedcow]

surprisepig! said:

Thanks for the heads up. I will have the recorder ready.

Hey Surprisepig.

Do you have a HD recorder and able to copy to DVD? If so, can we come to an arrangement? :D

[wagtail]

I don't think you can record to DVD in HD, can you?  Regardless, most of the source material for this is unlikely to be HD anyway.  I think the difference in quality would be pretty negligible for a program like this.

I don't have a TV, but watch it via my laptop [digi/HD] I can record it to my hard drive, but have never bothered to get the software to burn a disc from it.  

Anyhow, thanks for the heads up, robbbin..it's good to see some REM content in Oz for once.

[2headedcow]

Hi Wags

My issue is that my DVD hard drive recorder is not a digital tuner so therefore can only record the standard definition TV stations not ABC 2 which is HD.

[wagtail]

2headedcow said:

Hi Wags

My issue is that my DVD hard drive recorder is not a digital tuner so therefore can only record the standard definition TV stations not ABC 2 which is HD.

ah right, I see,  sorry I misunderstood.  I can record it, but I have a prob with the DVD drive on the laptop I run the TV through, and I can't find the bloody registration code to run it on the new laptop.  Anyway, I'll see what I can do.

[2headedcow]

wagtail said:

ah right, I see,  sorry I misunderstood.  I can record it, but I have a prob with the DVD drive on the laptop I run the TV through, and I can't find the bloody registration code to run it on the new laptop.  Anyway, I'll see what I can do.

Hope you find the registration code!  :D

I'm looking forward to sitting back with a beer and turning up the volume. :eek:

[surprisepig!]

2headedcow said:

Hi Wags

My issue is that my DVD hard drive recorder is not a digital tuner so therefore can only record the standard definition TV stations not ABC 2 which is HD.

Not that I have ever tried but I think I can record it through the foxtel signal. If it works I'll rip a copy and send it on to ya 2HC

[Tortoise]

Good to see you guys getting a slice of the cake!

Um, is there any chance that someone can upload it on Pando? Please?

[2headedcow]

Message me if you have any luck I would appreciate it.:D

[2headedcow]

2headedcow said:

Message me if you have any luck I would appreciate it.:D

This was directed at surprise pig by the way.

[Martine]

Tortoise said:

Good to see you guys getting a slice of the cake!

Um, is there any chance that someone can upload it on Pando? Please?

Sure...
http://cache.pando.c...386B2418CE16B77

Enjoy!

[halfaworldaway]

I would hope for a nice copy of Old Man Kensey from the Whistle Test, definately my favourite performance of that track.

[robbbin]

I think I had seen the footage over the years, but not the interviews. Well worth having for that rreason alone. I guess Ive heard all 3/4 of REM speak for no more than 1 hour in total in 20 years, so I like to hear them speak.

It was SDTV, 2CH Stereo, 1.5GB recording for me. Sing out if you want it.

[Sibko]

DOH I was out at the time so had my hdd recorder set to tape but my recorder clock was out so it cuts in at the start of Pretty Persuasion :(. Must see if I have a DVD of this somewhere I think I DL it and just didn't get around to watching.

[Martine]

5 people have downloaded so far...
YOU ARE WELCOME!!!!!:rolleyes:

[Coppi]

Wow this looks great. I will jump on as number 6 then.  
Thanks for sharing once again Martine.

[Tortoise]

Thank you very much Martine :D

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