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[Mottje t.H.]

[I've been thinking about a poll-possibility for a long time... ;-)]

When was your 1st R.E.M.-gig?

Another memorable day: 15 years after seeing them for the 1st time.
I noticed R.E.M. first in 1991 and was waiting until 1995 to see the band live in Germany. But then I had to give back my 1st R.E.M.-ticket, because the band had to delay their gigs to summer.

So it got to be July, 9th, 1995.
Spending the morning at the lake, the day was going to get hotter and hotter in Dueren near Cologne, next to that lake.
We had Belly, Oasis and the Cranberries (who were great) and finally R.E.M..

Mike was brought to hospital afterwards. The announced radiobroadcast was prohibited later.
I took the feeling home that they could do better. “I have to see them again … soon!”, I thought and went to Berlin in August…
The beginning of … several more concertvisits…

My analoge wide-angle photos looked like that:

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Edited by Mottje t.H., 09 July 2010 - 11:25 AM.

[fanfan]

Same here, Düren 1995 was the first time I saw R.E.M. :)

Honestly I remember more about the long journey in traffic jams than about the show. We were standing far away from the stage and it was hard to see anything except for the videos on the stage.

[Shadrach Dingle]

July 25th 1995 @ Huddersfield

[Pilgrim Tick]

Glastonbury Festival (Friday night)- June 25th, 1999

[TOOMPEA]

Rome, 22/2/95
the famous night with 2 black outs. the first during Kenneth [opening song]. the second one during Man On The Moon. i was 13 at that time. it was my very first gig
it was 15 years ago, more than half of my life spent since then following REM all around Europe

[RamblingRob]

Nov 1985 here.

[Leilani]

March 2005.  Would have been sooner, but moving to the far side of the world in 1998 kind of put the brakes on seeing them sooner!

[zveozdi]

January 17th, 2001. Not only was my first gig, it was also theirs in Argentina.

[Stoffel]

july 4th 1999, and the rain poured down. best gig ever.

[luc]

June 10th 2005@Olympic Stadium, Rome
it was the first time I saw R.E.M, I was 17! :)

[musicbrain_5]

May 17th, 2001 in Toronto.  A free outdoor show outside the Hard Rock Cafe at the corner of Yonge & Dundas Streets.  It was 4 days before my 11th birthday and I was out shopping with my parents!  We managed to find a good spot in the crowd to see the show, fairly close to the front.  It started raining a bit too!  There's some video of this concert online:

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[Kelly A]

RamblingRob said:

Nov 1985 here.

Wow, that's cool.

We were hoping they would open for the Police in Phoenix in 1983, but we got the Thompson Twins instead. Then we missed the Green tour in 1989 because our first child had been born just a few days earlier. We finally got to see them in 1995 after the Monster tour was rescheduled.

[Lissy24]

My first R.E.M. concert was this one:

4 July 2003 - Waldbuhne, Berlin, Germany
support: Feeder
set: Finest Worksong / What's The Frequency, Kenneth? / Imitation Of Life / Have You Ever Seen The Rain? [snippet] / Drive / Animal / The Great Beyond / Maps And Legends / Bad Day / The One I Love / Country Feedback / Fall On Me / Losing My Religion / Electrolite / I Believe / Find The River / So Fast So Numb / Man On The Moon / Walk Unafraid
encore: Everybody Hurts / She Just Wants To Be / Exhuming McCarthy / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

[mandolinbryn]

St. Louis, MO
Oct. 19, 2004

[unclejel]

Hammersmith 2005. It was magical!

[kohoutekdriver8]

November 1985, Ames, Iowa.

All I remember about the show is that they performed with the stage mostly blacked out, and it was the most wasted crowd I have ever seen at any concert I have ever attended.  Other people who were there told me the same thing.

[scrapkook]

August, 1999 at Midway Stadium in St. Paul.  :) With my dad.  :D

[Martine]

I had tickets for a show in 95 but in the end it took me 13 more years....

[afte4hou4s]

this poll seems to be biased against 1995...

:rolleyes::p

[e-botti]

Dall'Ara Stadium, Bologna, Italy July 11, 1999.

see this!


I was 15 and this was my first gig ever...