29-07-2003

Hi R.E.M. fans!!

This is my first e-mail to all the people who want to be on the REM 2004 maillist. So far 50 people exactly in only a little over two weeks time, from countries from all over the world. It's incredible really. I'm expecting many more people on the list in the coming months. However, if everything goes ahead, we will still go only with 1 bus. I have no idea how to organize this for like a 100 people, 50 people will be tough enough as it is :)

So, let me bring you up-to-date on the latest news. Where in the beginning the tour was said to be in summer 2004, and it wasn't sure yet, I have no heard from multiple sources (such as Peter Buck) that the tour will definitely be in 2004, but most likely in autumn. Perhaps end of summer. I'm eagerly awaiting more news on that. But that will take some time I guess. How long exactly we will go depends on the tour schedule I guess. Maybe 3 weeks is better then 4, since it will be hard for a lot of people to take so long off from work or school. We'll see...

I also spoke to Bertis Downs, REM's tourmanager, and I gave him a paper with the information on the tourplan as well, with the question added to it if there's anything REM can do for us. He has my details, so you never know :)

And now we just have to wait I guess... it will take time before the new tour is announced, they aren't even ready with the tour from this year anyway :)

So I can only finish now with some perhaps interesting links. I've seen R.E.M. 6 times this tour, in Tivoli Utrecht (NL) , Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam (NL), Rock Werchter Belgium, Wiesbaden Germany, Vienne France and Paleo festival in Nyon Switzerland. I've written reviews on all of these concerts. Maybe fun to read:

(look for postings from locuta, that's me)

Tivoli: here
Heineken Music Hall: here
Werchter: here
Wiesbaden: here
Vienne: here
Nyon: here

Photos from Vienne (pretty up close I'd say): here

That's all for now, if anyone can help me -by the way- in getting to some concerts in the USA.... I'm interested :)

Kirsten

p.s. Argh, I'm forgetting something!!! I will set up a special website for the 2004 tour. On it I'd like to put information in general, and also names and e-mailaddresses from people who are interested in coming. It will be similar to this site and gives you the chance to get to know other people who might come and exchange information.

And I will start making it euh... right now... :)
So if you want to be on the site, please e-mail me the following:

- First Name
- Last Name
- City
- Country
- E-mailaddress
- A short story about who you are
- And a photo, if you have one...

As soon as the site is on the way, I will e-mail you again.

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