AVAILABLE OCTOBER 27th, 2009

“R.E.M. Live At The Olympia,” is a two-CD set featuring 39 songs from their acclaimed 2007 working rehearsals in Dublin, Ireland. R.E.M. set up camp at the venerable Olympia Theatre in Ireland’s capital city and tested new material over five nights before passionate, capacity crowds. This live album was produced by Dublin native Jacknife Lee who, along with R.E.M., co-produced Accelerate, the album which emerged from these shows. “Live At The Olympia” gives fans an opportunity to hear those songs at their earliest stages of development. In addition to the new material, the band also served up twenty-nine other songs, spanning their entire career, all of which can be found on this album.

A special edition 2 CD & DVD set will contain a film of the Dublin shows by Vincent Moon and Jeremiah, who previously worked with R.E.M. on Ninetynights, Six Days and the Supernatural Superserious Video.

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MIKE AND MICHAEL TALK ABOUT LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA TODAY (OCT. 25TH)

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Mike will host Xfm's "Live Hour" tonight at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday (UK time). He'll be playing tracks from LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA.

Michael, in the meantime, will be on NPR's "All Things Considered" where he'll be discussing LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA with host Weekend Edition host Guy Raz. Tune in for their conversation today at 5:45 p.m. ET and stop by NPR now for a PREVIEW.

Also, if you're in Athens, don't forget about the Listening Party at the Rialto Room at Hotel Indigo tomorrow night at 6 p.m. Tickets are going fast, so you may want to reserve yours now at athensmusic.net.

WATCH THIS IS NOT A SHOW HD TRAILER

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Click here for a special preview of the High Definition video download which accompanies the HD Digital bundle of R.E.M. Live at the Olympia.

To save to your desktop, right click and choose "Save Link As"

This download weighs it at around 70 megs, for one minute! The full download is over four gigabytes.

The video is straight from the digital master, compressed at 10 megabits per second bitrate in glorious 1080P High Definition Quicktime.

This exceeds the HD download resolution available on iTunes, and even DirectTV and cable. It's equal to that of BluRay.

The package also contains the entire album in digital master FLAC files.

EUROPEAN SPOTIFY USERS: PICK YOUR ULTIMATE PLAYLIST AND WIN

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To celebrate the release of LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA, the band has teamed up with ShareMyPlaylist.com and Spotify to give away an exclusive piece of signed artwork.

To enter and to have a chance at winning, all you need to do is upload your dream R.E.M. setlist as a Spotify playlist on the R.E.M. Channel at ShareMyPlaylist.com with a brief description why, by Monday, November 9th. Then, one lucky winner will be chosen by leading music journalist and self-confessed R.E.M. fanatic Eamonn Forde.

Maybe it's the setlist from your favorite R.E.M. show, or one you hope the guys will play in the future. Or maybe it's just your favorites. The only rules are that you keep your playlist to 90 minutes long.

NPR.ORG HOSTS LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA "FIRST LISTEN"

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With the release date of LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA just under a week away (Oct. 27th), we are pleased to announce that NPR.org is hosting an exclusive "First Listen" of the entire 39-song record beginning today. Visit npr.org now and have a listen...

NEW THIS IS NOT A SHOW TRAILER POSTED IN VIDEOS

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Check out the new trailer for This Is Not A Show in videos: http://www.remdublin.com/media/videos