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To celebrate the release of R.E.M.'s 'Live At The Olympia' 39 track album we're giving-away an ultra-exclusive piece of signed artwork.

To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is upload your dream R.E.M. setlist as a playlist to the R.E.M. channel. 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 favourite R.E.M. show, or one you hope they play in the future, or tracks you've never heard them play live before. Or maybe it's just your favourites. Upload your ultimate 90 minute playlist to the R.E.M. channel with a brief description of why you've chosen it before Monday 9th November. To enter, simply select "R.E.M." from the genre selection box when uploading your playlist and we'll publish all the eligible entries on this page.

New Release R.E.M. Live At The Olympia.

Double CD featuring 39 tracks from the band's July 2007 five-night stand at Dublin's Olympia Theatre. Listen to an EP on Spotify now.

Live At The Olympia ventures back to July 2007 when R.E.M. set up camp at the venerable Olympia Theatre in Ireland's capital city and tested new material over five nights before fired-up, capacity crowds comprised of fan-club members, friends, family, and fans from all over the world who were privy to R.E.M.'s so-called "experiment in terror," as guitarist Peter Buck puts it. "We were just trying to do something we hadn't done before," Buck says, "which meant there was no relaxing during the set. Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well. Which was kind of good - there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show."

Live At The Olympia gives fans that were unable to attend the Irish shows a chance to hear different incarnations of the songs before they were recorded in their final Accelerate versions, such the singles "Man-Sized Wreath" and an early version of "Supernatural Superserious" under its original title "Disguised." As a bonus, the band has included two songs; "On The Fly" and "Staring Down The Barrel Of The Middle Distance," that were only performed live and were not included on Accelerate. In addition, the package features many early R.E.M. favorites from the band's albums Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, and Life's Rich Pageant.