Tour heats up as it winds down

The R.E.M. juggernaut keeps blasting through Europe. As the world tour starts to wind down, the band is running around the continent in high gear, playing almost nightly to sold-out and enthusiastic crowds, including the headlining slot at the Isle of Wight Festival (pictured) which more than one journalist called "stunning."

A couple of links:
• You can find a few new Bertis postcards and several pix from Messrs. Weber and Belisle on remhq.com.
• Here are a few great candid photos of Michael from the Guardian Unlimited, including one taken in his guest house here in Athens.

Some recent press:
• Michael Stipe: You ask the question (The Independent)
• REM perform Burma protest concert (BBC)

• Sheffield review (musicOMH.com)
• Glasgow Green review (The Herald)
• Glasgow review (Glasgow Evening Times)
• Manchester review (Manchester Online)
• A Mike Mills interview with The Metro (transcribed on murmurs.com)