16. Aug. 2008.
21.30.
Budapest Sziget Festival Main Stage
Óbudai Island
R.E.M. from Athens,Georgia are one of the most definitive bands of the past twenty-five years, the intellectual key-rockgroup to the eighties, nineties and noughties. The music of the threesome and the session-instrumentalists (foursome until 1997 when drummer Bill Berry retired on account of health problems) is a compelling unity of classic American-rock, folk-rock, art-rock, art-punk along with captivating sensitivity and power. But then of course all these definitions are plain redundant considering that it’s Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck who have been defining their own style for many years now. R.E.M. is the definition itself, and it’s others who have to live up to the comparison with them. It seems unfair to highlight one or other piece of their unbelievably high-standard set of albums, but if it is still necessary Document, Green, Out Of Time, Automatic For The People and Monster are forever compulsory listen beyond doubt. Their new album Accelerate came out on 1st April and it is their most hard-rocking material in years.
Daily ticket: HUF 8000