R.E.M.
18 May 1989
Newport Leisure Center,
Newport,Wales

Disc one:
01.Pop Song 89  
02.These Days
03.Disturbance At The Heron House  
04.Turn You Inside-Out
05.I Remember California  
06.Orange Crush  
07.Driver 8
08.Feeling Gravitys Pull  
09.Swan Swan H
10.World Leader Pretend  

disc two:
01.Begin The Begin
02.Underneath The Bunker
03.Pretty Persuasion
04.Get Up
05.Auctioneer (Another Engine)  
06.It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
encore 1:
07.Stand  
08.Crazy
09.You Are The Everything
encore 2:
10.Harpers
11.Let's Stay Together/Summertime
12.Finest Worksong  
13.Perfect Circle
14.After Hours

Stipe before:
-Orange crush: This song may as well be about freedom.
-Begin The Begin: (fan yelling requests) Don't yell at me because I'm not going to listen.
-Underneath The Bunker: A wordy monologur that has Micheal touching on a multitude of subjects, and seemingly having a hard time keeping a train of thought.  In other words, Micheal talking as usual:  ?? has psychic abilities beyond any of your capacity for understanding.  This next song is another song about war, but this is not a civil war, this is not a ??.  God, I forget the name of those dinky little Central American countries, but they're small and they're utterly battered except they got bananas and coffee of course.  This is a song about small--well we call them holes in Georgia.  You know, you dig them in the ground.  You know we have urinals.  (someone yells 'get on with it!') You don't have to endure this pal, if you don't like it you can boost (cheering).  As I was saying--actually I'll just tell a short little parable here.  Go ahead and and get a drink or something.  Non-alcoholic of course.  We only drink bottled water.  You never know where your water is coming from (PB starts playing his guitar at this point).  We have nuclear reactors too you know.  On one of those lines, there is a man named Mr. Miller.  He makes ??.  I'm sure you've seen them on film if you follow our history.  These giant things that have tin and they look like animals, and they move around.  Well he has it built on a hill where he has lived for ? years.  He has had 27 occupations including preacher and healer of people who had, what was called during the Cilvil War, Thrash.  It's called Thush, but Mr. Miller calls it Thrash.  Anyway, he has this hole digged (yes, he said digged) into the side of this hillbecause his wife is terrified of tornados.  (something happens here ?) Excuse me.  The singer's life is not the life to lead.  He has this hole dug into the side of the hill because his wife is scared to death of tornados.  So everytime there is a tornado, there is this guy named Neddy.  Neddy will holler.  Now, you've heard Jed Clampett kind of Beverly Hills version of this: (Micheal yodels).  When Neddy starts hollering, Mrs. Miller goes tearing into the side of the hill and she satys there until Neddy hollers again, and that means the tornado has passed and you can come out.  But during the war--remember Heron House?  Remember chaos?  This guy had all these holes dug.  They were called bunkers, and this is a song, along the lines of maybe three Fosfinder films.  You'll hear an explosion at the end of the song.  I'd like for you all to just stay where you are and not fear for your lives.  This is a song about those small holes--bunkers as they're called.  And yes, there is a quanitatve amount of bullshit in all of this.
-Perfect Circle:  another lengthy monologue.  Micheal does the rhubarb bit, but it doesn't go to well.  Finally, shouting interrupts the 'experiment', and Micheal says 'OK, now all you frat boys shut up.  Is there a US Military base around here?...Peter, wake up!'

Quality Issues:
-tape distortion throughout d1t01
-obvious edit between sets
-Finest Worksong starts out very muffled
-Perfect Circle played live for the 48th time
-grade C

Notes:
-Driver 8 first verse: 'The walls are lined up, stone by stone.'
-Stony River performed before Swan Swan H