Live at The Olympia is a live album by American alternative rock band R.E.M.. It is a recording of five-night residency the band held at Dublin, Ireland's Olympia Theatre between June 30 and July 5, 2007, and was released on October 27, 2009. In this series of "working rehearsals" many songs on Accelerate were debuted, with many of them still as works in progress. The album was released on two-Compact Discs alongside a DVD of the performance entitled This Is Not a Show directed by Vincent Moon....
Live at The Olympia is a live album by American alternative rock band R.E.M.. It is a recording of five-night residency the band held at Dublin, Ireland's Olympia Theatre between June 30 and July 5, 2007, and was released on October 27, 2009. In this series of "working rehearsals" many songs on Accelerate were debuted, with many of them still as works in progress. The album was released on two-Compact Discs alongside a DVD of the performance entitled This Is Not a Show directed by Vincent Moon.
A digital EP containing songs from the album, Reckoning Songs from The Olympia, was released on July 7, 2009, through the iTunes Store and other distributors. It contains "Harborcoat", "Letter Never Sent", "Second Guessing", and "Pretty Persuasion", songs found on the band's 1984 studio album Reckoning, hence the title.
To promote the album, R.E.M.'s Dublin website released full streaming clips of "Driver 8", "I've Been High", and "Harborcoat", along with videos for "Living Well Is the Best Revenge" and clips from the Reckoning EP. The video for "Drive" was available on R.E.M.'s Myspace page. On October 22, 2009, National Public Radio began streaming the entire album for free. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
