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Michael Stipe of the rock group REM performs during the Live 8 Concert in Hyde Park in London, England July 2, 2005. The concert, held simultaneously in many cities around the world including Paris, Berlin, Philadelphia and Rome, is intended to call attention to world poverty ahead of next week's G8 meeting in Scotland. (UPI Photo/David Silpa) 
Published: Aug. 24, 2009 at 9:02 PM

DUBLIN, Ireland, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. rock band REM has announced plans to release a two-CD set featuring live rehearsals recorded at Dublin's Olympia club in 2007, the BBC said.

"REM Live at the Olympia" is scheduled for release Oct. 26.

The BBC said the set will include more than three dozen tracks from the group's five-day stint at the club, where they tried out new material for their 2008 album "Accelerate."

"Every second we were playing something we didn't know all that well," the BBC quoted guitarist Peter Buck as saying, "which was kind of good -- there were all kinds of terror elements going on during that show."

Topics: Peter Buck
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