The last time I saw R.E.M. was in Lansdowne Road in 1999 with about 70,000 people. Tonight was Brixton Acadmeny with just 4,000 people and me right up the front. It was suffice it to say awesome.

The setlist was:

1. Finest Worksong
2. What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
3. Welcome to the Occupation
4. Animal
5. Reno
6. Daysleeper
7. The Great Beyond
8. She Just Wants to Be
9. Begin the Begin
10. These Days
11. Fall on Me
12. Cuyahoga
13. I Believe
14. Losing My Religion
15. Bad Day
16. So Fast so Numb
17. Imitation of Life
18. Walk Unafraid
19. Man on the Moon

Encore:

20. Everybody Hurts
21. Final Straw
22. Carnival of Sorts
23. It’s the End of the World as We Know It.

I’m gone to Glastonbury. I’m back in London late on Monday. I shall spend most of the evening in the shower.