Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and friends have announced a UK tour in celebration of R.E.M.’s ‘Fables Of The Reconstruction’.
The tour is in celebration of Michael Stipe and co’s third studio album which is turning 40 this year. Shannon and co will kick off their tour on August 19 at Manchester’s Gorilla. From there, they will make their way across the UK with stops in Glasgow, Nottingham and London. The string of dates will wrap up on August 26 at Thekla in Bristol.
General ticket sales will commence tomorrow (January 31) at 10am GMT. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase tickets.
Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and friends 2025 UK tour dates are:
AUGUST
19 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK
20 – The Garage, Glasgow, UK
22 – The Garage, London, UK
23 – The Garage, London, UK
25 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
26 – Thekla, Bristol, UK
The tour will see Shannon & Narducy as well as drummer Jon Wurster, bassist Nick Macri, guitarist Dag Juhlin and keyboardist Vijay Tellis-Nayak perform ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ in full each night as well as some of R.E.M’s biggest hits. The string of dates also sees the group take over London’s The Garage which is near Livingston Studios, where the album was originally recorded with producer Joe Boyd.
The live shows also follow the group’s previous run of dates in honour of R.E.M’s ‘Murmur’, which saw the four original members of the band reunite for the first time in 17 years at the tour’s Athens stop in the US.
Ahead of the tour, Shannon & Narducy and friends appeared as musical guests on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon where they covered R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8’.
“I had never done a tour before. Jason nudged me after the Murmur set in Chicago at Metro. Now it’s all I want to do,” Shannon said in a press release. “I’m happy this one is twice as long. The last one was too short. This music is beyond comprehension and I cherish every chance I get to deliver it, even second generation. R.E.M. means the world to me. And this band led by Jason is stone cold ridiculous. Even if I never walked onstage, you would get a hell of a show.”
Narducy added: “After Michael and I took the band on the road playing Murmur, we discussed possibly trying something again in 2025. It will be the 40th anniversary of Fables Of The Reconstruction so we will open with that album, in sequence. Then we will dig deep into the R.E.M. catalogue to round out the performance. Each show will have unique setlists. We love celebrating the music of this great band.”
In other news, Shannon alongside David Krumholtz, Kevin Corrigan and Jon Wurster played their first show as a new indie-rap group in New York last month.
Dubbed Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, the debut gig was announced by Wurster on Instagram, who referred to Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon as “an exciting musical concept” bringing “improvised #rocknrollweirdness”. He went on to invite an audience to “bathe in the hypnotic improv grooves” provided by himself, Corrigan, and Shannon, which Krumholtz freestyle rapped over.
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