R.E.M. have announced that original drummer Bill Berry will rejoin the queasy-looking band for a one-off gig this September. Berry will up sticks for the last time as REM are inducted into the Georgia Musical Hall of Fame on September 16th.
This being one of those back slapping ceremonial occasions Berry will only join his former bandmates for three songs.
The last time he played with them was almost a year ago, at the October 2005 wedding of long-time R.E.M. guitar tech Dewitt Burton.
According to Billboard, after the ceremony is complete the band will go into the studio for a year to record a new album, while a load of the material from the period when they were actually any cop will be reissued.
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