Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy and friends to tour R.E.M.’s ‘Lifes Rich Pageant’ in 2026

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R.E.M.’s ‘Lifes Rich Pageant’.The tour marks the 40th anniversary of Michael Stipe and co’s 1986 fourth studio album and follows Shannon and Narducy touring the band’s ‘Murmer’ in 2024 and ‘Fables of the Reconstruction’ this year.

The UK leg of the latter is set to kick off on August 19 in Manchester, before making stops in Glasgow, Nottingham, Bristol and London.

You can purchase tickets here.Now, Shannon has revealed that they’ll be heading on the road once again in 2026, though no further details have currently been announced.He shared the news on Monday night (March 17) during an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The actor wore a ‘Monster’ t-shirt, paying homage to R.E.M.’s 1994 album. Fallon told Shannon that was his favourite of the band’s LP’s, and tried to persuade him to tour that one too, to which he responded: “That would be quite a few years we’d have to keep this going.”Their 2025 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.In a press release, Narducy said: “After Michael and I took the band on the road playing Murmur, we discussed possibly trying something again in 2025.