The duo will tour the band’s LP Fables Of The Reconstruction starting next month
Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase a dynamic cover of R.E.M.‘s 1985 song “Driver 8.” The performance previews the duo’s forthcoming tour that will showcase the rock band’s third studio LP, Fables Of The Reconstruction.
Shannon and Narducy previously toured R.E.M.’s iconic debut album, Murmur, in full. The trek attracted guests like Kurt Vile and R.E.M.’s Mike Mills. During their show in Athens, Georgia, last February, the four members of R.E.M. reunited on stage, with Mills, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Bill Berry joining the musicians for the performance.
The Fables Of The Reconstruction tour will kick off on Feb. 14 at Pappy & Harriets in Pioneertown, California, and include stops in cities like Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia before wrapping on March 14 in Chicago. It will notably feature two performance at Athens venue 40 Watt.
“I had never done a tour before,” Shannon noted in a statement when the tour was announced. “Jason nudged me after the Murmur set in Chicago at Metro. Now it’s all I want to do. 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.”
Although Shannon is best known for his acting career, with a recent role in The Bikeriders, he is also a working musician. Last month, he debuted a new musical concept — dubbed Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon — with David Krumholtz and Kevin Corrigan at New York’s Berlin Under A. It’s unclear if UAP’s gig was a one-off collaboration or the first of a continued collaboration between the artists involved.
