Submission Guidelines For ‘R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 Concert At Madison Square Garden’ Magazine
By: Christopher Shelley
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Submission Guidelines For ‘R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 Concert At Madison Square Garden’ Magazine

Submissions must be unique and well organized, just like the band’s setlist on June 23, 1995 at Madison Square Garden.

Illustration by Louis Sobol

Here at ‘R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 Concert At Madison Square Garden’ Magazine, we publish articles about R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 concert at Madison Square Garden.

Non-Fiction Only

Please keep your submissions light and family-friendly, no vulgarity, no advertising, no lists, no fiction. We accept only real, non-fiction, first-hand recounting of your life experiences as they pertain to R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 concert at Madison Square Garden.

Desired Topics

We are interested in any and all minutiae about the concert itself, from the first chords of ‘I Took Your Name’ to the final frenzy of ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’.

We want to know:

How you felt the moment you woke up alone the morning of June 23, 1995 and thought, ‘I’m going to an R.E.M. concert tonight. At Madison Square Garden.’

Whether you carried your ticket in your wallet, your pocket, or a money belt hidden under your tour shirt.

Which tour shirt you wore to the concert and which one you bought at the concert.

When your concert neighbor asked you not to sing along so loudly during ‘Losing My Religion,’ if you punched him in the face and kept singing along as loudly as you goddamned pleased, like I did.

If you studied Michael Stipe’s dance moves so you could replicate them at the next wedding you attended.

When the concert ended, whether you cried or sobbed.

Among the many guests at the after-party was MTV News personality and pixie goddess Tabitha Soren: if you had summoned up the courage to talk to her at the party, do you think she would have married you instead of Moneyball author Michael Lewis?

If you shook Mike Mills’ hand at the after-party like I did, how would you describe the rush of validity? Was it like a thousand cosmic endorphins sliding into your wrist, or like a million megawatts of most heavenly-blessed karma flooding into your palm? Has your life never been the same since? Did it give you the confidence to begin a magazine all about the Friday, June 23, 1995 R.E.M. concert at Madison Square Garden?

When Michael Stipe didn’t show up at the after-party, did the sour disappointment of missed opportunity poison your world view until you found the right medication?

Have you had kids since the concert? Have your kids seen a recording of R.E.M.’s Friday, June 23, 1995 concert at Madison Square Garden?

I swear I’ve moved on, but If I had had a son with Tabitha Soren, should we have named him Michael, Mike, Bill, or Peter? Same question if it was a daughter.

We LOVE think-pieces inspired by specific songs R.E.M. performed live in concert on Friday, June 23, 1995 at Madison Square Garden. Past pieces explored questions as diverse as:

Do you know anybody who never hurts?

Will we ever have a woman on the moon?

Have you ever attacked Dan Rather?

Less Desired Topics

Topics inspired by R.E.M.’s Thursday, June 22, 1995 concert at Madison Square Garden or R.E.M.’s Saturday, June 24, 1995 concert at Madison Square Garden, while potentially fascinating, are not suitable for this magazine. For those topics, please consider our other magazines which pertain directly to those two concerts.

Word Count

Ideally, your piece will be 40 words to 9,000 words long, which would be 1.6 to 360 words for each song R.E.M. performed on Friday, June 23, 1995 at Madison Square Garden.

Grammar

Please proof your work. I am the entire single-and-looking editorial staff.

Artwork

We accept artistic and photographic work if your name is Michael Stipe.

Love, Not Hate

The purpose of your piece cannot be to spread hate, disparage, elicit outrage, or otherwise cause harm. We spread love — specifically, love inspired by the Friday, June 23, 1995 R.E.M. concert at Madison Square Garden.

We’re looking for pieces that make a cogent point about the Friday, June 23 R.E.M. concert at Madison Square Garden, whether you are writing about Mike Mills’ country-glam suit, how many times Peter Buck spun to his left, the weight of Bill Berry’s eyebrows, or how many times Michael Stipe stood on top of a monitor speaker so he could see me better.

Send all submissions via email to REM62395@gmail.com. Put the word ‘Submission’ in the subject line. We try to get back to people within three days, the number of days R.E.M. played Madison Square Garden in June of 1995.

Submissions must be unique and well organized, like the band’s setlist and Tabitha Soren’s outfit at the after-party on Friday, June 23, 1995 at Madison Square Garden!

Good luck! We look forward to reading your submission.