Showing posts with label Stevie Nicks 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stevie Nicks 2011. Show all posts

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Stevie Nicks Appearance in "The Union" Premieres on HBO Feb 2nd

HBO premieres "The Union" the in-depth documentary look at the memorable 2010 collaboration between Elton John and longtime idol Leon Russell.

Stevie Nicks dropped in during filming and the recording of the album:

"Stevie Nicks dropped in to tell Leon that after she and Lindsey Buckingham opened for him as part of the band Fritz in the early ’70s, “That’s when the two of us thought, ‘That’s it. We’re gonna go to LA. We’re gonna do it.”"

Via HBO

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Exciting News for Stevie Nicks Fans... YOU could be in her documentary!

"In Your Dreams" Documentary Fan Video Submission

Weapons of Mass Entertainment is looking for an additional element to compliment the nearly complete In Your Dreams Documentary... They are looking for fan submitted video clips telling Stevie what she or the album "In Your Dreams" mean to you.  This is an exciting opportunity for anyone really, but most especially Stevie's fans!  Your video, which Stevie will likely see in the selection process could be included in the documentary!  So get crackin'...and get filming...  


Deadline for fan video submissions is 
FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Full details at Stevie's official website The Nicksfix

Monday, December 19, 2011

Charts | Tour Stats - Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac

Published by @Nickslive: Check out nickslive.blogspot.com Fleetwood Mac News and Reviews 
Not much this year in the way of published tour data for Stevie Nicks.  Here are a handful of dates published for the In Your Dreams Tour... The latest two published being Sydney and Newcastle, Australia.















AUSTRALIAN ALBUM CHARTS
Australia really seems to embrace all things Fleetwood Mac!... Helps to have one of the key members of the band tour... Plus a little TV promotion can go a long way in selling albums.



Both Stevie and Fleetwood Mac remain on various charts in the country with 3 new titles re-entering the charts in the lead up to Christmas.

Australia - Top 100 Albums Chart 12/19/11
(Previous week in parenthesis)
# 38 (30) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 74 (65) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions: The Very Best Of

Australia - Top 50 Catalogue Chart 12/19/11
# 05 (02) Fleetwood Mac - The very Best Of
# 08 (10) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions: The Very Best Of
# 49 (RE) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 50 (RE) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Australia - Top 40 Music DVD Chart 12/19/11
# 34 (RE) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Photos: Stevie Nicks, Dave Stewart & Brian McFadden Wollongong

Published by @Nickslive at nickslive.blogspot.com for Fleetwood Mac News and Reviews: 

Stevie Nicks | Dave Stewart | Brian McFadden 
WIN Entertainment Centre Wollongong December 5, 2011 

Looks like a couple of wardrobe changes for both Stevie and Dave.  Stevie's red jacket on this night didn't include the long chiffon sleeves, instead she went for a gathered sleeve top similar or exactly like one she's been wearing in black. Dave in deep purple in a similar style to his yellow blackbird suit.

Photos by: shot2frame



Monday, November 21, 2011

Live Photos: Stevie Nicks | Dave Stewart | Brian McFadden - Mornington, AU 11/20/11 - by Charles Newbury

Stevie Nicks Live in Mornington 
Mornington, VIC Australia - November 20, 2011 
With Special Guests Dave Stewart and Brian McFadden 
Photos by Charles Newbury
Charles Newbury Photography Website Facebook
(Thank you Charles!)
(View each gallery by clicking the images below)
Stevie Nicks Gallery also on Flickr




Sunday, November 20, 2011

Review & Photos: Stevie Nicks Melbourne Nov 19th | by Stacie Mayer



STEVIE NICKS 
“IN YOUR DREAMS TOUR” 
AUSTRALIAN – REVIEW

by: Stacie Mayer
ModernMadusa

On Saturday November 19, 2011 Stevie Nicks kicked off her Australian tour in Melbourne. The rainy weather failed to dampen the anticipation and excitement of those at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Brian McFadden was the opening act, performing acoustic versions of a number of his hit songs. He also threw Adele’s “Someone Like You” and NSYNC’s “This I Promise You” into the mix. Forget about what you think about Brian McFadden, he is a gifted musician despite his minor role in boy band Westlife.

Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics was Stevie’s support act, and also one of the people heavily involved in producing her new album. Other than his Eurythmic songs, I was unfamiliar with Dave as a solo performer, but after last night, I am a fan. A gifted guitarist, his band of colorful characters made for an entertaining precursor to the main event.

There was only a short wait for the crew to get the stage ready for Stevie. She came out all guns blazing, belting out “Stand Back” like only she could, followed by “Secret Love”, the first single off her new album.

If only the haters could have heard Stevie perform “Secret Love” last night. Clearly, the X-Factor production quality was not up to standard that night, as she and the band were near perfection.

Stevie made it clear that this was not a Greatest Hits tour, but a tour to promote the new album. While she threw in some Fleetwood Mac classics like “Rhiannon” and “Dreams” and several of her solo hits, it was the new songs that made this concert all the more special.

Along with every new song she performed, came a story of where she got the inspiration to write them. It was actually two years ago (almost to the day) that Stevie was in Melbourne, touring with Fleetwood Mac. She went to see one of the Twilight movies at the cinema, and oddly enough that was what prompted her to write “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” and begin working on a new record.

“Soldier’s Angel”, a song from her new album, was an emotional moment of the night. Stevie told a story of how in 2005 she went to visit a military hospital to speak with the injured soldiers. She arrived there a rock star without a care in the world and left with a heavy heart after hearing all those stories. As she was leaving an emergency Medi-Vac arrived, there were doctors, nurses, and stretchers everywhere. She wrote the song “Soldier’s Angel” as a tribute to those who have fought in the war in the Middle East.

The highlight of the night for me was being there in person to see Stevie perform “Edge of Seventeen.” The percussion, drum, and guitar solos at the beginning of the song were beyond amazing.

Another special moment was Stevie and her voice coach performing “Leather and Lace.” It once was a song that was never included in her sets due to it being a duet. Their voices complimented each other nicely, and it made for a beautiful rendition of the Stevie Nicks and Don Henley original.

If you were not fortunate enough to attend her Melbourne shows, Stevie’s Live in Chicago DVD, filmed in 2008, is currently on sale at JB HiFi for $9.99; and while you’re at it, pick up a copy of her new album In Your Dreams. The DVD is a perfect reflection of the incredible live performer Stevie is, and the CD has some beautiful new songs from her.

Stevie Nicks is everything I wish I was: a singer, a performer, a poet, a writer, talented, successful, and an inspiration. I can only hope that Stevie will make the trek back to Australia sometime soon. Seeing her live once is not enough.



Sunday, November 13, 2011

Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks make huge gains on Australian Albums Charts + NEW Interview Tuesday!

Photo by JoAnn Kowalski
In the lead up to opening night of Stevie's 10 date In Your Dreams Australian tour this Saturday in Melbourne, both Best Of albums from Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks make some pretty healthy gains on both the Album Charts and the Catalogue Charts in Australia.

These increases can be credited to Stevie's being in the country promoting her new album In Your Dreams as well as her tour since the beginning of November.  She's been scheduled on multiple radio programs covering most of the nation - so the awareness that she's in Australia... That she's touring is there - Hopefully all the press she's receiving ignites interest in what she's really there for - to promote her amazing new album In Your Dreams!!

So far the national radio broadcaster ABC has aired numerous interviews with Stevie on a variety of shows covering multiple territories in Australia - with more to come I'm sure.  Today alone (Nov 14th) she appeared on Breakfast with Adam Spencer on 702 ABC Sydney + 4KQ 693AM Brisbane.

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 15TH:
Stevie's scheduled to appear on Perth's 96FM Breakfast program with Fitzi and Carmen.  The show airs from 5:30am-9:00am, so check it out if you can by streaming the program live HERE!

Also on Tuesday Stevie will be interviewed one-on-one by Melissa Doyle on Sunrise Channel 7  The show airs weekday mornings 6:00am-7:00am. The interview segment will air at 7:40am  Later Tuesday night Stevie will appear and perform on Australia's X Factor - so definitely check that out!

In the next week or so Stevie's interview with Fenella Kernebone should be on Australia's Art Nation on ABC (Date TBA).  

So it's been a busy couple of weeks for Stevie in Australia... She's working hard!

Here's the run down of the current Australian chart positions for Stevie and Fleetwood Mac


Australian Top 100 Albums Chart 11/14/11
# 29 Re-Entry Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 88 Re-Entry Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions, The Very Best Of

Australian Top 50 Cataloge Chart 11/14/11
# 2 (6) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 30 (46) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions The Very Best Of

Friday, November 11, 2011

X Factor Australia update... Plus The One That Got Away debut.

X Factor Australia are reporting that Stevie will be performing "Secret Love" on this Tuesday nights Results Show.... PLUS she will be mentoring the 4 remaining contestants.

Other performers confirmed for the night are Florence + The Machine who will be singing "Shake It Out" and Ed Sheeran who will perform "The A Team".

Also... Katy Perry's video for "The One That Got Away" will debut TODAY November 11th on the Ellen DeGeneres show... Check your local listings.  Will the full version also have a voice over narrated by Stevie Nicks?  We'll have to wait and see... Not to be... The full video does not include Stevie's voice over.  Still.  Pretty cool that she was included on the preview clip which generated almost 6 million views on Vevo.



Tuesday, November 01, 2011

HOT TIP : STEVIE NICKS WITH AN X (Factor)

"This breaking news will no doubt please Australian fans of Fleetwood Mac and their singer Stevie Nicks...

As you're well aware by now, Stevie arrives in Australia in a couple of weeks time for a swag of live dates around the country (kicking off at Melbourne's Sidney Myer Music Bowl on November 19).  BUT we've heard a little rumour this afternoon that Ms Nicks may have just been locked in for a guest appearance on a certain TV show that might have its eliminations on a Tuesday night.  Could it be true? We've heard you might want to keep Tuesday November 15 free..."

Info via auspOp & Warner Music Australia

X Factor Australia

Friday, October 28, 2011

STEVIE NICKS: Explains Fleetwood Mac Delay until 2013


Stevie Nicks has explained to us why the next round of Fleetwood Mac activity, which had been expected to take place in 2012, has been pushed back to 2013. She says she wants to continue promoting her current solo album, InYour DreamsI, through next summer, and expects to release more singles and videos from it. "I just want people to see and hear it, so I want to keep this record going until next summer."
Stevie says Lindsey Buckingham, in particular, has been supportive.

"Lindsey knows how important this record is to me, because [he] was a part of [it]. And so he said to me, 'This record is your heart. Don't feel as if you have to run back to Fleetwood Mac, because you don't."

She's also got two movie projects -- both based on old songs -- she wants to "at least get started" next year. One is a movie version of the Welsh folk tale that inspired her to write "Rhiannon," the other an animated film based on a pre-Fleetwood Mac song called "The Ladybug and the Goldfish." 

Dave Schulps
Star103FM

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Video: Stevie Nicks Shows Why She's A Reigning Queen Of Rock - @TheGRAMMYMuseum


Stevie Nicks Shows Why She's A Reigning Queen Of Rock 
CBS 2 / KCAL 9 Los Angeles
Stevie Nicks made a special appearance to benefit the Grammy Museum and Foundation. Suzanne Marques was there.  Stevie played 4 songs: Landslide, Rhiannon, Moonlight & For What It's Worth.  Rhiannon and Moonlight were on the piano.


Sunday, October 16, 2011

Monday, October 10, 2011

Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart have penned a modern classic in “Everybody Loves You"

Stevie Nicks, “Everybody Loves You”
By Davis Inman
American Songwriter


With a chorus hook that seems in equal parts inspired by the hit DNA of U2′s “One” and REM’s “Everybody Hurts,” Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart have penned a modern classic in “Everybody Loves You.”

The song comes on Stevie Nicks’ new album, In Your Dreams, produced by Dave Stewart. It seems appropriate that for Nicks’ first album in a decade, she’s chosen to tackle aspects of Fleetwood Mac’s complicated past: the romantic entanglements and revolving personnel doors that would lead to the group’s most successful work.

Fleetwood Mac began life as a Peter Green-helmed British blues rock entity, along with the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, for whom Green named the band and who would prove to be the only stable force through years of lineup changes.

By the early ‘70s, Green was out, and the band seemed to be switching guitar-playing singer-songwriters like relief pitchers in a baseball game. (1974’s Kiln House seems a clear high-water mark for the ’50s blues-meets-’70s soft rock transitional period caretaken by Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer.)

By 1975, Mick Fleetwood had moved the band to Los Angeles and was looking for a new guitarist. In a feature story, Nicks tells American Songwriter’s Lynne Margolis that “destiny” brought she and Lindsay Buckingham together.

“[Mick Fleetwood] definitely heard strains of Peter Green [in Lindsay Buckingham] and all the other famous guitar players who had been in Fleetwood Mac for the five years before that. So the fact that this big tall guy would come in and Keith Olsen would play him a song off a Buckingham-Nicks record that never really went anywhere, that two years before had opened to critical acclaim and then was dropped like a rock by Polydor—what are the chances of that? One in 20 million?”

Buckingham and Nicks would join the group and Olsen would produce the new lineup’s first album, Fleetwood Mac (their second eponymous release). The Buckingham-Nicks dynamic would help move the band into Fleetwood Mac’s golden era of ‘70s California smooth rock, which in 1977 produced Rumours, created in the midst of the power couple’s disintegration.

Stewart also headed up a famous formerly-romantic musical duo with Annie Lennox in Eurythmics, and Nicks says there was an unspoken bond between the two when working together on “Everybody Loves You.”

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

"For What It's Worth" not lookin' too good on the charts!


Stevie's latest single "For What It's Worth" isn't looking too good at the moment on the AC Charts... In it's 3rd week on the chart (Billboard Magazine issue October 15th) the single has dropped to # 29 after debuting at # 25 and dropping to # 26 the second week.  This was to be expected as there have been virtually no radio stations in the US in the month of September picking up the track for play... Too bad, it's a great track!

I'd suggest getting another single out there to radio, but at this late stage in the fall and with AC radio's slow building pattern, by the time anything begins to gain some traction it'll be Christmas and the onslot of holiday tunes on radio will be relentless... Remember what happened in the fall of 2003 when Thrown Down and Steal Your Heart Away were released from Say You Will?... Not a lot!  Both radio singles were lost in the holiday shuffle... 

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Stevie Nicks Will Be a Guest on "The Talk" CBS

This Tuesday September 13th - Stevie Nicks is scheduled to be on the CBS daytime talk show "The Talk".  Check your local CBS listings.


Great news!

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks will perform on CBS daytime’s  THE TALK,
  singing three of her signature songs on-air in 
a special live concert, 
Tuesday September 13 (2:00-3:00 PM, ET; 1:00-2:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The announcement was made on-air on THE TALK today and comes as a special surprise to host Sara Gilbert who is a longtime fan of Nicks, the Fleetwood Mac rock icon.  Upon hearing the news from co-host Sharon Osbourne, Gilbert exclaimed, “Best gift ever!  I’m almost speechless…I’m so excited, thank you so much!”  

A Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Nicks released her first solo album in 10  years in May with “In Your Dreams.” Her extraordinary career as a solo artist, songwriter, live performer and member of Fleetwood Mac is legendary. Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Nicks penned such Mac classics as "Landslide," "Dreams," "Gold Dust Woman" and "Rhiannon." As a solo artist, beginning with the five-time platinum debut "Bella Donna," her solo hits include "Edge of Seventeen," "Leather and Lace" and "Stand Back."

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

NEW DATE: Stevie Nicks Live at the Mountain Winery Oct 5th

STEVIE NICKS LIVE
Saratoga, CA
October 5, 2011
Tickets on sale Friday 10am
Ticketmaster

Onsale to General Public
Start: Fri, 09/09/10 10:00 AM PDT

Presale
Start: Wed, 09/07/11 10:00 AM PDT
End: Thu, 09/08/11 10:00 PM PDT

US $75.00 - US $250.00
US $75.00 Ticket + US $14.90 Fees = US $89.90
US $250.00 Ticket + US $26.00 Fees = US $276.00


Monday, September 05, 2011

The Panics To Back Eurythmics Founder Dave Stewart


Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart has handpicked The Panics to be his backing band on an upcoming stadium tour with Stevie Nicks and former boy band member Brian McFadden. The Panics will play nine shows with Stewart: 

November 19 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne
November 20 at Mornington Racecourse in Melbourne
November 23 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre
November 26 at Perth’s NIB Stadium
November 29 at Sydney Entertainment Centre
November 30 at Newcastle Entertainment Centre
December 3 at Brisbane Riverstage
December 5 at Wollongong WIN Entertainment Centre
December 7 at Canberra’s AIS Arena.

Full Story at Messandnoise.com

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Photos: Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago August 23, 2011

Stevie Nicks Live in Chicago 
August 23, 2011
Photos by Erin Brown


The full on white dress re-appeared in Chicago.
Great shots!!

70 Photos - Toledo, Ohio August 19th

Stevie Nicks Live in Toledo, OH 
August 19, 2011 
Photos by Kelly Stallings 

Really great shots of Stevie and the band.  Love the colours!