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Fleetwood Mac Experience
Live in Winnipeg
May 12, 2013
by Gordon Sinclair Jr.
Winnipeg Free Press (full article on-line)
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
INTERVIEW: Lindsey Buckingham on new Fleetwood Mac Album, Co-Writing w/ Stevie Nicks + Australia
Great interview with Lindsey... Lots of information to dig into!
- Lindsey acknowledges that to get a new Fleetwood Mac album together, Stevie needs to bring some written material of her own to the table.... OR take some of what Lindsey has in raw form (music) and he suggests they do some co-writing together on the songs.
- He talks about the potential to do more touring after the first of the year (2014) whether a new album accompanies it or not... and there's the potential that another EP could be released if a full album doesn't work out. He also mentions that the 2014 touring would would happen after they get back from Australia... So basically that kind of confirms Australia will happen before the end of this year.
- Would still love if Christine came up on stage for "Don't Stop" in the UK, or anything she would like to do... (This will likely happen).
Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham on his 'mythology' with Stevie Nicks
What is holding up a new album and the latest on Christine McVie
by: Melinda Newman
HitFix
Fleetwood Mac is having tremendous success on its current sold-out tour. The band is playing its classic hits with verve and enthusiasm, plus, since the recent release of 4-song EP, "Extended Play," the quartet has new material to sink its teeth into. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham spoke to HitFix about the current state of Fleetwood Mac, the delight he takes in his still dynamic connection to Stevie Nicks, the latest on a full album from the band, and if Christine McVie will join her former band mates when they play London in the fall.
I saw the band two weekends ago at Jazz Fest in New Orleans and it seemed like you were on fire. The band was playing in daylight without any of the bells and whistles of an indoor arena show and no one missed them at all.
There’s a lesson there. We’ve all come to feel that we need to rely on the constructions of quite elaborate set design and the backdrop that changes from song to song and, really, this band, because we are a band of musicians and a great singer, we could go up there and with a couple of spotlights prevail probably just as well. It should be about the music first and, of course, with us, it is.
“Extended Play,” a four-song EP with your first new music in 10 years, came out on April 30 and landed in iTunes top 10. How gratifying was it that people were so eager to hear new music?
I haven’t paid too much attention to how things are going with it because, really, Mick [Fleetwood] and John [McVie] and I got together last year and we cut a bunch of tracks and then Stevie came to the table later. Even early on, Mick and John and I felt that the songs that we were doing were some of the best stuff we’d done in quite a while.
I am also happy with what it represents with the subject matter. The dialogues to Stevie that are, miraculously, still going on back and forth between Stevie and myself after all these years, I find that to be quite touching and somewhat surprising— something that neither one of us would have predicted years and years ago that we’d still somehow be driving each other’s motivation from a distance, and so I’m very happy with the way the EP turned out and it’s great to be doing some new things on stage.
You wrote one of the new songs, “Sad Angel,” for Stevie. What was her reaction when she first heard it?
Sunday, May 12, 2013
REVIEW | PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Winnipeg 5/12/13
Fleetwood Mac fans never stop believing
By: Randal King
Winnipeg Free Press
"You would think after all this time, there would be nothing left to discover ... "
So said singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham to the 11,500 people who constituted a nearly sold-out crowd at the Fleetwood Mac concert Sunday night at the MTS Centre.
The song Dreams saw Nicks take her place, dressed dramatically in black with her de rigueur scarf. These days, Nicks avoids the higher notes so easily scaled in her youth, though it retains its inimitable single-malt texture. (No robotic Cher-esque auto-tuning for 64-year old Nicks. Respect.)
They quickly returned to one familiar hit — Rhiannon — before the leather jacket-clad Buckingham returned to offer his own kind of guided tour to the band’s history recalling their effort to deviate from the expected. This of course was by way of introduction to songs from their experimental 1979 concept album, Tusk, including the punk-flavoured Not That Funny and the epic Tusk (alas, the only marching band was on the video screen, unlike past performances of that song). Nicks unleashed her pagan self with Sisters of the Moon, and followed with her comparatively plaintive ballad Sara.
By: Randal King
Winnipeg Free Press
"You would think after all this time, there would be nothing left to discover ... "
So said singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham to the 11,500 people who constituted a nearly sold-out crowd at the Fleetwood Mac concert Sunday night at the MTS Centre.
Buckingham suggested more discovery was imminent, with some justification. Fleetwood Mac is a band that evolved more than most, starting in 1967 as a raw blues entity, and morphing into a sophisticated pop sound in the early ’70s.
All that was before the Fleetwood Mac everyone knows — the incarnation of their monumental 1977 hit album Rumours. Of that lineup at the MTS Centre: original drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie, singer/guitarist Buckingham, and ephemeral singer Stevie Nicks. (No Christine McVie on this tour, which means most McVie-penned tunes were also absent.) The band was rounded out by two backup vocalists. The question of their continuing evolution was not a big concern for the baby boomer majority at the MTS Centre Sunday evening who would have been cheerfully resigned to be stuck in the ’70s, if it meant all Rumours all the time on Mac’s impressive two hour plus set list, without intermission.
At 8:20 p.m., the band seemed to deliver on that promise, starting off with Second Hand News, the first track on that venerable 45 million-seller. Next song: The Chain (first song on Side Two), a song that demonstrates Fleetwood’s driving drum style.
Preventing the song Second Hand News from being prophetic, Buckingham introduced a new song, Sad Angel, from their newly-released four-song EP Extended Play, which elicited cheers (to Buckingham’s evident delight), largely on the power of the virtuoso guitarist’s close-enough-to-classic riffs.
They quickly returned to one familiar hit — Rhiannon — before the leather jacket-clad Buckingham returned to offer his own kind of guided tour to the band’s history recalling their effort to deviate from the expected. This of course was by way of introduction to songs from their experimental 1979 concept album, Tusk, including the punk-flavoured Not That Funny and the epic Tusk (alas, the only marching band was on the video screen, unlike past performances of that song). Nicks unleashed her pagan self with Sisters of the Moon, and followed with her comparatively plaintive ballad Sara.
Buckingham went solo and acoustic for Big Love from the 1987 Tango in the Night, demonstrating his astonishing fretwork. Nicks drolly dedicated Landslide (from the 1975 album Fleetwood Mac) to the Winnipeg audience, courtesy of the line "snow-covered hills," but scored a curiously timed cheer for the lyric "I’m getting older too."
Call it an acknowledgement of the inevitable, but the band demonstrated a potent case for not going quietly, with energetic and fully engaged performances of Gold Dust Woman and Stand Back, climaxing with (back to Rumours) Go Your Own Way.
The crowd wasn’t taking the hint, cheering the band back for an encore including World Turning (featuring a Mick Fleetwood drum solo that didn’t seem gratuitous) and a climactic performance of Don’t Stop, which had the audience on its feet and singing along.
A second encore included a song with a history: Silver Springs was a Nicks tune intended for Rumours that ended up as a B-side for Go Your Own Way. After the last song of the evening, the downbeat confessional Say Goodbye, the audience took the hint, but left inspired.
We are, after all, getting older too.
GYPSY
TUSK
RHIANNON
GO YOUR OWN WAY
FAN PHOTOS (click the link below)
GYPSY
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Fleetwood Mac Dig Deep: Lindsey Buckingham Breaks Down The Hits, Rarities and New Tunes
Rolling Stone Magazine - May 23, 2013
(with The Rolling Stones on the cover).
It's been exactly a decade since Fleetwood Mac released an album, but that hasn't stopped a new generation of fans from discovering the band. "We're ding the best business we've done in 20 years!" says guitarist Lindsey buckingham, a few hours before the Tulsa, Oklahoma, stop on the Mac's latest world tour. "There's been a lot more young people in the crowd than three years ago. Maybe it's a generational thing." Buckingham called from his Tulsa hotel room to explain how they're choosing the set lists for this tour - mixing up the hits with plenty of deep cuts and tunes frm their new EP, Extended Play. - Andy Greene
Fleetwood Mac Return To The Concert Stage This Sunday in Canada
FLEETWOOD MAC IN CANADA
After a week long break from their current 2013 World Tour, Fleetwood Mac are set to land in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada at MTS Centre on Sunday May 12th for their 3rd Canadian date of the tour. Previous Canadian dates were Toronto and Ottawa in mid-April.
The next week through next Sunday will be dedicated to entertaining Canadian fans across western Canada with dates scheduled in Saskatoon Tuesday, May 14th, Edmonton May 15th, Calgary May 17th and Vancouver May 19th. The 8th and final Canadian date doesn't take place until June when they hit Montreal on June 18th.
A few tickets left for each show at Ticketmaster.
STEVIE NICKS "IN YOUR DREAMS"
Mother's Day 2 For 1:
On Sunday in Edmonton... Bring someone's mother and they get in FREE!
The new documentary from Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart titled "In Your Dreams" chronicling the making of Stevie's last solo album "In Your Dreams" follows the Fleetwood Mac tour across Canada with it's first theatre screenings coming up in Edmonton on Sunday, May 12th at Metro Cinema, with Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, and Vancouver to follow. Tickets available at the box office, or in advance if available. Complete list of Canadian screenings listed below.
Mother's Day 2 For 1:
On Sunday in Edmonton... Bring someone's mother and they get in FREE!
Friday, May 10, 2013
via @billboard Fleetwood Mac: Releasing More New Songs a 'Matter of How and When'
Fleetwood Mac: Releasing More New Songs a 'Matter of How
and When'
by Gary Graff, Billboard
by Gary Graff, Billboard
Lindsey Buckingham says the group has five more unreleased tracks. "The whole thing is just kind of wide open now, and it really is tantalizing to be able to put together just a few things, three or four songs on an EP"
Lindsey Buckingham says there's more where Fleetwood Mac's new "Extended Play" came from.
Buckingham tells Billboard that he, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie "cut eight songs" with producer Mitchell Froom last year after Fleetwood Mac decided it would be touring this year. Three of those -- "Sad Angel," "It Takes Time" and "Miss Fantasy" -- are part of the "Extended Play" digital release that came out May 6, joined by "Without You," resurrected by Stevie Nicks from the Buckingham Nicks days before they joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975.
Album Review | Fleetwood Mac, 'Extended Play'
by Jeffrey Lee Puckett
Courier-Journal
Fleetwood Mac chose to release “Extended Play,” the band’s first new recordings in a decade, with a minimum of fanfare, as if too much hype might raise too many expectations. Good move.
The four-song EP is a nice little Lindsey Buckingham record, without a single moment that screams Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood Mac is certainly suggested, albeit gently, and that’s a pretty serious miscue after 10 years of silence.
Still, Buckingham records are always pretty solid, especially in small doses, and “Extended Play” has some fine moments. “Sad Angel” is the kind of adult pop that Buckingham does so well, with an insistent chorus that lifts off with a wistful rush and harmonies from Stevie Nicks that almost, but not quite, get us there.
“Without You” is an old Buckingham-Nicks track, pre-Fleetwood Mac, that sounds pretty enough but lacks the band’s famous drama. Even prettier is “It Takes Time,” a piano ballad that’s pure Buckingham (with a healthy dose of Eric Carmen’s sugary pathos).
The last song didn’t even register, and with a four-song record, that’s not good.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
CHARTS | SALES UPDATE: These 4 Fleetwood Mac Albums Are Currently on Billboards Top 200
BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART:For the sales week ending May 5th and for Chart date May 18th.
EXTENDED PLAY, Fleetwood Mac's new 4 track EP enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #48 with total sales for the week in the U.S. of 8,602 digital units, which I still think is a rather poor showing even considering it was only available digitally. RUMOURS re-enters the Top 200 at #149 with sales of 3,167 units vs 2,345 the previous week - a 35% increase. Total Rumours sales in the U.S. since November, 1991 = 3,182,506. GREATEST HITS moves down the chart to #172 from #108 last week on sales of 2,725 vs 4,232 the previous week. Total U.S. album sales since November, 1991 when Soundscan began tracking album sales = 4,656,533. THE VERY BEST OF re-enters the chart at #194 with sales of 2,461 units vs 1,844 the previous week - a 33% sales increase. Total U.S. album sales since its release in November, 2002 = 1,566,150.
# 48 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Extended Play (Debut)
# 149 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 172 (108) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 194 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
BILLBOARD TOP 200 CURRENT ALBUMS CHART:
The Current Albums Chart is the same at the Top 200 Albums Chart, but with the catalogue titles removed.
#48 (NEW) FLEETWOOD MAC - Extended Play
BILLBOARD TOP 50 ROCK ALBUMS CHART:Extended Play enters the Rock Albums Chart at #13 this week.
# 13 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Extended Play 8,602
TOP 200 INDEPENDENT CURRENT ALBUMS CHART:Fleetwood Mac enter this chart with "Extended Play" at #9. I believe this is a first having an album on the Independent Chart.
# 9 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Extended Play
TOP 200 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART:
EXTENDED PLAY entered the Top 200 Digital Albums sales chart at #14. GREATEST HITS moves down to #84 from #49 the previous week with digital sales of 2,052 vs 3,612 units the previous week a 45% dip. RUMOURS moves up to #93 this week from #187 the previous week with digital album sales of 1,933 units vs 1,107 the previous week a 75% sales increase.
# 84 (49) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits# 93 (187) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
TOP 200 PHYSICAL ALBUMS CHART:
THE VERY BEST OF sold a total of 2,461 units for the week - 1,843 of those sales were physical units. Up 16% vs last week where it sold 1,582 physical units. The majority of the albums overall sales since 2002 have been physical units since the 2 cd set wasn't initially available digitally until this past year.
# 169 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART:
RUMOURS moves up to #23 this week from #54 last week. GREATEST HITS moves down to #30 this week from #14 last week. THE VERY BEST OF moves way up the chart to #40 from #105 the previous week. FLEETWOOD MAC the self titled 1975 album moves up the chart to #86 this week from #114 last week on a slight 9% sales boost or 1,938 units sold this week vs 1,784 the previous week. Total U.S. album sales since November, 1991 = 920,709.
# 23 (54) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 30 (14) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 40 (105) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 86 (114) Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Overall based on the above albums registering enough in sales to land on these listings, Fleetwood Mac sold 18,893 albums in the U.S. for the week ending May 5th. Not bad for one week!
The band's last full-length album, “Say You Will,” released on Reprise/Warner Bros., arrived on the chart almost exactly 10 years ago this week. The set debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the chart dated May 3, 2003. To date, it has sold 864,000 copies in the United States.
Billboard
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
NEW Canadian Dates Added: STEVIE NICKS "In Your Dreams" Windsor, Regina and Vancouver
STEVIE NICKS "IN YOUR DREAMS"
New Canadian Theatre Dates Added
New Canadian Theatre Dates Added
Shifting dynamically among video formats, painstaking recording sessions and revealing interviews, this magic-tinged musical journey is a loving and tuneful portrait of the eternally bewitching Gold Dust Woman.
WINDSOR, ONTARIO
May 15th - 8:30pm
Only one showing of the film in Windsor on May 15th at the Capital Theatre. Tickets are $9 for students and $13 for adults, and are available online at windsorfilmfestival.com or on the evening of the screening at the Capitol box office.
REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN
May 30th - 9:00pm & 11:00pm
May 31th - 7:00pm & 9:00pm
June 1st - 9:00pm & 11:00pm
June 2nd - 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Regina is seeing a total of eight screenings of the film beginning on May 30th running through June 2nd. That's huge! Tickets will be available at the box office 45 minutes prior to the show.
The RPL Film Theatre is located inside Central Library, in the heart of downtown Regina, at 2311-12th Avenue between Lorne and Smith Street.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Vancouver - Rio Theatre
June 10th - 7:00pm & 9:30pm
If you can't make the May 18th showing of the film in Vancouver at VIFF, well the Rio Theatre has you covered. The Rio Theatre on Broadway in east Vancouver will be showing the film twice - one night only on June 10th at 7:00pm and 9:30pm. Advance tickets will be available on-line to purchase through riotheatretickets.ca
COMPLETE CANADIAN THEATER LISTING
N/A indicates no advance on-line tickets available - purchase at the Box Office
| SASKATOON, SK | Broadway Theatre | May 13 | 7:00pm | N/A |
| EDMONTON, AB | Metro Cinema | May 12 | 4:00pm | N/A |
| EDMONTON, AB | Metro Cinema | May 13 | 9:15pm | N/A |
| EDMONTON, AB | Metro Cinema | May 14 | 7:00pm | N/A |
| WINDSOR, ON | WIFF | May 15 | 8:00pm | Tickets |
| CALGARY, AB | Globe Cinema | May 16 | TBA | TBA |
| SASKATOON, SK | Broadway Theatre | May 17 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| SASKATOON, SK | Broadway Theatre | May 18 | 7:00pm | N/A |
| VANCOUVER, BC | Vancity Theatre | May 18 | 9:30pm | Tickets |
| SASKATOON, SK | Broadway Theatre | May 20 | 7:00pm | N/A |
| SASKATOON, SK | Broadway Theatre | May 21 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| SASKATOON, SK | Broadway Theatre | May 23 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | May 30 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | May 30 | 11:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | May 31 | 7:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | May 31 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | June 1 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | June 1 | 11:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | June 2 | 7:00pm | N/A |
| REGINA, SK | RPL Film Theatre | June 2 | 9:00pm | N/A |
| VANCOUVER, BC | Rio Theatre | June 10 | 7:00pm | Tickets |
| VANCOUVER, BC | Rio Theatre | June 10 | 9:30pm | Tickets |
| MONTREAL, QC | Cinema Du Parc | June 14 | 9:00pm | Tickets |
| MONTREAL, QC | Cinema Du Parc | June 15 | 9:00pm | Tickets |
| MONTREAL, QC | Cinema Du Parc | June 16 | 9:00pm | Tickets |
| MONTREAL, QC | Cinema Du Parc | June 17 | 9:00pm | Tickets |
"Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams" Documentary at the Rio Theatre
Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams is an intimate portrait of Stevie Nicks, the Grammy-winning artist and member of legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac, as she creates an album with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame. Co-produced and co-directed by Nicks and Stewart, the film goes behind the scenes as Nicks and Stewart embark on a musical journey to write and record the critically acclaimed album In Your Dreams.
Monday, June 10th - 7 + 9:30 pm
Tickets $8 advance/$10 at the door
19+ w/ bar service
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