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A massive crowd Saturday Night at The Bowl of Brooklands
(in the rain no less)
The first of two shows in New Plymouth, New Zealand
Go Your Own Way
Photo by: TommyB8S
Saturday, December 19, 2009
MICK FLEETWOOD VIDEO INTERVIEW - FLEETWOOD MAC HIT NEW PLYMOUTH
New Plymouth
Source: ONE News
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Fleetwood Mac took to the stage at New Plymouth's bowl of Brooklands on Saturday night in the first of their two sold-out concerts.
At 62 Mick Fleetwood is savouring the finer things in life such as the adoration of 17,000 fans watching him perform.
"This is a real book marker in Fleetwood Mac's history, coming back here. I hope we make it through the gig," he said before the concert.
The last time Fleetwood and his band were welcomed for a Kiwi concert was back in 1980 but the band is still playing music and still touring the world.
Fleetwood has now spent over 40 years in showbiz as it was 1967 when he first drummed for the original Fleetwood Mac.
As they have wracked up their hits the group has battled through arguments, drug addiction and about six or seven different guitarists.
Through it all Fleetwood Mac still sells. Tickets to the New Plymouth concerts were sold out and the best of album has spent weeks in the New Zealand charts.
With younger generations of fans these days Fleetwood says the band's next Kiwi concert will not be such a long wait.
By David Farrier
3News
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Full Interview with Mick Fleetwood
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Fleetwood Mac are on of music’s iconic bands.
Formed in 1967 in London, they have seen numerous line-up changes – beginning as a straight Blues band, they morphed into a more pop-oriented group.
The man behind the helm is Mick Fleetwood.
It has been 29 years since Fleetwood Mac played in New Zealand; their drummer and namesake now an impressive 63-years-old.
Fast forward nearly three decades, and Mick Fleetwood is glad to be back, aware that after all the drugs and inter-band relationships between Lindsay, Mick and Stevie – they are lucky to be around.
“Yeah, the passion or desperation, or the fear factor,” says Mick about what has kept the group together.
“No, it’s the first.”
Passion, that is, allowing them to make music for 42 years.
“Coming back here is a real line in the sand in terms of, you know, we will wake up sweating. Those dreams, sit up, oh my God, we didn't do that did we?”
They probably did, but regardless, it all resulted in great music.
Their songs and rock and roll lifestyle are now ingrained in pop culture.
The first ever episode of Flight of the Conchords even contained a Fleetwood Mac joke; Rhys Darby keen to interrupt our interview and get Fleetwood's take on it.
“When I did the gag about you guys and the album ‘Rumors’, just going back, Brett said ‘Oh, do they have foursomes?’ and I said, ‘No, it’s just rumours’, did you appreciate the gag?” Darby asked.
Mick did appreciate it.
“We have a humour about the fact that our lives were incredibly public. Really we were stupid enough to do interviews like this and talk openly about who we are and what we are,” he said.
It is that openness, combined with the bands musical talents that have led to 100 million in record sales, and now, 42 years in, two shows in New Plymouth.
Friday, December 18, 2009
THE EASY WAY TO FLEETWOOD MAC (NEW PLYMOUTH VISITORS)
Directions to the venue for visitors in New Plymouth
THE BOWL PREPARES FOR FLEETWOOD MAC.... STAGE IS SET
LOOK FOR A SPECIAL EDITION ON MONDAY OF THE TARANAKI DAILY NEWS
FLEETWOOD MAC GROSS 146.2 MILLION THIS DECADE
Pollstar has compiled its year-end research from 2000 to 2009 and come up with the highest-grossing touring artists of North America for the decade.
According to POLLSTAR Fleetwood Mac placed #33 in the Top 50 grossing 146.2 million between 2000 & 2009 with 1.7 million tickets sold. Not bad for only two world tours this decade.
FLEETWOOD MAC WILL DEPART WELLINGTON FOR NEW PLYMOUTH TODAY
Taranaki Daily News
Supergroup Fleetwood Mac will attempt a sneaky entrance in to New Plymouth today to avoid mobs that have greeted them during their world tour.
They are playing two sold-out concerts at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands this weekend and are understood to have declined Mayor Peter Tennent's offer of a Maori powhiri, or any type of welcome, when they arrive sometime between 3pm and 5.30pm today.
That is unless band member Stevie Nicks can convince her fellow members to accept the powhiri.
New Plymouth Mayor Peter Tennent said Ms Nicks enjoyed the traditional Maori welcome to Taranaki when she was here in 2006.
"She just loved it, but if they don't want it this time and just want to get in the zone to prepare for their concert, I can understand that and fully support it."
The promoter was still trying to convince the band to accept the welcome and experience the difference between New Zealand and the rest of the world, he said.
The decision to slip quietly into the city is apparently to avoid problems similar to those encountered in other countries, where the sheer number of fans turned their arrival into chaos.
If they do not change their minds, they will be visible to their devoted followers for just a few seconds before the concert – as they leave their chartered plane to get into the cars waiting for them on the tarmac.
But just when that glimpse can be had is a closely-guarded secret.
"I won't know when they are due to arrive until just before they take off from Wellington," New Plymouth Airport manager Kevin Hill said yesterday.
Though most flights are registered weeks and months before, there is no obligation for chartered flights to do the same.
"Basically, all I know is a plane is coming and that it will fit at one of our gates. They pay us landing fees and that is it," said Mr Hill.
Whatever the former notoriously hard-living band decide, they have already had their dressing room requirements filled by venue caterers Eurest.
Though they were tight-lipped about just what those requests were. Bowl manager Adrienne Kensington was allowed to say they were quite ordinary.
"Nothing really odd at all. We've had some weird ones before, but this time we didn't have to go out of the country to get everything they wanted."
The two New Plymouth concerts are the last in the band's 10-month Unleashed tour.
More than 17,000 fans are expected each night at the outdoor venue and New Plymouth is bracing itself for 20,000 visitors from outside the region.
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