Monday, January 14, 2013

Now 64, Stevie Nicks still loves billowing skirts and spinning around in a shawl. For that, we admire her even more.


Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac fame. 

No other woman has so successfully managed to have a life in one of the best bands of all time, and go on to impress as a soloist with hits including Bella Donna and Rooms On Fire. All that, and she’s still the queen of rock ’n’ roll, 40 years after it all began in the early ’70s.

Read the full article in the Fabulous e-magazine. Also found free each Sunday in The Sun (UK)

Saturday, January 12, 2013

New Interview: Stevie Nicks: the return of Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks's tumultuous life as a rock queen led her to addiction, heartbreak and "insanity". As Fleetwood Mac reunites, she tells Caspar Llewellyn Smith why she's going back for more
by: Caspar Llewellyn Smith
The Guardian



Before I meet Stevie Nicks, I hear her. She is downstairs somewhere in the house she's renting on the beach in Malibu – a short drive, traffic allowing, up the Californian coastline from the two homes she owns in LA – and looking for her dark glasses. It's early evening in December and has long since turned dark outside, but if you're the ultimate rock goddess – NME's recent description, testament to an ongoing revaluation of interest in Fleetwood Mac among the younger generation – wearing shades at night goes with the territory.

Scented candles are spaced throughout the room and there's a well-thumbed copy of the first book in The Twilight Saga on a side table – signs that suggest that the 64-year-old singer is comfortably in residence. Plus there's her Yorkshire terrier, getting stuck continuously under my feet. But, as Nicks says, when all five feet one-and-a-half inches of her does emerge at the top of the stairs, she can't seem to settle.

In fact she shouldn't be here at all (and wasn't planning any interviews), but on holiday in the Florida Keys she was getting bitten to death by bugs and, besides, felt bored. Going home to either of her places in the city wasn't an option because right now she's "making a molecular change": parking her solo career, which saw her tour the world with her solo album In Your Dreams for the past two years, and getting ready for the return of the Mac.

Instead she asked to see if this place, which she'd rented previously, was available. "I'm trying to rest and it's really hard to rest because in either one of my own houses I feel like I should be working," she explains. "I've been coming here off and on for nearly 10 years and there's absolutely nothing for me to do except draw or sit and write poetry or bring the electric piano down." Problem is, "I've been here since Tuesday and I haven't managed yet to actually come up here at three in the afternoon and go sit on that miserable couch and draw for a few hours – because that's when I know I've made a change."

Despite the homely touches, the house looks perfectly nondescript from the outside, and it's modestly apportioned by the standards of LA rock aristocracy. But then Nicks doesn't play the diva either – kooky fan of fantasy, yes (her fondness for the oeuvre of Stephenie Meyer and liking for US fantasy TV series Game of Thrones fits right into that), but not the figure who insisted during Fleetwood Mac's Tusk tour that every hotel room she stayed in be painted pink and must house a white piano.

It is now 40 years since her first album, Buckingham Nicks – the fruit of her relationship, both musical and romantic, with Lindsey Buckingham – and life is coming full circle. Later this month, the most classic of all Fleetwood Mac albums, Rumours, gets the full reissue treatment, and the band will hit the road again for a US tour that will also likely come to Europe. (Of the rumours that they'll headline Glastonbury, Nicks is noncommittal, though she does say she'd love to do it.)

There is also the likelihood of the first new Fleetwood Mac record in 10 years – and even the prospect of a second Buckingham-Nicks album. For fans, this news is as exciting as it might sound improbable. Nicks once said herself that "to be in Fleetwood Mac is to live in a soap opera. And it has been pretty scandalous and incestuous…" And of all relationships, it's been that between her and Buckingham that has provided the richest story lines of all.

See @soundcitymovie in theatres One Night Only! feat. Stevie Nicks Lindsey Buckingham & Mick Fleetwood

See Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood on the big screen beginning January 31st.

"... Sound City is a film about American's Greatest unsung-recording studio. Deep in California's Sun Burnt San Fernando Valley, tucked away behind the train tracks and dilapidated warehouses, it was the birthplace of legend.  It was witness to history, it was home to a special few, intent on preserving an ideal. An analog church, a time capsule.  The last bastion of a craft defied by technology. It was Rock and Roll hallowed ground. And it was our best keep secret.  Sound City is a film about the truth, the craft, and the integrity of Rock and Roll." - Dave Grohl

Pre-order the movie through; soundcitymovie.com or iTunes - Release date Feb 1st.

US and Canadian Theatre Screenings for Sound City
In Theatres for On Night Only!  Check out Sound City for a listing of cities and theatres in the US and Canada to see the film.





Trailer:
Lindsey Buckingham:
Mick Fleetwood:


Sound City Soundtrack 'Real to Reel' 
Scheduled for release March 12, 2013, the sound track includes "You Can't Fix This" with Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins & Rami Jaffee


Pre-order the soundtrack on Amazon or iTunes


15 Years Ago Today in 1998 Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Fleetwood Mac is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual induction dinner held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

Sheryl Crow introduced the group.  The band played Landslide, Big Love and Say You Love Me.

INDUCTEES: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, John McVie, Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Jeremy Spencer.


The Fleetwood Mac story is an episodic saga that spans more than 45 years. It is the saga of a British blues band formed in 1967 that became a California-based pop group in the mid-Seventies. In between came a period where Fleetwood Mac shuffled personnel and experimented with styles, all the while releasing solid albums that found a loyal core audience. Despite all the changes, two members have remained constant over the years: drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, whose surnames provided the group name Fleetwood Mac. Although most rock fans are familiar with the lineup that includes Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks – by far the longest-running edition of the band, responsible for the classic albums Fleetwood Mac and Rumours – the group possesses a rich and storied history that predates those epics. Earlier Fleetwood Mac lineups included guitarists Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Dave Walker, Bob Weston and Bob Welch. - Rockhall.com













Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Stevie Nicks confirmed to play Sundance Film Fest with Dave Grohl January 18th



THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!
When Dave Grohl recently announced that he would be performing at Sundance with a new band called Sound City Players, he neglected to mention which musicians would be appearing alongside him. Now, the Foo Fighters leader has confirmed the star-studded list of folks who will be joining him on stage in support of his new Sound City documentary.

The performers were revealed in a post on Facebook. They include Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac), John Fogerty (Creedance Clearwater Revival), Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine), Pat Smear (Nirvana's touring guitarist), Rami Jaffee (the Wallflowers), Lee Ving (Fear), Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick), Rick Springfield, several Foo Fighters members (Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett), Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age), Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour) and more.

These are some of the folks who appear in Sound City, which focuses on the legendary Los Angeles studio of the same name.

Sound City Players. Rock Show. Jan.18th Park City Live. Tickets go on sale TODAY at 5pm PST at http://parkcitylive.net/ 



IMPORTANT INFO:
(2) ticket limit per household.
You must be 21+.
This is Will – Call only.
No paper tickets will be issued in advance.
Government issued Photo ID required at Check-in.
Tickets are non-transferable.
You and your guest must arrive and check-in together.
Upon check in, you will be wristbanded and walk directly into the venue.
There are no ins and outs.
Multiple orders will be cancelled.






Monday, January 07, 2013

PEI, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Bus Tour: See Fleetwood Mac in Ottawa April 22-24th

Fleetwood Mac Live in Ottawa Bus Tour
April 22 - April 24, 2013
Target Tours

Target Tours is your connection to the Fleetwood Mac concert at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa this April. 

This tour departs PEI with pick-ups throughout New Brunswick and transfers from Nova Scotia. Don't miss this chance to explore Ottawa and be part of the 2013 Fleetwood Mac World Tour.

"It's the perfect time to go back out," Stevie Nicks told the Rolling Stone Magazine. The band will be performing classic hits including "Dreams," "Rhiannon," "Don't Stop," and "Landslide," among others. 

Depart for Ottawa on this tour from the following cities:

Prince Edward Island:
Charlottetown and Borden-Carleton

New Brunswick
Aulac, Salisbury, Lincoln and Woodstock

Nova Scotia
Dartmouth and Truro

Full package details with pricing at Target Tours


CONTEST:
Fleetwood Mac Live Tour
Q93FM - Charlottetown, PEI

Q93 and Target Tours is giving you a chance to WIN a trip for 2 to see Fleetwood Mac at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa April 22-24 (show on April 23)

The trip is worth close to $1200 and comes with all the bells and whistles. Prize includes tickets for 2 to the concert, transportation and accommodations!

Q93FM will be taking qualifiers weekdays at 7:20 and 8:20 Monday January 7th through to Thursday January 31st on the Q Morning Crew.

Fleetwood Mac in Ottawa! “Presented by Target Tours ‘Creating Memories, One Journey at a Time’ and The Island’s Rock Q93.

Swag tags available for pickup at the House of Q, 5 Prince St., during regular business hours or wherever Q93 is broadcasting on location.

Full details at Q93FM.  Contest open to all residents of Canada.