Tuesday, April 02, 2013

NEW THEATER & DATE: Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' Documentary Coming to Odessa, TX May 2nd


The Odessa Council for Arts and Humanities are very excited to announce that they will be bringing Stevie's documentary "In Your Dreams" to The Ector Theater in Odessa, TX for a ONE NIGHT ONLY screening on May 2, 2013 at 6:00pm.

500 N. Texas
Odessa, Texas
For more information call: 432-337-1492

BUYING TICKETS
Tickets will go on sale Monday, April 8th by calling 432-337-1492 or by stopping by the Odessa Council for Arts and Humanities offices at 119 W. 4th Street in Odessa.


Video: 20 Minutes With Stevie Nicks in Los Angeles (Q&A After "In Your Dreams")

Q&A with Stevie Nicks The Landmark Theatre Los Angeles
March 31, 2013 after the 7pm screening.
Thanks to Jamie for capturing the night!
More Photos by Erin Braswell at The Landmark Theatres Facebook page

Monday, April 01, 2013

Stevie Nicks on her new 'In Your Dreams' documentary and Dave Grohl's pivotal role

Why she and Fleetwood Mac mate Lindsey Buckingham are getting along better than ever
by Melinda Newman
Hitfix Music

When Dave Stewart first suggested to Stevie Nicks that he film the making of her 2011 solo album, “In Your Dreams,” which he co-produced, her blunt reaction was “I think you’re nuts.”

However, the Eurythmics co-founder convinced Nicks by simply reassuring her “If you don’t like it, we don’t use it.” And in the end, she not only liked it, but she saw the documentary as a way to extend the shelf life of the critically-acclaimed album, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, but did not have the high-profile run Nicks hoped it would.

Nicks screened the 100-minute film last night (March 31) for fans, as well as held a Q&A at Los Angeles’ Landmark Theater. “In Your Dreams” will play in theaters in more than 75 cities in North America on April 2. Virgil Films will make the film available on Video on Demand and Digital Download shortly thereafter.

Stewart and co-producer Glen Ballard recorded much of the album in Nicks’ Los Angeles house and working with Stewart gave Nicks great joy, she told an adoring audience at the theater. Upon their first meeting about the album,  “I’m thinking this is going to be such a trip because he’s such a trip. He’s trippy. He gets up happy every day,” she said with a certain amount of astonishment. “I rather like suffering a lot.”

As the documentary details, Stewart is the first person Nicks has ever written with in the same room. She gave Stewart 40 poems of hers (she calls them "poetry", not lyrics), culled from her many, many books of poems, and he showed up at the house to start to write a song. “He doesn’t really think we’re going to write in the same room,” Nicks recalls. But they did, eventually penning seven songs for the album together.  She credits Stewart’s lack of arrogance as the key to making their co-writing work. “Dave watched my face. Whenever he’d go to a chord I didn’t like, he’d go a different way.”  (One of the film’s best scenes flashes back to video of Lindsey Buckingham criticizing Nicks’ lyrics on 2003’s “Destiny Rules. She snaps back that he wouldn’t criticize Bob Dylan).

The documentary will find its greatest appeal with the legion of Nicks’ faithful. It goes through the creation of each of the 13 tracks, her 30-year plus relationship with her back-up singers Lori Perry Nicks and Sharon Celani (which could be its own film), and the great time they had making the album. In fact, the biggest drama in the entire film comes when Nicks correctly note that the Stewart solo she hears on a song is not the one she originally heard and favors. Other than that, it’s a complete love fest that becomes somewhat redundant at times, though given how fractious the making of some of the Fleetwood Mac albums was, it's nice to see her have an easy time of it.

Dave Grohl, with whom Nicks worked on the “Sound City”  documentary, served a vital behind-the-scenes
role at a pivotal time. A few months ago, she was telling Grohl that she was “heartbroken” by the album’s lack of success, especially after she felt that she had “done every TV show known to man” to promote it, including “The Voice” and “Dancing With The Stars.” Grohl asked her if she filmed the making of the album. She said yes. He suggested finishing the documentary, adding “‘this will give your record another run for your money”,” she said. “I called Dave Stewart and said ‘We have to finish this...it’s the only way to save this record.’ Had it not been for Dave Grohl, I’m saying that I don’t know what I would have done.”

“In Your Dreams” documentary bows as Fleetwood Mac kicks off a new tour on April 4 in Columbus, Ohio. Nicks said the year-long tour comes at a time when she and former boyfriend Buckingham are “for the first time in 30 years, we’re getting a long really well. We had a little talk a year ago and he had a year to think about it. He’s understanding that it’s really good to be my friend.”



LISTEN: Full Stevie Nicks 'In Your Dreams' Los Angeles Q&A Provided by Landmark Theatres


Stevie Nicks Q&A Los Angeles
The full podcast of one of the two Q&A events that Stevie took part in following the Los Angeles showing of "In Your Dreams" at The Landmark Theatre has been generously provided by Landmarktheatres.com
Click through and listen or download

'In Your Dreams,' documentary on making of latest Stevie Nicks album, to play at Ross

By L. KENT WOLGAMOTT / Lincoln Journal Star

Stevie Nicks spent most of 2010 making “In Your Dreams,” her first solo release in a decade. Collaborating with former Eurythmic Dave Stewart, they wrote and recorded much of the album in her old mansion high atop the Hollywood Hills.


Stewart, who has been shooting video since he bought a camera out of Australian pawn shop decades ago, convinced Nicks to film the sessions.

The result of that multiple camera, monthslong shooting is “In Your Dreams,” a revealing 1 hour, 40 minute “making of” documentary that’s playing Tuesday only in theaters across the country, including the Ross Media Arts Center.

Directed by Stewart and Nicks, “In Your Dreams” follows the writing and recording process in Nicks’ home, where a stairwell became a vocal chamber, and in a couple of Los Angeles studios. It ventures into the past  briefly to sketch her life, writing and beliefs.

It’s a pretty fascinating journey with some moments of insight.  An old clip of a disagreement between Nicks and Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham over one of her lyrics captures the end of their writing relationship because she didn’t want to be told what to do.

Back in the house, she shows her studio acumen when hearing the playback of a song and finding Stewart’s original guitar solo missing. Stewart and producer Glen Ballard claim that it is the same. Playing the first version of the solo found deep in ProTools, Nicks is proved correct, and the mix is changed.

Early in the film, Nicks talks about how she’d like young people to see the movie to learn how to make a record the old way, with heart and feeling.

That’s a fine sentiment. But Nicks’ old way is far different from anything a new band or artist could do. She’s got a lineup of musicians that includes guitar master Waddy Wachtel, her Fleetwood Mac mates Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Steve Ferrone and guitarist Mike Campbell, who co-produced the record with Ballard and Stewart.

The documentary is framed as a song-by-song journey through “In Your Dreams,” with some music video-like segments for some of the songs. If it had been released at the same time as the album dropped last year, it likely would have, and to some measure rightfully, been seen as the world’s longest promotional video.

But it takes a different feel a year later. It does provide a knowing, if authorized look inside the elusive Nicks, who remains a spectacular rock singer. It’s a nice glimpse of how a big-star record is made and therefore a must-see for Nicks fans.

LOS ANGELES PREMIERE: Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Photos | Video

STEVIE NICKS
The Landmark Los Angeles
"In Your Dreams" Premiere
Q&A Moderator: Jim Ladd




Above 5 photos by Mindy Harris | Pastel Photography | Facebook
(Thank you for sharing Mindy!)

"I am the Easter Bunny" - Stevie Nicks



Above photos by Maria (left) and Louise Palanker (right)
Below two photos by Jason Sywak


The Next 7 Days:
Big week ahead... Stevie's documentary opens wide beginning Tuesday across the U.S.  Try and see it in a theatre if you can... It's an event, an experience that likely won't happen again.  Check the cities down the right side of this page or visit inyourdreamsmovie.com to see if it's playing in your area. Some theaters are showing it numerous nights, like iPic, so if Tuesday isn't a good day for you, there might be others to choose from.  If none of these cities and dates suit you, you'll have to hang tough like the majority until the VOD and Digital release which is reported to be in late Spring... Hopefully a DVD release will follow that.

FLEETWOOD MAC
The World Tour begins this Thursday in Columbus, OH... and the waiting is killing me... I'm so excited to know what the set-list will be.  From what I've heard, the fans will be very pleased with what the band had put together for this tour.  Let's hope so!

4/2  - Tuesday:  Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" opens wide in Theatres across the U.S.
4/4  - Thursday: Fleetwood Mac World Tour begins in Columbus, OH
4/6  - Saturday: Fleetwood Mac play Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia