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Saturday, October 17, 2009
FLEETWOOD MAC - HOT TICKET (REVIEW MAGAZINE)
(REVIEW) ROTTERDAM - Duo nog altijd bepalend voor Fleetwood Mac
MUZIEK, Gijsbert Kamer
De Volkskrant
ROTTERDAM - De afgelopen dertig jaar was Fleetwood Mac diverse malen in Nederland, maar een bezetting met zowel de Britse oprichters Mick Fleetwood en John McVie als het Amerikaanse duo Lindsey Buckingham en Stevie Nicks dat de groepssound midden jaren zeventig compleet zou veranderen, stond hier sinds 1980 niet meer op het podium. Van het vijftal dat in 1977 met Rumours een van de best verkochte popalbums ooit uitbracht, was donderdag in een uitverkocht Ahoy alleen Christine McVie er niet bij.
Drummer Fleetwood en bassist McVie spelen al meer dan veertig jaar in Fleetwood Mac, maar hoe sympathiek de aloude bluesrocker Oh Well (1969) ook klonk, het was het enige moment dat het publiek herinnerd werd aan de periode voor de komst van Nicks en Buckingham. Het waren hun liedjes, en enkele van de gewezen toetseniste, die centraal stonden – en dan vooral het nog altijd prachtige werk uit de jaren zeventig, dat nog niets aan relevantie heeft verloren.
Fleetwood Mac was ook niet gekomen om nieuw werk te presenteren, verduidelijkte Buckingham, maar ‘to have fun’. Lol straalde de band zeker uit. Van de spanningen die jarenlang een van de leukste soaps uit de rock ’n’ roll opleverden, was weinig meer te merken. Zangeres Stevie Nicks stond weliswaar veel verder van haar ex Buckingham vandaan dan de slimme montage op de videoschermen suggereerde, maar het was duidelijk dat het stel er weer echt zin in had.
Dreams klonk goed, de hoge toon in Rhiannon haalde Nicks helaas niet meer. Wel zong ze een prachtige Sara en leverde ze met Landslide een van de hoogtepunten. Tussen deze Nicks-liedjes speelde Buckingham in zijn eentje op akoestische gitaar een versie van Big Love die het origineel uit 1987 overtrof.
Deze drie nummers bewezen hoe bijzonder de kwaliteiten van dit duo nog altijd zijn, en het was aardig dat ze elkaar na afloop van Sara toch even omhelsden.
De andere bandleden werden in een bijrol gedrongen. De wat stevigere rockers als Second Hand News en Go Your Own Way klonken goed, maar ook wat gewoner. Het bandgeluid was met drie achtergrondzangeressen ook wat anoniem. De in eenzelfde zwart vestje gestoken Fleetwood en McVie, toch de ritmetandem van het eerste uur, lieten zich hun bijrol als begeleiders welgevallen.
Misschien was dat maar goed ook. Twee sterke blikvangers als een prachtig spelende Buckingham en een Nicks die ook nog twee keer kans zag zich in een andere jurk te hijsen, is genoeg. Die twee hebben het nog altijd samen.
Friday, October 16, 2009
THE MICK FLEETWOOD BLUES BAND LOST INTERVIEW
Not so much as lost.. I just forgot I had it...
Back in 2008 Mick Fleetwood and his Blues Band Featuring Rick Vito played the 21st International Notodden Blues Festival which ran between July 31, 2008 and August 3, 2008 - prior to the European release of "Blue Again". Here is a backstage interview with Mick Fleetwood and Rick Vito. The interview is approximately 20 minutes long and the file size is 18mb.
WIN TICKETS TO SEE FLEETWOOD MAC IN GLASGOW
to Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour Glasgow concert at the SECC on Thursday 22 October.
The band will be playing their greatest hits on the Unleashed Tour.
For your chance to win a pair of tickets
answer the question and fill in your full details.
To coincide with the British leg of the tour a 2CD re-mastered album The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac is being released on 19 October.
IF YOU WIN, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO COLLECT YOUR TICKETS FROM
SMOOTH RADIO BEFORE THE CONCERT.
FORGET THE RUMOURS - THE TRUTH WILL BLOW YOUR MIND (FLEETWOOD MAC)
If you missed the article, it's here.
SEX, DRUGS, FEAR AND LOATHING...
You'll find the "Sex, Drugs, Fear and Loathing" article on Fleetwood Mac in the October 17th edition of The Dominion Post (P.24) published in New Zealand.
The article was originally published by The Telegraph in the UK. You can read it here.
(PHOTOS) FLEETWOOD MAC - ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Fleetwood Mac In Concert
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam, Netherlands
10/15/2009 -
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Musicfacination(click for more)
DUST OFF YOUR BLACK CHIFFON - STEVIE NICKS IS BACK (PROMPTS NEO-GOTH REVIVAL)
Dust off your black chiffon
Stevie Nicks is back
Will Fleetwood Mac’s return prompt a neo-gothic revival?
By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director
Stevie Nicks performs in her trade-mark look. A gothic outfit by John Galliano Photo: EPA
The news of Fleetwood Mac’s most recent comeback will have sent Stevie Nicks fans scurrying to wipe the dust off their ‘Rumours’ LP and to scour attics and garages for a trace of still-wearable black chiffon.
Nicks was the ultimate flower-child/rock-fairy. She wafted like some Gothic ‘witch-ling’, wreathed in wisps of black chiffon; all handkerchief hems ,‘angel wings’, Victoriana, smokey eyes and tousled blonde hair. Her fey, ‘bad fairy’ image was matched by a drugs habit, and a love life that would send Relate into a frenzy . But this has only enhanced her appeal as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s more enduring style icons.
Fleetwood Mac’s latest return, for the first time in six years, coincides with this season’s fresh take on black. From punk to goth, from studded leather to diaphanous chiffon, all the rock chick’s favourite bits of gear are available at every price level from designer to high street.
Designers such as John Galliano, and Riccardo Tisci, at Givenchy, both included sheer, black chiffon in their autumn/winter collections, variously draped with medieval silver belts or netting. Other brands, such as Future Classics, Stella McCartney and Erin Fetherstone, have worked the theme as a glam-goth vibe, in lace, tulle and silk, while the new, young designer Qasimi has created a spooky-chic version of Cruella de Vil, in black satin and beaded net. Kate Moss - a Stevie Nicks’ lookalike, in many respects - has included several rock-fairy pieces in her latest collection for Topshop, including a triangle-studded, black chiffon kaftan, and a forest-green, ‘butterfly’ dress, with asymmetric hem and flared sleeves.
Miss Selfridge, River Island, Wallis and Dorothy Perkins, as well as asos.com, are also great hunting grounds for the Stevie Nicks’ look. at prices which compare favourably with the first time the singer first registered as a blip on fashion’s radar nearly four decades ago.
FLEETWOOD MAC, TOUJOURS D’ATTAQUE
FLEETWOOD MAC ATTACK EVER
Parismatch.com (original article)
1977: death of Elvis, the apogee of punks. And release of the album "Rumors" by Fleetwood Mac. Within the group, John McVie, founding bassist, was in the process of divorce from Christine McVie, one of the blonde singers. Stevie Nicks, the other blonde's big Mac, separated by guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. And Mick Fleetwood, drummer, could not stand his wife, Jenny Boyd. So he had an affair with the beautiful Stevie, who slept with Eagles. Christine, she flirts with a Beach Boy alcoholic ... A game of musical fuck where everyone railed at himself for breakfast, especially since they ingesting massive quantities of alcohol and cocaine. Small SexPistols could sew their t-shirts, it was their most excessive.
From this chaos is released sentimental "Rumors", the perfect pop Californian, crammed with tubes on these disappointments: "Go Your Own Way" "Dreams," "Do not Stop" which has sold nearly 40 million 'copies. It's a funny group Fleetwood Mac. For they are English by birth and origin of blues, from the stable of John Mayall, who was discovered Clapton and the Stones. From 1967 to 1975, training has varied according to the delusions of each. The original guitarist, Peter Green, an acid eats through it hand in 1970. Another joins a cult, the Children of God. Still another, Bob Welch, drops Mac in 1974. Then landed a couple of Californians fan of The Mamas and the Papas: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. These two have changed the music of the band.
MORE EXCESSIVE
THE SEX PISTOLS
No more blues british, Mac begins to produce an FM rock public, near the Eagles, ideal for spending time on the highway. They sound so American that Bill Clinton chose in 1992 the song "Do not Stop ..." to enter the stage of its meetings. It was he who had convinced Fleetwood to reunite at a party in the White House. They are all well slashed in the 80s. In their defense, it seems difficult for ex-lovers stoned to climb on stage every night, recording discs (including the brilliant "Tusk"). They could not survive the withdrawal of Lindsey in 1987, which dealt so of Stevie Nicks' schizophrenic bitch ". At each withdrawal, the holders of the name, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, finding substitutes more or less inspired.
For ten years all have rabibochés. Clean and sixties, members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Fleetwood Mac had filled stadiums in 2003 during a world tour accompanied by an album not bad, "Say You Will," vowing that money motivated them no more than that. This year, turned again, without hard to promote. Good. The public will not suffer a new group which he wants to hear that wonderful junk. Director: Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Lack Christine McVie, tired of rock and roll. A rumor Sheryl Crow announced in his place. Denied. In the old buddies we made the best soups.
In concert October 17 in Paris (Zenith).
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