SASKATOON TRAFFIC ADVISORY (FLEETWOOD MAC)

Traffic advice for Saskatoon Fleetwood Mac concert

The Fleetwood Mac concert on Friday will have a crowd of over 12,000 in attendance. With road work on Marquis Drive beside Costco expected to back up traffic, Credit Union Centre officials advise the following:

- Come early. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Concert start time is 8 p.m. There is no opening act.

- Use the Yellowhead Highway entrance rather than Marquis Drive.

- Follow directions of police and parking attendants.

- Take the bus. Special shuttle buses are available from the following locations. A round trip fee of $4 applies. All fares will be collected by transit operators at the malls, except from the downtown Bus Mall.

— Lawson Heights Mall (Primrose Drive). Buses depart at 6:15 p.m. with continuous service

— The Centre (Safeway Parking Lot). Buses depart at 6:15 p.m. with continuous service.

— Market Mall. Buses depart at 6:15 p.m. with continuous service

— Confederation Mall Transit Terminal (Transit Mall on Laurier Drive). Buses depart at 6:15 p.m. with continuous service.

— Downtown Bus Mall (Second Avenue facing North). Buses depart at 6:15 p.m. Service every hour. Regular fare applies.

— Special Needs Transportation available through regular booking procedures.

Or, car pool. Travel with friends in one vehicle. Credit Union Centre has only 3,500 parking stalls.

FLEETWOOD MAC - JUNE Q MAGAZINE INTERVIEW (scans)

New Fleetwood Mac interview in the June issue of Q Magazine featuring Noel Gallagher on the cover.
[ scans courtesy of Shel from The Ledge ]

RETURN OF THE MAC

AFTER revealing the band’s tentative plans to tour the UK later this year, bizarrely on The One Show of all places, ‘70s rock survivors Fleetwood Mac have confirmed they’ll play Manchester for the first time in six years this autumn.

Currently winding its way across the US, the Rumours World Tour will dock at the M.E.N. Arena on October 27.

Featuring four of the original five who recorded the 1977 landmark album (Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, Christine McVie no longer tours), the quartet will be playing tracks from the record alongside hits from their substantial back-catalogue.

Including the hit singles Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Don’t Stop and You Make Loving Fun, the Grammy Award-winning Rumours has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide.

And in conjunction with the tour, it will be re-released as part of a special CD/DVD box set, which will include previously unreleased tracks recorded during the making of the album.

Formed in 1967 by blue-rocks magician Peter Green, drummer and band custodian Fleetwood remains the only original member.

Fleetwood Mac play the M.E.N. Arena on Tuesday, October 27. £45, £60, £75. Fully seated show. Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 5 at 9am. Call 0844 847 8000.

FLEETWOOD MAC BOOKED FOR SHEFFIELD ARENA

By David Dunn
The Star

FLEETWOOD Mac - one of the most successful bands of all time - are to make their Sheffield Arena debut this winter.

The group featuring Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham will bring their global hits Go Your Own Way, Everywhere and Don't Stop and more on Monday November 2 and tickets go on general sale at 9am this Friday.

1967, the rhythm section of McVie and Fleetwood has never changed although the line-up featuring Buckingham and late 70s sex symbol Nicks was the most successful, producing the 25 million-selling classic album Rumours.

The band began as a traditional British blues band with Peter Green but amid personnel changes relocated to California in 1974 where it added Buckingham and Nicks.

Their first studio offering Fleetwood Mac sold five million copies and in spite of the well documented separation of Buckingham and Nicks the band went on to make the Grammy Award-winning Rumours.

Although the band has never managed to match the success of that, it produced the ambitious and experimental Tusk, Mirage and 1987's Tango In The Night which tendered major hits Little Lies, Seven Wonders and Everywhere.

In 1998 the band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame where it played an acoustic set that Buckingham, now a prolific solo artist, insisted would be its swan song.

The band have sold more than 100 million albums and remain one of the most popular rock bands in history.

Tickets for the reunion tour are expected to sell quickly, even with a price tag of £45 to £75, plus booking fee. Tickets are available online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk, in person at the arena box office and by phone on 0114 256 5656.

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(THE HERALD UK) FLEETWOOD MAC REUNITE FOR TOUR

Proving the Rumours are right: 

Fleetwood Mac reunite for tour

The Herald

ALISON CAMPSIE June 03 2009

Most of its members consider themselves lucky to still be alive but yesterday Fleetwood Mac, one of the biggest, most successful bands of all time, proved that old rockers never die with the announcement that they are to embark on a UK reunion tour this autumn.

Over the late 1960s and 1970s, the band came to define the chaos of the era with their terrifying commitment to hedonism and drugs and the stormy passions which existed between band members.

However, following a long collective silence, Fleetwood Mac will bring together most of their best-selling Rumours line-up of Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham - now all in their sixties - to perform at a string of stadiums across the country. The only missing member will be Christine McVie, the English singer songwriter who helped steer the band for almost 25 years.

Ms McVie, who married John McVie shortly before joining the band, was one of the main movers behind the band's 1977 Rumours album, which has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and documented the breakdown of their marriage.

The band will kick off their UK dates with a show at the Glasgow SECC on October 22.

The announcement makes Fleetwood Mac the latest band rooted in the sounds of the Sixties and Seventies to embark on a profitable "comeback" tour.

While The Rolling Stones may have proved that "baby boomer rock" has enduring appeal - their last world tour earned more than £558m - a string of iconic bands are now choosing to relive their glory days and cash in with a host of tour dates and merchandise to match.

The band have not released a new album since 2003's Say You Will, which charted in the UK top 10, but Buckingham said recently that the tour could be a precursor to a new recording.

"I think maybe there was even a sense that we would make a better album if we went out and hung out together first on the road ... Maybe even sowing some seeds musically that would get us more prepared to go in the studio rather than just going in cold. It takes the pressure off from having to go in and make something cold."

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