FLEETWOOD MAC IN BELGIUM OCTOBER 14TH

A Date at Antwerps Sportpaleis Lotto Arena in Belgium has been added to the European leg Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed Tour:

Ticket cost 44, 56, 69 and 76 euro, including service costs. Onsale Saturday 13 June at 9 o'clock

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Fleetwood Mac

UNLEASHED 2009 TOUR – THE HITS

Sportpaleis

wo 14/10/09 - 20:30

Start kaartverkoop op zaterdag 13 juni om 9 uur

online

via www.teleticketservice.com

of www.proximusgoformusic.be

telefonisch

via 0900-260.60 (alleen in België)

> vanaf maandag 15 juni om 9.00 uur ook via 070/345.345 (0900-45.000.45 vanuit NL)

via sms met code FLW (0,50 euro s/r sms)

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Elke rechtgeaarde muziekliefhebber heeft ‘Rumours’ van Fleetwood Mac in huis. Het legendarische, met een Grammy Award onderscheiden album uit 1977 is dan ook één van de meest verkochte albums uit de geschiedenis van de popmuziek. Fleetwood Mac werd eind jaren 60 door Peter Green in Engeland opgericht. Mick Fleetwood en John McVie, die samen met Green deel uitmaakten van John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, sloten zich bij hem aan. De eerste twee albums waren dan ook zeer blues gericht. De eerste bandwissels werden doorgevoerd. Het geluid van de groep evolueerde mee met de komst van nieuwe leden. Eind 1974 verkasten de enige overgebleven originele bandleden Fleetwood en McVie naar de VS. Christine McVie vrouw van was intussen al tot Fleetwood Mac toegetreden. Met de komst van het duo Stevie Nicks en Lindsey Buckingham kreeg de groep een geheel nieuwe impuls. Tot mid jaren 80 regen ze de hits aan mekaar. Wereldhits zoals ‘Go Your Own Way’, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Dreams’, ‘Sara’ en ‘Little Lies’ weerklinken nog elke dag op de radio. De fameuze ‘Rumours’-bezetting kwam in 1993 opnieuw samen voor de inauguratie van Bill Clinton als president van de VS. Een tournee volgde. Nadat Fleetwood Mac was opgenomen in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hield Christine McVie het definitief voor bekeken.

Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks en Lindsey Buckingham toeren dit jaar de wereld rond. Momenteel gooien ze zeer hoge ogen met hun ‘Unleashed’-tournee door de Verenigde Staten. In het najaar laten ze al hun grote hits los op de Europese fans! Het is dan ook zeer hard uitkijken naar hun komst naar het Sportpaleis op woensdag 14 oktober.

Kaarten kosten 44, 56, 69 en 76 euro, inclusief servicekosten.

organisator: Live Nation Belgium

Fleetwood was known for keeping the band together

Fleetwood has paired his wine with Fleming's
Desert News
by: Valerie Phillips

Mick Fleetwood fussed with a finicky sound system while addressing about 125 diners at Fleming's Steakhouse last week.

"If I were a lead singer, I'd be able to work the microphone," quipped the co-founder and drummer of the legendary band Fleetwood Mac.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was in town to perform at Wednesday night's Fleetwood Mac concert at EnergySolutions Arena.

But on Tuesday, he was at the Gateway, graciously mingling with restaurant patrons who paid around $100 for a three-course steak dinner accompanied by Fleetwood's Private Cellar wines.

He also posed for photos with each diner and gave them an autographed copy of his latest CD, "Blue Again."

As part of an "association" between the steakhouse chain and Fleetwood's wine label, he'll host Fleming's dinners at other concert stops along the tour.

While it draws business for the restaurant and promotes Fleetwood's wine, it also gives fans a rare chance to rub shoulders with a rock icon.

"People who pay $5,000 to a scalper for concert tickets don't get this close to Mick," noted his manager, Jonathan Todd.

Boomers who came of age when the band's 1977 "Rumours" album ruled the airwaves might not have expected Fleetwood's gracious, gentlemanly demeanor.

In an interview prior to the dinner, Fleetwood said his lifestyle has changed a lot since the hard-partying tours of the '70s and '80s.

"In the early days, I was a wild, wild party animal. Life is making a bit more sense in terms of not hanging off the chandeliers in the evenings."

He added, "I'm 62, and quite honestly, you have to be reasonably healthy to do what I do. It is very physically demanding to deliver a 21/2 hour performance to the public."

In 1979, Fleetwood was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.

"At first, I didn't know what was happening to me. It taught me to eat in a fairly balanced way. The meter of my day is very similar in terms of what I eat, so my body knows what it's getting at certain times of the day."

The "aging rock-star diet" is apparently one of moderation. Breakfast is usually "Banana, oatmeal, maybe scrambled eggs, and then I stop. I have a lean steak, a little bit of pasta during the afternoon, and then I stop. It's all about not overdoing anything. I'm not into a crazy huge health thing, but I don't smoke, I drink wine and a lot of water. Drinking hard spirits is absolutely not on my agenda. It would horrify me."

He added, "I am truly blessed that as crazy as I was, which is as crazy as you can imagine, I stayed alive, and I am still here able to enjoy myself now."

Fleetwood was known for keeping the band together, despite members' emotional turmoil, romantic breakups and drug and alcohol consumption.

"We were a self-fulfilling prophecy. We enjoyed ourselves way too much, and that became way too stressful," he said. "Tours are a lot less stressful now."

He said when he started his wine business, "I reverted to what I believe in as a musician. You know what you know, so trust in what you know and keep it very simple. And stick to your guns."

Good advice for anyone.

NICKS FIX

Nicks fix
Winnipeg postie would walk through hail, sleet and snow to heed Stevie's siren song
By: David Sanderson

Winnipeg Free Press

Two hours before Fleetwood Mac was scheduled to play Calgary's Pengrowth Saddledome on May 12, the concert was cancelled due to an unspecified illness within the band. Among the thousands of disappointed ticket holders that evening was Tim Magas, a Winnipeg postal carrier who collects anything/everything associated with Fleetwood Mac's ethereal vocalist, Stevie Nicks.

Magas's goal is to see Nicks perform live -- either solo or with "the Mac" -- 20 times. The Calgary gig and a May 13 show in Edmonton that was also postponed would have been Nos. 19 and 20.

"I am heartbroken," Magas said after returning to Winnipeg later that week. "Despite the cost of three flights, two hotels, meals and using vacation time to go, I am saddest about missing out on the experience of seeing Stevie two more times. That for me is priceless."

What's also priceless is the vast array of memorabilia -- let's call them Nicks-knacks -- Magas has amassed during the last three decades. Magas, who toasts the singer's birthday every May 26 with cake, candles and a chorus or two of Rhiannon, traces his fixation to a junior high school party, circa 1979.

"The party sucked but they had Rumours on," he says, referring to the group's bazillion-selling release. "I'd heard the songs on the radio before but I'd never really paid attention."

Two years later, Magas picked up Bella Donna, Nicks' first solo project. "That was when I just became totally enchanted -- head over heels, really -- with the voice, the songs, the look, the whole package."

Magas now has a wing in his basement reserved for his ticket stubs, posters, bumper stickers (?), DVDs and records. "What I'm mostly looking for now is older T-shirts," he says, noting that the 30 or so already in his closet aren't nearly enough. "There's one from her (1983) Wild Heart tour that just sold for $250. That's a bit much but..."

Naturally, Magas (favourite song: Gypsy) will be in the crowd when Fleetwood Mac appears this evening at the MTS Centre. And although the odds are remote, Magas prays that tonight will be the night when he replaces the biggest missing piece of his collectibles puzzle.

Twelve years ago, Magas flew to Las Vegas to watch Nicks perform four nights in a row at Caesar's Palace. After the final show, Magas was preparing to leave the theatre when he spotted a group of fans clutching backstage passes. He offered to buy one but nobody was selling.

Crestfallen, Magas headed back to the souvenir stand ("to get one last thing, as if I needed it...") when a woman tapped him on the shoulder. She told Magas she'd overheard him a minute earlier and asked if he wanted an extra pass she wasn't using -- free of charge.

"I was like, 'OK!!'"

The group was herded to a reception area opposite Nicks' dressing room. After about an hour, the chanteuse entered and proceeded to pose for pictures with everyone present, one at a time. "I was the last person in line and I was just standing there frozen, drenched in sweat," Magas says. "Stevie literally had to say, 'Come over here,' to get me to move.

"Then I blurted out the most clichéd, goofy thing I've ever said to anyone, anywhere, anytime. I said, 'Thank you for being the soundtrack to my life.' (Insert groans here.)

A photographer snapped a shot of the pair arm-in-arm. An assistant then instructed Magas to return at 10 a.m. the next morning to retrieve his memento. One problem: Magas's flight home was at seven, so Magas asked the lady who'd given him the pass if she'd mind picking it up and mailing it to him.

"I never did get it," Magas says, drawing a deep breath. "All I can think is that she lost the piece of paper I'd written my phone number and address on.

"So if you're asking me if there's anything out there I still want, the answer is yes. I want to meet Miss Stevie again... and I want that picture."

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FLEETWOOD MAC PUT STORMY PAST BEHIND THEM

Baltimore Sun

By Chris Kaltenbach

Fleetwood Mac was famous in the 1970s for putting its members' personal bitterness on vinyl, but now, says vocalist Stevie Nicks (second from left), "We're having a blast."

Few rock 'n' roll bands openly displayed their internal fissures like Fleetwood Mac - or rode them to greater success.

But the hurt feelings and emotional turmoil that were poured onto vinyl for 1977's mega-platinum Rumours, still one of the best-selling records of all-time, are decades behind them now. When the band shows up at 1st Mariner Arena June 10, for one of the last stops in the "Greatest Hits Unleashed" North American tour, don't expect those kinds of sparks to fly. These days, everyone seems to be getting along swimmingly.

Being together off and on for more than three decades can do that to a band.

"We've been down this road, a long, long road, together," songwriter-guitarist Lindsay Buckingham said while promoting the tour. "In some ways, we know each other better than we know anybody else. We share things with each other that we've never shared with other people. I think we all want to dignify the road we've been down."

Adds drummer Mick Fleetwood, a wide-eyed giant of a man whose pounding drums have been a staple with the band since day one, "It's something that has not always been easy. But change and surviving that change ... is somewhat of a miracle, to tell you the truth."

For Fleetwood Mac, the road extends as far back as 1967, when some veterans of Britain's legendary John Mayall's Bluesbreakers decided to form their own group. Named for drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie, Fleetwood Mac saw several members come and go before solidifying in the mid-1970s. Only Fleetwood and McVie remained from the original lineup, which now included vocalists Buckingham, his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks, and McVie's wife, Christine, who also played keyboards.

That lineup was responsible for a trio of landmark albums, including 1975's Fleetwood Mac, which established the blend of pop and blues-influenced rock that would briefly make them one of the hottest bands on Earth, and 1979's Tusk, a hodgepodge of musical styles and Buckingham's doodlings that stands as one of the decade's most daring musical experiments.

Between those albums came Rumours, made while the McVies' marriage was dissolving and Buckingham and Nicks were undergoing a not-so-amicable break-up. The result, filled with anger, yearning and some of the greatest hooks of the rock era, had sold some 40 million copies worldwide at last count.

Fleetwood Mac's lineup would continue to shuffle, with Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie all leaving and rejoining the group at various times. But it's the Rumours-era group that will be in Baltimore tomorrow (minus Christine McVie, who quit touring for good in 1998). This is the group's first tour since 2004, and the first without a new album to promote.

"We've been apart for four years, now we're back together and we're having a blast," says Nicks, who celebrated her 61st birthday last month. "Had we been working every single year for the last four years and we were going out to do yet another tour this year, we would all be going, like, 'Uh, OK.' So this makes it very, very different and we're all excited."

That excitement even extends to the idea of not having any new music to offer, of playing only their greatest hits. The band members say they're excited by the challenge of playing to audiences whose loyalties have stood the test of time. Even more, they say, they're looking forward to playing with and for one another.

"It frees you up to kind of enjoy each other a little bit more as people," Buckingham says. "The mantra is really more 'Let's just have a good time,' and value the friendships and the history that really underpins this whole experience that we've had over these years."

(VIDEO) KATHY GRIFFIN AND BETTE MIDLER CALL STEVIE

My Life On The D-List.

Kathy Griffin and Bette Midler give Stevie a call from Bette's suite at Caesars....

Kathy trying to get Grammy votes.