GOOD NEWS FOR LINDSEY BUCKINGHAMS YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Several sources are confirming rumors that the Warner Music Group has finalized a new relationship with YouTube that will see their artists return to the top rated video channel. The deal will be announced as soon as WMG's new videos are delivered and encoded for play.

WMG is also back in talks with Vevo, the new Universal, Sony and YouTube sponsored music channel currently in development. Both moves are part of a broader Warner Music strategy to increase income from videos by using non-exclusive deals to spread their artists across a wide variety of ad supported channels.

Quite some time ago now, for those not aware, Warner Music and Youtube had a disagreement over royalty payments on Warner Music Group videos on Youtube and subsequently started pulling artists signed with Warner off their site. Video Channels including Lindsey Buckingham's were pulled down... If this news is true, we should see his channel reinstated on Youtube.

VIDEO: FLEETWOOD MAC "GOLD DUST WOMAN" Live in San Diego

One of the best songs in the set this tour is Gold Dust Woman!

You need to experience it live to completely appreciate it.

Captured in San Diego, CA May 31, 2009

HOME BILLETS ORGANISED FOR FLEETWOOD MAC NEW PLYMOUTH FANS

No room at inn for Fleetwood fans

Taranaki Daily News

The accommodation crush is being felt all over Taranaki as momentum grows for the Fleetwood Mac concerts in New Plymouth.

Home-billets are being organised as hotels and motels put up full-house signs for the December 19 and 20 gigs at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands.

The Taranaki Daily News has heard anecdotal evidence of people vacating their homes to stay with friends while letting their houses for more than $300 a night.

And the prices are being willingly paid by well-heeled baby boomers who aren't keen on roughing it in the campsite at Pukekura Raceway, where room for 3000 campers has been made available through the council's i-Site Visitor Information Centre.

The Bowl gigs are Fleetwood Mac's final of a world tour and the only New Zealand appearances. The Saturday show on December 19 is a sell-out and the few remaining tickets for the Sunday show are selling fast, New Plymouth District Council events manager Garry Sharpe-Young said yesterday.

These attending the Sunday show are sure to be in for a party atmosphere from the band.

"It's their very final show on the world tour, so they are sure to be letting their hair down and partying after the Sunday concert," he said.

For Wellington fans, a train will travel through to New Plymouth and return to the capital after the Saturday concert. The same is on offer for Cliff Richard and the Shadows on February 27.

Meanwhile, the online scalpers are alive and well. Trade Me last night had 26 sets of tickets advertised for sale, offered by people from all over the country, with tickets up for grabs in all three price ranges.

General admission is $120, silver $250 and A-reserve sells at $320 through Ticketmaster.

The most expensive tickets on Trade Me to date appear to be a $1095 deal for two A-reserve gold tickets including return train travel to and from Wellington.

STEVIE NICKS INTERVIEW - MELBOURNE SUNDAY HERALD MAGAZINE

Melbourne Herald Sunday Magazine Interview with Stevie Nicks from September 20, 2009.

A HUGE thank you to jovonfoool for providing the scan!

UPDATED ON FLEETWOOD MAC'S GREATEST HITS SALES

Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits collection is still riding the Catalog Top 200 Sales Charts in the US:

Billboard Issue 9/19/09:

This Week: #53

Sales: 2,417

Accumulated Soundscan Sales (tracked since 1991): 4,271,984

Last Week: #53

Sales: 2,473

FLEETWOOD MAC TOUR STATS UPDATE (SEPT '09)

Three Tour Dates added to the Unleashed Tour Stats For North America:

(in yellow)

Baltimore 6/10/09

New York City 6/11/09

Manchester, NH 6/16/09