HEAVY RELATIONSHIP DRAMA AND ERA-DEFINING DRUG PROBLEMS

Fleetwood Mac, On tour

The Guardian - Guide:  If you needed to describe the 1970s in two words, "Fleetwood Mac" would do pretty nicely. Some of this is down to what we know about the group outside the recording studio – all heavy relationship drama and era-defining drug problems. More significantly, the band put all this into their music, creating along the way a divorce rock triptych – their Fleetwood Mac, Rumours and Tusk albums – which brought sumptuous musical expression to the phrase "we need to talk about us". Most of the Mac's music still sounds great, a canon that will be faithfully revisited here by Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham – Christine McVie could not be tempted out again.

The O2, Dublin, Sat & Sun; Manchester Evening News Arena, Tue; Wembley Arena, London, Fri

John Robinson

(REVIEW) FLEETWOOD MAC - GLASGOW.... "Landside dedicated to Bird Handler"

Fleetwood Mac in Glasgow, Thursday 22nd October 09

October 24, 2009 — matildagretchen

My first thoughts when I saw them – they looked OLD, Lindsey in particular. Now, I know they ARE old, but I just mean compared to 5 years ago I could see a tiredness about them. Not that that’s a criticism at all, they still played an amazing show that would shame most of the younger bands out there. I just thought, “oh shit, they might not do this again, it might be taking too much out of them”. But as the show went on, they managed to find even more energy, and seemed to really be enjoying themselves.

Stevie was beautiful in her goth frocks (I counted 4 costume changes, all similar dresses with slight variations on the sequin/lace adornments), and I had hair envy – her mane always seemed to be freshly brushed, with not a lock out of place. I hope I have hair like that at her age – blue rinses are for losers! (sorry grannies).

Highlights of the show for me were -

You'll find the full review here along with a few photos.

(PHOTOS) FLEETWOOD MAC - GLASGOW (SECC) OCT 22nd

FLEETWOOD MAC - GLASGOW

OCTOBER 22, 2009 - SECC

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(PHOTOS) FLEETWOOD MAC - GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 22nd

FLEETWOOD MAC

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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GENTLEMAN REG TO COVER STEVIE NICKS' "Wild Heart"

Gentleman Reg will release a new EP dubbed Heavy Head with individual songs coming out in staggered sets beforehand.

The first two tracks, which are covers of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" and Stevie Nicks' "Wild Heart," will come out Nov. 10. The next two songs, which are B-sides, will be out the following week, and remixes of Jet Black's "We're In A Thunderstorm" and "How We Exit" will be the final tracks released on Nov. 24. The entire EP will be put out in one package on Dec. 1 through Arts and Crafts.

Any fans that attend Reg's upcoming shows with The Hidden Cameras beginning Oct. 29 and concluding Dec. 5 will be able to buy a limited edition download card that will give them the opportunity to get Heavy Head in advance.

You can check out Reg's videos for the catchy tune "How We Exit" here.

THIS IS CUTE!

This is what Fleetwood Mac can do [G]