VIDEO: Stevie Nicks retools "Gold Dust Woman" Sydney, AU December 8, 2009

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA AND THE GOLD DUST WOMAN
DECEMBER 8, 2009

By far the most fluid song in the set... It keeps changing with almost every show, either in the way Lindsey and Mick are playing on it, or in Stevie's delivery. Check out the ending of the video... Stevie's ad libs are different yet again...I love it!  Great capture and sound from whomever filmed this.

To the shadow...

Through the shadow...
Lost her in the shadow
Let her go into the shadow
Dropped her in the shadow
Didn't care about the shadows
She's gone into the shadow
Runnin' to the shadow
Lost her in the shadow
In the shadow
She's gone into the shadow
She's gone into the shadow

HAVEN'T WE BEEN HERE BEFORE?

Fleetwood Mac rumoured to be headlining 2010 Glastonbury festival
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Gossip website claims band will top the bill

Fleetwood Mac are rumoured to be headlining Glastonbury festival next summer.

According to Holymoly.com the reunited band will close the Somerset bash on the Pyramid Stage on Sunday (June 27) – although the band or festival chiefs have not confirmed the rumoured booking.

U2 have been announced as headliners for the Friday (25) night of Glastonbury, while it is also heavily rumoured that Muse will also play a headline slot.

Fleetwood Mac recently played a UK arena tour.

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FLEETWOOD MAC TOP BILLBOARD BOXSCORE THIS WEEK $2.9 MILLION GROSS IN SYDNEY

FLEETWOOD MAC will top Billboard's Boxscore Chart in the upcoming issue with a reported gross of $2,861,280 for their two dates in Sydney, Australia at Acer Arena December 7th and 8th.

#1 Fleetwood Mac, The Verses Acer Arena
City: Sydney, Australia
Dates: Dec. 7-8, 2009
Gross: $2,861,280
Attendance/Capacity: 19,400 / 20,230
# of Shows / Sellouts: 2 / 0
Ticket Prices: $181.02, $117.02
Promoter: Andrew McManus Presents

THE NUMBERS SO FAR: (Up to December 8, 2009)
Total Shows Performed: 73
Total Shows Reported: 60
Total Gross Ticket Sales: $66,901,389
Total Attendance: 663,922
Total Capactiy: 783,627
Total Reported Sellouts: 10

THE BREAKDOWN: (Up to December 8, 2009)
Average Per Show Gross: $1,115,023
Average Per Show Attendance: 11,065
Average Per Show Capacity: 13,060
Average Per Show Ticket Price: $100.77
Average Per Show Attendance Percentage: 85%

PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Sydney, Australia

FLEETWOOD MAC

ACER ARENA NIGHT #1

SYDNEY AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 7, 2009

Photos by: Chris Sydney (Gallery | Slideshow)

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REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac Sydney, Australia December 8th

Loyal fans ignore the cracks in heritage rock
By: Bernard Zuel

Fleetwood Mac
Acer Arena, December 8

THIS is not meant to be a story about change. Things don't change in a hurry, if at all, in what the Americans call heritage rock. As in, solid as a rock. As in, preserved just as it was when we first saw it rock.

This of course is hardly going to cause complaints in an audience who have come for the security and comfort of the familiar: if they wanted new songs, they would buy a new album by some new artist. And what's an MP3 anyway?

The structure of this tour is much the same as five years ago: the songs - the hits, naturally, with one song each from a Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks solo album; the solo spots (Buckingham alone for Big Love; Buckingham and Nicks duet for the excellent Landslide); and the solos (Buckingham, as often as possible; John McVie briefly and Mick Fleetwood once).

There were also the absences. Without Christine McVie's songs this show is diminished and let's not get started on the wiped-from-history pre-1975 versions of Fleetwood Mac. And the additions (the multiple extra voices and instruments augmenting the remaining parts of the ''classic'' line-up).

But there were some changes worth noting and not just the fact that Mick Fleetwood's banal drum solo, complete with gibbering, was kept to less than 10 minutes (oh hallelujah!). Or that apart from occasional great moments such as Second Hand News and the set-closing Go Your Own Way, tempos and energy levels were frustratingly half a pace off, deadening songs such as Storms.

First, while Nicks's voice is in even poorer state than five years ago - the top range is long gone, the middle range is wobbly and songs such as Rhiannon can never recover - and her movements more stiff and limited, she seemed much more engaged with the songs, the audience and her bandmates this time.

On the other hand, a self-satisfied Buckingham was even more over the top, balancing his evident status as the healthiest and most capable musician in the band with a tendency to mug furiously and ridiculously. Perhaps unwittingly his voice was considerably louder than anyone else's in the mix so that when he and Nicks sang together her voice disappeared.

Not that the audience, wildly applauding anything and everything and offering standing ovations freely, minded. That's another thing which never changes.