LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM TO PERFORM OCT 29, 2010 WRITERS GUILD THEATER

Judd Apatow and Dave Eggers Host

An Evening of Music and Comedy to Celebrate the Release of the Anthology:

"I Found This Funny"

Featuring:

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

GARRY SHANDLING

and many more guests soon to be announced...

Writers Guild Theater

Friday, October 29, 2010, 8:00 PM (Doors open at 7:30 PM)

135 South Doheny Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Tickets $250-$500

All proceeds go toward 826LA’s free student programming

Judd Apatow and Dave Eggers host an evening of music and comedy to celebrate the release of I Found This Funny, a collection of humorous writing edited by Judd Apatow, with work by some of his favorite authors. The book will be released by McSweeney’s on October 22, 2010, and showcases many different styles of writing, from fiction to short humor to essays to comedy sketches to poetry. Featured writers include Nora Ephron, Paul Feig, Jonathan Franzen, Steve Martin, Lorrie Moore, Conan O'Brien, David Sedaris, and many more. Proceeds from the book will go to 826 National, a non-profit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations in eight cities across the country.

All proceeds from event ticket sales will benefit 826LA. Now in its fifth year, 826LA’s fundraising events have established a reputation for being completely unique nights, filled with impressive lineups and side-splitting laughs. On this special evening, laughing at lowbrow (and highbrow) humor benefits the greater good, as the show’s proceeds directly fund student writing and tutoring programs at 826LA.

VIP and General Admission tickets are considered a tax-deductible donation. Adults only (18 and over). www.826la.org/ifoundthisfunny

About the Hosts:

Judd Apatow was co-creator and executive producer of The Ben Stiller Show and Undeclared; co-executive producer of The Larry Sanders Show; and executive producer of Freaks and Geeks. He’s produced many of the most successful films in recent years, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, which he also wrote and directed. Most recently, Apatow released his third directorial feature, Funny People, which the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Vanity Fair included on their lists of the top ten films of 2009.

Dave Eggers is the author of seven books and two screenplays, including Where the Wild Things Are. His book What Is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Médicis Etranger. Eggers’ most recent book, Zeitoun, was awarded the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. In 2002, with Ninive Calegari, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. 826 chapters have now opened up in eight cities, including Los Angeles.

About 826LA:

826LA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Its services are structured around the belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. In its fifth year, 826LA currently provides drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners and assistance with student publications. Drawing from a volunteer base of more than 1,600, which includes many teachers, writers and journalism professionals, 826LA unites eager students with eager helpers. All of 826LA’s programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently and in his or her individual voice. 826LA’s Echo Park Time Travel Mart store serves as a gateway to the community and offers all of its proceeds in support of student programming. www.826la.org

Source #1
Source #2

CHART UPDATE: "THE VERY BEST OF" FLEETWOOD MAC

Fleetwood Mac's 5x platinum "The Very Best Of" leaps back onto the Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart in Australia at #9 for the week of September 27th. The disc was last seen on the chart at the end of May, 2010.

THE FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 AUSTRALIAN TOUR - MICHAEL CHUGG MEMOIR

Medieval banquets, card tables full of cocaine… spoiled ’70s superstars Fleetwood Mac lived up to their mantra, writes promoter Michael Chugg in his new memoir

Michael Chugg was only fifteen years old when he began managing and promoting music in his hometown of Launceston, Tasmania. That was in 1962. Fast forward to the present, and "Chuggi", as he is affectionately known, has been a pioneer in bringing the newest, biggest and baddest musical acts to Australia.

These include The Police, Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli and Sammy Davis Jr., Fleetwood Mac, R.E.M., Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kiss, Pearl Jam, and many more. Chuggi has developed a reputation as a hard-arse, often walking on stage to shout down the crowd or pull the talent into line. He also never minces words writing in shocking detail about what goes on behind closed doors when big international acts come to town.

This honest, open and blunt expose of the underbelly of Australian music events is both hilarious and fascinating.

Released in Australia: 01/10/2010

These are pages from The Weekend Australian Magazine September 25-26th edition

Click to enlarge

(Sales Update) FLEETWOOD MAC'S "GREATEST HITS"

Released in 1988, Fleetwood Mac's "Greatest Hits" continues to sell well.

For the most recent Billboard 200 Catalogue chart for the week ending September 19, 2010 "Greatest Hits" is sitting at #83 with sales for the week of 1,582 units down from the previous week of 1,798 units. Total US sales (1991 to present) the disc has sold 4,384,136 units. Since September, 2009 the compilation has sold a total of 112,152 units in the US.

"Greatest Hits" was last certified by the RIAA in 2000 at 8x platinum (8 million units shipped in the US).  Soundscan tracks actual sales, over the counter and digital, the RIAA tracks shipments.

Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada. It began tracking point of sale (POS) sales in early 1991. SoundScan is the sales source for the Billboard music charts, making it the official source of sales records in the music industry.

Never going back again | The Australian

Never going back again | The Australian: "MICHAEL Chugg was an up-and-coming 30-year-old music promoter when his employer, Paul Dainty, gave him the gig of looking after the now legendary Fleetwood Mac tour in 1977."

Just as the band’s recently released album, Rumours, raised the bar for pop albums (it would go on to sell 40 million copies), the corresponding tour would similarly set new standards for rock and roll excess, especially in Australia.

“The promoter’s rep will meet the band’s tour manager in the car park of Sydney Airport with two ounces of cocaine,” was one of the first instructions Chugg received from Fleetwood Mac’s management. It set the scene for the rest of the tour, if not Chugg’s ensuing career.

Chugg was not a coke user – not then, anyway – and enlisted a roadie to score for him. The band had a crew of 67 people, which meant that they were able to float from one gig to the next with only their cocaine-fuelled performances to worry about.

Despite the lavish demands the band put on catering – extensive banquets accompanied by French champagne and Courviosier – Mick Fleetwood and his colleagues were never seen consuming food. “All of them were too wired to eat,” Chugg recalls. “The excess was outrageous. There was just too much coke and too much weed.”

Chugg, originally from Tasmania, was soon embracing the lifestyle. “That 1977 tour was the entrée to many wayward nights on the rock’n’roll circuit,” he says. “At its most outrageous, the nights rolled into days and just occasionally the days turned into weeks.”

Read more about Chugg’s initiation into rock promoting in Go Your Own Way, by music writer Iain Shedden, tomorrow in the Weekend Australian Magazine.

The Story of Rumours by Fleetwood Mac BBC Radio 2

Next on: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 22:00 on BBC Radio 2
Duration: 60 minutes

DOWNLOAD (53mb MP3)
OR
LISTEN NOW

On 4 February 1977, an album was released that would go on to be one of the best selling albums of all time. Paul Sexton tells the remarkable story behind the making of Fleetwood Mac's Grammy Award-winning album.

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac was made under the most bizarre circumstances. The two couples at the heart of the band, John and Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, were in the process of splitting up. No songs were written before going into the studio. And everyone was zonked on cocaine. So they wrote about it all as it happened, and one of the most successful albums of all time was the result.

The Story Of Rumours is told through new interviews with Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham, as well as some amazing studio tales from producer Ken Caillat. The other band members feature through archive interviews.

It's interspersed with classic hits from the album, including The Chain, Dreams, Don't Stop and Go Your Own Way.

Listen Now