VIDEO: Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams Tour Campaign #StevieNicksIYDTOUR with @davestewart

And it all comes down to you!... 

Stevie's new album In Your Dreams is out now in many countries around the world and has been for about a month.  The album is being loved and heralded by not only the fans, but by critics and reviewers (Album Reviews) as her best since the early 80's.  In Your Dreams is about to drop in the UK in just a few short weeks (June 27th) to great anticipation by the UK fans.  With the Summer touring season virtually upon us where do we find ourselves?  We find ourselves looking at a blank slate in terms of scheduled live solo dates touring behind this really amazing new album... Aside from the one show in the UK June 26th at the Hard Rock Calling Festival and the previously reported tour in Australia this November there isn't anything lined up, that we know of, for North America this summer/fall.  Yes, Stevie wasn't completely absent from the road this year.  She toured with Rod Stewart in March/April covering 18 major markets in the US/Canada where she included one new song in that set from the new album "Secret Love".  That was great for what it was, which was introducing her music to pretty much an audience that wasn't necessarily there to see her - but to see Rod. 

The real issue is that The Wiltern Birthday Bash show May 26th proved that adding an astounding amount of new music to the set (8 new songs from the new album) can be done and should be done.  What an exciting night it was to be in that audience... I can't even tell you!  Not only did it prove that the new songs can be played alongside the older solo and Fleetwood Mac favourites, it can be done to great success.  The balance of The Wiltern show between older material and new material was perfect!! The audience ate it up... I know, I was there... Granted it was an Album Release Concert so you would expect a great deal of the album to be previewed but the music sounded so good that night.  Stevie's band was tight,  they played the new music with such ease it looked as if they had been playing this music for years... Stevie, Sharon and Lori were on their game that night looking and sounding phenomenal.  Fans all over should have the opportunity to experience something similar - they deserve it and the new music deserves to be heard live!!  With the exception of one song in the set "Soldiers Angel" everything played that night is completely road worthy.  With "Soldiers Angel" where Lindsey sings and plays back up, I don't think you can touch that song unless he's going to be there.  Just my opinion.

Dave Stewart the album co-producer, co-writer, duet partner, videographer on a couple of tracks from the album was at The Wiltern May 26th and added a great deal to the overall show... He's set to tour with Stevie in Australia come November and I believe he'd totally be on board if a trek across North America were put into place... Dave included would just be an added bonus if it happened and would tie everything the two of them have worked on over the last year and a half together nicely... 

There has been talk of something in the works for Stevie touring in North America sometime in August/September - but nothing has been announced and we are already into June.  If it's going to happen, it needs to happen pretty quick!

So if you are on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere
else online put the word out there that

YOU WANT STEVIE TO TOUR BEHIND 
'IN YOUR DREAMS'!

• Include the campaign on Twitter hashtag #StevieNicksIYDTOUR in your tweet.
• Make a video and post it on Youtube or any video hosting sight

LET THE FANS COME TOGETHER AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

Below the videos, I've listed a ton of Live Nation Twitter accounts... Live Nation, promoters behind many Stevie and Fleetwood Mac shows, just might take note if there is a groundswell from the fan community.

To kick things off  - Check out these IYD Campaign videos... Great stuff!

Original Video - More videos at TinyPic

LIVE NATION ON TWITTER
Live Nation is the future of the music business. Live Nation is revolutionizing the music industry, onstage and online.

Live Nation have many Twitter accounts world wide... I'm sure there are many more than this, but a suggestion would be to include some, or all, in your campaign message to let it be known that the fan community would really like to see Stevie tour behind In Your Dreams preferably with Dave Stewart on the bill!

@LiveNation @LiveNation_LA @LiveNationSouth @LiveNationAL @LiveNationUK @LiveNationNCSC @livenationwest @livenationclv @LiveNationNFlor @LiveNationDet @LiveNationAlbq @LiveNationTexas @LiveNation_nl @LiveNationCT @LiveNationNCSC @livenationwest @livenationclv @LiveNationNFlor

IRVING AZOFF
@irvingazoff

Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and Chairman and CEO of the Front Line Management Group, the world’s largest music management firm.

The head of Live Nation Entertainment - he's also the head of Stevie's Management company Front Line... Include him in your tweets to get Stevie out on the road spreading the word about this amazing album In Your Dreams!

LIVE NATION ON FACEBOOK
There are many Live Nation outlets on Facebook... Search them out, "like" their page and post your request for Stevie to tour...This is their main Facebook page with close to half a million followers... Post your message on their wall... Let some eyeballs see your desire to see Stevie this summer/fall backing her album In Your Dreams.  Let it be known!

Live Nation on Facebook

‘Dream’ comes true for Stevie Nicks

“In Your Dreams” (Reprise) ★★★/4 
Worcester Telegram
by Craig S. Semon

For those of you who think it’s time for Stevie Nicks to stand back, stand, back from the studio, “In Your Dreams” shows the 62-year-old, rock ’n’ roll enchantress still has plenty of tricks up her leather-and-lace sleeves and the power to conjure up enchanting spells in her songs.

With her engaging rasp and gypsy-ccentric take on life, Nicks is still the encompassing free-spirit and engaging earth mother who’s one with the cosmos but is always at odds with affairs (and I mean affairs) of the heart.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer calls her latest opus her own little “Rumours.” Well, it isn’t quite that good, but “In Your Dreams” is easily her best disc since 1981’s “Bella Donna.”

Nicks asks the musical question “Must secret loves secretly die?” on the aptly titled leadoff track and first single, “Secret Love.” This Fleetwood Mac-like composition was written during the “Rumours” session and sounds like a lost B-side from a time when fleeting, forbidden relationships were all the rage (especially if you were in Fleetwood Mac). Nicks’ bewitching vocals hover above a bubbling caldron of jangly guitars and gurgling keyboards. Nicks belts, “I am not asking forever from you/I’m just asking to be held for awhile/In a timeless search/From a love that might work/We’re already payin’ the price.” Nicks might have to pay the price for her indiscretions but her fans are reaping the benefits.

Whether it’s instinctually and/or unconsciously, Nicks is a believer of forbidden, outrageous love affairs, as evidenced with “For What It’s Worth.” In the combination mantra/confession of guilt, Nicks declares, “I got to sing. I got to dance. I got to be a part of a great romance.” Nicks’ voice sounds lively and youthful and her teary-eyed ruminations sound vibrant and timeless. With some sparkling acoustic and lap steel guitar supplied by Tom Petty’s ax-grinding Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, Nicks’ world-weary wisdom of being trapped in a relationship that was doomed from the start is passionate, poignant and poetic.

Despite being old enough to retire, Nicks sounds like she’s on the edge of 17 on the title track, “In Your Dreams.” Accompanied by a lively, countrified-rock arrangement, Nicks sums up her private and professional persona in the simple lines, “I’m just a dreamer/A storyteller/It’s all about you.” And, whether it’s her faithful listener or lover at the moment she is singing to, Nicks proves she is eager to please.

When a fling takes a turn for the worse on “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Nicks does what any level-headed, jilted lover would do. Burn the house down to the ground with herself inside to give her ex something to remember her by. While the song is over the top, Nicks keeps the song grounded with her flowing, storytelling lyrics and her undying commitment to the material.

“New Orleans,” a tame (and often lame) travelogue set to music, often sounds like a combination of Nicks’ shopping and things-to-do lists. Nicks bemoans, “I wanna get back to New Orleans/I wanna sing out/In the streets of the French Quarter/I wanna dress up/I wanna wear beads/I wanna wear feathers and lace/I wanna brush by Anne Rice/Go down Bourbon Street.” I wanna. I wanna. I wanna. Even a “Girls Gone Wild” TV promo has more decorum and drama.

I don’t know what’s sadder, Nicks confessing that she’s a fan of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” film or the fact that she was inspired to write a song about it. On the bubblegum Goth ballad “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream),” Nicks sings about the love between a sullen, social outcast and her brooding, blood-sucking, pretty-boy boyfriend. Despite its schoolgirl banalities, Nicks sinks her teeth in the anemic goo with the fervor of a teen-wolf on a feeding frenzy. In the end, Team Edward will swoon in delight while anyone who is old enough to drink will want to drive a stake through their heart.

“Soldier’s Angel” is a rare feat. It’s a deeply moving and heartfelt tribute to our wounded and lost soldiers that never becomes preachy, schmaltzy or too sentimental. Seeing through the eyes of a soldier’s mother, widow, nurse and the soldier themselves, Nicks gives their hard-to-convey thoughts an urgency and an immediacy that is taut, emotional and gripping. In one of the song’s most heartfelt and poignant verses, Nicks muses, “I’m a soldier in their army/They are the soldiers of my heart/I try to make them smile again/though it tears me apart/Their bravery leaves me spellbound/I try to be a small part/Of bringing them back again/They are the soldiers of my heart.” Made up of goofy, lovey-dovey couplets the queasy duet, “Cheaper Than Free” has Nicks and the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart clumsily chime in unison, “What’s faster than a fast car/A beating heart/What’s deeper than a deep well/The love in which I fell/More important than freedom/Being needed/More exciting than high fashion/High passion.” I have one for you. What’s cheesier than a jar of Cheez Whiz? This song.

While “Cheaper Than Free” is a colossal clunker, it doesn’t take away from the fact that “In Your Dreams” is often a success.

NEW DATE: Lindsey Buckingham Live in Durham, NC October 1, 2011

The Carolina Theatre presents

Lindsey Buckingham
Saturday, October 1 | 8:00 pm
Durham, NC

TICKET PRICES:
$55 - $35

ON SALE:

June 10, 2011

The Carolina Theatre

Concert Gross Data: Stevie Nicks Las Vegas The Colosseum at Caesars

Stevie came in at # 81 on the most recent publication of the Top Concert Grosses... Another sold out show!

# 81 Stevie Nicks 

The Colosseum at Caesars Palace

Las Vegas, Nev.

May 14, 2011

$388,211

4,073 / 4,073

1 / 1

$175, $135, $95, $49.50

Concerts West/AEG Live

REVIEW: Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" co-produced by Dave Stewart boasts high-gloss gumption and poetic grit

IN YOUR DREAMS
The Straits Times
Singapore

IN YOUR DREAMS: If change is the constancy in the career of 25 year-old Lady Gaga, then Emmylou Harris, 64, and Stevie Nicks, 63, are queens of timelessness who chart their own evolutionary paths.

Harris’ latest, Hard Bargains, is a retrospective baste in melancholy, but never once feels treacly. Her raspy, gossamer purr eulogises Canadian folk icon Kate McGarrigle who died last year of cancer (Darlin’ Kate); and her mentor Gram Parsons, who overdosed on morphine and alcohol back in 1973 (The Road).

She won’t wallow and shows she can still kick up a fuss when she wants to.

Her post-Katrina anthem, New Orleans, has fire, and Six White Cadillacs is a honky-tonk lovely that will keep your foot tapping.

Nicks, likewise, has the languid assuredness of someone who’s paid her dues. Her latest, In Your Dreams, her first in a decade, is her best in years.

The album, co-produced by Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, boasts high-gloss gumption and poetic grit.

Presiding over her gypsy kingdom, she fuses myth and reality. Whether waxing about a Secret Love or taking cues from the Twilight series in Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream) or Edgar Allan Poe in Annabel Lee, she glows and glowers fabulously.

Fleetwood's on Front Street... Mick Fleetwood's Restaurant on Maui

The work continues on the refurbish of the building that will eventually house Mick's new restaurant on Maui.  The Roof is being completely redone and according to Fleetwood's on Front Street Facebook page, a design team from Bitton Design Group is in place to craft Mick's ideas for the restaurant.  Stages will be located on both the rooftop and on the second level with the second level having a full set of Mick's drums setup for whenever Mick drops in.  The restaurant is looking to open sometime after September, 2011 although no specific date has been given.

Exciting stuff!!

Check out the Fleetwood's on Front Street website and Register online for special offers and the most updated news about Fleetwood's on Front Street. Mahalo!  HERE

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