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Rollingstone - Fleetwood Mac Detail New Tour and Talk Life After Lindsey Buckingham
Fleetwood Mac Detail New Tour and Talk Life After Lindsey Buckingham
In their first interview since firing their longtime guitarist, the group discusses balancing lingering tensions with an expanded live palette
A little over a month ago, the majority of Fleetwood Mac – Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood – quietly gathered at a little theater in Maui with their future in doubt. The band had secretly parted ways with Lindsey Buckingham, the longtime guitarist and voice behind many of their most enduring songs. According to the group, the split came down to a scheduling conflict surrounding a world tour. “We were supposed to go into rehearsal in June and he wanted to put it off until November [2019],” says Nicks. “That’s a long time. I just did 70 shows [on a solo tour]. As soon as I finish one thing, I dive back into another. Why would we stop? We don’t want to stop playing music. We don’t have anything else to do. This is what we do.”
So instead, they invited Mike Campbell, the former guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Crowded House frontman Neil Finn and spent a few days workshopping tunes from their vast catalog to see if this new lineup had the right chemistry. “I immediately felt like I’d known them for years,” says Christine McVie, “even though we’d only just met.”
The new lineup will embark on a massive 52-date tour beginning October 3rd in Tulsa and criss-crossing the country before wrapping up in Phladelphia in April 2019. Tickets for the tour go on sale Friday, May 4th at 10 a.m. local time. The group also announced the launch of a SiriusXM channel devoted to the band beginning Tuesday, May 1st.
Nobody in the group is quite willing to say Buckingham was “fired,” but they don’t completely object to the term. “Words like ‘fired’ are ugly references as far as I’m concerned,” says Fleetwood. “Not to hedge around, but we arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall. This was not a happy situation for us in terms of the logistics of a functioning band. To that purpose, we made a decision that we could not go on with him. Majority rules in term of what we need to do as a band and go forward.” Buckingham did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this story.
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FLEETWOOD MAC LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE SIRIUSXM CHANNEL MAY 1ST
Fleetwood Mac to Launch Exclusive SiriusXM Channel as Iconic Band Announces North American Tour
The Fleetwood Mac Channel to launch on Tuesday, May 1st
NEW YORK – April 25, 2018 – SiriusXM announced today that GRAMMY Award-winning rock band Fleetwood Mac will launch an exclusive, limited-runSiriusXM channel, The Fleetwood Mac Channel, on Tuesday, May 1st.
The Fleetwood Mac Channel will showcase music from Fleetwood Mac’s extensive Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career including their indelible hits, solo material, live songs, rare demo tracks and musical influences.
The channel will also include exclusive stories and hosted shows from Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks, as well as insight and perspective from Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) and Neil Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) who recently joined Fleetwood Mac.
SiriusXM’s The Fleetwood Mac Channel begins on Tuesday, May 1st at 5:00 pm ET and runs through May, via satellite on channel 30, and through theSiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.
SiriusXM subscribers will be able to tune into The Fleetwood Mac Channel (channel 30) beginning on Tuesday, May 1 on SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen online, on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Go to www.SiriusXM.com/streaming to learn more.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Fleetwood Mac reveals why Lindsey Buckingham was ousted
Fleetwood Mac reveals why Lindsey Buckingham was ousted
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Lindsey Buckingham to perform at Mike Levin Event
Lindsey will be the musical guest at an event in Los, Feliz, CA in support of Mike Levin, Democrat for California's 49th District on Friday, May 11, 2018.
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