Showing posts with label about fleetwood mac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label about fleetwood mac. Show all posts

Monday, 27 December 2010

Fleetwood Mac music Worldwide famous


A news released on 15 December, Worldwide famous band Fleetwood Mac music will be listen at West Leagues Club this Friday.

Fleetwood Mac's all concerts are classic that has album sold out more than 100 million albums. This show provides the history of the band, this concert providers has location is an out standing such as Rooty Hill RSL and Penrith Panthers for the past four years.

This concert includes a famous songs as "Dream", "Go Your Own Way: and Gold Dust Woman".


Saturday, 18 December 2010

Lady Gaga and Fleetwood Mac Sing "THE SING OFF" Song


Fleetwood Mac and Lady Gaga included "THE SING OFF" song from the last night.

Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town performing "HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN", The Backbeats performing Landslide and Street Corner Symphony performing Down on the Corner. He says, "I also greatly enjoyed On the Rocks' swan song of The Final Countdown."

The Sing Off Songs List:

Group: With a Little Help from My Friends – Joe Cocker

On the Rocks: Elton John Medley

Committed: Usher Medley

Street Corner Symphony: Beatles Medley

The Backbeats: Lady Gaga Medley

Lawson and Talk of the Town: Otis Redding Medley

On the Rocks Swan Song: The Final Countdown by Europe.

Committed: Al Green – Let's Stay Together

Street Corner Symphony: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down on the Corner

The backbeats: Fleetwood Mac – Landslide

Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town: The Animals : House of the Rising Sun

And now all the videos:

Night 4, Part 1: Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town

Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town do an Otis Redding medley.

Night 4, Part 2: Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town

Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town: the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun"

Night 4, Part 1: The Backbeats

The Backbeats do a Lady Gaga medley.

Night 4, Part 2: The Backbeats

The Backbeats: Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide"

Night 4, Part 1: Committed

Committed does an Usher medley.

Night 4, Part 2: Committed

Committed: Al Green's "Let's Stay Together."

Night 4, Part 1: On the Rocks

On the Rocks does an Elton John medley.

Four Remain

It's down to four groups and now it's up to you.

Monday, 1 February 2010

Glastonbury Festival responds to Fleetwood Mac headline claims

Glastonbury organisers say it is "unlikely" Fleetwood Mac will headline next year's festival, despite rumours emerging today (December 11) suggesting the band had been signed up for next summer's event.Gossip site Holymoly.com claimed the reunited band would close the Somerset bash by topping the bill on the Pyramid Stage next year, however a spokesperson for the event has since told NME that this is unlikely to happen, although they did not comment on whether the band will be involved in the 2010 festival.

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.


Thursday, 5 November 2009

Birmingham, Fleetwood Max at the NIA


It is rare for a rumbling bass guitar it is rare riff to get one of the biggest cheers at a concert but it happened when John McVie played those famous notes of The Chain, introduced to a whole new audience thanks to their use as the theme tune to TV’s Grand Prix racing coverage.
And, just like an F1 car, Fleetwood Mac got off to a flying start as they took the audience on a Greatest Hits trip. The Chain, the second track of a 22 song set, was followed by Dreams and a rockin’ I Know I’m Not Wrong.
Frontman Lindsey Buckingham explained: “We’ve got no new album to sell so we’ve decided to do the songs we love – and we hope you love them too.”
While 60 year old Lindsey provides the hard edged rock ‘n’ roll, former girlfriend Stevie Nicks, a year his senior, enchants with her more ethereal tunes.
Rhiannon and Gold Dust Woman were highlights of the two hour 20 minute show, while at the end of Sara, Nicks and Buckingham hugged, a sign that time has healed the rift between them.
The duo may be in the spotlight at the front but the power is at the back of the stage in the shape of 63 year old McVie and towering 62 year old drummer Mick Fleetwood who provided the muscular rhythm for another show stopper, the mighty Tusk.
When it comes to guitar maestros, however, it’s hard to top Buckingham who played a blistering solo at the end of I’m So Afraid.
He has the stage to himself for Big Love, a song, he explains, that was written as an ensemble piece but has evolved into a solo performance.
Drummer Fleetwood encores with a madcap solo before a rip roaring finish of Don’t Stop which had the sold out crowd singing along.
The Mac are well and truly back.

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Michael Jackson: This Is It, Kenny Ortega, 112 mins, (PG)


The biggest musical event this week isn't a concert at all, but it's coming to a popcorn pit near you. By the time I'm writing this and you're reading it, Michael Jackson was meant to have performed 27 dates of his This Is It farewell show at the O2 in London, with a further 23 to follow in the spring.
Whether you believe he would even have made it this far without cancellations is a matter for personal conjecture. And it's a question that the feature film, cobbled together from his rehearsals at Los Angeles' Staples Center, only hints at answering.
The Star Wars scroll-up at the start tells us that This Is It was going to be "an entirely new concert experience". Entirely new? Not exactly. A very high-concept version of the existing concert experience, perhaps. But it's typical of the uncritical hyperbole that defines and dogs this documentary.
The main problem with This Is It lies in its choice of director: Kenny Ortega, the director of the stage show itself, who has cherry-picked the clips which make his production appear in the best possible light.
It would, unquestionably, have been a cracking concert: the dancers who pop up from below-stage at toaster speed, the black widow spider from which Jacko emerges in "Thriller", the appearance of an actual bulldozer for "Earth Song", the Zelig/Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid-style film preceding "Smooth Criminal" in which MJ is placed inside a montage of film-noir scenes (admiring Rita Hayworth in Gilda, dodging Bogey's bullets in Dead Reckoning, and so on).
But had the footage fallen somehow into the hands of an impartial documentarian, we might have seen a completely different film from the hagiography Ortega has given us.
The most fascinating scenes, nevertheless, are the candid moments in which Michael, bespectacled and studious, chomping on snacks or sucking on a lollipop, supervises auditions, oversees choreography on his laptop, bosses the band (who all call him "Sir") into making it "more funky" and admonishes them for "not letting it simmer!", while emphasising that his criticisms are always delivered "with the love, L.O.V.E".
His face, it's sad to say, looks like someone who's been in a fire, but his physical condition isn't as poor as one might expect. The 50 year old was still super mobile, as the awe inspiring spin he throws into "The Way You Make Me Feel" proves, and his voice on "Human Nature" is out of this world. What he lacks, it seems, is stamina: he complains that he needs to save his voice rather than rehearse the outro of "Just Can't Stop Loving You", and can't hack a retake of the routine for "Beat It". Interestingly, the one character we never meet is Dr Conrad Murray, dosing Jacko up and pushing his body to the limit to meet AEG's concert schedule.
Despite the stress he's under, at no point does the King of Pop kick off, throw his toys out of pram or reach the end of his tether. Instead, he spends his down-time delivering a softly-spoken soliloquy on climate change. Maybe he actually is that saintly. We'll never know, because Ortega's sometimes inspiring, but mostly somewhat sad film is ultimately – no apologies for the pun – a whitewash.
If she didn't mean it, it wouldn't work. Stephanie Lynn Nicks may have been working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when Fleetwood Mac found her, and cleaning the producer's toilets to pay for her first record, but the buck-toothed blonde from Phoenix never stopped imagining herself as a Welsh witch goddess.
Thirty-five years on, she hasn't ceased: swishing about in a bat-winged cape and a diamante half-moon pendant, and bleating about a "woman taken by the sky". Mystery-and-magic isn't merely an act for Stevie. She believes it, and bless her to bits for that.
If Stevie on a British stage is what really sends the hackles tingling for the faithful, then it's only in the context of a truly stunning Fleetwood Mac concert. Her foil and sometime lover Lindsey Buckingham, spindly-legged and still offensively handsome, is a fast-fingertipped phenomenon on guitar. His solo spots for "Big Love" and "Oh Well" are breathtaking; the title track of his 1979 folly Tusk is so berserk you can almost taste the Hollywood A-grade in your septum.
Together, they conjure such an electricity that the rhythm section John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, whose British blues band was transformed by the Buckingham-Nicks takeover in 1974, can only stand and watch. "I think I had met my match," she sings in the sublime "Sara", and she looks at him with lazy eyes. He catches the glance, and bites his lip. As the song ends, they waltz and he kisses her hair. It must drive their current partners insane. Because it sure as hell sends a shiver through everyone else.

Saturday, 10 October 2009

SHERYL CROW MYSTIFIED MAC


Fleetwood Mac say Sheryl Crow was not invited to join the band following the departure of Christine McVie, despite the singer's previous claims.
Sheryl Crow stunned Fleetwood Mac when she announced she was joining them because she had never been asked.
The 'All I Wanna Do' star announced she would replace Christine McVie when the singer and keyboardist retired from the band in 1998, but singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham claims they never needed a replacement.
He said: "There aren't too many people who would be able to fit the bill. With Sheryl I thought it was pretty funny.
"She announced she was joining Fleetwood Mac but I didn't know any of it."
His bandmate Stevie Nicks added: "We spent seven weeks battering our heads against a wall trying Christine's songs, but we just can't. She can't be replaced."
Mick Fleetwood the group's founder said they didn't want Sheryl to join the band because she had too much going on with her personal life.
He explained: "There was talk of Sheryl Crow taking Chris's place but she'd been through too much.
"She'd had cancer, lost a lover and adopted a child. Being on the road was the last thing for her."

Friday, 4 September 2009

Still going their own way


Lindsey Buckingham is surprisingly laid back about being a spurned lover. It's been more than 30 years since his then girl friend and Fleetwood Mac band mate, Stevie Nicks, got it on with the band's drummer, Mick Fleetwood, while on tour in New Zealand.It's not that time has cured his aching heart. You see, back when the unfaithfulness happened Buckingham didn't give a hoot either it was 1977 and they were promiscuous and drug fuelled times, after all.In a current interview the guitarist and pop genius of the pair recounted how Nicks and Fleetwood made a big deal of coming round to his house to tell him about their affair, to which he replyed, "Yeah? So? That's it?"And he's just as flippant on the phone today from his home in Los Angeles: "Stevie and I were on the road to breaking up before we coupled the band."Considering the two lovers who before Fleetwood Mac were making music as the duo Buckingham Nicks coupled the band in 1975 it must have been a long, rocky break up.No band has mixed a cocktail of melodrama, romantic shenanigans, and hedonistic substance insult quite like Fleetwood Mac and through it all they came up with two cracker albums, the mega-selling Rumours (1977) and kooky double album Tusk (1979).It was Rumours, though, with songs like Buckingham's Go Your Own Way, Nicks' Dreams, and keyboardist/singer Christine McVie's Don't Stop, that went on to sell more than 40 million copies recently the tenth best selling album ever and made Fleetwood Mac the longest band in the world.It's these songs, and many others, that the band will be playing at New Plymouth's Bowl of Brooklands on December 19 when they come back for the first time since 1980's Tusk tour.The Unleashed Tour is a two hour plus show of wonderful hits material and the Downunder dates follow a sold out 55 city North American tour earlier this year, and a European leg which starts in October.The version of the band coming to New Zealand is the classic Rumours line up of Buckingham, Nicks, Fleetwood and bassist player John McVie, minus his former wife Christine McVie who stop the band in 1998 because of her fear of flying."One of the things that makes the tour fun, and a little bit fundamental for us is that we don't have a new album yet anyway so we're not trying to go out there and do stuff that is unfamiliar," says 59 year old Buckingham. "And oddly enough, for the first time, we've been able to sit back and take parentage of the body of work that we have and appreciate it."When you're in the second of making songs, and particularly for us with the politics and all the drama that went on, it has never been that easy, and the fun of being on stage has always been tempered by all of that."

Friday, 28 August 2009

Fleetwood Mac legend to perform at grace Aldershot stage


FLEETWOOD Mac legend Peter Green will be playing the West End Centre in Aldershot.
He is touring to play the band’s classic hits and will seem at the West End Centre on September 3.
He played with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and, most excellently, Fleetwood Mac.
Raised in the East End of London, Peter was playing bass in several amateur bands before he met drummer Mick Fleetwood during a brief stint playing lead guitar with Peter B’s Looners.
He left the Looners to replace Eric Clapton as guitarist in the John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
Taking Clapton’s place was never going to be easy but it didn’t take too long for Peter to prove his worth and become the new ‘darling’ of the blues scene.
After Peter joined them the Bluesbreakers recorded their seminal Hard Road album, which included his major instrumental masterpiece The Supernatural.
Having collaborated on just the one album, Peter left the Bluesbreakers to start his own band, with Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass, and Fleetwood Mac was born.
The band liberationed their first album in 1968 to rave reviews, and Green’s classic tracks Black Magic Woman and the number one hit Albatross cemented the band’s achiever.
Drugs took their toll on Peter’s mental health and he decided to leave Fleetwood Mac in 1970.
He recorded a solo album but then faded into obscurity.
He made guest visual aspect on albums by ex-band mates and friends before recording more albums in the late 70s and early 80s.
In 1998 he and the rest of Fleetwood Mac were inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
At the time, Mick Fleetwood said of Green: “He’s back in the studio, he’s really playing again, which is why he’s here on this planet. I do earnestly believe he has a magic touch. I think you will never see Pete back out in the showbiz sense of the word but I think you will hear some more music from Peter Green and I hope I’m part of that. I hope that comes to pass.”
Westy employee Nicci Hewett said: “We’re pleasured Peter has chosen to play at the Westy, because you actually never know when you will get another chance to see this legend, who played such a large part in shaping contemporary music.”

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Fleetwood fluster over ticket prices


Tickets to the Fleetwood Mac gig haven't gone on sale yet but earlier there's puzzlement over how much they will cost.
One website, www.showbiznz.co.nz, has begun offering pre sale tickets at $147.50 for general acceptance to $369 for the best seats on the platform over the lake at New Plymouth's Bowl of Brooklands.
But these prices look to be more valuable than what will be suggested when tickets go on general sale next month the Taranaki Daily News understands they will range from $120 to $320.
That won't be officially known until September 4 when first claim on Fleetwood Mac's December 19 gig will go to TSB Bank customers, who will be able to buy them on line until September 8. Public sales will then open the next day.
Leesa Tilley, general manager of promoter Andrew McManus Presents, said promoters often worked with on sellers like Showbiznz who were admeasured a very limited number of ticket "holds".
"These aren't real tickets these won't be available until the general public tickets go on sale and they can market or sell them however they like," she said.
"How they market and sell them is up to them."
The prices to be asked for the big gig look similar to pricing for Taranaki's last major concert, the performance by Sir Elton John in December 2007.

Sunday, 23 August 2009

Fleetwood Mac play at Pokolbin


HUNTER conferences will get the chance to see rock super group Fleetwood Mac accomplish live when they play at Pokolbin's Hope Estate later this year.
The band, which recently finished a 55 city sold out tour of North America, will act a two hour plus show at Hope Estate on December 5.
The tour is its first in five years and will feature wonderful hits including Rhiannon, Dreams, Tusk, Go Your Own Way and Sara.
After the successful American tour, Fleetwood Mac also included a two month European leg.
The Australian tour will start at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena on December 1 and then head to Hope Estate before accomplishment in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. Tickets are on sale through Ticketek from September 4.

Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Fleetwood Mac on the way


The rumoured appearance of Fleetwood Mac on West Australian shores act to be true, with the band believed to be playing at Member's Equity Stadium on December 11 and 12.
The band are gearing up for their Unleashed wonderfu hits tour, with fans hoping a New Zealand and Australian leg will be approved.
It seems some more big musical action could also be recent headed to Perth later this year that's if some cryptic clues delivered by the administration of Member's Equity Stadium at a event are anything to go by.
Allia Venue Administration chief executive officer Peter Bauchop addressed a crowd of sports representatives assembled for a night of celebration at the venue hinting at big things to come. And the events had nothing to do with sport.
"I don't want to scattered any rumours, and I would much rather stay alive, than take the glory and the consequences," he said.
He told the crowd the months of November and December would be huge for the arena, but assert that he was only joking around and could not conform anything.
But the guessing games started with hopes that his reference to "rumours" referred to Fleetwood Mac's legendary album,"stay alive" to Pearl Jam's hit Alive and "take the glory" to Badly Drawn Boy.
Pearl Jam is playing at the stadium on November 14. Tickets are on deal now.
There is now a list of major acts heading for the city, including Beyonce, Marilyn Manson, Britney Spears, Greenday and ACDC.

Friday, 14 August 2009

Australian Wineries to Fleetwood Mac


by Paul Cashmere - August 15 2009photo by Ros O'Gorman.

Assume an declaration any day now for Fleetwood Mac playing the Australian wineries as part of their unchain tour.
The Australian and New Zealand tour is set for December and will include the winery shows, Undercover hears.
Current announced dates for Fleetwood Mac’s Unleashed tour go through to the European tour in November. Australasia is next.
The Unchain tour is a greatest hits tour. There is no new music from Fleetwood Mac in the works. In a phone hook-up with Underground, Lindsey Buckingham said that not having new music on this tour "barren you up to enjoy each other as people. Let’s have a good time and value the friendships and history. It takes the pressure off and allows more fun than we would unusually be able to have."
The Fleetwood Mac line-up is Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Christine McVie has been out of the bridle for more than a decennary now and happily living the retired life in England. "I’ve been the only girl in Fleetwood Mac since 1998, so I’m used to it now,” Stevie said during the conference all. “But I miss Christine. The loss of Christine as one of my best girlfriends was horrific to me. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish she would call up and say, 'I’m back.' "
Fleetwood Mac Australian dates will be announced this week.