Fleetwood Mac to Debut New Lineup at iHeartRadio Music Festival - Sept 21 and 22
 

The iHeartRadio Music Festival, to be held September 21 and 22 at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, has added Fleetwood Mac to a lineup that includes Justin Timberlake, Carrie Underwood, Mariah Carey, Imagine Dragons, Jason Aldean, Sam Smith, Luke Bryan, Kelly Clarkson, Shawn Mendes, Rae Sremmurd and Logic, among many more. The two-day event will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

It will be Fleetwood Mac’s first time performing with new band members Mike Campbell and Neil Finn, and the group’s debut performance at the festival, which is geared at the broad audience listening to iHeartMedia’s over 800 radio stations. The announcement arrives ahead of a tour that kicks off in October. Member Lindsey Buckingham left the group in April. It was announced that former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Campbell and Crowded House singer Finn would fill in for Buckingham.

The iHeartRadio festival has traditionally included a veteran act on its lineup. In previous years, Aerosmith, Queen + Adam Lambert and Billy Idol have held that slot. This year, Lynyrd Skynyrd will also be featured.

“It is an honor to be performing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival for our very first time,” said Stevie Nicks. “The beauty of an event like this is that it is a true representation of the power of radio. It’s an opportunity for artists across all genres to share one stage and what we all love most — music!”

The iHeartRadio Music Festival will be broadcast live across the iHeartMedia network to more than 150 markets and on the CW Network’s CWTV.com and The CW App. A two-night television special is scheduled for Oct. 7 and Oct. 8.

The 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival is co-produced by John Sykes and Tom Poleman.

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SWEET! I am so looking forward to hearing how they sound. I suppose they will do a classic song...but it would be so great if they would perform something new and a classic. Crossing fingers...

from headlining the Classic East and West to one of the many bands in the iheartradio lineup -

BEST. LINEUP. EVER.

All @CapitalOne Cardholders can get their tickets today with the pre-sale starting at 1pm ET / 10am PT on https://t.co/AmcBind5ZI

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— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) June 12, 2018

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Justin Timberlake, Jack White, Mariah Carey Lead 2018 iHeartRadio Festival

Carrie Underwood, Sam Smith, Shawn Mendes, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Aldean, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more to perform at two-day Las Vegas fest


Justin Timberlake, Jack White and Mariah Carey are among the artists that will perform at this year's star-studded iHeartRadio Music Festival.

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By Daniel Kreps
June 5, 2018


UPDATE: Fleetwood Mac has joined the lineup for the upcoming iHeartRadio Music Festival.

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Justin Timberlake, Jack White, Carrie Underwood and Mariah Carey are among the artists that will perform at this year's star-studded iHeartRadio Music Festival, which invades Las Vegas on September 21st and 22nd.

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Sam Smith, Imagine Dragons, Shawn Mendes, Kelly Clarkson, Jason Aldean, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rae Sremmurd, Panic! at the Disco, Luke Bryan, Kygo and Logic will also take part in the two-day festivities at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena. Ryan Seacrest will once again host the festival, which promises "one-of-a-kind collaborations and surprise performances."

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In addition to the T-Mobile Arena lineup, the iHeartRadio Music Fesitval's Daytime Stage at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds will feature performances by Dua Lipa, 5 Seconds of Summer, Lil Uzi Vert, Dustin Lynch, Bazzi, Belly, Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots and Greta Van Fleet.

The festival will broadcast live to iHeartRadio stations throughout the weekend, with the CW Network providing a video livestream on its website. The CW will also broadcast a two-day special on the iHeartRadio Festival on October 7th and October 8th.

"There's no other concert with a lineup as diverse at the iHeartRadio Music Festival. We pride ourselves on inviting the most eclectic lineup of headliners you'll ever see on one stage," said iHeartMedia chief programming officer Tom Poleman said in a statement. "This Festival has the best artists from every style of music heard on iHeartRadio stations across America, giving both artists and our listeners a once-in a lifetime experience."

Tickets for the eighth annual iHeartRadio Music Festival go on sale to the general public on June 15th. Radio listeners will also have the opportunity to win tickets via on-air contests throughout the summer.

Yeah wasnt that where Lindsey began to throw his hissy fits? Everyone was talking about how awful he sounded and was playing.

you are cute. :nod:

everyone said he didn't look at Stevie and how wrong that was, that was the "hissy fit".

but everyone said his performance was his usual 200%. something that cannot be said for every other member of that 5. that's why they have to play iheartradio thingy now. that's one thing they CAN say they'd never do if LB was still in the band.

The bottom line is you’re just here to try to stir the pot again. Go back to the rumors board where you are with all your cronies and you can talk bad about everybody as much as you want. It’s old.

tsk tsk... and you said you decided to be nice to people.

i shared the news i stumbled upon, which belonged here; i'll know better next time, obviously petty fights are all some people are interested in. :nod:

Clever strategy there, to present the line-up at such an occasion as this, where the presentation can be very short, and the result can be embedded in the general hoopla and sound.

How stupid do you think we are? Give me a break. Don’t even try to put this on me when you are always the instigator. You come here acting like you have News and then you put little zings in to make it all about Lindsey Buckingham. Gag.

John - no mater what you post, there will be a negative response from the "Lindsey as victim" crowd here. I'm looking forward to seeing the new lineup and also seeing Lindsey on his next tour.

Not to mention video footage from it can be used to advertise upcoming shows.

LOL!

Sam Smith is playing the same night. In case you forgot, he got sued by Tom Petty because “Stay With Me” was too much like “I Won’t Back Down.”

Better still, Jason Aldean is playing that night, too. He did the cold open on Saturday Night Live after the Vegas shootings, which was the same week Tom died, and played “I Won’t Back Down.” Sam Smith was the musical guest that night.

Poor Sam can’t catch a break.

Saw this this morning and thought, we will at least have a chance to see how they look and sound before the big tour gets underway. I still haven't bought tickets. So this will be a good way to decide if I want to go to the Pittsburgh show or not.

I'm getting excited! Great timing for the band, a month before the tour actually begins. I hope they sing 3-4 songs at least!

As for Elle's side comments about this concert being a comedown from the classic shows East and West, that's just silly. Wasn't Journey one of the acts at the classic shows? No offense to Journey fans intended, but the HeartRadio show lineup sounds JUST as impressive, if not more so, than the classic shows.

That's an...interesting lineup to throw 'Fleetwood Mac' in the middle of.
But it'll probably help their ticket sales.

Agreed. The whole thing is done with now, move on with it.

This would be the perfect opportunity to debut a couple of new songs from the new line up..... I'm sure Neil and Christine have songs in the hopper that could be recorded quickly.... And maybe even Stevie has one available.... But that probably ain't gonna happen.

I've been talking about My Mother's Rings ever since Stevie mentioned it at some Q and A or something and it ended up on Fleetwood Mac News. It was written in 2011 or 2013 about the late Barbara Nicks, Stevie's mum. I can't wait to hear it, because she never would have recorded it with the band if Lindsey was recording/producing, she may still do it solo though, who knows.

I've heard from one of the band's production people that the plan is to have a three song EP recorded over the summer with one song written by Neil, one song written by Christine, and one song written by Stevie. Neil probably has a hundred unrecorded songs that would sound great for Fleetwood Mac such as "Ray of Hope", "Love Is All That Remains", or "Guiding Star". Any or all of those songs would be fantastic for Fleetwood Mac. I'd love to hear Stevie sing "Guiding Star" which would be perfect for her voice. Christine would be great to sing "Ray of Hope". Demo versions of each are on YouTube and they're classic Finn songs (see below). I'm sure Christine and Stevie also have at least one song ready to go from past sessions. If each can up with 3-4 songs then we'd have a full album ... :)

Mick already said that they were planning on at least two new songs as their “calling card.”

The plan is three songs if Stevie can come up with one. Two is the fall back option.

They need to get in the studio quickly if they're going to get these songs recorded before rehearsals begin in August. I really hope they can make this happen. I'd love to hear what this configuration sounds like.

No way will they have time to record a full album before the tour. They're not even getting together again until August to start rehearsing. I would love a 3-4 song EP but even that seems unlikely. Frankly, a tour with new songs AND deep cuts might be asking too much of the audience, so I say skip the new songs for this tour and focus on hits and deep cuts. Besides, the new songs from the Dance were the bathroom breaks, same thing with their last EP. I'm thrilled to never hear Temporary One, Sweet Girl, Bleed to Love Her, and My Little Demon again.

Wait..let me get this straight:

You'd like 3-4 new songs...
But you have no interest in seeing them perform any new material...
Because new material in 97 and '13 were bathroom breaks...
But also have no interest in hearing said new material above ever again
But you'd still like that 3-4 song ep of new material?



....Your point is exactly why "new music and deep cuts is too much to ask of the audience".

Do the new music, but please...Play Gypsy with the 15 minute intro for me just one more time, the last ten years of touring wasn't enough.

It's like asking the waitress to go down the salad dressing list, asking for one on the side, knowing the entire time you had no intention of even using the salad dressing in the first place.

Most bands takes a month or so to record a new studio album these days. The days where a band can take a year to record an album (ala Tusk) are over. For example, Neil Finn just recorded his recent studio album (Out of Silence) in eight hours live on Facebook/YouTube. Eight hours! And it's a freaking great album. Neil spent a while writing the songs and rehearsing with his musicians but the actual recording took eight hours. Sometimes it's true that less is more ...

Haaaaaaaa:]

Fleetwood Mac make a record or an EP in a month...that's a good one!

It takes about a year for them to even debate releasing new music while starting work on new music, a year for passive aggressive behavior to come and go, at least one if not two greatest hits tours to come and go in order for new material to happen.

This band couldn't fart in a mason jar within a month. It doesn't matter how prolific Neil or Mike may be, unfortunately it will not be their call to make.

This all sounds strangely familiar...but this new lineup will reinvigorate this band and it's going to be all new again...

And somebody was doing private corporate gigs as of **last week** if that's any indication of the dedication to this "new band"

But Lindsey won't be holding up Fleetwood Mac anymore.

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A Lindsey-led Fleetwood Mac could never record an album or EP in a month. Most bands can and do these days.

Fleetwood Mac is so far removed from any comparison to "most bands".

You're partially correct. A Lindsey led Fleetwood Mac can't record in under a month because it wouldn't involve Mike Campbell coming to somebody's rescue with a buffet of unused tracks that can be aligned to 40 year old demos.

And as I already said, if recording new music were remotely a priority why are some members of the band doing private corporate gigs as of last week?

But back to all the heated discussion about everyone's timeless favorites from Behind the Mask...

Not to mention that Stevie in her solo career hasn't recorded any actual 'new' music in quite some time (that involved her writing new music and lyrics, coming up with melodies and chord progressions, collaborating with producers on the sound etc). With 24 KG she just handed off some of her decades old demos with the instruction that they were to be recorded just like the demo, so it was able to be done very quickly and in my opinion the songs suffered as a result of that. I call it the 'Without You Syndrome'.

LOL maybe I didn't phrase it well. I do think playing 3-4 new songs AND several deep cuts might be too much for a tour introducing Neil and Mike to the audience. They should do one or the other, not both. I didn't like any of the new songs on the Dance, only liked 4 songs from Say You Will, and only one song from the EP. Actually, I'm not a big fan of Mirage or Tango, either. But I love Behind the Mask, plus As Long As You Follow, No Questions Asked, Love Shines, and Heart of Stone. Because of this, I am more interested in hearing new music from this version of FM than if Lindsey was still in the band. This is something I didn't realize until just now, actually.

I didn't say anything about Gypsy, and I never knew about a 15 minute opening to it.

So...I'd like 3-4 new songs... but only from this lineup...
But I'd rather hear them perform deep cuts first...
But I have no interest hearing Temporary One, Sweet Girl, Bleed to Love Her, My Little Demon, or anything else post Tango unless it's from the BTM era...
But yeah, I'd still like that 3-4 song EP of new material from the current lineup.

I really liked Temporary One and Sweet Girl.

Those were good songs!

They can do it fast if Finn already has something worked up that they can just put some harmonies on, and Stevie can put one of her old poems to a Campbell instrumental.

They won't be too picky if they're going to do this. Fleetwood Mac will go from "Perfectionism" to "Good enough", I imagine. You can achieve the latter a lot more quickly.

Sorry, Mitzo!

But even though you like them, do you like them enough that you'd rather hear them at the expense of other songs? I'd rather hear Angel, Straight Back, That's Alright, No Questions Asked, even Paper Doll over Sweet Girl. Or Brown Eyes, As Long As You Follow, or Isn't It Midnight over Temporary One. Especially since both those songs are recorded for posterity on the Dance DVD.

More than any other song, I'm really hoping they perform As Long As You Follow, but it seems so unlikely... but that is the one song that would guarantee I would be there to see them in concert.

No I might not prefer them over some of the others you list, although I have never understood the fascination for embarrassing honky-tonk Angel and WTF Paper Doll. I just see those two tunes Temporary One and Sweet Girl as the best new tunes on The Dance. Agreed about As Long as you Follow. It was real group effort with the layered harmonies and I hope for this type of thing in recordings by the new lineup.

Paper Doll sucks (imo) but Angel?? I love the vibe and production on Angel, her songs on Tusk were so perfectly produced. They had that trace of something 'different' that ran all throughout Tusk while still being classic Stevie. Her best collection of songs if you ask me.

Paper Doll- if I could describe this song in one word, it would have to be "why." As in, why did anyone in FM think this would be a good song to record LOL. It's definitely a one of a kind, thank God. I guess it's kind of catchy, but so odd. Actually, it might be interesting live, but downright impossible to sing live.

Angel is also an odd song for me... I feel like it kind of goes on and on and finishes weakly, but since I'd love to hear deep cuts, I'd be fine if they did this live. But I'd prefer That's Alright or Straight Back over Angel. I feel like Stevie could do to Straight Back live what she did to Silver Springs during the Dance.