[Fun 1979 band rider demand talk in second half of article]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...to-new-zealand
Stuff Co. NZ, March 20, 2015
British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac is bringing its On With The Show tour to New Zealand.
Band originals Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks, will tour as a five-piece for the first time since 1998.
The group will play at Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium on November 18 and at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium on November 21. Tickets go on sale at 10am on April 1.
The two-and-a-half-hour show will feature classics such as The Chain, Dreams, Second Hand News, Rhiannon, Sara, Gold Dust Woman, Tusk, Don't Stop.
The On With The Show Tour marks Fleetwood Mac's first series of concert dates in New Zealand since 2009's sold-out Unleashed Tour.
In 2013, the veteran rockers cancelled their 14-date tour of New Zealand and Australia because founding member John McVie was due to be treated for cancer.
Formed in 1967 in London, the band has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Fleetwood Mac were known for their interesting rider demands.
A promoter, who did not want to be named, claimed that in 1979, when touring Tusk in Australia, the band's rider was for a "medieval tent... with only natural materials inside . . wooden stools, long tables like you see in old movies about knights.
"The food was to be hunks of meat which you ate with your hands, no plates, no cutlery or anything.
"The only receptacles allowed on the table were earthenware goblets which had to be handmade to be totally authentic. They had to have mead in them.
"The rider stated that at certain times of the evening it would be set up for dinner and the band could not be disturbed during that time."
He said the cost was astronomical - the equivalent in today's money of at least $50,000 per show.
But in five stadium shows, the band "never set foot in the tent once" said the promoter.
"At the end of the night the local crew would go in and scoff the lot."
Tickets for both New Zealand shows go on sale at 10am on Wednesday, April 1, with pre-sales for certain card holders from midday Tuesday.
- Stuff