09/20/2013 Dublin, Ireland - O2 Dublin

[vivfox]

Gypsy by pchambermusic

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[vivfox]

Tusk by kaypee24

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[vivfox]

Dreams by John Keaveney

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[Peestie]

I was there last night. I don't have the time to give a full review because I've got to get ready to travel back to Dublin from Belfast for the second show!

A few things that struck me:
1 - Stevie seemed really lacklustre for the first three or four songs. She was sapping my enjoyment. Then she clicked and was great for the rest of the show. Maybe she just needed to settle back into it.

2 - Stevie talked about how long her WY speech had become, said she wasn't sure she could remember it all but would do it anyway. She kept forgetting bit and getting lost. Honestly, if I'd not heard it before on YouTube I think I wouldn't have got what she was saying. She also said that she'd been telling the wrong story in the US! She's gone back (apparently because Lindsey pointed it out) to the version where Mick chose them because they needed a lead guitar, not because he heard WY.

3 - Lindsey was great, energetic and lively. However, I didn't feel like all of his guitar playing (particularly lead stuff) was as tight as it has been on one or two occasions. Perhaps it's the break as well. The rest of the crowd didn't seem to notice though.

4 - Not That Funny is fantastic! I'd avoided YouTube versions and it's great.

5 - As usual, Stand Back sticks out like a sore thumb. It just doesn't feel like a FM song. I enjoy it but I always feel I'd rather have another FM song.

6 - Setlist hasn't changed at all.

7 - The audience was great. Fleetwood Mac shows in Dublin always have great crowds.

8 - I'm not sure if the show was being filmed but there were two cameras near me and plenty of other ones to do close ups and aerial shots of Mick. They'd two screens to each side of the stage so I assume that's what they were for. The screens actually looked at times like it could have been playing the Live in Boston DVD because they all looked the same!

That's all off the top of my head for now. I was about half way back in the hall and tonight I've got standing tickets. I'm planning on being front row in front of Lindsey so I'll probably have to leave soon for the 2.5 hour bus journey!

EDIT: I should also say that I thoroughly enjoyed the show! It was on a par with the 2009 shows but not as good as Lindsey's GOS tour that I was at.

[nicole21290]

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The video of Without You. Very enjoyable, I think. Stevie gets lost and muddled even MORE than usual; Lindsey's very patient and reassures her it's fine and to take her time, lol. He apparently *always* agrees with her, ha, and she's upgraded him to a "brilliant, smoking hot lead guitar player". Lucky boy. :D

"Before fame and all the creepiness creeped in, there was a really sweet girl and a really sweet boy that sang together and made beautiful music and wrote a song like this."

[vivfox]

"Before fame and all the creepiness creeped in, there was a really sweet girl and a really sweet boy that sang together and made beautiful music and wrote a song like this."

That was my favorite line also, from the WY speech Stevie gave here.

[nicole21290]

Am actually reposting it here but with the correct spelling of Lindsey's name because, LYNDSEY?! Really?!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/live-music-reviews/10325025/Fleetwood-Mac-O2-Arena-Dublin-review.html

Amidst an absolute thunder of drums, a sleek, racing Formula One bass line and a fuzzed-up guitar attack, a high male and low female voice coalesce in a gorgeous California sunshine harmony to deliver Fleetwood Mac's key message: "You can never break the chain."

Apparently not. They've been going 45 years in one incarnation or another, yet they still seem quite unlikely, a fundamentally disparate and unstable set of elements forced through sheer popularity to share a stage together with results that may well be greater than the sum of the parts but still teeter on the brink of a kind of explosive disintegration. This long-running soap opera of conflicting personalities and opposing musical styles remains extraordinarily alive and compelling.

Even without the perfect pop songs of Christine McVie (who left the soap at the end of the last century but is rumoured to be returning for a guest appearance at their London concerts this week) and unwilling to draw on nine early albums of blues rock, Fleetwood Mac still seem to comprise at least three groups in one. There's the British rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, looking all Chas & Dave in waistcoats and flat caps, driving everything along with a propulsive pub rock efficiency. Then there's Lindsey Buckingham's new wave art rock energy, hopping up and down on the spot in tight pants and leather jacket as he rips out trippy, echoing guitar parts and sings snappy songs like he's going to combust if he doesn't get the words out. Meanwhile Stevie Nicks, the hippie wet dream now looking like a dark folk witch, still waving her scarves about and drawling poetic fantasies in a voice that no longer floats ethereally but cuts and thrusts with the Americana grit of a female Dylan. On paper, this is a combination that shouldn't work. Yet that sense of hanging together by a thread is part of what lends the old troupers such vitality. This may be the least comfortable excercise in nostalgia I have ever seen and all the better for it.

There is nothing smooth about Fleetwood Mac. Somehow, even after all this time, they don't have the polish of a west coast harmonic rock machine like The Eagles. Their set is surprisingly gnarly and edgy, constantly being dragged between all these opposing musical poles. Indeed, they seem to delight in contrariness, filling up a nearly three hour set with offbeat selections from the provocatively odd and unloved Tusk and new material from a recent EP, frequently preceded by rambling monologues from Buckingham or Nicks that are longer and more involved than the songs themselves. "If we're looking a little frazzled it might be because we are a little frazzled," apologises Nicks, blaming the stresses on it being the first date of a European tour. But actually Fleetwood Mac are a group who are permanently frazzled by the intensity and complexity of their relationships, particularly that of teenage sweethearts Nicks and Buckingham, who still seem to be working out their separation and reconciliation onstage in the longest and most public group therapy session ever. Nicks introduces a new song, Without You, by telling us that "before fame and all the creepiness creeped in there was a really sweet boy and a really sweet girl" but then almost undermines the sentiment by briefly bickering with Buckingham about who said what when. "I always agree with you!" insists Buckingham. "No you don't!" snorts Nicks.

The crowd love it, of course. When Nicks and Buckingham sing into the same microphone or walk out for encores hand in hand, it is the musical equivalent of seeing divorced parents back together. Their legendary album Rumours and long career of conflict and reconciliation have provided a narrative to parallel relationships in listeners' lives, only with better melodies, virtuoso playing and even a startlingly impressive drum solo.

The audience delight in the continuing saga of Fleetwood Mac is manifest. What is even more striking is the band's delight. Indeed, if there is a new development on their first tour in three years it is that they seem to be falling in love again. "There are still chapters left in the Fleetwood Mac book," enthuses Buckingham. This one is going to run and run.

[Angie1980]

I had forgotten how much I have missed the without you intros !!!:) looking forward to many more of them! And I am sure they won't get any shorter :)

[vivfox]

Never Going Back Again by Cavalier Knight

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Gypsy by Cavalier Knight

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The Chain by Cavalier Knight

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[vivfox]

The Chain by paulheffo1977

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Gold Dust Woman by bossaddict

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Rhiannon by John Keaveney

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[vivfox]

Sara by bossaddict

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Tusk by bossaddict

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Sad Angel by kaypee24

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[vivfox]

Say Goodbye by Claire Rensonnet

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final bows by kaypee24

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Don't Stop by John Keaveney

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[candlebright86]

It was AMAZING! Stevie was in great form, and Lindsey was on fire! (I got to play his guitar!):]:]

Here are some pictures from the gig I took, if anyone's interested :)

I also recorded the audio from the gig, but haven't listened to it yet to see what the quality is like :):sorry:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201110021247495.1073741826.1077945376&type=1&l=f67f10e018

[michelej1]

That's all off the top of my head for now. I was about half way back in the hall and tonight I've got standing tickets. I'm planning on being front row in front of Lindsey so I'll probably have to leave soon for the 2.5 hour bus journey!

EDIT: I should also say that I thoroughly enjoyed the show! It was on a par with the 2009 shows but not as good as Lindsey's GOS tour that I was at.

Thanks for the report. It's exciting that you have another show to look forward to so soon, let's see if they're tighter after throwing off those opening night bugs.

Yes, NTF is short and superb.

Michele

[Bryan]

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[Bryan]

HejiraNYC (of Ledge infamy!,lol) was in attendance and is actually a super nice guy i'm happy to report

[vivfox]

HejiraNYC (of Ledge infamy!,lol) was in attendance and is actually a super nice guy i'm happy to report


I bet he was in the front row.

[jenniferuk]

It was AMAZING! Stevie was in great form, and Lindsey was on fire! (I got to play his guitar!):]:]

Here are some pictures from the gig I took, if anyone's interested :)

I also recorded the audio from the gig, but haven't listened to it yet to see what the quality is like :):sorry:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201110021247495.1073741826.1077945376&type=1&l=f67f10e018

Stunning pics-thank you for sharing.

[Bryan]

I bet he was in the front row.

He was indeed

[vivfox]

Stand Back by criochnaithe

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Never Going Back Again by andyt_05

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Big Love by Clare Hunt

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[michelej1]

Bryan,

Those are great photos. You could have done a tourbook all by yourself.

Michele

[michelej1]

The Independent, by Pierre Perrone, **** (four stars)

First night: Fleetwood Mac, The 02, Dublin

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/first-night-fleetwood-mac-the-02-dublin-8831931.html

Return of the Mac

Three songs into the first European date Fleetwood Mac have played since 2009 comes the first of several magical moments as mad-eyed drummer and ringmaster Mick Fleetwood suddenly hits his monogrammed kit harder to underpin the “loneliness of a heartbeat drives you mad” lyric of the US chart-topper ''Dreams'' Stevie Nicks is delivering in her trademark low yearning voice. This perfect marriage of musicians from two different countries united by a common language and purpose is part of what makes the Mac such a compelling concert attraction and must-see act into their fifth decade.

However, the main ingredient remains the soap opera of their intertwined relationships, acknowledged from the off with ''Second Hand News'' from 1977's epochal Rumours, and given a sense of closure with the apposite ''Say Goodbye'' at the end. Not many set lists have a narrative arc or the feel of a group therapy session but no band, not even ABBA, have lived their personal lives in public and used this emotional roller-coaster as inspiration like the Mac. Guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, wearing a Ramones-like tight jeans and leather jacket combo, admits as much, talking about “the power of change” before an impassionate solo version of ''Big Love''. He has just been hugged by Nicks after a sublime double whammy of ''Sisters Of The Moon'' and ''Sara'', two of four selections from Tusk, the somewhat self-indulgent double set the Mac issued in 1979, since reclaimed by left-field acts like Camper Van Beethoven.

Nicks has made a specialty of these ethereal, floating ballads, mining the same rich seam from ''Rhiannon'' to the Velvet Underground-referencing ''Gypsy'', but they all prove so affecting it would be impossible to pick a favourite or indeed to omit any of them. Their inclusion also illustrates why Nicks has been such a strong influence on Florence Welch and Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes. Her writing remains as distinctive as the gothic, timeless look she fashioned for herself in the mid-seventies and she twirls around the stage – without quite essaying an Irish jig, an impossible feat in the high-heel boots she favours – and drapes herself dramatically in yet another shawl during ''Gold Dust Woman''.

Try as he might, including the dazzling solo which rescues a listing ''I'm So Afraid'', Buckingham knows that Nicks is the star of the show, even as she rambles on while introducing the sweet ''Without You'', the mid-70s demo they recently revisited for a digital download EP. She shoe-horns her own eighties electro hit ''Stand Back'' to add pop heft – and a groovy John McVie bassline – to a lengthy, nuanced, contrasting set which closes with the cross-generational audience on its feet for the evergreen ''Go Your Own Way''. Even Fleetwood's demented drum solo can't spoil the fun. The mighty Mac are back.

Fleetwood Mac play the 02

[michelej1]

Nice array of photos here by Kieran Frost of Goldenplec:

http://www.goldenplec.com/fleetwood-mac-o2-photos/

[Bryan]

Bryan,

Those are great photos. You could have done a tourbook all by yourself.

Michele

Thank you! Fleetwood Mac shows always present great opportunities for photos with the lighting and stage setup, I hope everyone out there remembers that it's not about how big your camera is but how you use it! lol

[applebucked]

Gotta love all these photos too. :nod:

[vivfox]

Second Hand News by bossaddict

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Stevie & Mick closing speeches by bossaddict

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Don't Stop end is cut by MAGOOHOUSE

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[vivfox]

Silver Springs by SteenMan2

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Sad Angel by SteelMan2

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Big Love by SteelMan2

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[michelej1]

Irish Examiner

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/reviews-244121.html

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

LIVE MUSIC: Fleetwood Mac - The O2, Dublin

By Siobhán Cronin
She’s a drama queen and she knows it. But we love Stevie Nicks all the more for it. At 65, this hot hippie is still able to hold an audience spell-bound.

It’s the perfect couples night out – with Nicks keeping the mid-life crisis men enthralled and Lindsey Buckingham, a very youthful 62, looking hot in his skinny jeans and leather jacket.

“I think Dublin is the best place to start up again after 47 shows in the US,” says Nicks, and we really believe her.

This could easily be dubbed a Greatest Hits tour – such is the outpouring of chart successes over five decades, with staples, ‘Gypsy’, ‘Tusk’ and ‘The Chain’ all featuring in a song list of favourites, with just a few gentle nods at more recent recording sessions.

The bizarrely complicated love triangles and trysts the members of Fleetwood Mac engaged in down the years have been played out in public, but neither Buckingham nor Nicks seem able to let it go. In what seems an almost therapeutic sharing with the 13,000-strong sell-out audience, the duo reference the troubles in their past several times over. Could they be wearing the band’s dysfunctional history as a badge of rock honour?

It seems almost distasteful at times — to die-hard fans it’s unnecessary, and to new fans it’s irrelevant. There are rumours of the one missing member of the original line-up – Christine McVie – joining them in London later this week, but one wonders if she’d really want to listen to old coals being raked in public again.

Drama aside, the show had a wonderful feelgood factor – with highlights including Nicks’ dedication of ‘Landslide’ to Guinness master brewer Fergal Murray, and Mick Fleetwood’s frenzied drum solos which seem unwittingly inspired by The Muppets’ Animal.

As the set finishes with ‘Say Goodbye’, an almost tearful Nicks thanks us for being ‘dream catchers’ and implores us to go out into the night and spread the love – proving she’s still that 70s hippie at heart.

[goldustsongbird]

Is Mick's red hat new? I love it.

[michelej1]

Is Mick's red hat new? I love it.

It pops in flat and out again like a magician's hat.

Michele

[vivfox]

Second Hand News by Aubrey Martin

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The Chain by Aubrey Martin

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I'm So Afraid by Aubrey Martin

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[Amlyn]

Mp3s of this show: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/abhytlkmi3vip/Dublin_9.20.2013