5 Announced Fleetwood Mac 2009 Tour Dates
 

LOS ANGELES, Dec 03, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Legendary supergroup Fleetwood Mac will be embarking on their first concert tour in five years on March 1st at Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena and will include all the Mac's many greatest hits from over the course of one of rock's most enduring and influential bands of our time.
"We love our band and think the title of the tour "UNLEASHED" perfectly describes how we all feel when we get on stage together -- especially in 2009. We're so happy to get back out on the road, perform everyone's favorite songs and see our fans," said the band in a joint statement.
Tickets for the Live Nation produced tour go on sale to the public on December 15th at http://www.LiveNation.com and ticketmaster.com. American Express Cardmembers will have early access to tickets beginning December 8th at 10am local time through December 14th at 10pm local time at http://www.ticketmaster.com, excluding Uncasville, Ottawa and Montreal. American Express presale tickets for the Albany, NY show are available at http://www.tickets.com
The first 16 dates of the historic "UNLEASHED" tour will include stops in New York, Boston, Washington and Montreal, it was confirmed today by Live Nation, the tour's national promoter (tour dates listed below). Fleetwood Mac, the multi-Grammy (R) award winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees will continue the "UNLEASHED" tour throughout the Spring and Summer. Additional dates to be announced shortly.
In other great Fleetwood Mac news, the iconographic 'RUMOURS' CD (certified Diamond (R) signifying sales of over 10 million units by the RIAA) is scheduled to be re-released as part of a special CD/DVD boxed set on Reprise Records in conjunction with the tour dates. The boxed set will include previously unreleased tracks recorded during the making of 'RUMOURS' as well as a DVD component with never before seen footage of the band.
I Love All Access to provide a variety of VIP packages for the tour including premium seats.

FLEETWOOD MAC 'UNLEASHED' TOUR DATES 2009

Date City Venue
Sunday, March 1st Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
Tuesday, March 3rd St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
Thursday, March 5th Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
Sunday, March 8th Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
Tuesday, March 10th Washington, DC Verizon Center
Wednesday, March 11th Boston, MA TD Banknorth Arena
Friday, March 13th Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
Saturday, March 14th Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
Monday, March 16th Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena
Tuesday, March 17th Albany, NY Times Union Center
Thursday, March 19th New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Saturday, March 21st East Rutherford, NJ Izod Center
Tuesday, March 24th Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place
Wednesday, March 25th Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Thursday, March 26th Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre



SOURCE Warner Bros./Reprise Records

Yayayayayayayyyyyyyy!:]

I can't believe it's been five years since Say You Will.

^ Me neither. And "Unleashed"? Sorry but that cracks me up!

Ooh, and I just read the stuff about getting previously unreleased stuff. Cool.

I know. Unleashed from what? Are they being held hostage over on Maui or something?

early march! :eek:

That's close!

Unleashed from Buckingham-who-always-wants-to-play-things-of-new-albums!

What else is there as far as unreleased tracks? I don't want another version of Mick The Screecher. I'd rather have some Mirage outtakes. As for the DVD portion, I'm expecting a nice upgrade of a lot of the stuff that's already floating around out there in the trade community.

Thanks goodness they've decided not to fiddle with the fukcing fan club for this again and have put in in the hands of the experienced. It's going to be expensive though.

[QUOTE=SuzeQuze;786500]^ Me neither. And "Unleashed"? Sorry but that cracks me up!

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Unleashed from boredom...

3 dates in the New York metro and none in Philadelphia? :shocked:

Pollstar

http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=12052

Announcing Fleetwood Mac
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2008 11:45AM

We knew a big tour announcement was coming but we didn't know what it was until now. Ready? Fleetwood Mac.

The supergroup has reunited - again - and is launching its tour at Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena March 1. The tour coincides with a new greatest hits compilation called Unleashed that contains never before seen footage and previously unreleased tracks.

"We love our band and think the title of the tour, 'Unleashed,' perfectly describes how we all feel when we get on stage together, especially in 2009," the band said in a joint statement. ""We're so happy to get back out on the road, perform everyone's favorite songs and see our fans."

The statement does not list the members, but it's assumed Fleetwood Mac is certainly the famed roll call of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Christine McVie left the group in 1997 and her name isn't mentioned in the release.

Tickets for the Live Nation-produced tour go on sale Dec. 15. Dates include Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Montreal and Toronto. The jaunt is so far booked through March 26.

Its just the first batch of dates. Philly will probably be in early April after they come back down from Canada (three concerts in three days? that very well might be a typo) and work their way back west again.

I'm going to chime in with the LOL's over the "Unleashed" tour name. Pretty lame and uninspired.

Yet.

This is all pretty exciting... Man, I was just getting into the downtime with nobody on tour...

Yes, it's close Gerald, but hopefully it goes all through Summer... I wanna see at least one of the shows - I'm hopeing they add Vancouver.

You can't call your new tour "Unleashed" and then reissue Rumours for the
30th time in the very same press release. These people are psychotic.


Unleashed implies you are breaking out with renewed vigor and intention. Nothing's holding you back. Quite frankly, they should have called it Leashed. Heeled. Tranquilized.

But yeah, I'll be picking up tickets. No doubt about that.:blob2:

Michele

Hmm good point. I'm just not very turned on by the idea of traveling to see a band that plays the same setlist every night. But I guess it'll eventually happen here. It's too big of a market to ignore.

Tour opens in the burgh! Yeaha, i love the mac!

I actually take the official statement that they're so happy to be performing everyone's favorites as a threat.

Michele

No kidding. According to the Washington DC Ticketmaster listing, the official name of the tour is "Fleetwood Mac Unleashed: Hits Tour 2009"

I went to 7 shows in 03-04- only one for me this time around. With the ILAA VIP packages, its going to be impossible to get a decent seat for under $500. Say what you want about the fan club, but at least they offered premium tickets (including front row center- I still can't believe that they did that) to fans for what amounted to a ~$50 surcharge.

Hits tour. That's revolting:distress:.

Unleashed from the nursing home, but returning there very shortly.

Oh, well. No matter what, I cannot deny that I am excited to see them again. I wuv them. I am willing to pay for the VIP package if I can get good tickets without a lot of hassle. I am excited. Quite truthfully, March is a little soon for me, but I'll take what I can get!:]

Michele

Those tour dates are retarded. I hope they're adding more. I wish concert promoters/whatever would realize that PEOPLE LIVE IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN CANADA. Not everyone in this f'ing country lives in Toronto/Montreal/Ottawa. I can't afford to fly out to Ontario just to see a concert, and I'm sure others are just the same way.

These aren't ALL the tour dates. That article said the tour will continue through the spring/summer.

Yeah, I know more are going to be released, but it would be nice if they could play in Saskatoon/Regina SK or Calgary/Edmonton AB. tbh, I think quite a few people would take up the chance to see FM, especially if it's a "hits" tour.

If only they had asked Tyra Banks to join this time out -- things might have finally been as psychotic on the outside as they are on the inside.

Anyway, it's high time they released "Rumours" again. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, waiting four whole years.

Not bad. Minnesota second show! ANbody want a tour guide for their visit here?:nod:

Here's another date:

3/23/2009
7:30 pm
Fleetwood Mac
Scotiabank Place
Kanata
ON

Kanata is Ottawa.

On the Live Nation site they had it listed as Kanata :shrug: It's all the same to me.

And it looks like my prediction came true. Seems that the top ticket will be $150 or less, not that that's exactly "Free" but they're smart enough not to charge totally outrageous prices like THe Eagles, Stones ETC.

Kanata is a suburb of Ottawa. Just as Rosemont is the Chicago date, Auburn Hills/Detroit, etc.

While that might technically be the case, practically speaking, its not- especially when you consider that the first 30 rows (or at least 10-15% of the house) are going to be $250-$500+ with the VIP packages.

The new Fleetwood mac tour starts in my home town. Oh, yes. So going to be there. I am so excited, I just might burst.

Yes, you do have a point there. I'll be sitting in the cheap seats for most if not all of the whos I go to, but then again, Ive never really cared where I sit, as long as I'm there.:)

You'll have a blast! Mellon Arena is such a cool, quirky arena to see a show- and LOUD, due to that roof.

COol. Who did you see there?

I'm sure Ill see you in Pittsburgh! There's NO DOUBT I'll be there. If I have to ****ing walk I'll be there!:laugh:

U2, October 2005. Pittsburgh's a great city. If I still lived in the Midwest, I'd probably go- too far for me now, though.

Yeah that is an interesting arena to say the least. I've heard that Amphitheatre about 25 miles west of Pittsvurgh is gorgeous, but somehow I'm thinkin that wasnt an option on March 1!:laugh:

I am so overwhelmed by this news I literally can't process it. How does one buy VIP seats? Should I bother? I'll be going to MSG in NYC, at least. Maybe more if I buy cheap seats. I'm so confused. So I wait til 12/15? that's good. at least i'll have a pay check. grrrr. what's going on? lol I want to go to Pitts too :( grrrr. Yay... still I Love what Michelej said about Leashed. LOL hahaha oy. Can't comprehend.

It's the Gift of Snooze tour...