Perth Concerts 11th & 12th December
 

Ok so given that the Perth concerts haven't rated much of a mention I'm guessing there aren't too Perthites (sandgropers) on here?

I'm dragging my wife off tomorrow night, although it looks like parking will be an absolute nightmare but public transport really doesn't work at that time of night and given we live so far away from ME Bank stadium.

We are right at the back so I won't even bother taking my camera but at least we will be there.

My wife is threatening to take her iPod :lol:

I'm a fellow WA man! These will be the last two shows of the five I'm seeing! From what I've seen they should be crackers!

Add a couple of more sandgropers to that LEDGER list, 'chrisksn'. We are all heading off to to-night's show (Really glad we picked tonight's show temperature in Perth today is 33 and tomorrow it's 37) One ledger coming with us is Nicki (missilversprings) who went to Green Day last Friday, and confessed that she was looking more forward to FM than Green Day. :nod: As for seating, the last WACA ("SYW" & "Stevie -John Farnham)concerts, you had terrific acoustics and seating, but Member's Equity Bank Stadium, don't really know:shrug: we're grouped into Block A3 Row EE somewhere on Lindsey's side (the better side) lol:thumbsup: All have a great time, you hear... for sure!! for sure!!! woop :lol: woop:lol:

Yipes! Mama's gonna melt into a little puddle of Creme de la Mer, Spanx, black chiffon, glitter and hair extensions! :eek: I hope this will inspire her to finally lose the black sleeves.

I used to live in Perth!:wavey: Im talking to friends there now who are going tonight! I AM SO JEALOUS!

Yeah but now you live in Phoenix, and I am so jealous!

Thanks! U should come back:thumbsup: Especially now, I feel guilty for enjoying the fall/winter/spring seasons:lol: for them, I can handle the summer.:lol:

If I remember rightly there were two shows for the SYW concert too. We went to the first one, and if I remember rightly we all stood around outside waiting to be let in as "the band weren't happy with the sound".

Probably Lindsey... ;)

Did anyone catch the picture of Stevie in today's west australian? A rather unflattering picture of her shopping on kings street!

Cool - can you post it?

Just got back from the first night, and the show was amazing as i expected. Stevie has really improved her vocals from the first two Melbourne shows, she was hitting higher notes in Sydney but tonight she went for broke! and it was amazing best Gold Dust Woman of the tour! Lindsey was my hero as usual i never tire of watching him! :thumbsup: a few technical issues on GYOW i figured his guitar was in the wrong tuning and they were waiting for his tech to grab another MDL 1, so they were just building on the drums and bass. Stan was working his pedal board so possibly the wrong lead was plugged in? Any-who they started and the guitar was definitely out of tune but he adjusted accordingly and to tell you the truth was the most honest piece of musicianship i have seen on the tour and it was the best GYOW i have seen also! i was very proud of my hometown crowd they were loving it and the band could tell! i'll report back tomorrow, i have second row tickets tomorrow and its my last show! so i'm pumped to say the least!:]

Just got back, brilliant show, everyone seemed to be up and dancing and lots of younger people there loving it.

The band were fantastic, the songs were great, couldn't fault any of it. Loved Lindsey doing Oh Well, glad to see a nod to the past.

Oh and a couple of random things...

Despite it being a no smoking venue someone near us was smoking pot, and we kept getting the smell drifting across. Plus the woman sitting next to my wife kept getting up and down constantly, getting more drinks (spilling drinks) etc. Grr...do people have to be so annoying?

A bit of excitement behind us was about 8-10 security guards rushing around, charging up the stairs, etc. We expected it to be a full on fight or something but no, two ladies were very calmly escorted out. Weird.

Was your wife converted into being a fan? Michele

Oh, a candid picture like that is great, even an unflattering one.

Michele

Sorry, This is as good as it gets. From page 7 the West Australian Friday 11/12/2009. Stevie looks like she hasn't any make-up on

awwww, i like it, thanx for sharing!!!~

Thank you. Stevie doesn't looked like she's dressed for "glorious sunshine":).

I love pics like this.

Michele

Thank you for the picture!

I think she looks cute in the picture, make-up or not.

Wasn't it warm there? :shrug: She looks a bit bundled up.

Nope. Her comments included "she's such a skank" (the hug with Lindsey), "hope she falls off the stage" (that was posted on my facebook page) and "the most annoying thing is when she turns her back to the audience" (that was her post-show summary). Oh and she did say "Lindsey does all the work" so maybe she is a Lindsey fan.

I then subjected her to Then Play On and Mystery To Me on the way home. :lol:

Waste of a good $165 I'm afraid. Sadly I now have to keep my end of the bargain and have to sit through Rob Thomas with her in February. :(

Well, I was kind of shocked at the photo. Yeah, you can tell she went out shopping with no makeup on and that is kind of a cool, laid back thing to do I guess, but just smacks me in the face at how time is kind of slipping away... for all of us. Before I knew it... I turned 40 this year, but feel like I am 25 in my heart/spirit.

I am puzzled though, why Stevie went out without makeup. Maybe to be low key, but you can still tell it is her and I am sure she had a whole entourage with her. I mean... for crying out loud, it is Stevie-freaking-Nicks.... who in my opinion is full of class, glamor, and talent. And a little foundation with some blush/eye make up would have been better.

I am not being argumentative, just puzzled by her actions.

I still am giving her lots of credit and "that a girl" for going out without makeup. A brave thing to do considering all her professional photo shoots and how particular I think she is about how she is photographed.

^^All I can say is that whoever transforms her into her stage persona night after night should consider a job with George Lucas. Industrial light and magic, indeed :eek:. It's so hard to believe makeup can be so transformative. I mean, she is absolutely flawless in person when she's in full drag. I agree that it's kind of shocking and a little upsetting to see this.

Fleetwood Mac don't disappoint at Members Equity Stadium concert

THERE are few bands who could weather the storms that have rained down on Fleetwood Mac.

By guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham's own admission the band's history is "complex, convoluted and emotionally wrought".

However standing in front of an audience of 12,000 Perth fans, Buckingham acknowledged that "in the long run it's made us stronger".

Buckingham went on to say that when the band, which includes singer Stevie Nicks, bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood, decided to come together once again it was a with a feeling of "new possibility".

And while the absence of retired singer Christine McVie could not be overlooked, especially during Go Your Own Way, the crowd was willing to explore the possibilities along with their heroes.

Billed as a greatest hits concert, the set list delivered almost everything a fan could wish for.

Monday Morning from the band's self-titled 1975 album kicked off proceedings, followed by The Chain from 1977's Rumours, which remains one of the highest selling albums of all time.

It was the seemingly eternally youthful Nicks who first greeted the crowd with a drawn out shout of "Perth, Australia. Welcome." Before stating it was time to "get this party started".

Sporting her trademark gothic gypsy look of velvet and lace, long black gloves and flowing blonde tresses, Nicks looked years younger than her 61 years.

However it was clear that time has diminished Nicks' vocal range, robbing her of the ability to hit the high notes in songs such as Rhiannon and Sara. But thankfully Nicks refrained from straining and squealing, instead she stayed in her lower range using her unique voice to convey the emotional depth of the lyrics.

Sharing the spotlight with his former love, Buckingham was simply mesmerising. The lithe 60-year-old has lost none of his guitar prowess or agility as was particularly evident on I'm So Afraid and Big Love.

Nicks and Buckingham made a great show of affection, frequently holding hands and embracing, much to the crowd's pleasure. Buckingham famously refused to join Fleetwood Mac, unless they also took his partner in love and music, Nicks. While the pair split in 1976 and have endured a turbulent relationship in subsequent years, they seem to have found renewed pleasure in working together. There is no doubt a strong musical bond remains between the two and it was a pleasure to witness their love and appreciation for the music they make together.

In introducing Gypsy, Nicks spoke of her early days jamming with Buckingham in San Francisco in the late 60s and early 70s. She spoke of opening for Janis Joplin in front of 35,000 people and Jimi Hendrix in front of 70,000 and how Buckingham's constant guitar playing "drove the gated community crazy".

Prior to the brilliant Second Hand News Buckingham responded to a punter's call of "I love you Stevie" by confessing: "We all love Stevie".

Go Your Own Way ended the first set, with Buckingham taking over the vocal duties for the song he penned. The crowd were on their feet for what is possibly the band's greatest song.

While Nicks and Buckingham may be the face of Fleetwood Mac, it's the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie that remains its backbone.

Famously founder Peter Green named his band for Fleetwood and McVie, as attempt to lure McVie away from John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. He finally succeeded in acquiring McVie in August 1967. On stage some four decades later, Fleetwood and McVie were still a rhythmic force to be reckoned with.

Fleetwood got his chance to truly shine in an extended drum solo during World Turning. It was also Fleetwood who introduced the band, albeit belatedly, during the encore. Fleetwood took the chance to pay tribute to the reticent McVie calling him his right hand man.

Don't Stop seemed to spell an end to the concert, but the band returned for a second encore of Silver Springs.

While no one was under the illusion that we were watching a band in their prime, what we got was more than we could have hoped for.

We got to see legends at play, reveling in their love of music. And maybe, just maybe, their enduring love for one another.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertain...-1225809648641

And I hope you have to listen to a lot of him beforehand to warm up. I'll start singing Lonely No More for you, if you like.

Michele

Oh no! I would have died. He is really buttering her up. I hope it works!:laugh:

Michele

To tell the truth, she looks like she has a cold. Her eyes look bleary and her nose is a little bulbous and discolored. I doubt she looks like this all time without make up. Plus, the angle is a strange one. People look better straight on. Kristen probably took this picture of Stevie. "Hey, girlfriend. I'll give you my Gift of Screws special!"

But I think that Stevie looks way better than this every day, without make up. The only thing that is a chronic condition is those lines around her mouth. They look like the edges of a puppet's mouth, allowing it to open and close. And I don't want her to do anything to those (other than what she might be doing). I'm tired of seeing women who were once beautiful sporting artificially plumped out faces.

I'm happy she doesn't think she has to be in full regalia to walk down the street, because when you start thinking, "I can't let people see me this way," it all too often becomes too easy to just stay home. And a recluse is born. Michele

I don't think it's that bad, the picture. The thing is...my 2 idols are Stevie and Grace Slick (hence my username, heheh), and I've now fairly recently seen, for the first time, photos of both of them without makeup on. Grace's pic shocked me a fair bit...and not cause I'm not used to seeing her how she is now (white hair, larger than she used to be, older, etc. She IS 70 after all, and blah blah), but because I've never seen her without makeup on. Well, not since the early 1970s anyway, when I saw a pic of her without much on. But when I thought about it, she really didn't look that different to how she looked in the 70s pic without makeup on. Her eyes looked the same...really, it was just the skin that had no foundation/concealer coverage, etc.

So now with Stevie...I personally before this have seen VERY few photos of her without any makeup on at all...and the ones I have seen were when she wasn't wearing any/hardly any way back when she was much younger, and to be honest, she still looks much the same. Obviously she's older now, and yes, that is an inevitable fact - we all do age. But that's ok. As long as we're happy and learning, it's ok. I think she looks good actually. Not that unlike how she used to look way back. We've just seen her with makeup on all these years, and especially lately as she's gotten older, she's worn more makeup than she used to when she was younger...you know?

I don't know if she has a cold. People have been commenting since the Melbourne shows that she seems to have a cold, so I don't know...it's been a while. I doubt it she had one in Melb that she'd still have the same cold now, and I also doubt she'd have a different one. lol. I think (HOPE!) she's fine and healthy.

I do wonder why she would go out into a busy shopping street without makeup on...maybe she just doesn't mind?? Hmm...

One thing that pleases and excites me about this though, is that maybe she'll do some shopping in Queen Street Mall in Brisbane and we can see her!!!!!!! woo! woo! woo! lol

We saw some pictures of Stevie going through the airport security and she looked pretty much like she looks in this photo.

Here's an article about the opening act for FM, the Verses


http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/ent...ive-in-verses/

[Here's an excerpt]
If you get along early to Fleetwood Mac's shows at ME Bank Stadium tonight and tomorrow night, you'll see some familiar faces on stage before the 70s pop powerhouse. They belong to Ella and Jesse Hooper of Killing Heidi fame, who are launching their new Melbourne-based band, the Verses.

Actually the Verses weren't all that bad, although a little bit too loud (or maybe I'm too old). As soon as Ella started to sing (and we were standing in the food queue at the time) she sounded kind of like 80s Stevie. Well I thought so. :shrug:

And now we know why she it takes her 3 hours to get ready for a show!! I agree, too, that seeing her sans makeup is a little unsettling but she's still Stevie, makeup or not!

For one thing, I don't think Mama is walking down too many streets- I suspect a driver is waiting outside for her at every stop. Secondly, she was obviously incognito a la Mrs. Buckingham- with the black beret and (presumably) sunglasses. She probably took the sunglasses off when she was inside trying on jewelry and the photog clearly espied her through the shop window. I think the fact that she has a ruddy complexion is nothing new. But those marionette lines are something else, perhaps magnified under the glare of harsh indoor retail lighting. I don't think it would be an awful thing if she had those lines fixed... after all, there are some VERY good examples of good plastic surgery- Demi Moore, Madonna, etc. It's not what it used to be...

Or she could just age gracefully and look like a regular 60 year old woman. :shrug:

Why does society have the obsession with eternal youth and beauty?

I think the picture is very cute! But I'm sure she isn't not wearing makeup. She just isn't wearing the heavy amount she does on stage, which is normal for performers. She looks around her age, but what is wrong with that? She owns that age and lived every fabulous, and not so fabulous, year. Age is a number but once a person reaches a certain point you have to respect their wisdom and the experiences they lived through. Stevie Nicks, obviously, has many, many incredible things to share and we should focus on that, her body of work, and not the fact that she looks like a 61 year old lady in a store.

:lol::lol::lol:

You made me laugh!!

I mean, does Mrs. B really need to dress incognito?? Really?!

Psst: I know you all think she was apparently dressing "incognito," but imo that is just the way the lady dresses. I think she's lovely, no question, but her fashion choices just can't compare to Stevie's in any way, shape, form. SN had style and was blazin' with it, whereas KB kind of looks like she may try, um, a little too hard at times...

(That was mean but I've been thinking it for a while.)

Show me one other picture of her dressed in seemingly "incognito" attire...I would love to see it. Really.

No CA, I didn't mean she dressed in spy clothes all the time. I meant she has a very awkward sense of style. And by that I mean mostly anything she's worn on any red carpet event with Lindsey (except that black poofy dress that everyone said she looked fat and pregnant in and I think was beautiful on her). I just think she isn't good about her clothes and accessorizing and that hat, glasses, coat thing was probably her take on the style for fall- which is a lot of darker colors, hats, and round sunglasses according to this site (go back to fall months). I think Kristen, bless her heart, just did her own interp of that and, well, that outfit is what happened. I very much doubt that she could be delusional enough to wear something incognito in a European country with a husband who is an incomparable artist but not some huge crowd-drawing celeb. I'm just saying...that's her style. :)

Agreed - it is her style.

I doubt nothing when it comes to show biz and the like...

That's true as well, but man has she got issues if it actually is what she was doing.:shocked:

Totally agreed!