CONFIRMED: Christine is performing in the UK!
 

OH YES! :blob2::blob1::blob1::blob2:

http://i.imgur.com/ehOGjkB.png

Ah!!!
Sometimes it is great to be a Mac fan in the UK

Great news!!!!

Yippeeee!!!!!!!

Now, Chris, record an album with them.

Here's an article from the BBC. Apparently she's going to rehearse in Ireland and is joining for one song on two shows.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24083924

Hope this leads to something more though.

Amazing!

I wonder which shows?

We all need our cameras and recording devices at the ready! :lol:

Someone better record this. For our sake...

I wish she would do World Turning too..

I can live without it, though it would seem perverse for her to come on and do Don't Stop shortly after Stevie filling in for her earlier on WT.

right?

i like your wording lol.

and i would love to hear Christine doing WT and then maybe sit on the floor with Linds for the drum solo. :) :cool:

They're nothing if not perverse.

When Lindsey came for Behind the Mask, he performed on Landslide and then came back at the end and even did Tear It Up (not even his own stupid song) with them and, of course, GYOW.

Michele

And how good would it be to see YMLF... ohman... :rolleyes:

I hope they're not flying this weekend...especially Christine.


United Kingdom, Ireland Face Damaging Wind Threat

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist

September 13, 2013; 5:30 PM

Weather across Europe is detailed in the above AccuWeather.com video.
A powerful storm is still set to sweep potentially damaging winds through the United Kingdom and Ireland Sunday through Monday.
The storm is capable of unleashing wind gusts of 80 to 110 kph (50 to 70 mph) from northwestern Ireland to Scotland. The winds will start to howl Saturday night with the strongest winds set to occur midday Sunday through Monday.
Northern and western coastal locations will be most susceptible to winds on the higher end of that range.
Such winds could lead to widespread tree damage and power outages, as well as minor structural damage. Additional damage will result if the trees land on structures and cars.

Wind gusts of 80 to 110 kph convert to 50 to 70 mph, while the range of 60 to 80 kph converts to 35 to 50 mph.
More sporadic tree damage and power outages could unfold in Dublin, London and across the rest of Ireland, England and Wales where gusts between 60 and 80 kph (35 and 50 mph) are expected.
Accompanying the storm will be periods of windswept rain across northern and western parts of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Spottier gusty showers are expected elsewhere.
Ahead of the storm, bouts of rain and nothing worse than breezy conditions will occur through Saturday.
It is unusually early for such a storm to be threatening the United Kingdom and Ireland, stated AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Alan Reppert.
"Most of these stronger storms typically happen from October into the winter."
Strong wind gusts from the storm will not be limited to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Gusts between 50 and 65 kph (30 and 40 mph) could reach places from northern France to southern Norway on Sunday night.
If the storm drops southward into the North Sea, the winds could increase with gusts as high as 95 kph (60 mph) along the coast of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark on Monday afternoon and night.
These winds could be delayed by a day if the storm takes until Tuesday to sink southward.
Regardless, Tuesday is shaping up to be another breezy to windy day across the United Kingdom and Ireland due to the storm dropping south through the North Sea or as another system arrives from the Atlantic.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weathe...-wind/17649125

Stevie, Mick, and Chris are attending the IYD premiere on Monday, so they're definitely not flying during the weekend.

I think this is their way of making our expectations low. Who knows what would turn out. :shrug:

lol. i've been following the band for just a short time now, but even i know that however low our expectations of the setlist may be, they are always unbelievably successful in going even lower. :rolleyes: :lol:

i don't get this, why is everybody expecting Christine to fly from UK to Ireland?? isn't she supposed to be afraid of flying? i've been to Ireland a number of times, and it never even occurred to me to fly there from the UK (and yes, i don't like flying either).

:lol: That's the Mac for you.

Couldn't hurt for them to do 1 or 2 extra songs with Christine, though. That's gonna be more than enough.

When I said they were flying, I was talking about Stevie and Mick. :laugh: Chris would probably travel another way.

yeah but they won't, unoftunately. i had a whole convo with Mick about that during one of m&gs. not happening with Mac. no changes. nada.

Not necessarily new additions, per se, but I was hoping she would join for Don't Stop and World Turning, at least. Maybe join in keyboards and backup vocals on one of the existing songs on the setlist. That way, we could still have more Chris and not change the setlist.

So, that means Christine will only sing ONE verse of Don't Stop. She'll be like, "Stevie, dude. I want you to sing the 'if your life wasn't good to you,' line. You've made it your own."

Michele

I just choked on my coffee. :lol:

I don't believe Christine is going to all that bother to rehearse only one song. I am seeing Lindsey and Stevie changing the context of Sad Angel and singing it directly to Chris to influence her to make one last significant contribution! There is a collection of recorded songs just waiting for Stevie and Chris to submit their vocals to as well as 3-4 songs each to make a final Fleetwood Mac album. Something is going to evolve out of this that is bigger than Christine or anyone else in the band. She said it herself that Fleetwood Mac is an entity all its own...it may just bring her back one last time.

It's definitely fishy. If it was one song, then she could just rehearse with them on the 24th on the morning before the first show. Morning rehearsal. Sound check. Sit in the wings that first night and get the feel of things and then perform Don't Stop the last two nights. No need to go to Dublin to rehearse ONE song. She said for the inauguration they didn't have much rehearsal didn't she? Why trips to Ireland to get it right, this time? Has age impacted their coordination, chemistry and musical ability that much?

Michele

Precisely! Hope springs eternal!

I was listening to 1010 WINS news radio from NYC tonight before Stevie's crossroads to come on.

They mention that Christine will join FM on stage to do some songs which was the same info on here.

I guess the Christine news is in the media now.

Didn't she also rehearse with them in Los Angeles when she visited them there before the tour?

So Mick said. :thumbsup:

Maybe it's a refresher or something. :laugh:

Pretty sure Chris would be interviewed by someone on Monday when she appears for the IYD premiere. Maybe we'll get some answers by then.

This is just awesome for Christine to get back out there with the Mac even if it's just for one or two shows. Keep in mind, she hasn't played with them since '98 - that's 15 years ago. So yeah I can see her needing practice and learning how to play in a band again. :cool:

Yes, they play tunes a bit differently everytime. For example, just an ending of a piece is a big deal. We all stop after 10 measures of this..... You have to pin it down before you go out there..

Maybe for one of the shows--and this is just high hopes--she will play Songbird by herself. No rehearsal needed for that! Oh, one can hope!!!!!

If this is going to happen, it would most likely be on her second show. Really hope so.

Good catch!

But I wouldn't rule out Stevie getting out of town. Pollen counts are high right now in London, but not in Ireland. Her allergies might be acting up, hence the glasses...

hoping they will and she says something. :nod:

can't believe it's less than a week now till the tour starts again! i'm even excited for all of you about all the expectations surrounding Christine! :thumbsup:

Whatever happens...one song, two songs, a full show (heh, I wish), it's gonna be bloomin' amazing.

The anticipation of things to come are wonderful and maddening...

Are you kidding? All of the wires carry the story. I had 600 news clippings and I just deleted them all, so any nuggets of information that weren't a repeat I completely missed, because I couldn't wade through all of that.

Michele

Wow, good for her... she got in the news.