Christine on stage - Dublin 9/20
 

if this tweet is correct. she would be on stage for the start of the encores.

@jerkbenedict
Christine on stage!!!! #fleetwoodmac

Exciting!!!

Edit : there are mixed reports - they may have announced she will perform with them tomorrow and/or she was spotted at the show.

It does seem it was being filmed though.

if true. :shrug:

Yeah, can't wait for a recap.

Seem??????

Someone said they were bumped up because they had cameras in their seats.

Christine is not in the encore pic

Here are some pictures of the show I pulled off instagram and twitter :

https://twitter.com/orinmurphy/statu...507649/photo/1

http://instagram.com/p/eflYlqrqdO/

https://twitter.com/jillkeene/status...239808/photo/1

https://twitter.com/karlingtonghost/...575232/photo/1

https://twitter.com/ParkerBowless/st...306049/photo/1

pic of final bow - no Christine in the picture

https://twitter.com/Irishfunerals/st...545216/photo/1

she was not there
 

definitive info now - Christine was not up on the stage.

And per the tweet I just received - she was not mentioned.

Here are some more pictures:

https://twitter.com/emjc29/status/38...716480/photo/1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

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

http://www.kieranfrost.com/fleetwood-mac/

I wonder how Stevie's WY story is going to change with Christine around. She will probably say a little more about her, before she thanks John, I would think in the London shows.

Michele

dream on.

they didn't do Oh Well although according to Mick that was gonna happen for sure. same old setlist. :rolleyes:

so who knows whether Christine's gonna happen either. :shrug:

i'm always disappointed on their first night, then i learn to adjust my expectations really really low.

if nothing different happens second day in Dublin....... :distress:

No one thought that Christine was going to happen in Dublin, did they? I don't expect her there and I don't expect her Tuesday. I just expect her Wednesday and Friday.

Great news about Oh Well ;).

Michele

I want to hear the WY intro for tonight. CAD says Christine wasn't mentioned from the feedback she's gotten, but I have to think her name was said, just one little itsy bitsy time.

Michele

Yeah, I was surprised at that too because there were several tweets saying she's singing "tomorrow". :shrug:

I agree though, I didn't expect her in Dublin but thought it was possible if she was rehearsing with them there. She'll definitely be at the two London shows they have mentioned though. (Unless something happens).

Elle, you should know better than to think they would change that set list. Lol.

I'm also disappointed Oh Well didn't make it. Wow, they miss so many possibilities they should be capitalizing on. This same set will probably be used for 50th anniversary celebrations too, without even paying homage to Green (the wonderful wonderful Albatross going neglected for way too long), Welch, and Christine. Watch them pass over playing Glastonbury, the largest music festival in the world.

In other news, the entire stage made it, right? The overhead "heater" platforms they had some trouble with are visible in pictures.

I don't know. During the song, Gypsy posted here:http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=52657
I can clearly see the video montage being played behind a curtain. I can't imagine why it is blocked.

Christine was in Dublin because Stevie and Mick said that she was going to be there for rehearsals. They also said that she would be performing in London, not Dublin.

Only one person actually tweeted "Christine McVie!" which seemed a little strange. If she were actually onstage, you'd think that everyone would be tweeting at that point. But no such thing happened. I'll be following the tweets like everyone else tomorrow, but I don't really believe that Christine is going to be performing in Dublin.

No one was tweeting we were told because it was a dead zone. Hardly any signal.

Whoever tweeted that was indeed a jerk.

Anyway, not sure why people are expecting Chris in Ireland... didn't Stevie and Mick say she was only playing the London shows?

Mick said Christine will be performing at the 2nd and 3rd show in London.

Stevie said she will be performing at the "second two shows". that can mean anything. like at two places where there is a second show (like Dublin and London), she may be performing at those second shows.

people heard rehearsals and Christine performing with them, and some had indications, rightly or wrongly, that she may perform in Dublin, whether 1st or 2nd Dublin show. first definitely didn't happen. i'm not holding my breath for tomorrow, although it really makes no sense - why wouldn't she perform in Dublin? she's already there. :shrug:

but what makes any sense with these people? :lol:

Mick said numerous times they will be performing Oh Well in Europe. but then Lindsey said to a fan who met him earlier today that the set list is the same as the US. :(

as he said actually in his twitter handle. :lol:

No, you just don't speak Stevie. She was in London when she said it, so the translation is she is reiterating Mick's comment - the 2nd & 3rd London shows. :)

Yes, no reason to think she'd be in Dublin. Well, I guess she's there, but no reason to think she'd be on stage, much less perform.

Michele

C'mon Elle.

I'm just glad that they're together. Well, I hope they're together.

Michele

Chain, keep us together...

Imagine if the same thing for "Don't Stop" was true for "Oh Well" at those shows. They could be the greatest Fleetood Mac shows ever. Oh well...

lol, yeah definitely not.

to me, referring to the second 2 shows would mean that there also have to be first 2 shows before those second shows. ;)

I gave up on my Stevie speak courses a long time ago. :lol:

I am, however, proficient at translating sarcastic, sometimes passive-aggressive Christine speak.

Who is good at Lindsey speak around here, then?

Some videos from the Dublin show:

Never Going Back Again

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The Chain







Silver Springs

Dig the drummer behind Lindsey... :rolleyes:

If anything, THAT'S what I miss about the "Time" band. There were six, AND ONLY SIX, people on stage. Are Mick's microphones even on? Talk about NOT getting bang for your buck. I'd rather see a band blow it than fake it.

I was there. Definitely no Christine. Not even a sniff of her (unless people up front saw her off stage) and she wasn't even mentioned. All the speeches are just the same as the US leg so they didn't add anything about Chris in.

But, my friend, how was the show??? Please, one of the few people I wait to read a review from, is you!

I'm literally about to run out the door to get to tonight's one (hoping for directly in front of Lindsey!) but I wrote a few initial impression over here http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showth...33#post1103933

I'll write more tomorrow with thoughts on both shows. I have a feeling I'll enjoy this one even more :thumbsup:

Thanks for the report. Although, even in the US Stevie sometimes would add Christine in, when she was thanking the guys and moving to John's thank you.

Michele

I asked Mick if she was in town and he sorta thought for a bit and said how she was going to but eventually didn't come with them. He seemed disappointed ,like that she got cold feet and backed out at the eleventh hour or something. I hope she will turn up in London as promised though,it would be a shame if she didn't

I thought she came to rehearse? :shrug: Unless you meant backing out of performing in Dublin. I don't think she'll be able to back out of London, though. Christine has a huge sense of loyalty to the Mac and unlike previous attempts of getting her on stage, this was widely publicized. Mick even said they're recording the London shows for this reason alone.

I went over to the venue on Wednesday night during rehearsals and met a few of the crew, the all remained quite tight lipped and didn't really reveal anything.
I obviously wasn't allowed in so I befriended a security gard who then proceeded to get me wasted on the strongest spiff I have ever had in my life. Christine was in there and she was singing "don't stop" nothing else was rehearsed form what I heard.
We sat outside the venue completely baked for about 3 hours not fit to move however we could hear everything. The band went throughout the US TOUR set list so I knew it wouldn't be any different from that point. John mc vie's guitar came out for a smoke and took my model 1 guitar in with him and repaired a little vibration I had going on on the low e string.
Drove home the 80 mile trip with cruise control set at 30mph and I felt like I was flying, that thing hadn't wore off even a little bit. I thought I was inside a snake going through the port tunnel.

I Woke up on Thursday morning feeling pretty down about the whole thing for not catching a glimpse of the band or an autograph from lindsey after hanging around for about 4 hours or more. So I was in two minds about going back to Dublin but I had the day off work and nothing else planned. So into the car and straight back to dublin me and the good wife went. We went to the hotel that they were staying and ordered a pot of tea and some lunch. No sooner than I had picked up the fork to take my first bite Lindsey walks straight past. Needless to say I didn't know what to do or say. So I jumped up and went after him to the doors of the hotel. I told him he was my all time hero and this was going to be the best day of my life. He seemed genuinely happy to hear that and I asked if he would come back in and sign my guitar in the lobby.
Not only did he say "sure, no problem" he sat down with me and my wife a chatted with us for a solid 25 minutes. He had so much time for us I was completely amazed. We talked about the band, the solo stuff, the cancelled tour in uk, taste in clothes and the leather jacket, he also asked a lot about me and was real easy to talk to. (lindsey you are a true hero and a gent)
lindsey played with my guitar and signed it real nice and then he also signed my Rumours LP as well. To this day I have never in my life wished for more than what I got that afternoon.
Then on the Friday headed down to the venue for the gig in good time met a few irish ledgies in the green room bar. Then headed in to the show.
I had standing tickets and was in first but had to move back a little bit because the crew were literally handpicking heaps of sexy girls from the crows and putting them right in front of lindsey. There must of been 30 of them. Not a single line of any song did the know. One didn't even know who was who in the Stevie lindsey name thing..
The show started on time and played for I think 2 hrs 40 mins. Without a break.
Lindsey was great, he got on with it, solid guitar work and vocals the whole night and very interactive with the crowd all night.
Stevie was not so interactive but i felt she was much better than she was in 09. Sisters of the moon was fantastic.
I set my seeds we sow cd cover on the stage and lindsey signed that too for me, which I kindly gave to a friend from Cork who is also a massive lindsey fan but didn't get to meet him.
We all went out for a hape of drink afterwards till the bars shut and then we went for pizza.
All in all it was an absolutely fantastic weekend. I am still on a high.
Really disappointed I'm not there tonight, as they would be currently singing landslide if my timing is right.
Perfect, perfect, perfect loved every minute of it.

WTF was this about?