27/05/15 - The 02

[twinmatrix]

I'm SO excited to see if there are any setlist changed!

[FuzzyPlum]

I'm getting excited and I'm not going until 22nd June.
Have a good time tonight and let us know ASAP.

[wheart]

Originally Posted by twinmatrix

I'm SO excited to see if there are any setlist changed!

not to be a "wet blanket" but I highly doubt there will be. This is Fleetwood Mac, remember...

[twinmatrix]

By "set list changes" I mostly mean Songbird and Seven Wonders. I think they still performed them a couple of times so maybe they're not permanently cut? Only time will tell (aka the next 2 hours)

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by wheart

not to be a "wet blanket" but I highly doubt there will be. This is Fleetwood Mac, remember...

Yes, hard to see how one would derive excitement in anticipation of a set list change. Very little chance of that happening.

[twinmatrix]

Well, seems like Songbird and Seven Wonders really are cut permanently... Damnit. :/ Can't they remove I Know I'm Not Wrong?

[poetinmyheart]

Originally Posted by twinmatrix

Well, seems like Songbird and Seven Wonders really are cut permanently... Damnit. :/ Can't they remove I Know I'm Not Wrong?

Songbird was performed tonight

Just got home from the London show. I'd avoided all videos and reviews of the previous American shows so had no real idea what to expect with the five of them being reunited again. I was certainly not disappointed. They were incredible - absolutely brought the house down. Am on such a high right now, am already plotting how I'm going to get my hands on a ticket to a later London date.

I hope everyone else who was there tonight enjoyed it as much as I did and I'm excited for everyone who has it still to come

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by poetinmyheart

Songbird was performed tonight

Just got home from the London show. I'd avoided all videos and reviews of the previous American shows so had no real idea what to expect with the five of them being reunited again. I was certainly not disappointed. They were incredible - absolutely brought the house down. Am on such a high right now, am already plotting how I'm going to get my hands on a ticket to a later London date.

I hope everyone else who was there tonight enjoyed it as much as I did and I'm excited for everyone who has it still to come

I understand your "high." I had the same high after the Pittsburgh show. Please give us more details

[twinmatrix]

Originally Posted by poetinmyheart

Songbird was performed tonight

Just got home from the London show. I'd avoided all videos and reviews of the previous American shows so had no real idea what to expect with the five of them being reunited again. I was certainly not disappointed. They were incredible - absolutely brought the house down. Am on such a high right now, am already plotting how I'm going to get my hands on a ticket to a later London date.

I hope everyone else who was there tonight enjoyed it as much as I did and I'm excited for everyone who has it still to come

OH MY GOD WHAT THEY PERFORMED SONGBIRD WHAT WAAAA

I WILL DIE

I WILL DIE ON MONDAY

That is LITERALLY one of the most beautiful songs in the world. T_____T

[ChickenStu]

Well. I went to my second Fleetwood Mac gig last night. Whilst it was nice to see the five original members together again and to hear songs like Everywhere and Little Lies performed - the changes in key of some of the songs were really quite jarring. Plus, the staff at the 02 were being really officious and I got told off for a number of things including puffing on my e-cig and standing up whilst trying to acclimatize myself to the altitude of where my seat was in the venue.

This is in stark contrast to the gig I attended in September 2013 in which the crowd were left alone to dance and have a bit of a party. I don't know what's happened to the 02 staff since then - but this woman who kept bothering me pretty much ALMOST ruined my night. I'd make a complaint about her but it would do not good.

I mean OK - fair play - I probably shouldn't have been using my e-cig - but it's when she came and stood next to me for no reason as if to say "I'm watching you mate" - really kind of pissed me off.

But I'm pleased to be able to say I've seen Fleetwood Mac twice. But of the two concerts I've attended - the first one was the best. There was a magic in the air that night that seemed to sort of be missing this time around if that makes any sense.

[michelej1]

NME by Leonie Cooper May 28, 2015

http://www.nme.com/news/fleetwood-mac/85746

Adele and Florence Welch watch Fleetwood Mac kick off UK tour in London Fleetwood Mac Tickets

The band - including Christine McVie - played London's O2 last night (May 27)

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks dedicated the song 'Landslide' to Adele on the opening night of the band's UK tour.

The group played the first of a run of shows at London's The O2 last night (May 27), with Nicks addressing the crowd mid-set to talk about her love of British singer, Adele. "She's from here - you might know her," commented Nicks. "She's a fantastic songwriter... I told her 'you're going to be me in 40 years, you're going to still be up onstage doing what you're doing because of your songwriting'." The song 'Landslide' originally featured on the band's self-titled 1975 album.

Fleetwood Mac were joined by keyboard player and songwriter Christine McVie, who is now a full-time member of the band again, after first appearing on stage with the group at the same London venue in September 2013 before officially rejoining in January 2014. McVie - who wrote some of the band's most well known songs - left the band in 1998.

The band arrived onstage at 8.15pm and played a 22 song, hit-packed set to a sold out crowd. Opening with 'The Chain', it was followed by 'You Make Loving Fun' after which Christine McVie commented: "Thanks very much London, it's great to be here." Stevie Nicks then explained that it was the 82nd show of their current tour. "And now on show 82 I think we can safely say that our girl is back!," she added, gesturing to McVie.

Following 'Rhiannon', McVie addressed the crowd once more. "I can't tell you what a thrill it is to be on the stage with these wonderful musicians who I consider my family," she said. "You don't get this chance many times in life - I got it twice." The band then started a mass sing-along with 'Everywhere'. Guitar player Lindsey Buckingham later spoke about "the return of the beautiful Christine" and called it "a karmic, circular moment".

Later, for the songs 'Over My Head' and 'Gypsy', drummer Mick Fleetwood swapped his large kit for a smaller one at the front of the stage, which Christine McVie referred to as a "cocktail kit". During 'World Turning' he embarked on an epic drum solo, much to the delight of the crowd. "****, this is a huge, massive place," he remarked towards the end.

Following the show, both Adele and Florence And The Machine's Florence Welch were pictured backstage with Stevie Nicks.

Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/fleetwood-ma...MWAMCgr1gcG.99

[michelej1]

Telegraph Co. UK (5 stars *****) By Neil McCormick

11:00PM BST 27 May 2015

Fleetwood Mac, O2 Arena, review: 'Nothing less than extraordinary'

The soap opera of the band member's personal lives has always lent a certain depth and texture to Fleetwood Mac, says Neil McCormick


The Chain made for a suitably dramatic opening, showing off the restored Fleetwood Mac to full effect with that fantastic bass, thunderous drums, blood quickening guitar solo and gorgeous wall of harmonies insisting the chain cannot be broken. Going straight into You Make Loving Fun drove the point home, showcasing Christine McVie's smooth vocal and funky keyboards. "I think we can safely say our girl is back" trilled Stevie Nicks.

This tour marks the full reunion of the classic line-up, with the return of Christine McVie after 16 years. The band have become almost the definition of a heritage act in her absence, regularly touring sets of their greatest hits to nostalgic audiences, so you can't really say she was missed. But there is no doubt she restores some balance, both in musical and pop cultural terms.

Musically, she takes some of the weight off virtuoso guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, her smooth, lush pop songs softening his sharper arty edges. Flowing gems as potent as Everywhere, Little Lies and Songbird were restored to their rightful place in the centre of a Fleetwood set and for that alone audiences have reason to be grateful.

But there is a sense too that the dysfunctional family is back together, healing old wounds with the balm of time and music, a message that, in itself, speaks volumes to lifelong fans

Fleetwood Mac make much of their history of "ups and downs" as Buckingham puts it. Now that Christine is back playing again with ex-husband bassist John McVie there are three former couples on stage, if you take into account that drummer Mick Fleetwood romanced singer Nicks behind the back of Buckingham.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Buckingham insisted, and seemed intent on proving it with a playful yet dramatically full blooded duet with his ex on Never Going Back Again.

The soap opera has always lent a certain depth and texture to Fleetwood Mac but, frankly, a little less chatter and a little more playing would be my only suggestion. There were speeches even after the encores. Yet it feels churlish to complain. Precious few bands have contained the range of vocal, stylistic and songwriting talent of the Mac, and even the inevitable inclusion of a new song didn't start a queue for the toilets.

With that taut, explosive rhythm section, Buckingham's imaginative flair, Nicks' wildcard charisma and Christine McVie's singalong soulfulness restored to the heart of the matter, there is really no way this band could be anything less than extraordinary. A lusty mass singalong of Don't Stop spoke volumes about how their audience felt about the return of the Mac.

[michelej1]

I don't know, Lindsey. What doesn't kill me usually just makes me weak, scared and unhappy. Not stronger.

Michele

[michelej1]

Fleetwood Mac review – back together, and just about perfect
4 / 5 stars

http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...2-arena-review

O2 Arena, London, The Guardian

The return of the band’s classic line-up on their On With the Show tour is cause for celebration – and fascination


“Let’s get this party started!” isn’t the introduction you expect at a Fleetwood Mac show, and especially not from Stevie Nicks, creator of the Hollywood Hills hippie-mystic archetype. But tonight is the 82nd gig of their year-long On With the Show tour and Nicks, splendid in trailing black lace, feels they’ve turned a corner in their relationship with Christine McVie. The singer-pianist’s nervousness about rejoining after a 16-year break has given way to wholehearted mucking in. Nodding towards McVie’s keyboard, behind which she is tall and commanding, Nicks roars: “Now I think we can safely say our girl is back!”

Mac returning to their classic configuration is cause for celebration, and not just because it lets us hear one of pop’s great songbooks performed by the five people who wrote it. There’s also the fascination of seeing them accommodate each other: Lindsey Buckingham, Nicks and McVie get equal front-time, and use it in ways that make you wonder how such disparate personalities functioned in the same group.

Nicks is the spell-casting sensualist, reedily fronting Dreams, Rhiannon and Landslide (dedicating the last to her father and singer Adele); Buckingham’s emotional collapse after years of “leading the lifestyle” is re-created in the angular battering he gives Tusk and Big Love. And McVie is somehow veiled and private, even when singing about bliss and its turbulent aftermath on Everywhere and Little Lies. Mick Fleetwood also gets his eventual moment, with a drum solo on World Turning, but he and John McVie are the perfect rhythm section – there without being too there.

There’s nothing to fault except Nicks’s getting so lost in her cocaine-warning song, Gold Dust Woman, that it goes on for a week – time that could have been better spent hearing the blaring Tusk again. Apart from that, it’s just about perfect.