Toronto Q & A for IYD, April 15, 2013

[michelej1]

X-tra Canada's Gay and Lesbian News [click for video]"
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/St...nto-13412.aspx

Stevie Nicks stirs up fandemonium in Toronto

ON SCREEN / Singer is in town promoting her new documentary

Xtra staff / Toronto / Monday, April 15, 2013

The incomparable Stevie Nicks thrilled fans (including more than a couple gay men) at TIFF Bell Lightbox ahead of the Canadian premiere of her new documentary, In Your Dreams. The doc, created with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, takes a behind the scenes look at the making of her 2011 album of the same name.

Nicks is also playing a Fleetwood Mac gig on April 16 at the Air Canada Centre. Fleetwood Mac hit the big time in the 1970s. Their 1977 album, Rumours, had four number one hits, including "You Make Loving Fun," "Go Your Own Way" and "Don’t Stop."

Nicks has maintained a rock star status through the years and has had a successful solo career with such hits as "Edge of Seventeen" and "Stand Back." A recent episode of Glee introduced a new generation to Nicks and Fleetwood Mac.

In the below video interview with Xtra, Nicks talks about today's music industry, including her favourite new artist. The documentary In Your Dreams plays at TIFF April 16-18.

[michelej1]

The Star, April 15, 2013
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...ms_review.html

Stevie Nicks fans will get their fill with In Your Dreams: review

Steve Nicks: Nicks In Your Dreams is an affectionate documentary about the Fleetwood Mac singer co-directed by Eurythmics Dave Stewart.

By:Linda Barnard, *** (3 out of 4 stars)


A documentary about the making of Stevie Nicks’ album. Directed by Nicks and Dave Stewart. 100 minutes. Screens April 16-18 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. G


Steve Nicks:In Your Dreams shows devotion to its raspy-voiced rock goddess subject immediately, with a montage of concert-goers professing their love for the poetic Fleetwood Macsinger-songwriter who went on to solo success.


Screening at a pair of gala premieres Monday night at the TIFF Bell Lightbox with Nicks in attendance to do post-show Q&A sessions, true fans will find their gold dust woman as the doc unspools, witnessing the creative machinery behind her songwriting process, as Nicks makes the 2011 album of the same name in her California home studio.


Nicks and the rest of Fleetwood Mac (minus Christine McVie, who exited the band in 1998) play the Air Canada Centre Tuesday.


Nicks directs the doc with musician-producer Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame, who co-wrote some of the songs on In Your Dreams, co-producing the album with Glen Ballard.


Stewart, who has been working with film since he traded a gold coin he found on the street for a camera, explains he and Nicks come from similar places. Both made music at the start of their careers with romantic partners; he with Annie Lennox and Nicks with Lindsey Buckingham, which ended when the band was recording 1977’s Rumours.


Musical film bios that also serve as companion pieces (or marketing devices, for the cynical) for releases are popping up all over lately, most notably: The History of the Eagles: Part 1 and 2 and Dave Grohl’s Sound City.


The track-by-track exploration reveals Nicks as a perfectionist with a remarkable ear and impressive musical memory. She uses poetry from her journal to create lyrics — borrowing others from Edgar Allan Poe — setting them to music she randomly figures out on a keyboard (she has no formal training). Other times she sets her words to Stewart’s guitar.


If Nicks decides to break musical or lyric-writing rules as she goes (to the obvious exasperation of Buckingham in one amusing scene), it makes no nevermind to her. “You wouldn’t say that to Dylan,” she snaps.


The track-by-track journey through the album gets a bit dreary, but hearing that throaty, constricted voice soar above the music as Nicks stands in the echo chamber created by her home’s curved staircase or while dressed as a witchy diva on her terrace to belt out the poignant “Italian Summer,” makes up for a lot.


And for those of us who have loved Nicks since she joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, seeing her peer at a lyric sheet through a magnifying glass brings a certain comfort. We’re getting older, too, Stevie.

[vivfox]

I crack up when Stevie tells reporters that if it was 1975 she would have asked Phillip Phillips to join FM. As if she had any power in that group in 1975.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I crack up when Stevie tells reporters that if it was 1975 she would have asked Phillip Phillips to join FM. As if she had any power in that group in 1975.

She had Lindsey-- her secret weapon.

[olive]

someone said she is ""planning" a Solo tour for next year she is including Deep cuts from all her solo albums .... it never ends

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by olive

someone said she is ""planning" a Solo tour for next year she is including Deep cuts from all her solo albums .... it never ends

I'll believe THAT when I see it

[WildHearted]

http://nickslive.blogspot.com/2013/0...vie-nicks.html

"I didn't sell a lot of records, you guys. For me, for a big act like moi, I didn't. Worldwide I probably sold 300,000 records. It's awesome if you're an unknown artist and you have a hit single but it's not really that awesome if you're Stevie Nicks," she said

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

http://nickslive.blogspot.com/2013/0...vie-nicks.html

"I didn't sell a lot of records, you guys. For me, for a big act like moi, I didn't. Worldwide I probably sold 300,000 records. It's awesome if you're an unknown artist and you have a hit single but it's not really that awesome if you're Stevie Nicks," she said

It's awesome if you're Stevie Nicks and can still sell 300,000 copies of a record in 2012. Wake up girlfriend.

[Macfanforever]

Originally Posted by WildHearted

http://nickslive.blogspot.com/2013/0...vie-nicks.html

"I didn't sell a lot of records, you guys. For me, for a big act like moi, I didn't. Worldwide I probably sold 300,000 records. It's awesome if you're an unknown artist and you have a hit single but it's not really that awesome if you're Stevie Nicks," she said

I blame NO or alittle radio airplay of IYD.Still to this day I HAVE NOT heard a peep of that album out of my radio.

[jkmaletic]

Here's another video interview. She cracks me up.

http://m.citynews.ca/2013/04/16/stev...ry-in-toronto/

[WildHearted]

She looked damn good.

[michelej1]

CTV
http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/...ours-1.1239810

Stevie Nicks recounts dark days of 'Rumours'

Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:37AM EDT

TORONTO -- Fleetwood Mac songstress Stevie Nicks is tantalizing fans with a bold idea: a one-woman show.

Could something along the lines of "My Name is Stevie" (in the vein of Barbra Streisand's "My Name is Barbra") or "Stevie With an I-E" (in the spirit of Liza Minnelli's "Liza With a Z") be in the tarot cards?

The raspy-voiced veteran says it's an idea her pal Dave Stewart has been trying to get her to embrace.

Nicks made the comments while appearing at the Canadian premiere of her documentary "In Your Dreams," which follows her and the Eurythmics hitmaker as they write and record her 2011 album of the same name.

She says Stewart's plan would involve massive video screens revealing images from Nicks' storied life. But the "Landslide" crooner is laughing off the idea, noting: "I'm not Barbra Streisand."

Nicks' creative bond with Stewart is traced in an affectionate documentary that reveals the veteran rockers nit-picking over melodies and brainstorming lyrics at her home recording studio in California. The film plays in Toronto through Thursday before heading to other cities.

After the film, Nicks told a movie theatre full of fans that Stewart sees a new chapter in her career.

"He wants me to have video screens, like a big room of video screens where it's all my whole life (up there). And I (said): 'Dave, I'm not Barbra Streisand'," Nicks said smiling. "But maybe. Maybe someday."

She notes that her solo shows already feature a lot of talking, as opposed to the hit-laden concerts with her band Fleetwood Mac.

"It's very different. Fleetwood Mac's much more sophisticated and grownup and my show is just like a big slumber party in an auditorium. And I tell everybody the meanings of all these new songs. Because that's how I draw people in," says Nicks, who turns 65 on May 26.

After the movie, Nicks took questions from audience members, recounting the origins of her steadfast determination to be a star and dark days surrounding the recording of "Rumours."

"It wasn't really a pleasant experience," she says.

"Lindsey (Buckingham) and I had pretty much just really broken up, and we'd kind of broken up off and on for a year before that. So this is 1977. None of the couples were happy... which, on one hand, really lends to the creative process."

The film includes interviews with Nicks about Fleetwood Mac's rise to fame, current sources of inspiration, childhood memories and her surprising passion for the "Twilight" franchise.

She notes that promoting the album "In Your Dreams" involved a gruelling two years of touring and promotion. In the end, it didn't amount to much.

"I didn't sell a lot of records, you guys. For me, for a big act like moi, I didn't. Worldwide I probably sold 300,000 records. It's awesome if you're an unknown artist and you have a hit single but it's not really that awesome if you're Stevie Nicks," she said.

"It's such a different age now."

"In Your Dreams" heads to Ottawa on Friday and Saturday. It reaches Winnipeg on May 2, May 3 and May 5; Saskatoon on May 13; Edmonton on May 14; Calgary on May 16; Vancouver on May 18 and 23; and Montreal from June 14 to 17.

Fleetwood Mac performs at the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday. They head to Ottawa on April 23, Winnipeg on May 12, Saskatoon on May 14, Edmonton on May 15, Calgary on May 17 and Vancouver on May 19.


Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/...#ixzz2QeSLo2En

[michelej1]

[I'm so tired of her blaming Lindsey for things she doesn't want to do anyway. I'd like to take some super glue and forever attach her to the mic and mic stand]

http://blogs.canoe.ca/turntable/musi...at-toronto-qa/ Jam Showbiz April 16, 2013

By Jane Srevenson Nicks chokes up talking about late mom at Toronto Q&A

Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks says making her 2011 solo album In Your Dreams and the 2013 behind-the-scenes documentary of the same name was almost beside the point because the process was “so much fun.”

“I lost my mom a year and a half ago,” said the 64-year-old Nicks getting choked up during one of two Q&A’s following screenings of the documentary on Tuesday night at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.

“And every since I lost my mother I really realized how important what you do is, and your journeys are much, much more important than what you come out with. And I look back on this year now and I think it’s so true. That’s all we were doing was making memories. There was no harsh words. There was no arugments. There was no friction ever. …I knew that we would never forget this year.”

Nicks told a packed crowd, which had included Fleetwood Mac bandmates drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie before they exited pre Q&A, that documentary director and album co-producer-co-writer Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) talked her into filming on the second day of recording by reassuring her.

“Darling, if you don’t like it, we won’t use it, and that’s a promise,” Nicks said Stewart told her. “From that moment onward, I wasn’t worried anymore and the whole thing began with little flip cameras.”

The routine was that Stewart would come to Nicks home every day between 2:00 p.m to 8:30 p.m. (they moved his martini time from 4 p.m to 8;30 p.m.) and Nicks had to get up 4 hours earlier than usual to drink coffee in bed from 9 to noon, have a bath and do avocal lesson, and down a quick breakfast before Stewart arrived.

Naturally, filming meant a little bit more “girlie work’ for Nicks.

“I had this one blouse I liked and I just stuck with it,” explained Nicks. “‘Cause if I had to think about what I was wearing every day then that would really make the filming thing very uncomfortable for me. So i didn’t. So then I had to spend a half-hour putting on makeup and I had to blow out this really long hair 2 or 3 times a week instead of once a week. So it was more work definitely but after about the first two weeks I got used to it.”

The documentary had its Canadian debut in Toronto before moving its way across the country as Fleetwood Mac also makes Canadian stops at arenas.

(In the case of Toronto at the Air Canada Centre on April 16.)

Nicks told media on the red carpet the current Fleetwood Mac show is “a big show. It’s different. I said to (guitarist) Lindsey (Buckingham), it’s disturbingly big. Because you’re in there putting on your shoes and then all of the sudden you’re out there on stage in front of 16,000 people. You have to kind of get used to that.”

Otherwise, she told the Q&A she was unaccustomed to holding a microphone as she took questions.

“Thirty-five, 40 years ago Lindsey said to me, ‘Oh, how very Las Vegas of you!’ And I never took the mic off the stand again. So when I hold the mic I feel like an idiot.”

[jkmaletic]

I don't think she's "blaming" Lindsey. I think its one of those things where someone says something to you that sticks with you for whatever reason, and you decide to change/adjust what you're doing.

Years ago my gf inadvertantly got me to stop biting my nails when she said that people may think there's something mentally wrong with me when they looked at my jacked up fingernails. Haven't bitten them since and its been 20 yrs.

Jamie

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by jkmaletic

I don't think she's "blaming" Lindsey.
Jamie

The context in which she's brought it up repeatedly over the years, I think first with Jim Ladd, it's another example of what she thinks is a derisive (no doubt jealous) comment of his that inhibited her for life. If she'd had footage of it, it would have gone into the IYD documentary too.

She never says it with a "moving the mic is not my style" air about her. It's always like, "I'd like to do it and I think I could put on a really good show, if I did, but alas, he permanently stinted my growth with his meanness . . ."

Michele