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Fleetwood Mac in talks for Glastonbury | Daily Express (UK)

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September 25th 2014
Daily Express (UK)

FLEETWOOD MAC are holding talks with tour organisers about the possibility of placing Glastonbury festival in their schedule, fuelling fans’ hopes they will headline the event next year (15).

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The classic line-up of the Go Your Own Way hitmakers was completed when Christine McVie returned to the fold earlier this year (14) after a 16-year absence.

The reunited band heads out on a North American tour later this month (Sep14), and now singer Stevie Nicks has revealed they are planning concerts in the U.K. next spring and are in talks about the possibility of including Glastonbury in their itinerary.

She tells Uncut magazine, “Chris is excited to come back to London. It’ll be soon, probably May… Glastonbury? You never know. You have to weave festivals in. It’s being discussed.”

Last year (13), Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis dismissed rumours suggesting the band had signed up for the 2014 festival and confirmed he was “hoping to get them for 2015”.

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Fleetwood Mac welcome Christine McVie back in the fold, and plan a British return | Uncut Magazine

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Uncut Magazine, November, 2014
by Piers Martin

‘DON’T STOP IT”LL SOON BE HERE…..’

Fleetwood Mac welcome Christine McVie back in the fold, and plan a British return. “It’s all about you, Chris,” says Stevie Nicks…

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The newly reformed 1970s blockbuster lineup of Fleetwood Mac starring Christine McVie will head to the UK for shows early next summer, singer Stevie Nicks tells Uncut, and their first ever Glastonbury is not being ruled out. “Chris is excited to come back to London. It’ll be soon, probably May,” says Nicks, as a rejuvenated Mac prepare to head out on their first US tour with the classic Rumours lineup since October 31, 1982, when the troubled five-piece played the final show of their Mirage tour. “Glastonbury? You never know. You have to weave festivals in [to the tour]. It’s being discussed.”

McVie, who quite the group in 1998, joined her former bandmates onstage for an emotional encore of “Don’t Stop” during their shows in London last September and became an official member again in January when the new tour, dubbed On With The Show, was announced. “The second people saw she was coming back, the tickets just sold,” says Nicks, “and I tell her: ‘It’s a good thing you’re in really great shape and you’re happy about this, because it is all about you.’ It’s fun to see it through her eyes, her being gone for so long, because she’s so excited.”

With the band not getting any younger, Nicks admits McVie’s return has plenty of benefits. “It’s less work when it comes down to it as Lindsey [Buckingham] and I don’t have to sing 50/50. Now we do a third each so it’s less singing and a little less physically difficult, so that’s nice. Her music is very different too, so it adds to everything.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac welcome Christine McVie back in the fold, and plan a British return | Uncut Magazine →

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Could Fleetwood Mac headline Glastonbury? | Gigwise

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by Andrew Trendell
Gigwise.com

Industry website tips classic rockers as ‘to be confirmed’ for Worthy Farm next year

This year’s event may have only just passed, but Fleetwood Mac are already being tipped to headline Glastonbury Festival 2015. 

The ‘Go Your Own Way’ classic rockers were long-rumoured to headline this year, but this became impossible after bassist John McVie fell ill. But now, McVie is on the mend and the band are back on the road and gearing up to record a new album.

Now, music festival website eFestivals are listing the band as ‘To Be Confirmed’, meaning that based on industry knowledge, they believe them to be almost certain for the event. They did the same for Kasabian and Metallica this year long before they were confirmed and are a trusted source of festival rumours.

Speaking to Gigwise last year, we asked drummer Mick Fleetwood said: “We were asked to do some lovely festivals this year and it didn’t work out. Once you do the festivals then you can’t really do a tour of the other towns. We were asked to do Glastonbury this year and hopefully they’ll ask us again.”

When asked about the possibility of playing Glastonbury 2014, Fleetwood replied: “I don’t know – they’ve probably got fed up of asking us!”

However, when asked about Glastonbury earlier this year, Christine McVie replied: “If Michael Eavis provides the wellies I’ll be there.”

Meanwhile, the bookies’ favourites to headline Glastonbury 2015 have been named as Depeche Mode, while AC/DC and Prince are also rumoured. We have a year-long wait until we find out for sure.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed that three headliners are already booked.

 

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Fleetwood Mac on new recordings: ‘We get chills when we hear them’ | The Guardian (UK)

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Minus Stevie Nicks, the band are recording ‘blues-based’ and ‘commercial’ songs in the studio in which they made Tusk

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Fleetwood Mac have almost finished eight songs for a possible new album. The new recordings feature Christine McVie but not yet Stevie Nicks, who has been absent due to other commitments. “The chemistry was just unbelievable,” Lindsey Buckingham has said.

Minus Nicks, Fleetwood Mac spent two months at Village Recorder studio, in Los Angeles, working in the same room in which they recorded their 1979 album Tusk. “We’re all very excited about [the new music],” Buckingham told Billboard in a recent interview. “Knowing me, I’m going to be pushing for a double album.” Though eight tracks are “75% done”, they are now putting the sessions on pause as McVie returns home to England. The group will reunite for live rehearsals at the end of July, ahead of their world tour, and are unlikely to release anything before 2015. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac on new recordings: ‘We get chills when we hear them’ | The Guardian (UK) →

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Fleetwood Mac Revives Chemistry In Studio: ‘We Get Chills,’ Says Christine McVie | Billboard

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Billboard.com
7th May 2014
By Gary Graff

It appears that Christine McVie will be returning to Fleetwood Mac to do more than play some old songs in concert. The group — sans Stevie Nicks, who was busy with “some other commitments,” according to Lindsey Buckingham — has just finished a nearly two-month run in Studio D at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles, where Fleetwood Mac made 1979’s “Tusk” album, working on a batch of new songs by McVie and Buckingham.

“This has kind of been a project in slow motion, that’s the only way I can put it,” Buckingham tells Billboard. “We got in the studio not knowing what to expect, and the chemistry was just unbelievable… We got eight tracks very far along, like, 75 percent done. It just played out really organically in a way that seemed appropriate.” Buckingham says the new songs came from ideas McVie brought into the band, and coupled with material he worked on previously with Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, the group has “about 14 or 15 things, and some other things we want to get to down the line” even before Nicks begins making contributions.

Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac in the studio
Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac in the studio (Kevin Winter/Getty images)

“We’re all very excited about it. Knowing me, I’m going to be pushing for a double album,” Buckingham says with a laugh. Continue reading Fleetwood Mac Revives Chemistry In Studio: ‘We Get Chills,’ Says Christine McVie | Billboard →

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Her fear gone, Christine McVie’s muse soars with Fleetwood Mac reunion | L.A Times

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Los Angeles Times
BY RANDY LEWIS
May 2, 2014, 2:30 p.m

Christine McVie eases comfortably into the corner of a leather sofa, about a foot between her and Lindsey Buckingham. He leans forward and side by side, they listen to the playback of “Too Far Gone,” a danceable new Fleetwood Mac song they’ve written together over the last few weeks at a West Los Angeles recording studio.

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“This was a great collaboration,” Buckingham said. “I had a track without any singing on it, and she wrote the song over it.”

“We’ve been doing that quite a bit lately, haven’t we?” McVie said. Continue reading Her fear gone, Christine McVie’s muse soars with Fleetwood Mac reunion | L.A Times →

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Mick Fleetwood reveals that Fleetwood Mac are back – with a full pack | Sunday Express

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By: Matt Gibson
Published: Sun, April 6, 2014
Sunday Express (UK)

Fleetwood Mac’s songbird is flying again, writes Matt Gibson. Christine McVie has conquered her fear of jet travel and will be touring with the band in America later this year, Mick Fleetwood has revealed.

McVie, the driving force behind some of the group’s biggest hits such as Little Lies, Songbird and Everywhere, left in 1998, saying her fear of flying made touring impossible. The band has had many personnel changes but core members have been Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Christine and her former husband John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham.

Writing in his exclusive Sunday Express column, drummer Fleetwood says: “The songbird has found her way home where she belongs and the amazing story of Fleetwood Mac continues.”

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After 15 years, Christine McVie is to rejoin Fleetwood Mac ‘where she belongs’ | Sunday Express

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Sunday Express (UK)
By: Mick Fleetwood
Published: Sun, April 6, 2014

FIFTEEN years ago I was on a flight, going to a gig somewhere, when my dear friend and virtual sister, Christine McVie, presented me with a very special silver key. A memento, given as a token of our long friendship, that key doubled as a sentimental talisman, meant to keep me safe on all my travels.

 

The other day, I found the key, tucked away in the fold of my passport case. Remarkably, it had been there for the entire duration of Christine’s hiatus from Fleetwood Mac. Now that she is joining us again, the symbolism is not lost on me. Once again we will be on tour, flying all over the world together. How perfect that this magic key should choose now to make its reappearance.Christine admitted to me that when she and I first met, she was quivering in her boots, completely intimidated by me when I walked into her dressing room all those years ago at the Marquee Club. The irony being, of course, that my outward appearance, that of a bombastic madman, trapped in a 6ft 7ins frame, in no way mirrored my inner self. There is a reason why kids start crying when they see my giant body and long beard!  Continue reading After 15 years, Christine McVie is to rejoin Fleetwood Mac ‘where she belongs’ | Sunday Express →

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Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Quotes from Thoreau | Sunday Express

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Sunday Express (UK)
By: Mick Fleetwood
Sun, March 30, 2014

“If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau

The production for Tusk was Fleetwood Mac's chance to divert from the expected[GETTY]
The production for Tusk was Fleetwood Mac’s chance to divert from the expected[GETTY]
Thoreau’s quote so brings to mind the experience of making the album Tusk. Much like when the Beatles made their White Album, Tusk, for us, was our walking away from predictability.

Kudos to Lindsey Buckingham, who was determined to break the mould of what we had done with Rumours and get away from the possibility of what can so often happen when success impedes artistic expression.I think Tusk was the most important album we ever made. It’s also my personal favourite and now I can appreciate how it was a crucial platform for us all, especially Lindsey. It satiated his drive to try new things.

It was also a time when we each learned to find our own voice. Coming out of the emotional rollercoaster of Rumours, the drama remained. A real shift had occurred, resulting in each of us pinpointing our singular creative method of survival. Continue reading Mick Fleetwood Goes His Own Way: Quotes from Thoreau | Sunday Express →

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Fleetwood Mac announce North American tour with Christine McVie | The Guardian

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Sean Michaels
The Guardian (UK)
Friday 28 March 2014 18.55 GMT

The singer and keyboard player is “very, very happy” to be rejoining the band after a 16-year absence

Centre stage … Christine McVie, reunited with bandmates Mick Fleetwood, left, and Stevie Nicks, right. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
Centre stage … Christine McVie, reunited with bandmates Mick Fleetwood, left, and Stevie Nicks, right. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images

Fleetwood Mac have announced a new North American tour, on which they will reunite with Christine McVie for the first time in 16 years.

“I’m a pig in a pile of poo really,” McVie told Rolling Stone. “It is a time warp; it is very, very happy. None of the nonsense with the drink and the nasty stuff. We’re all grown up, of course.”

For now, Fleetwood Mac have scheduled 34 concerts across the United States and Canada, spanning 30 September to 20 December 2014. “[We’ll] pick up end of January [2015] and complete America, and we can do the world, really,” McVie said. “And there’s a studio album somewhere in the mix too … We’re all committed to keep on going until one of us says ‘stop it’.” Continue reading Fleetwood Mac announce North American tour with Christine McVie | The Guardian →