27TH SHOW: Fleetwood Mac, Honda Center, Anaheim CA, May 28, 2013

Fleetwood Mac performed in concert before a near-sellout crowd at the Honda Center (also known as “The Pond”) in Anaheim on Tuesday night.

Fan reaction (via Twitter)

@GomezJames
Great to see @FleetwoodMac still rocking it at @HondaCenter

‏@_Lanks
Rock royalty Fleetwood Mac is on FIRE.

@KevinViner
Fleetwood Mac is still rocking it! @ Honda Center

@ElBicho_CS
Hot damn! Looks like a fight might break out over girls dancing.#fleetwoodmac

@T_Bizzle
That Lindsay is a skinny guy. #Fleetwoodmac

@FilemonRuiz
Fleetwood Mac is awesome!

@DanielStegall
Gotta love Fleetwood Mac, 40 + years and still sound amazing!

@B2_Group
@fleetwoodMac concert, they are old and not good anymore. A shame, this is why old bands should not tour! They ruin all the good memories…

@Labholland
#fleetwoodmac rocking the Honda center

@ChelseaCordner
At the @fleetwoodmac concert! WOW! @Lndsybuckingham you’re so talented, & Stevie Nicks you, 2, & you’re still beyond beautiful! Xo #talent

@shellxmabelle
Fleetwood mac. You are perfect.

@savvysassymoms
Such a great experience at Fleetwood Mac tonight! @HondaCenter

@KristinCruz
Lindsey shredddding!!! “Never Going Back Again” -Rumors, 1977 #fleetwoodmac live

‏@LeslieDurso
Stevie can still play the hell out of the tambourine! #fleetwoodmac

@erika_martinez
Rock legends @fleetwoodmac with my Dad. Best Dad/Daughter outing ever!! #fleetwoodmac #hondacenter

@ReneeVogue
Stevie Nicks is still rockin it at 65! #fleetwoodmac

@nathalia73
Partying in the old folks box at Fleetwood Mac. Stevie Nicks is on FIRE tonight #gypsy

@dkdust
#fleetwoodmac is rocking this joint! #golddustwoman

@alexisamore
Full house!!!!!!! #FleetwoodMac

@kelseyheng
Mick Fleetwood cutest drummer of all time? Quite possibly. #fleetwoodmac

@SaraWasADiver
Second encore for #FleetwoodMac @HondaCenter Mick, John, Stevie and most certainly Lindsey still have it. Tears and cheers all around.

@ChelseaCordner
Stoked to be at the Fleetwood Mac concert! So much #talent! Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks

@RoadieNose
Fleetwood Mac. They rocked it. Too much Lindsay but they rocked it.

Anaheim set list (unchanged)

1. Second Hand News
2. The Chain
3. Dreams
4. Sad Angel (new song)
5. Rhiannon
6. Not That Funny
7. Tusk
8. Sisters Of The Moon
9. Sara
10. Big Love
11. Landslide
12. Never Going Back Again
13. Without You (new song)
14. Gypsy
15. Eyes Of The World
16. Gold Dust Woman
17. I’m So Afraid
18. Stand Back
19. Go Your Own Way
20. World Turning (first encore)
21. Don’t Stop
22. Silver Springs
23. Say Goodbye (second encore)

Videos

1. Second Hand News (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nocdnZ5L9M]

2. The Chain (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyNrU_6tn3s]

3. Dreams – with introduction (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75lYUfA71mk]

4. Sad Angel (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXOzYuv3vVU]

5. Rhiannon (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JicsVKDcf6U]

5. Rhiannon (courtesy of kristin elfring)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2WBujj5uqo]

6. Not That Funny – with introduction (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZwcKY_PKUk]

7. Tusk (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMIH-mXjI7I]

7. Tusk (courtesy of crackerhead69)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCireyB7-k]

8. Sisters of the Moon (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOYtdevBsfw]

9. Sara (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3WFlqZSByo]

9. Sara (courtesy of Medzmart1)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Up2DwnjY24]

10. Big Love (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnsMtK1i2FA]

11. Landslide (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwwH1kj7V0]

11. Landslide (courtesy of Chris Walker)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn5kNeuRSTE]

12. Never Going Back Again (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXyZr9iRc2I]

12. Never Going Back Again (courtesy of rjrjr8)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPTVlIUAxM]

13. Without You (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krv7JdqAGQA]

14. Gypsy (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Z15_oR5jM]

14. Gypsy (courtesy of rjrjr8)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhGJosTFfe4]

16. Gold Dust Woman (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpjpApJ5A8]

18. Stand Back (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5c_iPM6dP8]

19. Go Your Own Way (courtesy of Sam France)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hwCXXCS6o]

19. Go Your Own Way (courtesy of Chris Walker)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUNrySMfeKs]

20. World Turning / Mick’s drum solo (courtesy of Sam France)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8rPM2cFfY]

22. Silver Springs (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6NkaEa7HUI]

23. Say Goodbye (courtesy of jsalow2)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmXH8TUrDcc]

Special thanks to crackerhead69, Kristin Elfring, Sam France, jsalow2, Medzmart1, rjrjr8, and Chris Walker for making these clips available.

By Josh Bell / Photography by Tom Donoghue / Las Vegas Weekly
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

With only a handful of exceptions, Fleetwood Mac’s show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena this past Sunday was all about the classics. Over the course of two and a half hours, the band drew almost exclusively from the five albums made by its classic lineup (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, plus the absent Christine McVie), to the obvious delight of the packed crowd. That meant plenty of hits, of course, from “The Chain” and “Dreams” early in the set, through “Landslide” and “Go Your Own Way,” culminating in “Don’t Stop,” the only Christine McVie-penned song the band played.

McVie’s absence (she retired from the band in 1998) was felt not only in the set list’s lack of her songs, but also in the band’s vocal harmonies, which were augmented by two back-up singers. While Buckingham sounded a little rough at first, he quickly warmed up, but Nicks’ voice sounded strained and uneven the entire night. It was especially evident as she tried to belt out sustained notes on songs like “Sisters of the Moon,” and when she filled in for McVie’s parts on “Don’t Stop.”

Musically, the band was in top form, and Buckingham’s intricate guitar-playing was a particular highlight. The set list made room for a few deep cuts alongside the expected popular songs, and even the new “Sad Angel” (from the band’s recent EP) fit well with the classics. The show ended with both Nicks and Fleetwood giving what sounded like awards-show acceptance speeches, and as self-indulgent as that was, they had earned it.

Set list:

“Second Hand News”

“The Chain”

“Dreams”

“Sad Angel”

“Rhiannon”

“Not That Funny”

“Tusk”

“Sisters of the Moon”

“Sara”

“Big Love”

“Landslide”

“Never Going Back Again”

“Without You”

“Gypsy”

“Eyes of the World”

“Gold Dust Woman”

“I’m So Afraid”

“Stand Back”

“Go Your Own Way”

Encore:

“World Turning”/drum solo

“Don’t Stop”

Second encore:

“Silver Springs”

“Say Goodbye”

26TH SHOW: Fleetwood Mac, MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas

Fleetwood Mac performed in concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, the same day as Stevie’s 65th birthday. Fans shouted out “happy birthday” from the crowd and tweeted their birthday wishes online throughout the show. Stevie tried to discourage the celebration by telling the crowd, “Thank you, but I am not celebrating my 65th birthday, or any birthday. So you’re only allowed to wish me a very happy un-birthday.”

Fan reaction (via Twitter)

@cabarbee
So honored to share my birthday with Stevie Nicks and absolutely ecstatic to be seeing @fleetwoodmac on this special day!!! #dreamscometrue

@Nineteen77
Enjoying watching the Fleetwood Mac concert being signed to some deaf concert goers..

@mekameka
…best thing about #MGMGRAND… #FLEETWOOD MAC baby… #KILLIN IT… @_MAXWELL_

@kaygordon22
Lindsey buckingham definitely has still got it #fleetwoodmac

@tr_k702
Listening to fleetwood Mac live at the MGM! So blessed!

@AllanEnglish1
Fleetwood Mac rocking MGM Las Vegas.

@drichards39
this is the best thing I could ever ask for in my life #FleetwoodMac #vegas @fleetwoodmac

@lilphip

By Daniel Kohn / LA Weekly
Monday, May 27 2013

Fleetwood Mac
Hollywood Bowl
5/25/13

Fleetwood Mac does their best work in dramatic circumstances. They put out their finest album in the midst of personal turmoil and needed Bill Clinton to broker a reunion in 1993. As recently as last year, Mick Fleetwood proclaimed that the band wouldn’t tour again because of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ commitments to their solo careers. Yet after nearly four years of inactivity, Fleetwood Mac was back playing in the city where its formative lineup came together.

“It smells like you’re having a good time out there!” Buckingham joked midway through the band’s marathon 23-song, two-and-a-half hour set. And it appeared that he and his bandmates were as well. There were smiles, hugs and handholding, something that seemed hard to imagine back in the day.

In February, Buckingham hinted that the band had completed their first batch of new material since 2003’s Say You Will. Late last month, Fleetwood Mac quietly released a four-song EP called Extended Play, and last night performed “Sad Angel” and “Without You.” While the songs had their trademark intimate soft rock sound (with a bit of bite), it’s hard to call them classics.

They played with intensity; Buckingham’s solos were fiery and mystical, reaffirming his status as one of the more overlooked guitar players in rock history. Mick Fleetwood’s drum solos were gutbusting, while bassist John McVie’s steady proved why he remains their steady foundation.

But in the end, the band’s biggest attraction is still the spellbinding Nicks, still a siren at 64. Her wardrobe these days is, of course, boho chic, although it’s unlikely that a younger Nicks would have thrown on a warm coat mid-set and complained to the crowd about the chilly weather. Still, despite years of cocaine abuse and going under the knife to remove nodules on her vocal chords, her raspy, vulnerable voice sounded like it did when the band was in peak form. She twisted and twirled around the stage.

The group shared personal stories about Los Angeles. Prior to a tender “Landslide,” Nicks confessed that she never expected the song to be so beloved when she first penned it in 1973. Buckingham repeated his anecdote from Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary: He’d told Fleetwood if he were to join the band, his then-girlfriend to the mix as well.

Nicks and Buckingham may have initially written the songs of Rumours out of spite and anger, but last night they glanced and shot smiles at one another while trading verses. Having beaten the long odds to survive, it would be understandable if Fleetwood Mac treated these shows as a nostalgia tour. Instead, they’re reinvigorated and ready to release more material.

The Crowd: There were some fans under 55. But not many.

 Overheard in the Crowd: “Rush sucks,” said someone. He was talking about the talk show host, not the band.

Random Notebook Dump: If a band is going to use projected images as a backdrop, they should look better than Windows 95 screensavers.

 Set list:

Second Hand News
The Chain
Dreams
Sad Angel
Rhiannon
Not That Funny
Tusk
Sisters of the Moon
Sara
Big Love
Landslide
Never Going Back Again
Without You
Gypsy
Eyes of the World
Gold Dust Woman
I’m So Afraid
Stand Back
Go Your Own Way

Encore:
World Turning
Don’t Stop

Encore 2:
Silver Springs
Say Goodbye

By Mikael Wood / Los Angeles Times
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Only a band as famously twisted as Fleetwood Mac would follow an exhortation to “get this party started” with a song as bleakly imagined as “Dreams.” That’s the indelible 1977 smash in which Stevie Nicks warns a capricious lover about hearing “the sound of your loneliness like a heartbeat,” and Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl, Fleetwood Mac performed it near the beginning of a sold-out concert that Nicks said represented the group’s happy homecoming after several weeks spent on the road.

The long-running pop-rock outfit, which formed as a London blues band in 1967 but didn’t attain superstardom until it later relocated to L.A. and hired Nicks and singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, is halfway through a three-month North American tour; it’s to play Anaheim’s Honda Center on Tuesday, then circle back to Staples Center on July 3.

Yet if Saturday’s show was intended to start a party, as Nicks declared, Fleetwood Mac hardly had good times on its mind. Rounded out by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie (along with five auxiliary musicians), the group sounded sharper and more aggressive — simply louder too — than it had in years as it tore through old songs such as “Gold Dust Woman” and “The Chain,” in which Buckingham growled, “Damn your love / Damn your lies,” over grinding electric guitar.

As with “Dreams,” both tunes came from the band’s blockbuster album “Rumours,” which famously caught the romantic turmoil then raging among various members of the group (including McVie’s ex-wife Christine, who quit in 1998). At the Bowl, though, Fleetwood Mac stripped the songs of the soft-rock sheen that helped drive “Rumours” to sales of nearly 20 million copies; it was exposing the desperation that simmers beneath the catchy choruses.

In “Second Hand News,” Buckingham strummed his guitar so hard that he had trouble restraining himself to the song’s already-brisk tempo. And though Nicks, who turned 65 on Sunday, has lost some of her high notes to age, she used her imperious drone to accentuate the drama in “Silver Springs.”

The 2½-hour set roamed beyond “Rumours” to Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled 1975 album (its first with Buckingham and Nicks) for “Landslide” and “Rhiannon”; to early-’80s hits such as “Gypsy” and Nicks’ solo “Stand Back”; and to “Tusk,” the willfully experimental “Rumours” follow-up that Buckingham admitted must have confounded executives at the band’s record label.

For “Not That Funny,” he bore down on his guitar, cranking out crunchy punk chords; later, Nicks roughed up her delivery in “Sisters of the Moon,” which she said the band hadn’t played onstage since 1981.

Fleetwood Mac also did two cuts from a new EP it released last month, the group’s first studio output since “Say You Will” in 2003. “Sad Angel” was a crisp power-pop tune with echoes of 1987’s “Tango in the Night,” while Nicks described the strummy “Without You” as a recently rediscovered remnant from her and Buckingham’s days as a duo. Both were received with surprising enthusiasm by the audience — more warmly, for sure, than the Rolling Stones’ new songs were last week at Staples Center.

Before “Sad Angel,” Buckingham said that Fleetwood Mac had more fresh material but that the band wasn’t sure how to release it.

Despite its rawness, the music wasn’t uninterested in arena-rock grandeur. To introduce “Gold Dust Woman,” Fleetwood banged an enormous gong, and the drummer took a lengthy, parody-skirting solo in “World Turning.” Nicks too was taking advantage of the Bowl’s large stage, twirling with her trademark scarves in a beautiful and vicious rendition of “Sara.”

Occasionally, the show could’ve done with more polish, as in a dirge-like “I’m So Afraid” and “Dreams,” where Nicks’ and Buckingham’s harmony vocals felt unhinged in the wrong way. (They recovered in time for the pinpoint precision of “Never Going Back Again.”)

But for the most part, the live-wire intensity — and often the outright crankiness — Fleetwood Mac mustered enabled the band to add new meaning to songs that might have seemed to have told their stories already. “You should see me now,” Nicks sang in a line she appended to “Gold Dust Woman,” and for a night at least that was within reach.

Led by some of the most expressive singing of Stevie Nicks’ career, the legendary group launched its homecoming run with a special show at the landmark.

By Ben Wener / Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos, Orange County Register
Sunday, May 26th, 2013

When you’re a band like Fleetwood Mac – and more than four decades and several permutations later, there remains no band quite like Fleetwood Mac – any time you decide to play live again, you’re under heavy obligation to deliver a wealth of familiar material.

Especially when you’re headlining the Hollywood Bowl, as the group superbly did Saturday night for the first time since 1997, with virtually nothing new to showcase. That only heightens fan expectation for strictly classics-filled performances.

It’s slightly different with, say, the Rolling Stones, though that overpaid lot had even less recent stuff to shill when they blew through town earlier this month. They’ve merely tacked two rote ones onto an umpteenth retrospective, while the Mac has at least issued a digital-only four-song EP, a sampler of slowly gestating gems that boasts two tunes worthy of their vaunted canon.

“Sad Angel” is their catchiest cut in years, by the way, while “Without You” is an evocative nugget from the early ’70s, when the struggling duo Buckingham-Nicks were about to join an unfocused, collapsing outfit that had once again lost its lead guitarist – then sell tens of millions of records, and lastingly alter the face and feel of rock.

As at those Stones shows, every one of which featured their two new tunes, knowledgeable attendees know these Mac attacks would definitely include those pieces. Yet longtime fans of Jagger & Richards who might catch every Southern California stop on a given outing from them can also anticipate a handful of change-ups each night, not to mention a revolving door of special guests this time around.

Ditto Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, whose current small-venue venture, which begins a six-night run at Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre next week, has found Stevie Nicks’ oft-stated favorite band switching out a half-dozen tracks from gig to gig. Then there’s Springsteen: he never plays the same show twice.

But Fleetwood Mac does exactly that. There’s always been traces of mark-hitting musical theater to what they present: every show the same set and the same solos in the same order with the same between-song stories, endearingly so from Nicks (rock’s ageless grande dame) but often insufferably from the ensemble’s sonic mastermind, guitarist and co-vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, an admittedly underrated figure who nonetheless overrates himself.

Like the Eagles, they strive for and effortlessly achieve consistency, gladly appeasing their audience’s desire for quality nostalgia at on average $100 a pop. But there’s a comfortable trap that comes with that routine: turning up every so many years to run through the same overplayed selections can get boring for both performers and fans. It’s hard to know how to keep it fresh. The Eagles certainly didn’t figure it out last decade, delivering a two-disc Walmart blockbuster yet failing to convincingly meld any of its material into lengthy concerts.

F-Mac had that same trouble in 2003, when their last album, Say You Will, was meagerly integrated into shows; no surprise it remains 150,000 copies shy of the platinum status the group had otherwise held for 30 years. So they’ve returned with a smarter agenda to combat ever-waning interest in anything apart from 1975’s self-titled breakthrough and the monolithic masterpiece that followed it – Rumours, now available in an exhaustive five-disc-plus-LP edition befitting an album that has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.

This 64-and-older bunch (Nicks just turned 65) are now making music at whatever pace suits them, for whatever media platform makes the most sense, rather than race to a tour-enforced deadline. “You would think that a group like us would have nothing left to say,” Buckingham suggested early on at Saturday’s Bowl show, yet “there are a few chapters left in the book of Fleetwood Mac.”

He thinks the gradual process of recording is leading to some of their best music in a long while, and here’s hoping. The more immediate reward for devotees, however, is already evident: the eased studio demands have loosened them up, resulting in highly spirited road performances that breathe new life into brilliant but tired rock warhorses like “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way” and “Rhiannon.” Better still, their renewed enthusiasm is casting vibrant light onto another corner of their glorious ’70s, the fractured fantasia of Tusk.

Tuesday’s undoubtedly valiant replay at Honda Center in Anaheim is a must-see for fans, but it isn’t apt to compare to what the mighty Mac brought to the Bowl. Playing to a capacity hometown crowd at such a prestigious location spurred extra sparks out of these old friends. That was most fundamentally noticeable from the band’s namesakes, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, one of the greatest rhythm sections ever in popular music, still as tight as they are fluid.

Buckingham, in contrast to his faintly pompous storytelling, was otherwise on fire, no matter how exaggerated his panting exhaustion after big finishes. He roared through “Big Love,” soared across one finger-strummed solo after another (skyscraping at the end of “I’m So Afraid”), carried “Gold Dust Woman” to lysergic, Pink Floydian lengths, and generally went too far in strangely riveting ways. Most unusual: the jagged angst of “Not That Funny,” one of a quartet of Tusk tracks in the first half of the show. Only once did he really overdo it, in the absurd way he elongated certain lines of an already slowed-down take on “Never Going Back Again.”

Nicks, on the other hand, taking center stage at the Bowl the night before her birthday, was a revelation.

Something has gotten into her lately. She thanked and dedicated “Landslide” to both Dave Stewart, who produced her fulfilling 2011 album In Your Dreams, and Dave Grohl, who retold her (and Fleetwood Mac’s) tale in his sharp documentary Sound City and lovingly captured one of her most powerful performances on a wrenching new song called “You Can’t Fix This.” Maybe those experiences fanned a flame that was already far from out.

Or maybe rock’s most iconic witchy woman knows the secret so few elder performers ever figure out: the artist ages, not the song. Nicks more than others has kept connected to younger generations of fans: visiting the Glee set when it was Rumours week, duetting with Taylor Swift at the Grammys. She probably sent a personal thank-you to the producer of January’s indie tribute disc Just Tell Me That You Want Me.

She understands why people who could be her grandchildren still respond: “A lot of the songs they love are songs that I wrote when I was really young,” she said in a 2009 interview. “It’s not like they love a song that was written by a 62-year-old woman. They love a song that was written by a 27-year-old girl.”

Saturday night, in an astonishingly rendered performance, she had it both ways, satisfying those whose view of her will always be trapped in time while magnificently expressing her signature songs so that they did sound like they were written by a 60-something.

“Silver Springs,” which rose gloriously, and “Landslide,” never more poignant – and especially a churning version of “Sisters of the Moon,” a song not in the band’s repertoire since 1981 – were all thoughtfully considered the way you wish Dylan would treat his catalog: unleashed to explore fresh wrinkles but with full commitment to the lyric, never losing sight of the melody.

She’s arguably saying more now, about herself and the matters of the heart she’s always sung about, than she ever did when she was half her age. Mick Jagger should be so lucky.

Fleetwood Mac plays again Tuesday at Honda Center in Anaheim (2695 E. Katella Ave.), then returns July 3 to play Staples Center in Los Angeles and July 5 at San Diego State’s Viejas Arena. Tickets are $50-55 at the low end, $150-$160 for choice seats.

Set list: Fleetwood Mac at the Hollywood Bowl

Main set: Second Hand News / The Chain / Dreams / Sad Angel / Rhiannon / Not That Funny / Tusk / Sisters of the Moon / Sara / Big Love / Landslide / Never Going Back Again / Without You / Gypsy / Eyes of the World / Gold Dust Woman / I’m So Afraid / Stand Back / Go Your Own Way

First encore: World Turning / Don’t Stop

Second encore: Silver Springs / Say Goodbye

Today is Stevie’s 65th birthday! Be sure to send her a birthday wish at her official website or post a message on her official Facebook page. Although Stevie doesn’t follow social media, her management will forward your birthday wish to her.

Fleetwood Mac confirm Australia & New Zealand show dates

Live Nation Australia & New Zealand
Sunday, May 26, 2013

The legendary Fleetwood Mac, one of rock and roll’s most enduring bands, are set to bring their extraordinary show including exquisite harmonies, incomparable chemistry, sleek perfection and classic hits to Australia and New Zealand beginning November 10th in Sydney. The tour continues through November and December.

Fleetwood Mac’s spectacular two-hour-plus show reunites the multi-Grammy winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees on stage to deliver many of their classic and most beloved songs including ‘The Chain’, ‘Dreams’, ‘Second Hand News’, ‘Rhiannon’, ‘Sara’, ‘Gold Dust Woman’, ‘Tusk’, ‘Looking Out for Love’, ‘Don’t Stop’, ‘Go Your Own Way’… the list goes on.

The band is currently on a sold out tour of North America and are receiving unanimous rave reviews:

“Two hours of high energy –dynamic perfomance and an amazing night” Louisville Journal “The band was firing on all cylinders – so many great songs – all delivered with gusto” Boston Herald. “They haven’t lost a step” Hollywood Reporter

The current lineup includes Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham along with Fleetwood Mac founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.

“We are thrilled to return to Australia and New Zealand where we’ve always loved performing. Our fans there are phenomenal,” commented the group in a joint statement. This will be Fleetwood Mac’s first series of concerts since 2009’s sold-out Unleashed Tour – the group will also perform in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane, plus two memorable outdoor concerts – the first at Hope Estate Winery in the Hunter Valley and the second at The Hill Winery in Geelong for A Day On The Green before heading onto Auckland. A full list of shows follows this release.

With a career spanning more than four decades and global album sales amassing more than 100 million, Fleetwood Mac live is not to be missed.

Tickets for all shows go on sale 9.00am Thursday June 13.

American Express Cardmembers have the opportunity to purchase tickets first during an exclusive pre-sale beginning 12noon Tuesday June 4.

My Live Nation members can be among the first to access tickets during the exclusive presale beginning at 9.00am Friday June 7. Sign up at www.livenation.co.nz

‘Rumours’ – the 1977 album that made Fleetwood Mac one of the world’s most iconic bands, garnered universal critical praise, earned the Grammy for Album of the Year and more than 40 million sales worldwide – celebrated its 35th anniversary this February with the release of both an expanded and super deluxe editions (through Warner Music NZ). In addition to the ‘Rumours’ reissue, Last month Fleetwood Mac released a four-track EP, ‘Extended Play’, comprising of three new songs and one “lost song” from the 1973 Buckingham Nicks days; their first new material in more than a decade.

Fleetwood Mac – Australia and New Zealand 2013

SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10

HUNTER VALLEY HOPE ESTATE WINERY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16

ADELAIDE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19

PERTH PERTH ARENA FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22

MELBOURNE ROD LAVER ARENA TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26

BRISBANE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE MONDAY DECEMBER 2

AUCKLAND VECTOR ARENA FRIDAY DECEMBER 6

TICKETS ON SALE 9AM THURSDAY JUNE 13

American Express Cardmembers pre-sale: 12noon Tuesday June 4 until 6am Friday June 7 www.facebook.com/americanexpressaustralia

My Live Nation pre-sale: 9.00am Friday June 7 until 5.00pm Monday June 10

Ticket agent pre-sale: 2.00pm Tuesday June 11 until 5.00pm Wednesday June 12

Read more: http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/news/6728/Fleetwood-Mac-New-Zealand-Show-Announced.utr#ixzz2UcZdzhHX

25TH SHOW: Fleetwood Mac, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California

With a full moon shining over Los Angeles on Saturday evening, Fleetwood Mac performed a highly-anticipated, sold-out concert at the iconic Hollywood Bowl. The unique venue configuration allowed projection images to be displayed differently from previous shows (see images). Many celebrities attended Saturday night’s show, including musicians that Stevie had previously worked with, such as producer and guitarist Dave Stewart, saxophonist Dave Koz, and guitarist Mike Lennon of Venice.

Stevie warmly welcomed the crowd and expressed how great it feel to be back in town. “Welcome, Los Angeles, California! Well, the Hollywood Bowl…just like I pictured. Welcome, everybody! We’re so glad that you’re here tonight. This, of course, is our hometown. We’ve been on the road for about five weeks, and we are so happy just to be home, and so happy to just be with you here tonight. And that being said, I think we should just uh…get this party started!”

Stevie dedicated “Landslide” to the two Daves — In Your Dreams producer Dave Stewart and Sound City: Real to Reel director Dave Grohl; while Lindsey dedicated “Big Love” to his family, wife Kristen and children Will, Leelee, and Stella, all of whom were at tonight’s show.

Fan reaction (via Twitter)

@R_in_burbs
RT @castawaykristen: Lindsey Buckingham just dedicated Big Love to Kristen, Will, Leelee, Stella. <3 #FleetwoodMac #BigFamilyLove

@resabbyx3
Fleetwood Mac concert is poppin!! #hollywoodbowl #fleetwoodmac #amazeballs #work

@sonya_singh
Stevie Nicks has donned a shimmery shawl for “Gold Dust Woman.” Seems fitting. #fleetwoodmac

@lennierosswrite
Lindsay Buckingham still has it #fleetwoodmac #HollywoodBowl amazing guitar solos

@fawnpnguyen
Pretty sure I’m getting high from second-hand marihuana smoke. #fleetwoodmac

@CastAwayKristen
BUT Stevie says Lindsey didn’t have to wardrobe change bc he never gets cold. Yeah baby. #FleetwoodMac #HollywoodBowl

@iitsbrittney
Stevie put on her top hat!!! It’s getting real!! #fleetwoodmac #hollywoodbowl #ivecriedtwice @JillianElaine

@SaraHull
No one gets people up and dancing like Stevie Nicks #standback #fleetwoodmac #stevienicks

@danielkohn
New found respect for buckingham’s guitar playing #fleetwoodmac

@sonya_singh
Mick Fleetwood narrating his own drum solo is the thing I didn’t know was missing from this concert. #fleetwoodmac

@Jill_Latiano
Full moon over Hollywood bowl. #fleetwoodmac

@danielkohn
Maybe I’m the old guy here. All the AARP peeps standing and singing while I’m sitting trying to stay awake #fleetwoodmac

@CourtenayCal
“This is our hometown!” — Lindsey Buckingham #FleetwoodMac #la #hollywoodbowl

@hordie
Stevie Nicks just dedicated “Landslide” to Dave Grohl. YOU GUYS. #hollywoodbowl #fleetwoodmac

@iitsbrittney
“Silver Springs” was EVERYTHING. I want to relive that moment over & over again. #fleetwoodmac

@CathleenLA
Silver Spring – Stevie & Lindsey – god this song! #fleetwoodmac #hollywoodbowl

Fleetwood Mac will officially tour Australia in November. The band will perform at least one show in New Zealand, starting in Auckland on December 6. Live Nation posted the following status update on its Facebook page on Friday morning:

The legendary Fleetwood Mac, one of rock and roll’s most enduring bands, are set to bring their extraordinary show including exquisite harmonies, incomparable chemistry, sleek perfection and classic hits to Australia & New Zealand! Complete tour info available via: http://bit.ly/10rZ5Xg

My Live Nation members can be among the first to access tickets during the exclusive presale beginning at 9.00am Friday June 7. Sign up at www.livenation.com.au

Tickets for all shows go on sale 9.00am Thursday June 13.

American Express Cardmembers have the opportunity to purchase tickets first during an exclusive pre-sale beginning 12 noon Tuesday June 4.

You can see the tour dates and read a new interview here.