Stevie Nicks’ documentary In Your Dreams will be screening at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, March 14, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:40pm, one of many new films to be presented at the annual South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), which is now underway in Austin, Texas.
Stevie, along with guitarist and producer Dave Stewart, will speak about the documentary and the making of In Your Dreams at the Austin Convention Center (Room 18ABC) after the screening from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Stevie will end the evening by performing with the Sound City Players on Thursday, March 14. The band will take the stage at Stubb’s (801 Red River St), starting at 9:15 p.m. Registered guests with badges and wristbands can enter the show.
Dave Grohl’s documentary Sound City: Real to Reel screens at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, March 13, from 7:15 p.m. to 9:02 p.m., and at the Rollins Theatre at the Long Center on Friday, March 15, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:17 p.m.
Here is a direct link to the festive ticketing website.
Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams will be screened at more than 60 theaters across the country for an exclusive one-night engagement on April 2. Here is a list of theaters that have booked the documentary so far:
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Don’t miss this special “one night everywhere” screening of the bewitching new Stevie Nicks documentary, kicking off Fleetwood Mac’s sold out 2013 tour, which begins April 4th!
Decadent rock star, ’70s survivor, gypsy songbird, white-winged dove – the inimitable Stevie Nicks has entranced millions of fans worldwide with her poetic lyrics, sultry singing and iconic “feather-and-lace” style. With her bewitching, emotionally-charged songs – from “Rhiannon” to “Landslide” to “Dreams” to “Gypsy” – Nicks cemented her status as one of the most distinctive female voices in rock history as a member of Fleetwood Mac and through her own solo career. In 2010 Nicks embarked on the recording of a new solo album, In Your Dreams, produced by former Eurythmics mastermind Dave Stewart. With cameras in tow, documentarian Stewart and diva Nicks set up shop in her home studio and reveal their collaborative creative process. Shifting dynamically among video formats, painstaking recording sessions and revealing interviews, this magic-tinged musical journey is a loving and tuneful portrait of the eternally bewitching Gold Dust Woman.
(Dir. By Dave Stewart & Stevie Nicks, 2012, 101 mins., Not Rated, Abramorama Releasing) Digital
Fleetwood Mac frontwoman stars in two SX Film docs and more
By Raoul Hernandez Austin Chronicle
Friday, March 1, 2013 12:47 p.m.
Like Green Day on Monday, another South by Southwest confirmation came yesterday in Stevie Nicks, who bewitches the music conference in an interview with Ann Powers on Thursday, March 14, and also stars in a pair of SXSW Film docs.
The Film spread in this week’s Chronicle, both ours and SXSW’s, spilled a wealth of information as far as music’s concerned. The Fest’s “24 Beats Per Second” music series revealed inside looks at Austin’s Gourds (All the Labor), New Oreleans piano prince James Booker (Bayou Maharajah), and Detroit’s black punk siblings Death (A Band Called Death), among many others, including free Auditorium Shores Mexicans Molotov (Gimme the Power).
Nicks’ In Your Dreams, made by her and Eurythmics seer David Stewart during a 2010 collaboration on her album, also screens in the “24 Beats Per Second” round-up, Thu., March 14 at the Paramount Theatre. The night before, Wednesday, catch her in Dave Grohl’s Sound City, which throws back the curtain on an L.A. studio that birthed Nirvana’s Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.
Tie-ins there are three: Nicks will guest in Grohl’s as-yet-unnanounced Sound City showcase; Fleetwood Mac’s new tour begins in April (with stops in Dallas on June 4, and then Houston the next day); and Rhino Records just reissued Rumours. Nicks’ appearance locally thus follows her Rumours co-star Lindsey Buckingham’s sold-out show at Antone’s last August and Rumours producer Ken Caillat in October for the Texas Book Festival.
Sound City clusters in SX Film’s “Special Events,” which features more music tie-ins in Asleep at the Wheel Then and Now and Mabon “Teenie” Hodges – A Portrait of a Memphis Soul Original. I’ll never forget a newly-sober Chan Marshall (Cat Power) gushing in my ear about working with the Hodges brothers in 2006. Only because she already swung through the Moody last month is Cat Power not coming to SXSW this year like everyone else.
Amanda Palmer isn’t the only speaker this year at SXSW 2013. Along with the amazing lineup that has been curated for this great annual event, an array of speakers have been arranged to give ears a break from music and see what goes on beyond the recording studio. Added to the list of famous speakers is the wonderful woman herself, Stevie Nicks. Read on for more details.
Not only is Fleetwood Mac reuniting and touring this spring, but Stevie Nicks fans will be delighted to know that her interview is in regard to the recent documentary, In Your Dreams. The film goes through her journey as an artist while producing her latest album and engaging in creative collaborations with other talented musicians such as Dave Stewart. This interview is only one of many gems that will be found at the SXSW festival. As per the film description, make sure to grab a seat at this once in a lifetime event to witness the “Shifting dynamically among video formats, painstaking recording sessions and revealing interviews, magic-tinged musical journey [and] loving and tuneful portrait of the eternally bewitching Gold Dust Woman.”
The South By Southwest Music Conference proudly announces a very special interview with Stevie Nicks. The ever-evolving Nicks is in the middle of a whirlwind of activity this year. She is the subject of the documentary In Your Dreams telling the story of her latest album of the same title, including collaborations with Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. In Your Dreams is screening at the SXSW Film Festival. She is also featured in SXSW Keynote Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary and singing in a series of shows Grohl is playing with veterans of the famed studio. Later this spring, Fleetwood Mac hits the road for a heavily anticipated world tour. These current projects are the latest chapter in an acclaimed career as a singer, songwriter and icon of rock music.
The SXSW Interview with Stevie Nicks takes place in the Austin Convention Center at 5 PM on Thursday, March 14, closing out the day’s conference activities. This interview is open to all Music and Platinum badges as well as Artist Wristbands.
The East, an eco-thriller from director Zal Batmanglij, will be the closing night film of the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival, organizers announced Wednesday.
Batmanglij and star Brit Marling co-wrote the spy drama, which collected strong reviews at its Sundance Film Festival premiere last month.
SXSW, which will screen a total 133 features, also announced 14 more more films to complete its lineup, including In Your Dreams — Stevie Nicks, a documentary co-directed by the Fleetwood Mac singer and Dave Stewart, half of the British rock duo Eurythmics;At Any Price, Ramin Bahrani’s family drama starring Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron; and Xmas Without China, Alicia Dwyer’s documentary comedy about consumerism.
The conference portion of SXSW will include conversations with Danny Boyle, who will be presenting footage from his art-world thriller Trance, Joss Whedon and the cast of his Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing, and Sarah Silverman, who will be talking about comedy and YouTube along with Michael Cera and comics Reggie Watts, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
The 2013 SXSW Film Conference and Festival is set for March 8-16 in Austin, Texas. More information is available at sxsw.com/film.
On Thursday, Nov. 8, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas kicked off Sunset Sessions, a three-day poolside concert experience and music industry event.
For the first time in the event’s 15 year history, the general public was able to attend Sunset Sessions’ Main Stage performances. All three nights of these performances started at the Boulevard Pool and featured dozens of exciting up-and-coming artists, including headlining performances by Steve Earle on Nov. 8 and Duncan Sheik on Nov. 9. During the final night of Main Stage performances on Nov. 10, eight bands performed including Cheating Daylight, Beware of Darkness and Tyler Bryant, capped off by a headlining set by Lit. All proceeds from tickets to these performances will be donated to several nonprofit organizations, including Communities In Schools of Nevada, Three Square and Opportunity Village, as well as The Recording Academy’s own MusiCares.
Stevie Nicks poses with soldiers
In addition to the Main Stage performances, several exclusive events were held throughout the resort for invited music industry professionals. On Nov. 8, a Q&A panel was held with the legendary Carlos Santana, where the intimate crowd was treated to a sampling of sound bites from his new album. Santana also discussed where he gets his inspiration and the legacy he hopes to leave behind for music fans.
On Nov. 9, Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart hosted a special screening of “In Your Dreams,” a film the pair directed together, followed by a rousing Q&A discussion. Several dozen veterans and active duty military were invited to attend the event as Stevie shared her personal inspiration for the film and discussed her lengthy career.
A number of late-night performances were also held for select music industry professionals each evening. Notable performances included sets from Angel’s Landing, Doris, DJs Skratch n’ Sniff, Slater, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Joel Piper, Tora and more.
In promoting a new documentary about the making of her first solo album in more than a decade, former Fleetwood Mac singer returns to the Bay Area, where she spent some of her most crazy and creative years.
When you listen to Stevie Nicks’ new album, In Your Dreams, sit on a couch with two huge speakers at your side — hopefully in front of a fireplace — pour yourself a glass of port, and take it in from start to finish.
That’s the request Nicks made after the screening of her self-produced documentary Friday night during the 35th Mill Valley Film Festival. The film chronicles the year she spent recording her first solo alum in more than a decade, with Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, who joined Nicks on stage at the sold-out Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.
Nicks’ ties to the Bay Area run deep. She lived in San Francisco from 1968 to 1971, and recorded the renowned Fleetwood Mac album Rumours at the former Record Plant in Sausalito during a stretch that had the group regularly piling into the studio’s outdoor hot tub.
For this latest album, the magic happened at Nicks’ own mansion in Pacific Palisades —although the 64-year-old rock ‘n’ roll icon actually lives with her dog in a one-bedroom condo a few minutes away. With people like Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and ‘her girls,’ backup singers Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks, all together under one roof, for Nicks it became “the moments that I live for.”
“I really wanted it to go on forever,” she said. Documenting the experience has been a way for her to relive it, and she also hopes it influences up and coming musicians about how much fun the process of creating an album can be.
“We are the teachers,” she said. “And it’s important in this day and age that all the kids who are following us need to know how to do it — and do it right.”
The documentary captures moments that unveil the spirit of the album, and of Nicks herself. From lighthearted disagreements over changing the tense of a pronoun mid-song — “I just snapped and said, ‘would you say that to Bob Dylan?’” Nicks said — to the heavy emotions she experienced after Hurricane Katrina and when she volunteered helping wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, her inspiration shines behind each and every song, and paints an intimate portrait of what’s behind the music.
In a touching moment, a girl in the audience, Amber, told Nicks how her music gave her and her friends something to believe in during a difficult time when they were about 13 or 14-years-old.
“That’s all I ever wanted to do with my songs,” Nicks said. “I just want to affect people.” Whenever she receives notes and mail from people, it gets tucked away into one of her journals.
Nicks also talked candidly about her struggles with addiction — “I loved both my rehabs,” she said — the importance of parents supporting their kids’ dreams even if it means letting them discover they really can’t sing on their own, and her difficulty dealing with the death of her mother in December 2011.
She highlighted some choice words, which she later apologized for, against American Idol judge Nicki Minaj in response to the hip-hop star’s altercation with fellow judge Mariah Carey.
“That was the first time something happened when I couldn’t call my mom and ask what to do,” Nicks said.
She also talked about how difficult it is to make it in the music industry today. The advice she gave was to form a band, have a place like your parent’s garage to rehearse in, and play as much as you can in one city and then grow from there.
“It’s a different world out there,” Stewart said, and Nicks had a nostalgic moment for 1975.
“It was such a romantic time,” she said. “It doesn’t mean we were all having affairs — we were — but it was romantic overall.”
The documentary In Your Dreams captures both the old and the new, and proves that good music never dies.
“My hope is when people see this, they’re going to want to hear this record,” Nicks said. “Because this record is magnificent.”
Legendary singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks sat down with Hamptons.com to discuss In Your Dreams during the Hamptons International Film Festival.
By Nicole B. Brewer and Nicole Barylski Hamptons.com
Friday, October 5, 2012
After a ten year hiatus legendary songwriter Stevie Nicks is back with her latest album In Your Dreams and a rockumentary, produced by the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart, of the same name. “When you see it you are going to be living in my world for one hour and forty minutes,” said Nicks during our recent interview. The ‘gypsy’ is in the Hamptons this weekend for the 20th Hamptons International Film Festival. We sat down with her at The Maidstone on a gorgeous fall afternoon to get the scoop.
“It was the best year of my life! I have never had so much fun in my life,” exclaimed Nicks as we sat in the garden and talked about nail polish a bit before our interview officially began. She prefers OPI Big Apple Red and does her nails herself saying as we settled in, “If I wasn’t doing this I’d be a manicurist!”
The In Your Dreams album was ten years in the making and all started with 9/11 explained Nicks, “I went on the road at the end of June with Trouble in Shangri-La. I had been on the road for two and a half months, which is nothing and then 9/11 happened. So for all practical purposes the record and everything blew up.” Nicks was in New York by herself set to enjoy her one day off on that fateful day, her band was in Canada getting ready for the next leg of the tour. “I went to bed at 7:30 p.m.,” she went on to say, “and when [my assistant] Karen woke me up at 11 a.m. the world had changed.”
Ever generous to her devoted fans, Nicks stayed on the road for another month because “no one had turned their tickets in or asked for refunds.” She went on the Say You Will tour with Fleetwood Mac in 2002, then again on her own in 2003 and 2004. During that time she kept pondering writing and another record but the music industry was in flux and piracy was a hot topic. Her advisors told her to enjoy touring and wait. Nicks says her managers told her, “You’re a songwriter, you create the song it’s yours, you write the poem, and you put it out. [Then] one person buys it and sends it out to 500 personal friends and they send it out to their friends. You are a songwriter this is how you make money. What we recommend is you go back on the road because you can still do big shows and sell tickets. A lot of people can’t.” So she did.
Inspiration for In Your Dreams happened quite unexpectedly in 2009 while on tour with Fleetwood Mac in Australia. “I saw the second ‘Twilight’ movie and wrote ‘Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)’ right then.” Nicks told us, “There was a piano in my suite and I said to my assistant Karen, I am ready to make a record now. I don’t care what is going on around me I’m doing it. If nobody wants it or everybody steals it I will have to deal with that then.”
As soon as she got off tour she called Dave Stewart and asked him if he wanted to work with her to produce. He jumped right in. “Dave came up [to my house] to spend one day discussing it and I said why don’t we do it here. We don’t have to go into the studio and pay $2,500 per day. He said, ‘let’s do it.’“ Vamping a bit and mimicking her dear friend and collaborator she went on, “By the third day he said, ‘Darling we have to film this.’ And I said, ‘Darling do you know what that means?’ Now this guy dresses up every day and loves it.” Nicks is not in full stage dress and makeup at home, she likes a more casual look. For her the thought of cameras every day meant hair, makeup, and wardrobe which caused some hesitation. She relented when he reassured her, “He said if you don’t love it, we won’t use it. I said, ‘Hand to God?’ and he promised ‘Swear to God.’“ But he didn’t get off that easy. “Fair enough,” she told him, “But I will hunt you down and kill you if any of it gets out and I don’t like it.”
From there they filmed for a year and in her words, “Had the best time.” Stewart’s team then edited a year of her life down to three hours. Later the film would be cut to a final hour and forty minutes. “We finished just two weeks ago,” said Nicks, “With that kind of thing it’s like ‘no you can’t have it it’s not done yet.’“ When they finally handed it in and realized the film was complete Nicks was “in tears and I said ‘take it.’ It’s like your child.”
Regarding the genius that is Dave Stewart, Nicks went on to gush a bit, “He is an amazing photographer. He’s been filming women for years. With Annie Lennox, he is the reason she cut off all her hair. He was behind all of this amazing stuff, I didn’t even know.” On In Your Dreams, Nicks says he gave everyone Flip cameras and said, “Everyone film and we will see what we come up with. If it doesn’t make sense or is an Alice In Wonderland bewitched world we won’t put it up. If we love it we will let people have it.” It was an “easy thing to do because Dave made it into a no big deal thing.”
Having only been in and out of the Hamptons a mere three times for benefits over the years Nicks is looking forward to enjoying the film festival weekend in Sag Harbor with friends. So if you notice a familiar looking blonde with a crescent moon necklace window shopping next to you on Main Street take time for a second look, it might just be the Stevie Nicks, star of In Your Dreams and 140 million album selling Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend.
Get up close and personal with Stevie Nicks at Bay Street Theatre on Sunday, October 7, 2012, at noon for a “Conversation With Stevie Nicks” presented by Capital One. Catch a screening of In Your Dreams during the Hamptons International Film Festival this weekend at the Sag Harbor Cinema also on Sunday, October 7, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. For details check out www.hamptonsfilmfest.org
Stevie Nicks’ documentary In Your Dreams will be screening at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, March 14, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:40pm, one of many new films to be presented at the annual South by Southwest Festival (SXSW), which is now underway in Austin, Texas.
Dave Grohl’s documentary Sound City: Real to Reel screens at the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday, March 13, from 7:15 p.m. to 9:02 p.m., and at the Rollins Theatre at the Long Center on Friday, March 15, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:17 p.m.
