Fleetwood Mac have just announced a second date on their Irish tour. The band will now play two concert dates on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October.
One of the most successful Rock bands in history are back, with their best-selling line up featuring Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Lindsey Buckingham to delight their millions of fans at arenas across Ireland and The UK.
Since forming in 1967 the only thing about the group that hasn’t changed is the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Through the ’70s, the band’s personnel and style shifted with nearly every recording as Fleetwood Mac metamorphosed from a traditionalist British blues band to the maker of one of the best-selling pop albums ever – Rumours. From that album’s release in 1977 into the present, Fleetwood Mac has survived additional, theoretically key, personnel changes and yet remained a dominant commercial force.
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac was formed by ex-John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers Green, McVie, and Fleetwood along with Jeremy Spencer. Fleetwood Mac was popular in Britain immediately and its debut album stayed near the top of the British chart for 13 months. In May 1970 Green abruptly left the group and early in 1971 Spencer also left. Fleetwood Mac went through a confused period.
The group relocated to California in 1974 and Fleetwood Mac finally found its best-selling line-up with the addition of the duo of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks and producer Keith Olsen. The group now had three songwriters as well as Buckingham’s studio craft and an onstage focal point in Stevie Nicks, who became a late-’70s sex symbol as their first studio offering Fleetwood Mac racked up 5 million in sales. The McVies divorced in 1976 and Buckingham and Nicks separated soon after, but the tensions of the two years between albums helped shape the songs on number 1 selling, Grammy Award winning album Rumours which would sell over 17 million copies and contained the 1977 hits “Go Your Own Way”, “Dreams”, “Don’t Stop” and “You Make Loving Fun”.
Fleetwood Mac has sold more than 100 million copies of its albums – including 25 million for Rumours alone – making it one of the most popular rock bands in history, don’t miss out on this rare outing for the band.
FLEETWOOD MAC
Unleashed 2009 Tour
The O2, Dublin
Saturday 24th October, 2009
Tickets: from €86.25 including booking fee limited to 6 per person
On Sale: Friday 12 June at 9.00am
Buy Online: www.ticketmaster.ie
