Rumours of Fleetwood Mac

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac

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LunarOne

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5,089 posts

136 months

Sunday 1st August 2021
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Just got back from seeing Rumours of Fleetwood Mac at The Hexagon in Reading with a couple of friends, and I've got to say - what a phenomenal tribute band! The venue itself was only about half full, but the audience were screaming with delight. I was surprised to see a video intro from Mick Fleetwood, so obviously they have the thumbs up from the band. After the halfway break there was about half an hour of earlier Peter Green bluesy numbers before the more familiar crowd pleasers returned.

Highlights for me were my personal favourites, Landslide and Rhiannon, while my friend got her favourite, Big Love, in the encore. What bands are you looking forward to seeing as things open up?

I didn't take any video as I prefer to enjoy the moment, but I did sneak a photo...


RichTT

3,047 posts

170 months

Sunday 1st August 2021
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I was fortunate enough to see the full Mac in Toronto about a decade ago. Missus at the time was desperate to see them and we flew from UK specifically. Was an absolutely great show.

Not even had a look to see who's touring and when. Might look for next year.

Amused2death

2,491 posts

195 months

Sunday 1st August 2021
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I've seen RoFM twice and they are excellent. One of the hardest working bands on the tribute circuit.

They've got a Youtube channel.... https://www.youtube.com/c/RumoursOfFleetwoodMac/vi...

PeterGadsby

1,303 posts

162 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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Wow just watched Rhiannon on there Youtube channel, they sound amazing

Tim O

549 posts

168 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I understand the main man of Rumours of FM is mates with Mick Fleetwood who has on occasion sat in on a gig.

lost in espace

6,135 posts

206 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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Thanks for the review, quite fancy going but we have Fleetwood Bac on Sunday at the Stables MK or Rumours at the MK Theatre a week later. Had decision both get good reviews!

LunarOne

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5,089 posts

136 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I do t know anything about Fleetwood Bac but I’d heartily recommend RFM. The singer who sings Stevie Nicks’ parts actually sounds uncannily like her too. As gigs go it rivalled Guns n Roses at Download Festival a couple of years ago for energy and that was fantastic too!

SAB888

3,230 posts

206 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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That's a superb photo LunarOne, drummer even looks like Mick Fleetwood from that distance.

Mojooo

12,668 posts

179 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I saw Fleetwood Mac and Fleetwood Bac on the same week. Obviously Mac were good but given they were about 10 times more expensive than Bac and Bac were in a very small venue the experience was much more intense.

Bac are always standing when I have seen them whereas RFM are more of a theatre sit down show I believe.

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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Mrs WR was about to book two tickets several years ago at The Lowry, thinking they were THE Fleetwood Mac, but as she was about to press the button, I said It can't be the real Fleetwood Mac for only £25 so we didn't bother...wish we had gone now smile

However we have seen Fred Zeppelin, Led Zebedee, Limehouse Lizzy, The Australian Pink Floyd, The Bootleg Beatles all of whom are excellent.

Mojooo

12,668 posts

179 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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I don't think FM that good these days. They had a shocker at IOW festival about years ago.

LunarOne

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136 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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SAB888 said:
That's a superb photo LunarOne, drummer even looks like Mick Fleetwood from that distance.
Thanks! Yes he does, doesn't he!

cherryowen

11,682 posts

203 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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SAB888 said:
That's a superb photo LunarOne, drummer even looks like Mick Fleetwood from that distance.
+1



TTmonkey

20,911 posts

246 months

Monday 2nd August 2021
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Just booked to see them Friday night in Portsmouth. I can’t wait.


Thanks for the thread, most timely.

LunarOne

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5,089 posts

136 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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TTmonkey said:
Just booked to see them Friday night in Portsmouth. I can’t wait.


Thanks for the thread, most timely.
Let us know how it goes!

rjfp1962

7,607 posts

72 months

Tuesday 3rd August 2021
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I remember a few years ago at my favourite venue The MK Stables, seeing T Rextasy, Hats of to Led Zeppelin and Limehouse Lizzy...
All excellent nights out from what I remember, because the Doom Bar Beer they do there goes down a little too easily too....! smile

DoctorX

7,240 posts

166 months

Wednesday 4th August 2021
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Booked tickets for three weeks time thanks to this thread. Never really took much notice of them but watched some of those YouTube videos and I’m sold. They sound great.

LunarOne

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136 months

Wednesday 4th August 2021
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DoctorX said:
Booked tickets for three weeks time thanks to this thread. Never really took much notice of them but watched some of those YouTube videos and I’m sold. They sound great.
I hope you'll be sorely appointed. I'm waiting for them to play again somewhere near me so I can go and see them again. Guildford on the 27th September works for me and it's very close to my 47th birthday so I have ample excuse!

TTmonkey

20,911 posts

246 months

Saturday 7th August 2021
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It was excellent! Far better than I thought they would be. The Peter Green session in the middle was a real treat, the four guys on guitars rocked the hell out of that. Then the build up to the end everything just got better and better. I thought they started a little weak like they needed a warm up but by the end the place was rocking. It was so nice to hear the likes of ‘go your own way’, tusk, and don’t stop played with such huge enthusiasm and massive volume and presence.

Emily (Chris mcvie) was a real sweet heart and Jess (nicks) put so much heart and soul into the performance the only thing missing was the latent relationship chemistry of the original band.

But for me it was the shear talent of the four guys on guitars smashing the riffs and the solid drumming performance that probably surpassed what the real FM would now be capable of delivering, because they would be in a 100,000 seater stadium, not a 2000 seat guildhall venue! So nice to hear the shear wall of sound turned up to 11, it’s not something you get at home.

Even the wife was up and dancing at the end.

I might go see them again.

dandarez

13,244 posts

282 months

Sunday 8th August 2021
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Ha ha ha, that is almost f laughable!
Mojooo said:
I don't think FM that good these days. They had a shocker at IOW festival about years ago.
Those two posts deserve a response. This might go on a tad.

Asides from RoFM who are a great tribute band, I'll say as someone who has followed (and watched) the real FM since I was a teen during the 60s (through all its incarnations from the Green and the Danny Kirwan days) that IOW festival you mention was the 2015 one, the year when FM had been cancelling other gigs due to illness but finally did manage to turn up at the IoW. The sound system let them down there but they were still good. Take into consideration their ages even then!

Plus, the band line up has changed again since (like they have done many times over the many years), and last time I saw them at Wembley June 2019 with newbies Neil Finn and Mike Campbell (no problem for me him joining the band in place of Buckingham, I've always rated Mike very highly in the Heartbreakers with Tom Petty, since I first watched them live in 1980) and the new line up were superb.

I've always been a guitar fan. Yes, Buckingham was like Peter Green and Kirwan, all superb guitarists in their own right and great music writers. and Buckingham still is great today. I'll never forget his rendition of 'I'm so Afraid' off the first untitled FM album (the least played track on the album apparently even now, but for me it was guitar playing brilliance). When he and Nicks joined FM and they played it live at Santa Barbara to the masses in 1976. He was just 26 then, long haired and beard like most young guys, inc me, back then, and Nicks was a year or so older.

Luckily that performance is still on youtube.

I'd never seen any guitarist finger pluck like that before, nor since. I doubt any tribute guitarist in the world could either.

The real FM has evolved over many decades. One of the best things with the new line-up was on leaving Wembley that late June night in 2019, was being amongst the vast numbers of youngsters, middle aged and us oldies all singing their hearts out together 'Go Your Own Way' proving FM still have the staying power, despite all in the group now in their 70s (like me!), bar Finn of course who is only in his 60s (LOL).
FFS Christine is now less than a couple yrs off reaching her 80th birthday!

However, I will add that it is good that there is and are top tribute acts performing today and with reasonable entrance charges, RoFM are in my area but not until 2022 so we will grab some tickets - that's if the real FM are not back on tour again by then.

Admission charges is one thing that gets my goat in more recent years and is the one major thing also that has changed radically: when I think 3 measly quid for all day Fri, all day Sat, and all day Sun, and even into the early hours (Wed & Thurs were free!) at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 to what we paid, five of us, nearly 200 quid each for that FM one-nighter of just a few hours in 2019. Even with inflation I don't care what you say, that has to be a rip-off in anybody's book. £3 in 1970 today is approx £40. We paid x5 times that for FM.

Oh, slightly off topic but appropriate in these times.
Those who even after the events of the last year and a half or more who somehow still don't believe government and politicians don't like 'control'. I've said it before and I'll say it again now.

Politicians and control? I take you back to that Isle of Wight Festival 1970 51 yrs ago this very month - totally and utterly unexpected by those (in power) approaching 3/4 MILLION of us turned up! One police inspector was undercover (as a 'hippy' lol) - he reported back after the event that he'd seen more trouble on a Friday night pub crawl. hehe

What did the government of the day do? OMG! It scared them stless. An estimated 700,000+ young people, over twice that of Woodstock Festival in the USA the year prior. Bloody hell, we can't have this. WE the politicians and government need to be in control. In no time at all Parliament enacted the Isle of Wight law which prevented no more than a measly 5,000 ever attending a get-together - without a special licence being issued (restrictions on your freedoms, where have you heard that recently?). Never has that many people been allowed to attend a concert in the UK since. Yet we had a whale of a time, it was fantastic, the sun shone, we had complete freedom, and there was little or no trouble despite some media crap (they weren't even there!) - the town was thriving with business from all us youngsters. We went because we loved the music, end of. Years and years passed before the festival was ever allowed again on the island again, until some realised that these concerts are good for their local economy, and when it was revived, a whole 32 years later (yeah, that bloody long!), the numbers restrictions were in place. Attendance that year? A measly 8,000+.

I last went in 2012 and the attendances had grown - we went to see Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. That year 55,000 attended but not remotely near the 1970 figure. Something else did grow massively though - that 3 quid for 3 days Fri/Sat/Sun attendance in 1970 and the 'free' Wed & Thurs, and I forgot to add back then there were no restrictions on playing time (the Doors and Hendrix played well into the early hrs). So what grew? The price of a single ticket in 2012 - 150 quid! Mind you, that's a lot less than 200 quid ea we paid to see FM and support Chrissie Hynde in 2019 for what was around 4hrs + in total.

Politicians, and others with power and money, eh? They don't want to interfere in your freedoms and lives.
Not much!

Sorry for nearly all of this being a long rant that went a little off topic!