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September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 250
Stevie Nicks, The Wild Heart (1983) I came back from last week’s Fleetwood Mac concert newly enthralled by Stevie Nicks – she’s great, and I’ve obviously always thought so, but just lately I’ve been talking about the band and reducing her role somewhat, baffled, I guess, by her super-fans’ devotion. But, man, get her deep […]Archive
September 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Fleetwood Mac (September 12, Akld)
Fleetwood Mac Spark Arena, Auckland Thursday, September 12 I was so into this – and very nervous. I’m a mega Fleetwood Mac fan, I love all periods of the band, all versions. But it’s ten years since I last saw them (back when Lindsey Buckingham was still front and centre) and I just had to […]Archive
September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Fleetwood Mac
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]Archive
August 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Jeremy Spencer: Latina Nights
Jeremy Spencer Latina Nights Sibylline Media Into the pantheon of completely non-essential albums enter…Latina Nights, the latest from Jeremy Spencer. He was once a member of Fleetwood Mac. He was third fiddle (guitar) to Peter Green and Danny Kirwan and he was sometimes the star of the show; rock’n’roll parodies – Elvis impersonations, slide-guitar routines, […]Archive
August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #3 – Fleetwood Mac, “Behind The Mask”
Fleetwood Mac, Behind The Mask, 1990 People either do not know this album – or they’ll tell you they wished that it never existed. But I reckon it’s, maybe ironically, the closest Fleetwood Mac came to ever sounding like an updated Rumours – ironic because, for a start, Lindsey Buckingham had left the band at this point. And in […]Archive
August 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: Fleetwood Mac World Tour 2019 Setlist
If you’re as excited as me about seeing Fleetwood Mac (aka “Finnwood Mac”) in New Zealand in September you might want to know what the band is playing. Sure, okay, you might not! So in that case click out now. But with the new line-up solidified it looks like a new setlist has taken permanent shape – […]Archive
May 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Fleetwood Mac
The soap-opera of Fleetwood Mac has had me hooked since I was about 10 or 12. There was a doco – a bit of late-night music-TV that filled in all the blanks. I was, as a kid, already a fan, but I had no idea how the same band that sang Sara and Sweet Little Lies had jammed out an instrumental called Albatross. My brother recorded this thing called Fleetwood […]Archive
April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: MOJO Magazine’s 50 Greatest Fleetwood Mac Songs
The latest issue of MOJO magazine features a list of the 50 greatest Fleetwood Mac songs. It’s a pretty great list – taking in all versions of the band and cherry-picking from pretty much every album. So I decided to make a copy of the list for anyone that wanted to hear it – in the order […]Archive
May 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 406
Fleetwood Mac, The Alternate Tango In The Night (2018) There’s a great moment, in that Fleetwood Mac doco I’ve watched so many times – Fleetwood Mac at 21 – where the interviewer obviously relays a story from Lindsey Buckingham to Stevie Nicks; she either sees the footage or hears from the filmmaker that Lindsey saw […]Archive
December 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 94 – Adam McGrath (The Eastern)
Welcome to episode 94 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a terrific chat with Adam McGrath of The Eastern. Adam is also a solo artist – with his debut solo record due out early next year. But for the last half-decade and more he’s been the frontman […]Archive
November 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman