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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
Stubs: # 211 – Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Wellington, 2016
By the time of this show – April 2016 – my relationship with most promoters had deteriorated. So much so I pretty much couldn’t get in to the ‘big’ shows. And the Dominion Post expected a review but didn’t expect to have to do anything about it – they wouldn’t even ask for review comps; […]Archive
June 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie: Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie
Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie Atlantic/Rhino Records Add another chapter to best (and ongoing) rock’n’roll soap opera that is the versions and vestiges of Fleetwood Mac. This time it’s a duo/duets album between Buckingham and McVie.Archive
April 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 561
V/A, Happy To Be Part of The Industry of Human Happiness (1969) Today is Record Store Day. I go to record stores for many reasons – but obviously to buy records. And to find things like this…things I never knew existed, or that I needed, or wanted, until I find them…Here’s a late-60s compilation of […]Archive
March 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Sad Story of Bob Welch: Fleetwood Mac’s Most Undervalued Member
Bob Welch killed himself in 2012. It’s hard to eulogise a suicide; beyond sad, utterly devastating. Welch was a singer/guitarist/songwriter. He had a solo career and was in a band called Paris. But he had also been a member of a band called Fleetwood Mac – and though history seems to have conveniently forgotten about […]Archive
March 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
A Bunch of Rumours: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours
Christine McVie believes it was her estranged husband John who made the call that the new record Fleetwood Mac was creating sounded like “a bunch of rumours”. And so, Rumours was what it was called. Rumours came into my life when I was about 11 years old; by that stage it had been out a decade […]Archive
January 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
She-Bop – All The Best Tunes From The Best Women Making Pop Music: DJ Set
I’m a fan of the 1980s – I’m sure I’ve made that known plenty of times. So for a slight twist on an 80s DJ night I’ve decided to feature only the women. Solo artists, duets, lead singers in bands, cameos – it’s all about the female voice and those soaring anthems and power ballads […]Archive
November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman