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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 […]

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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; […]

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April 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band (Wgtn, April 1)

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band Opera House Friday, April 1 Just a few months after Fleetwood Mac wrapped a nearly two-year world tour, the band’s leader and spirit-animal, drummer Mick Fleetwood, is back on the road with his side-project dedicated to the original Mac’s blues years, the Peter Green-era. Though Mick Fleetwood is clearly the […]

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February 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band feat. Rick Vito: Two NZ Show (March/April, 2016)

Mick Fleetwood – one of my favourite drummers – formed The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band to pay tribute not only to the ‘blues years’ of the original Fleetwood Mac but also the music Fleetwood loves; the songs he grew up with. The current line-up features Rick Vito, a hell of a player – and former […]