Fleetwood Mac Gather Momentum
A Slow Burn Before Setting Alight
The gig kicked off with crucial numbers from THE ALBUM - Rumours - selling globally 45 million copies! Leaving Queen and Meat Loaf in their wake.
Classics started the evening - Second Hand News, followed by The Chain, but then the tempo dropped - too much time between songs, bare stage and some boring ad lib.
Stevie Nicks growling vocals suggested more to come which was finally revealed in her rendition of Gold Dust Woman, a cocaine spree now over which carried real weight. Lindsay Buckingham's inspirational Big Love - straddled Nick's set piece and raised the bar with a brilliant acoustic session and then later on again with Go Your Own Way, with guitar at full throttle and the front row especially enjoying his tour de force performance
Mick Fleetwood towards the end showed his true colours pelting the drums with real purpose and verve and for the encore World Turning, he turned into a demonic Ringmaster shouting & bursting with energy and life.
John McVie calmly played bass guitar through-out with barely a twitch of excitement, even when his ex-wife Christine came on for the encore playing keyboards & vocals on Don't Stop. It seemed incongruous that we had to wait so long for her cameo piece which was lost as 3 very bright stars had already shone with such luminance.
The squad seem to have mended their fences, sexual tensions have vaporised, they tour for fun and of course to restore finances. Having said that the song Sad Angel from new album has legs - so may be there is more life in the 'old dog yet'.
Set List - 02 Arena 27th September
• Second Hand News
• The Chain
• Dreams
• Sad Angel
• Rhiannon
• Not That Funny
• Tusk
• Sisters of the Moon
• Sara
• Big Love
• Landslide
• Never Going Back Again
• Without You
• Gypsy
• Eyes of the World
• Gold Dust Woman
• I'm So Afraid
• Stand Back (Stevie Nicks song)
• Go Your Own Way
Encore 1:
• World Turning (including Drum Solo)
• Don't Stop (with Christine McVie)
Encore 2:
• Silver Springs
• Say Goodbye
