Saturday 31 October 2009

Fleetwood Mac - The 200th blog post

I am proud to announce the 200th posting on my blog! And it's a special entry from me today following one of the most amazing concert experiences I have had, last night at Wembley Arena.

Pete, Sonny and I went to see Fleetwood Mac on their Unleashed tour and had some luck in obtaining front row seats. There's nothing like watching 12,500 people fill up an arena behind you! But better news was yet to come as one of the road crew came out and asked us if we wouldn't mind standing for the show! So we positioned ourselves right on the stage - I was actually touching the stage's carpet! He said that they were happy for photographs to be taken, so I was very pleased with that.

The show itself was truly stunning with a performance to rival any band. We were standing on the Stevie Nicks' side of the stage and she was on great form. I have always been a fan of Lindsey Buckingham's guitar playing, but he blew me away and when he came to our side of the stage for a long guitar solo, he stood right in front of me - his boots were 2 inches away from my hand!

This is the 4th time I have seen Fleetwood Mac and it's by far the best performance I have seen - the choice of songs was brilliant and the sound impressive. The strange thing about being at the very front of the audience is that you don't really hear the main crowd and get the atmosphere, so this was very much about watching the band from close quarters and enjoying the professionalism and performance.


A night to remember. I hope you like these pictures...





13 comments:

  1. Well done on getting to 200 - and to think I was pleased with 35!

    Andrew

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  2. Just an awesome gig and the sort you'll probs never forget! WOW!

    Oh and yeah - well done on the two hundred. Here's to the 500!

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  3. I was there too but much further back!

    Amazing gig; where does Lindsey get his energy from?

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  4. wow....awesome pics, what a great night you had..so cool;)

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  5. Something I forgot to mention - my partner Pete had eye contact with Stevie Nicks last night and she said "thank you" specifically to him. I was dead jealous, but do recall that her eyesight is pretty poor and probably couldnt see him!

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  6. Hi there.

    I was at the show they did in Berlin two weeks ago and had exactly the same experience as you did. Me and my friend also had terrific seats where we saw not just 8000, but 12 000 fill up the arena behind us.. and we felt so blessed we were sitting so close to the stage, when one of the road crew waved us over to the the stage. I got to stand right in front of Stevie the whole concert. No one between me and her:DLindsey actually pointed at us a couple of times through the concert, (probably because we were so young, 19, compared with the rest of the people standing there) I have a picture of him where he is looking in my camera bended over towards us:D amazing.. It was magical and a night to remember yes.

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  7. I've never really been a fan, but I think only because they missed me by. Perhaps it is time to re-evaluate and give them a retrospective at home.

    One of my classmates was well into Stevie Nicks I recall.

    ahoj

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  8. Excellent pictures!

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  9. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comment on my blog last week. I went and saw them on Tuesday but was seated quite some way from the band. Good pictures

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  10. Great photos! We were pretty far back at the show and I'm sure the experience was completely different for both of us. I did think they were great though!!

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  11. Kathrine - just checked and the arena holds 12,500 not 8,000 people. I got it wrong!

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  12. I was there...front row between Stevie ad Lindsey. An amazing night. I'm going again next week! Thanks for the pictures. I have a ton that have been linked on the nickslive blogspot

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  13. I saw this concert too and loved it!! I am a huge Fleetwood Mac and Stevie fan!

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