Fleetwood Mac took to the stage at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday but despite a setlist of epic proportions, the show felt lacklustre and the venue too big for the bands sound.
Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVey, John McVey and the incomparable Stevie Nicks have decades worth of hits and an aura that has been cultivated thanks to romance, heartache, drugs, jealousy, and bitter splits but have reunited (minus Lindsay Buckingham who was reportedly fired from the band in early 2018) and spent the last eight months touring the world.
Those years together and apart have given them a connection and a confidence other bands would kill for but it perhaps has also lured them into simply going through the motions.
The first half of the performance was hit after hit – The Chain, Little Lies, Everywhere, Second Hand News – and as the audience sang along and cheered, you couldnt help but get swept into the joy of seeing this band live.
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But there was little interaction with fans until midway through the show when apparent hypeman Fleetwood took over the stage and performed a five-minute drum solo – later helped along by Taku Hirano, an Afro-Cuban percussionist – that ended up calling for audience participation.
Much fun was had by all, joked Fleetwood at the end, but its true – not many can keep an audience the size of Wembley Stadium while mostly alone on a stage that size enraptured, and definitely not many 71-year-olds.
Dressed in all black like the gothic goddess she is, front woman Nicks hit her marks, twirled with her tambourine and took every opportunity for a bow – and the incoming cheers.
McVey switched between her keyboard and taking the microphone alongside Nicks, while Fleetwood introduced the session musicians, Neil Finn, and Mike Campbell – who have joined the band after Buckinghams departure – and led the audience in a series of vocal warblings.
But despite this, something felt off.
Campbell and Crowded Houses Finn fit seemlessly with the band but Buckinghams absense cant help but be felt, especially on the closer Go Your Own Way which fans will know was written by Buckingham about Nicks.
Perhaps a smaller venue would have helped keep the atmosphere more intimate; the band rarely strayed from their positions and made little use of the size of the stadium.
Fleetwood Mac previously suffered from sound issues, with many fans walking out of the Saturday show due to problems, but although there were no major issuesRead More – Source
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