Fleetwood Mac Rumours.

[Poleski]

There are rumours that Fleetwood Mac may be reuniting for gigs next summer. Anyone heard anymore info on this?

If so, they would definitely fit in at RockNess and would bring back the same atmosphere Blondie created.

My girlfriend would be the first to get a ticket if they played

[eFestivals]

a very big difference to Blondie is the amount that Fleetwood Mac charge for a gig. I don't know if Rock Ness is rich enough to afford the Mac, but they're defo not on a par with Blondie.

I'd guess that Blondie's fee is in the £75k-£150k range (based on a festie that has booked them before, and which I know spends around those amounts on its headliners), while the Mac are well over a million.

[blackg1000]

There are rumours that Fleetwood Mac may be reuniting for gigs next summer. Anyone heard anymore info on this?

If so, they would definitely fit in at RockNess and would bring back the same atmosphere Blondie created.

My girlfriend would be the first to get a ticket if they played

Edited July 13, 2011 by blackg1000

[Poleski]

a very big difference to Blondie is the amount that Fleetwood Mac charge for a gig. I don't know if Rock Ness is rich enough to afford the Mac, but they're defo not on a par with Blondie.

I'd guess that Blondie's fee is in the £75k-£150k range (based on a festie that has booked them before, and which I know spends around those amounts on its headliners), while the Mac are well over a million.

[eFestivals]

Have you heard these Fleetwood Mac rumours at all Neil?

I don't know that much about the Mac if I'm honest. Know some of there songs but never followed them properly. So I guess thats why I thought they weren't THAT much bigger than Blondie.

Definitely TITP then. Which means we'll be going to it haha.

Fleetwood Mac are MASSIVELY bigger than Blondie - 'Rumours' is one of the UK's biggest selling albums ever - 40M copies shifted worldwide, and the 13th best-selling album in UK history with over 3M copies sold.

I've not heard anything for the Mac for next year regarding festivals, nope - aside from the fact that they're likely to tour again next year.

I know that (some of?) the Mac personnel are keen to play Glasto, but I suspect that their manager is far less keen - it's not a good pay-day for the band, so it's not a good pay-day for him.

Whether they're really a band for festivals tho I don't know. According to Michael Eavis a few years ago, he'd not ever tried to book them. And according to him last September, they're "not a band anyone is interested in nowadays".

While I personally wouldn't go as far as Michael did, I don't really think they'd be a big festival draw, at least not with shifting tickets - the vast majority of people who'd be interested in seeing them aren't really the types who'd go to a festival I reckon. I suspect that much of the same effect happened with Prince's Hop Farm show this year.

Having said that, in the last few years they're a name that's cropped up in regard to festies quite a few times (which explains my questions to Michael), and I've been quite surprised at the numbers of people of all ages who've expressed an interest in seeing them. I think there's a number of different reasons for that (parents who subjected their kids to FM back in the 70s & 80s, plus the trend for festies finding heritage acts to break out of the same old headliners at every fest), so while I reckon they'd get a more than decent crowd I'm far less certain of them being the sort of act that would actually shift the number of tickets that's expected from a headliner.

[Poleski]

Fleetwood Mac are MASSIVELY bigger than Blondie - 'Rumours' is one of the UK's biggest selling albums ever - 40M copies shifted worldwide, and the 13th best-selling album in UK history with over 3M copies sold.

I've not heard anything for the Mac for next year regarding festivals, nope - aside from the fact that they're likely to tour again next year.

I know that (some of?) the Mac personnel are keen to play Glasto, but I suspect that their manager is far less keen - it's not a good pay-day for the band, so it's not a good pay-day for him.

Whether they're really a band for festivals tho I don't know. According to Michael Eavis a few years ago, he'd not ever tried to book them. And according to him last September, they're "not a band anyone is interested in nowadays".

While I personally wouldn't go as far as Michael did, I don't really think they'd be a big festival draw, at least not with shifting tickets - the vast majority of people who'd be interested in seeing them aren't really the types who'd go to a festival I reckon. I suspect that much of the same effect happened with Prince's Hop Farm show this year.

Having said that, in the last few years they're a name that's cropped up in regard to festies quite a few times (which explains my questions to Michael), and I've been quite surprised at the numbers of people of all ages who've expressed an interest in seeing them. I think there's a number of different reasons for that (parents who subjected their kids to FM back in the 70s & 80s, plus the trend for festies finding heritage acts to break out of the same old headliners at every fest), so while I reckon they'd get a more than decent crowd I'm far less certain of them being the sort of act that would actually shift the number of tickets that's expected from a headliner.

[Kowalski]

No chance.

[rexclark]

I think some are severly underestemating how big Fleetwood Mac are. If they do reunite and play in Scotland they'll do their own gig. Rockness definately won't get them and I can't see TITP paying a ridiculous fee they'd want for an act that wouldn't even be headlining. I'd imagine they'd do Hard Rock Calling, they seem to get the huge acts.

[cobaltstargazer]

Fleetwood Mac are MASSIVELY bigger than Blondie - 'Rumours' is one of the UK's biggest selling albums ever - 40M copies shifted worldwide, and the 13th best-selling album in UK history with over 3M copies sold.

I've not heard anything for the Mac for next year regarding festivals, nope - aside from the fact that they're likely to tour again next year.

I know that (some of?) the Mac personnel are keen to play Glasto, but I suspect that their manager is far less keen - it's not a good pay-day for the band, so it's not a good pay-day for him.

Whether they're really a band for festivals tho I don't know. According to Michael Eavis a few years ago, he'd not ever tried to book them. And according to him last September, they're "not a band anyone is interested in nowadays".

While I personally wouldn't go as far as Michael did, I don't really think they'd be a big festival draw, at least not with shifting tickets - the vast majority of people who'd be interested in seeing them aren't really the types who'd go to a festival I reckon. I suspect that much of the same effect happened with Prince's Hop Farm show this year.

Having said that, in the last few years they're a name that's cropped up in regard to festies quite a few times (which explains my questions to Michael), and I've been quite surprised at the numbers of people of all ages who've expressed an interest in seeing them. I think there's a number of different reasons for that (parents who subjected their kids to FM back in the 70s & 80s, plus the trend for festies finding heritage acts to break out of the same old headliners at every fest), so while I reckon they'd get a more than decent crowd I'm far less certain of them being the sort of act that would actually shift the number of tickets that's expected from a headliner.

[eFestivals]

TiTp sells out in advance of acts being announced as does glasto so ticket sales aint really an issue.

TitP has NEVER sold out in advance of acts being announced - to do that would require them to put all of the tickets on sale before they announced any acts, which is something they've never ever done.

But even if it did (as Glasto does), then it's likely that a very large number of TitP-ers would feel they'd been shafted if T booked Fleetwood Mac, as FM are likely to demand a slot at the top end of the bill along with the size of their fee meaning that T would want them at the top end of the bill - and for the majority of people who attend festivals nowadays, FM wouldn't score highly as an act those people wanted to see. They'd wonder why (to them) an irrelevant band had taken a top slot, instead of (plucked from the air) a band such as The Script who they might like to see.

They'd fit in much better at Glastonbury, where a line-up of of-the-moment bands isn't pretty much all that they do (as it is with T). However, I personally doubt that FM would accept the low fee that Glastonbury pay, so I doubt they'd be seen there.

[zahidf]

Only festival with the money, interest and appropriate crowd for Fleetwodd Mac would be Hop Farm. Can't see any other festival doing it, except maybe IOW.

[Poleski]

Only festival with the money, interest and appropriate crowd for Fleetwodd Mac would be Hop Farm. Can't see any other festival doing it, except maybe IOW.

[LiamGP]

I've heard Fleetwood Mac Rumours..... Good album!

[rachbon]

i would LOVE to see fleetwood mac.