Showing posts with label Stevie Nicks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stevie Nicks. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 June 2020
Stevie Nicks - Rhiannon (Live In Chicago)
This footage of Stevie Nicks performing Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' live in Chicago was filmed in 2007. The whole concert is available on DVD, but not on YouTube where it is only available on a song by song basis. As I remember from my 2017 Fantasy Festival series (and a quick search seems to be bearing out this is still the case) there's a lot of Stevie concerts that would have been made available on VHS in the 80s that have been uploaded to YouTube, but nothing really more recent than clips from this 2007 concert.
Monday, 8 June 2020
Fantasy Festival number 2: The Lineup
Lily & Madeleine: Sisters Lily & Madeleine Jurkiewicz hail from Indianapolis, Indiana. They have released four albums of beautiful slightly melancholic folk pop. You can find out more about them over on their website.
The Staves: Another band of folky musician siblings, The Staves hail from Watford and have released three albums and a number of EP's. Their most recent release is a demo, 'Nothing's Gonna Happen' and you can find out more over on their website.
Angel Olsen: Angel Olsen's sound has evolved and transformed a number of times in recent years. Her most recent album, last years All Mirrors, was an 80s synth infused slice of layered baroque, whereas 2016's Your Woman alternated between folky Americana and punky garage. You can find out more over on her website.
Bat For Lashes: Natasha Khan's fifth album, Lost Girls, was one of the highlights of last year. To promote it she played a series of stripped down shows in which she talked the audience through her creative process and discussed the 80s synth pop and visual imagery that had influenced the album. You can find out more about Bat For Lashes over on her website.
Stevie Nicks: Member of the classic Rumours era lineup of Fleetwood Mac, and successful solo artist, Nicks has more recently been tagged as the probable inspiration for Daisy Jones in Taylor Jenkins Reed novel Daisy Jones and The Six. Her official website can be found here.
The Staves: Another band of folky musician siblings, The Staves hail from Watford and have released three albums and a number of EP's. Their most recent release is a demo, 'Nothing's Gonna Happen' and you can find out more over on their website.
Angel Olsen: Angel Olsen's sound has evolved and transformed a number of times in recent years. Her most recent album, last years All Mirrors, was an 80s synth infused slice of layered baroque, whereas 2016's Your Woman alternated between folky Americana and punky garage. You can find out more over on her website.
Bat For Lashes: Natasha Khan's fifth album, Lost Girls, was one of the highlights of last year. To promote it she played a series of stripped down shows in which she talked the audience through her creative process and discussed the 80s synth pop and visual imagery that had influenced the album. You can find out more about Bat For Lashes over on her website.
Stevie Nicks: Member of the classic Rumours era lineup of Fleetwood Mac, and successful solo artist, Nicks has more recently been tagged as the probable inspiration for Daisy Jones in Taylor Jenkins Reed novel Daisy Jones and The Six. Her official website can be found here.
Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Stevie Nicks - "Edge Of Seventeen" [Live In Chicago]
Stevie Nicks performing the epic 'Edge of Seventeen' live in Chicago. The album version of the song is over five minutes long but, in live performance, it's much, much longer.
This is the closest I get to classic rock territory, basically, and if you recognise the guitar riff that's because it was sampled by Destiny's Child for 'Bootylicious'.
There are many, many full live sets of Stevie Nicks both solo and as part of Fleetwood Mac available online. Most of the solo sets are from the 1980s, so I've picked out a concert from 1982 for you. It might be that more recent stuff becomes available in a few months or so online.
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Fantasy Festival #1: The Epic Festival - Lineup
Vagabon: Vagabon, aka Laetitia Tamko, hails from New York and released her debut album, Infinite Worlds, earlier this year. You can read about her in W Magazine, and you will find her music over on Bandcamp. She makes sprawling, raw indie rock with authenticity and heart.
Gothic Tropic: Cecilia Della Peruti hails from Los Angeles, and there seems to be some dispute online as to whether Gothic Tropic is Peruti alone, or whether Gothic Tropic is a band. The debut album, Fast or Feast, was released in the UK back in May. I was charmed by the bands set at The Castle as part of the Manchester leg of Dot To Dot at the end of May, and the album is an indie pop classic, with a sheen of California post punk pop and the intricacies of Adult Net. You can read about Gothic Tropic on DIY Mag.
Laura Gibson: Laura Gibson is a quietly established singer/songwriter who, until fairly recently, was based in Portland, Oregon. Her current, and third, album, Empire Builder, was released in 2016 and reflects the stark and understated nature of her songwriting. She is playing some UK dates in August.
Lily & Madeleine: Lily & Madeleine are two sisters from Indiana who play sophisticated folky pop. Their current album, Keep It Together, was released last year to critical acclaim, and they are currently touring the US in support to John Mellencamp.
Neko Case: Coming on like the lovechild of Patsy Cline and Gene Vincent, Neko Case makes gorgeously evocative Americana. She is one third of Case/Lang/Veirs, and also plays with The New Pornographers. She has released so many solo albums now that I have actually lost count and is resident in Canada. Her most recent solo album is the very presciently titled The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You and she has just come back from a short tour with The New Pornographers.
Bat For Lashes: Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, released her debut album, Fur and Gold, in 2006. Two Suns, which followed in 2009, included the haunting 'Daniel', and brooding 'Sleep Alone'. The Bride, which was released last year, is her fourth album. Her songs are both haunting and beautiful, always atmospheric and gorgeous.
Stevie Nicks: There is the Stevie Nicks who is a member of Fleetwood Mac, and then there is Stevie Nicks the solo artist. My friend, David Wilkinson, has a theory as to why so many hipsters like the McVie/McVie/Fleetwood/Nicks/Buckingham lineup of Fleetwood Mac: he puts it down to the success of Tango In The Night in the mid-late 1980s, when the hipsters were children, meaning Fleetwood Mac serve as a sort of musical comfort blanket for them. Solo Nicks tends to be more rock, a bit harder, a bit tougher, a bit more visceral. She is playing British Summer Time festival at Hyde Park on 9th July as the main support to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and will then be touring the US.
Gothic Tropic: Cecilia Della Peruti hails from Los Angeles, and there seems to be some dispute online as to whether Gothic Tropic is Peruti alone, or whether Gothic Tropic is a band. The debut album, Fast or Feast, was released in the UK back in May. I was charmed by the bands set at The Castle as part of the Manchester leg of Dot To Dot at the end of May, and the album is an indie pop classic, with a sheen of California post punk pop and the intricacies of Adult Net. You can read about Gothic Tropic on DIY Mag.
Laura Gibson: Laura Gibson is a quietly established singer/songwriter who, until fairly recently, was based in Portland, Oregon. Her current, and third, album, Empire Builder, was released in 2016 and reflects the stark and understated nature of her songwriting. She is playing some UK dates in August.
Lily & Madeleine: Lily & Madeleine are two sisters from Indiana who play sophisticated folky pop. Their current album, Keep It Together, was released last year to critical acclaim, and they are currently touring the US in support to John Mellencamp.
Neko Case: Coming on like the lovechild of Patsy Cline and Gene Vincent, Neko Case makes gorgeously evocative Americana. She is one third of Case/Lang/Veirs, and also plays with The New Pornographers. She has released so many solo albums now that I have actually lost count and is resident in Canada. Her most recent solo album is the very presciently titled The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You and she has just come back from a short tour with The New Pornographers.
Bat For Lashes: Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, released her debut album, Fur and Gold, in 2006. Two Suns, which followed in 2009, included the haunting 'Daniel', and brooding 'Sleep Alone'. The Bride, which was released last year, is her fourth album. Her songs are both haunting and beautiful, always atmospheric and gorgeous.
Stevie Nicks: There is the Stevie Nicks who is a member of Fleetwood Mac, and then there is Stevie Nicks the solo artist. My friend, David Wilkinson, has a theory as to why so many hipsters like the McVie/McVie/Fleetwood/Nicks/Buckingham lineup of Fleetwood Mac: he puts it down to the success of Tango In The Night in the mid-late 1980s, when the hipsters were children, meaning Fleetwood Mac serve as a sort of musical comfort blanket for them. Solo Nicks tends to be more rock, a bit harder, a bit tougher, a bit more visceral. She is playing British Summer Time festival at Hyde Park on 9th July as the main support to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and will then be touring the US.
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