Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
It is the pull of the hero, the wanting to be in the same room as those lauded and respected that brings an audience back time and time again. Even after 40 years or so, countless gigs, the music never gets old, the stance of the conqueror never betraying time or allowing rust to set in to the mighty engine built frame, you can never truly escape the feel of fire that grows in the stomach, you can never turn your back on the hero.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The return to home territory is always an occasion in which to celebrate is mandatory, it is a fixed point on a tour in which the special is perhaps rolled out with more vigour and aplomb, in which the music takes on a binding pact between artist and audience, in which the pubs and clubs that surround the arena are flowing with memories of where it all started and where it perhaps might find itself.
Fleetwood Mac, The Hydro, Glasgow. June 2015. Photograph by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
It starts with a gentle rhythmic beat, slow, incandescent and the thought of explosive wrath and crazed delight far from its mind and ends in the white heat of thunder, the objective having been met, the satisfaction of thousands of souls having been determined and the noise of a thousand hearts having been caught fluttering in the wind, now forever filled with content and tranquil fulfilment. To have witnessed Fleetwood Mac, the classic and commercially erudite line-up of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie, Christine McVie and Mick Fleetwood, perform anywhere on this particular tour, is arguably to have sensed that five decade old greatness.