Fleetwood Mac

Many, many months ago Duncan booked us in to see Fleetwood Mac. I thought he had got a special deal through American express, but I thought it was cheap seats, but in fact it turned out to be very pricey seats, but the best seats in the house. We stayed Saturday night at Jackie and Simon's and then drove up to Auckland, staying at the Ibis which is walking distance  from the train station which gave us a quick trip to Mount Smart stadium.

The opening act was Angus and Julia Stone and you can see from the two pictures below the view we had of the stage, and the view of the big screen, so we had the best of both worlds

 The audience filled up as we moved onto the main act - lots of amazing graphics displayed behind the band but they were tricky to photograph.

Stevie Nicks with John Mc Vie behind

Christine Mc Vie

 Occasionally this was the only view we got - but they were a very nice family infront of us. The jeans belong to the mum - an aging rock chick with an enviable figure. The two 20 something daughters were altogether broader and taller.

 The centrepiece was Mick Fleetwood's drums

John Mc Vie

Mick Fleetwood

Stevie Nicks and John Mc Vie

Lindsey Buckingham did a lot of the vocals

What amazed us was that their were no hassles getting food, getting wine, going to the toilet or geetting the train home. A lady security person gave us a running comedy commentary as we filed quite quickly into the train which dropped us back in the station.

A throroughly enjoyable night! - and when I found out that John McVie and Mick Fleetwood  had started their music careers which John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers it all started to make sense!

We had a good run back to Gisborne  - the Te Puke Bypass makes a great difference.