Monday 23 June 2014

Michael Eavis Says Fleetwood Mac Will Not Play Glastonbury 2014

Michael Eavis said that Fleetwood Mac will not play Glastonbury Festival next year.

The band is rumored to be performing at the festival, but the founder has denied that the event will be playing Worthy Farm in 2014. However, told The Guardian, Eavis said he hopes to get the band to play classic rock following year. "It is our hope to get 2015, but next year," he said.



In October, the bookies stopped taking bets on Fleetwood Mac headlining the Glastonbury Festival in 2014. Above Ladbrokes offered odds of 1/4 to see the band play the Pyramid Stage in June next year. However, after a period of increasing speculation after the UK tour of Fleetwood Mac, betting was suspended.

Tickets for Glastonbury Festival 2014 sold out in record time, after going on sale on October 6. 120,000 tickets sold out in 1 hour and 27 minutes, beating the record of 1 hour and 40 minutes last year. Eavis revealed that more than a million people had registered for tickets for the event next year.

Dolly Parton is strongly rumored to be playing Glastonbury Festival 2014.
According to reports, the country music icon is making its debut at Worthy Farm in June, according to The Sun, and will slot the 'legends' Sunday evening, June 29, 2014.'S supposed date would fit perfectly with his 2014 UK tour, which sees Parton playing O2 Arena in London on June 27, but left with an open schedule to tour the Nottingham Arena July 2. Arcade Fire and Lily Allen have already confirmed themselves for the festival, with Arcade Fire headlining the Pyramid Stage on Friday night (June 27).

Monday 16 June 2014

Christine McVie Rejoining Fleetwood Mac

Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac retired over 15 years ago and now she is going back to the band. During a concert in Hawaii last night, Mick Fleetwood told the audience: "This is the worst kept secret there, but Christine McVie rejoins Fleetwood Mac" (via Consequence of Sound).



McVie his fellow band was joined on stage in September; check out pictures of the performance below. In a recent interview with The Guardian, he said... "I like being with the band, the idea of making music with them all Echo If they would ask me to probably be very happy ... but hasn 't happened, so have to wait and see. "

This is what he told The Guardian in 1998 removed:


     "I think it was just music'd out," he said. "I suffered from some kind of delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Rangers or something ... and it took me 15 years to realize that it's not really what I wanted at all."