Fleetwood Bac - Bilston, 24th August 2002

Without a doubt the talking point of the night......sorry, past few months.....has been Lindsey's transformation from 70's Rumours Tour Lindsey into 80's Mirage Tour Lindsey... (sounds like a line of Barbie's!). I tell you there have been more than a few conversations on MSN about this - if it would work or not and what we thought about it. I have to say I was mightily sceptical. I'm from the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" school and I wasn't too sure if the change would work....of course it worked!

It worked because a lot of time and effort went into not only changing the look, but they way that

Lindsey acted on stage. If you watch the video of the Mirage Tour and compare it to footage from the 70's, you see that Lindsey Buckingham is far more aggressive in the way he stomps and strides around the stage during the Mirage tour, and he's a lot more physical in general. So that is what Lindsey from FB has done - not only does the 'uniform' change but the stage presence does too, and that's why it works. And boy did he work....I think I've only seen Tony Blair sweat more!

There was one other very important personnel change, a new 'Mick' - making his Firefly debut infront of the massed ranks of us all...well, all eleven of us! We all thought he looked and played every bit the part - well done !!!!! I'm sure the rest of the band members will warn you about the Fireflies in time... Watch out for Gem M....that M stands for Maneater ;-)

Christine was in a lovely sparkly top and is also continuing to

blossom and sparkle as we hear more of her.....although it should be made a criminal offence to talk during Songbird..! Stevie came on stage at one point in a beautiful black and silver shawl - lots of 'oooh's' from our side of the dancefloor! Oh I've said nothing about John...You were wonderful as always!

Don't Stop / Gold Dust Woman / Everywhere / I'm So Afraid / Sara / Oh Well / Seven Wonders / Big Love / Gypsy / Green Manalishi / You Make Loving Fun / Never Going Back Again / Songbird / Eyes of the World / Dreams / ** Say That You Love Me ** / Sisters of the Moon / ** Little Lies ** / Rhiannon / Go Your Own Way / ** Isn't it Midnight ** / The Chain.

Musically it was another exceptional show - sounded really tight. I know I keep saying that they just sound better and better - well they do and believe me they are pretty close to perfection now! I was really looking forward to hearing 'Isn't it Midnight' - it totally rocked and for me shares joint honours for song of the night with ' Say That You Love Me'. STYLM is virtually impossible to get through now without wanting to put the Ooh-la-la-la's on there

from the Dance album....so we did...badly! . You'll be relieved to know that Fireflies are not available for backing singer duties! It was quite sometime after the show that I suddenly realised that there was none of Stevie's solo stuff in there this evening, and you know what... I didn't really miss it, although please tell me that Edge of 17 hasn't disappeared off the radar, I would like to go completely mental one in a while!

We moved around a bit in our own little corner of the dancefloor trying to keep out of everyone's way and out of Mikes during Gypsy, but there was a couple of ladies from the Matt Pearce Fan Club flinging themselves around the dancefloor: Mating ritual...? aerobic workout...? who knows...gave us a laugh anyway!

Speaking of laughs I very nearly had to pull over onto the hard shoulder on the motorway after I'd dropped Pip off back home...I nearly split my sides laughing at who the 'new Lindsey' reminds me of.....