Mick Fleetwood's illness curtails concert in Nebraska

A night after opening its tour in St. Paul, Fleetwood Mac cuts eight songs from its set list.

January 19, 2015 at 11:02PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks/ Photo by Courtney Perry
Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks/ Photo by Courtney Perry (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Drummer Mick Fleetwood acknowledged that he was feeling under the weather when he addressed the sell-out crowd Friday at the end of Fleetwood Mac's concert at Xcel Energy Center.

Indeed, we heard rumors that he was getting an IV and oxygen before the show.

On Saturday in Lincoln, Neb., things didn't go so well for Mr. Flu-wood. He began vomiting backstage. The show was curtailed by several songs, according to the Omaha World-Herald.

Here is what Kevin Coffey reported in the World-Herald:

"Mick is really sick. We don't know exactly what to do," Stevie Nicks said, adding that Fleetwood suddenly became ill and was throwing up backstage.

Set to play more than two hours, Fleetwood Mac cut its set short by eight of its planned 24 songs and finished almost an hour early with "Go Your Own Way" and "Songbird," and they had to call on a drum tech to get behind the kit to finish.

"We're so sorry," Nicks said. "In all of our 40 years, this has never happened."

"It's really unfortunate," Lindsey Buckingham added. "We're really sorry, guys."

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Jon Bream

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Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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