Fleetwood Mac at the Melbourne Writers Festival!
Thunder only happens when it’s raining, and nights like this only happen in Melbourne.
A stellar cast will take on Fleetwood Mac’s colossus of cool, Rumours, as the literary cabaret night Liner Notes returns to the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Following last year’s sell-out tribute to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, producers Babble turn to the 1977 classic for their latest instalment of one of Melbourne’s best-loved spoken word events. Special guests Charlie Pickering, Clare Bowditch and Hannie Rayson will join Emilie Zoey Baker, Sean M Whelan, Alicia Sometimes, Ben Pobjie, Omar Musa, Josh Earl, George Dunford, Eva Johansen and host Michael Nolan to poetically re-interpret Rumours, track by track.
In the late ‘70s, to what use could hirsute chests and permed ‘fros, flowing gold locks and wispy lace, drug binges and three marital break-ups be put, other than to take too long to record the greatest AOR album of all time? Beloved of Boomers, listened to secretly by Gen X and now karaoked by Gen Y, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is the quintessential overblown masterpiece, where the money spent on getting the hi-hat sound just right could have fed millions.
With a live band ripping through the likes of Go Your Own Way and The Chain, and a line-up of stellar guests joining some of Melbourne’s finest spoken word performers and comedians, Liner Notes: Rumours promises to be an unforgettable night of words and music, as the Writers Festival lets its hair down and whips out an air guitar.
It’s tambourines and tule at the Toff so don’t stop thinking about tomorrow – it’ll soon be here!
Side 1
1. ‘Second Hand News’ JOSH EARL
2. ‘Dreams’ CLARE BOWDITCH
3. ‘Never Going Back Again’ ALICIA SOMETIMES
4. ‘Don't Stop’ CHARLIE PICKERING
5. ‘Go Your Own Way’ EZB
6. ‘Songbird’ GEORGE DUNFORD
Side 2
7. ‘The Chain’ HANNIE RAYSON
8. ‘You Make Loving Fun’ BEN POBJIE
9. ‘I Don't Want to Know’ SEAN M WHELAN
10. ‘Oh Daddy’ EVA JOHANSEN
11. ‘Gold Dust Woman’ OMAR MUSA
Liner Notes: Rumours
Melbourne Writers Festival
Saturday 4 September
Toff in Town Deakin House, Swanston St
Tickets: http://www.mwf.com.au/2010/content/mwf-2010-events.asp?name=20100904-2000-Liner-Notes-Fleetwood-Macs-Rumours
