The original demo of “Smile At You” (which eventually appeared on SYW) from the MIRAGE sessions. Pretty cool. Maybe one day we’ll put together a show of just outtakes/b-sides/original versions/covers & such. Any excuse to play the RUMOURS outtake “Think About It,” really.

In addition to playing the MIRAGE album in its entirety at Johnny Brenda’s in Philly Feb. 17 and Littlefield in Brooklyn on Feb. 18, we’ll be doing some other Mac & Lindsey solo gems.

So, any requests?

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Happy to announce that internationally renowned entertainer Dave Hill will be opening our show at Littlefield in Brooklyn on Sat. Feb. 18.

How can we best describe Dave? To put it in baseball parlance, he’s a five-tool player: musician, comedian, actor, raconteur, podcaster.

He’s also a good tipper.

Experience some Dave Hill for yourself here.

Purchase tickets for the Littlefield show here.

Happy to announce that tickets are now on sale for the MIRAGE (and more) shows, Feb. 17 at Johnny Brenda’s in Philly, and Feb. 18 at Littlefield in Brooklyn.

Get tix for Philly here, and get tix for Brooklyn here.

To recap, we’ll be performing the MIRAGE album in its entirety, along with some other Mac and solo Lindsey gems for one big fat night of great music.

We’ll be announcing openers for each show soon. Attempts to get Men at Work, who opened the 1982 MIRAGE tour in the U.S., have proved unsuccessful so far.

Nearly two years after they performed Lindsey Buckingham’s enduring creative statement, the 1979 Fleetwood Mac double-album TUSK, at shows in Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia - joyous gigs that pleased both the old heads in faded Buckingham-Nicks bootleg tees and young’uns probably conceived while RUMOURS spun in the background - indie rock not-so-supergroup THE LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM APPRECIATION SOCIETY returns to perform Fleetwood Mac’s 1982 album MIRAGE in its entirety, along with select Mac and solo Buckingham gems at two shows: Friday, February 17 at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, and Saturday, February 18 at Littlefield in Brooklyn.

For these performances, the six-person Philadelphia-based collective will feature returning members Charlie Hall (vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who has played with Jens Lekman, The War on Drugs, Windsor for the Derby, Tommy Guerrero and others), Patrick Berkery (drummer for Danielson, Pernice Brothers, Bigger Lovers, Photon Band, I Was a King, Mazarin and others), and singer-songwriter Birdie Busch. They will be joined by new members/fellow Lindsey-Mac obsessives Eliza Hardy Jones (vocalist/keyboardist for Buried Beds), Brandon Beaver (guitarist/vocalist for Buried Beds), and Dave Wayne Daniels (bassist/vocalist for The Capitol Years).

As for why the group is tackling MIRAGE, an album known for its dawn-of-MTV staples “Gypsy” and “Hold Me,” but generally overlooked in evaluations of the Lindsey-Stevie era canon, Hall says: “MIRAGE is a trove of wonders - some of the strongest Mac songs in the canon as well as some total head scratchers and ones that I never realized how great they are. It’s neither the ”Rumours II” as some claimed nor was it a repository for discarded solo songs as others claimed.  There’s sheen for sure and there’s mystery and beauty through and through. It’s got everything. This is a gorgeous record that is deserving of more attention and appreciation.”

The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society is not a tribute act and does not perform in costume. The band features no defined character roles and is more a loving exploration of Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac’s music than a verbatim reproduction. For more about The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society, visit www.tlbas.com.

SHOW INFO:

Friday, Feb. 17 - Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave., Philadelphia, PA (tickets $10) Phone (215) 739-9684 / www.johnnybrendas.com

Saturday, Feb. 18 - Littlefield, 622 Degraw St., Brooklyn, NY 11217 (tickets $12) Phone (718) 855-3388 / www.littlefieldnyc.com

We’re happy to announce that tickets are now on sale for The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society performing TUSK Sunday, May 16 @ Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY. Special guest: Fleetwood Mike. Just $12. You can’t even park your car at a Fleetwood Mac show anymore for $12!!!

Buy ‘em here.

Tickets also on sale for our shows at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, Mass. Saturday, May 15; and Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, Pa., Monday, May 17, with special guest Jennifer O’Connor.

Hey, Patrick here. There are about 14 inches inches of snow outside. Just the kind of day for reminiscing about the roots of The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society. They go back a ways…

Early spring, 2000. My then-band The Bigger Lovers had just finished mixing our debut album, How I Learned to Stop Worrying. I was over the moon with the way the album turned out. Thanks to the tireless efforts of our producer Daniel Presley and our engineer Brad Newsome our scrappy little pop songs were transformed into these booming collisions of sweetened harmony, thundering drums, weird bursts of found sound, and all manner of guitar and keyboard fuckery. But it also presented a dilemma, as in “How on earth are we going to pull this off live?”

The answer came in the form of this interview from the Boston Phoenix in which a singer-guitarist-producer named Tony Goddess said the musical ideal for his band Papas Fritas was to sound like “Fleetwood Mac in the studio and the Replacements live.” That sure sounded like the right idea to me.

As fate would have it, the third album from Papas Fritas, Buildings and Grounds soon fell into my lap. I listened to it and loved it instantly. It had really nice production and arrangement touches, but with a really lean presentation - like something that could be played live without a ton of fuss. And as that interview in the Phoenix would suggest, the overall vibe of the tunes - especially the guitar sounds and drumming - was totally Lindsey/Mac. So I filed the name “Tony Goddess” away in the “People I want to make some music with someday” mental rolodex. And eventually, I did.

More on that some other snow day…