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The Music Of Fleetwood Mac By Candlelight – Ripon Cathedral – Friday 9th January 2026 January 11, 2026

Filed under: Review — justwilliam1959 @ 6:08 pm
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This was my first gig of 2026 and after witnessing Bowie by Candlelight at this same magnificent venue last year I was looking forward to it. According to the publicity this is a show “direct from London’s West End” and would feature “a spectacular cast of West End Singers and epic live band” providing “a landslide concert, jam packed with Fleetwood Mac hits as you have never heard them before!” Having been there, at least for the first half of the show I can agree with some of those statements. It was indeed an epic and extremely talented live band. However vocally it was hit and miss. The female vocalist (I think her name may be Georgia Carling) was superb and pulled off some great Stevie Nicks sounds. The male singer with the long hair was pretty good too. But the other two male vocalists were, in my opinion, superfluous and often struggled to hit the vocal highs of the other two singers. This hugely lowered the quality and excitement of what I was hoping was going to be stunning and memorable night. These two gentlemen appeared to have the stage presence of a pair of mannequins. While the band and two of the singers were very good this was overall an incredibly disappointing evening. We left the show after the interval and there were a few other people who did the same. Maybe this show should have stayed in the west end of London!

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