{"id":4821,"date":"2014-12-02T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T10:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/12\/02\/fleetwood-mac-to-headline-isle-of-wight-festival\/"},"modified":"2014-12-02T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T10:48:38","slug":"fleetwood-mac-to-headline-isle-of-wight-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/12\/02\/fleetwood-mac-to-headline-isle-of-wight-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleetwood Mac to headline Isle of Wight Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8b\/Fleetwood_Mac_2009.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"128\" \/><br \/>Fleetwood Mac have been confirmed to headline the 2015 Isle of Wight Festival,    ruling out an appearance at Glastonbury. The band will perform on Sunday June 14, and festival organiser John Giddings    said it would be \u201ca moment in music history\u201d. It is believed to be the first time the \u201cclassic\u201d line-up \u2013 Stevie Nicks, Mick    Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie \u2013 have played    a UK festival, and it will be their only festival date next summer.    <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>Securing the band is a coup for the Isle of Wight, as Glastonbury organiser    Michael Eavis was keen to bag them but was told they were unavailable.    Glastonbury&#8217;s most recent announcement was that Lionel    Richie will play the Sunday tea-time slot.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>In a statement, Fleetwood Mac said: \u201cWe\u2019ve always wanted to come to the UK to    play the Isle of Wight Festival and so we are delighted that in 2015 we are    finally making it happen.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of our fellow artists and friends have played at this historic event    over the years, and we can\u2019t wait to see all our fans on the island next    summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christine McVie recently rejoined the band after a 16-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>John Giddings said: \u201cIt\u2019s no secret that Fleetwood Mac have been on my    wish-list for the Isle of Wight Festival for some time now, so I\u2019m very    pleased and extremely proud to have them headline next year&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Christine now back in the band too, it is going to be a momentous    occasion \u2013 a moment in music history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleetwood Mac have been confirmed to headline the 2015 Isle of Wight Festival, ruling out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}