*Special Features*
2010 GET LUCKY TOUR LATEST: The latest date to be announced for the Get Lucky tour is Murcia in Spain on 24th July. For all dates, ticket, and presale info go to the tour dates page.
mk.com presales: There is a limit of FOUR (4) tickets per order on all mk.com presales for the Get Lucky tour. In an effort to prevent pre-sale tickets ending up on the secondary market at inflated prices, tickets for all shows will need to be collected at the venue's box office ON THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW ONLY. You may be asked for proof of identity.
Tour rehearsals will take place during March.
Personnel:
Mark
Knopfler - guitar, vocals
Guy Fletcher - keyboards
Danny Cummings
- drums
Richard Bennett - guitar
Glenn Worf - bass
John McCusker* - violin, flute, etc
Matt Rollings - piano
*John
is unavailable for the North America leg of the tour. His place in the line
up will be taken by Tim O'Brien and Michael McGoldrick.
(updated: 10/03/10)
GUY'S NEW CD: Guy is in a rich creative vein at the moment and his new CD, Natural Selection, will be available to buy directly from his website from the 26th of March. You can also get a signed copy by pre-ordering your copy now.
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(08/03/10)
GUY'S NEW TOUR DIARY: Guy Fletcher has started another of his wonderful tour diaries to keep you all up-to-date with what's happening on the up-coming Get Lucky tour. (06/03/10)
NEW RICHARD BENNETT CD: Richard's new CD, Valley of the Sun, is now available.
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Order yours directly from Richard's website. (21/02/10)
HAL LINDES: From time to time we get asked what former members of DS are doing. Well, here's an update on what Hal Lindes is up to these days:The Boys Are Back film and soundtrack CD (SilvaScreen) were released in the UK on Jan 22, 2010, and will be out in the rest of Europe from mid February/March, 2010. Hal is very busy with a packed calender scoring for films and some television, and he has various instrumental tracks on physical release and iTunes. Occasionally, he plays a gig or two with Johnny Hallyday and he is currently writing with the Irish artist, Luan Parle. A new Hal Lindes web site is currently being constructed, we'll let you know when it's up and running.
The Hal Lindes competition is now closed. We had a large entry, thanks to all who entered. The three lucky winners have each received a copy of The Boys Are Back CD signed by Hal.
"Many thanks for entering The Boys Are Back competition and congratulations to the three winners" - Hal
The answer to the competition question In which city was Hal Lindes born ? was:
Monterey
Watch out for a great Get Lucky competition coming soon.
(updated 01/03/10)
DODGY SITE: Fans are warned not to buy MK tickets from www.markknopflerlive.com. (11/02/10)
SUNDAY FOR SAMMY: Mark was in Newcastle last weekend for a surprise appearance in the annual 'Sunday For Sammy' concerts at the City Hall. For a full report click here. (09/02/10)
HURLINGHAM GIG: Under the title An Evening With Mark Knopfler, the Prince's Trust has made the recent Hurlingham gig available on i.concerts. (09/02/10)
JON ALLEN COLLABORATION: Jon Allen's When The Morning Comes CD is out Monday 15th February with Mark featured on a track called Sarah. More info. (09/02/10)
WARNER BROS DS REISSUES: Warner Brothers is celebrating 30 years of Dire Straits in the US with a vinyl reissue campaign. Each DS album has been lovingly re-mastered from the original analog master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering, in Hollywood California and pressed on 180 gram European vinyl, at Furnace MFG, Pallas. More info. (30/01/10)
ECHO AWARD NOMINATION: Mark was among the nominees for the German Echo Award 2010 in the Best Rock & Pop Artist category. The eventual winner was Robbie Williams. (updated: 06/03/10)
BIA BRIT NOMINATION: Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms was one of ten albums nominated in the 'best album of the last 30 years' category for the 2010 Brit Awards. The award was won by Oasis. (updated: 16/02/10)
US LEG SUPPORT ACT: Pieta Brown will be the support act for all of Mark's US dates for the 2010 Get Lucky tour.
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You can listen to Pieta's music and read her biog by visiting her MySpace page.
(12/01/10)
BLUE PLAQUE: Mark and John Illsley attended a short ceremony in Deptford on Thursday 3rd December to unveil a blue plaque on the site of the first Dire Straits performance.
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The award, presented by the PRS for music, is part of a national campaign
to highlight areas where significant musical events have taken place. The
plaque was fixed to Farrer House in Church Street, Deptford.
(updated: 02/12/09)
GUY 'S NEW EP: Guy Fletcher has a fabulous new eight-track EP available called Stone. All copies ordered via Guy's website will be personally signed by Guy.
Order now directly from Guy's wesbite. (16/10/09)
GET LUCKY TAB BOOK: The TAB book for the Get Lucky album is now available. All the songs from the album arranged for Guitar tab, complete with full lyrics and melody line. click here to order your copy. (05/10/09)
GET LUCKY: Released worldwide on or around the 14th of September 2009, Mark's new solo album, is titled Get Lucky.
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Track
list:
Border Reiver
Hard Shoulder
You Can’t Beat The House
Before Gas & TV
Monteleone
Cleaning My Gun
The Car Was The One
Remembrance Day
Get Lucky
So Far From The Clyde
Piper To The End
And before you ask, a 'reiver' was someone who carried out raids over the northern English/Scottish border to plunder and steal cattle, i.e. a border raider.
A bonus track not on the CD, Early Bird, can be downloaded from iTunes. Early Bird and another non-album track, Time In The Sun, can be downloaded from amazon.com These tracks are available in the US only at the monent but they will be made available outside of the US within the next few weeks.
Lots more Get Lucky info on releases page.....
(updated: 17/09/09)
GET LUCKY POLL: Use the link above to take part in the MKNews Get Lucky poll. And don't forget you can vote for yopur all-time favourite live and studio MK song using the vote link in the top menu bar. (12/09/09)
RE-RELEASE OF ILLSLEY ALBUMS: In the 1980s John Illsley released two solo albums: Glass and Never Told A Soul. Consisting of all original Illsley compositions, the albums featured some eminent guest performers. Mark played guitar on much of both records, as did Jerry Donahue. Both Guy Fletcher and Alan Clark lent their hands to the keyboard parts and Chris White guested on sax.
The two CDs are being re-issued on with the original artwork on the Creek Records label on September 7th. Comprising 16 tracks between them, the full track listing for both CDs is as follows:
Glass: High Stakes, I Want To See The Moon, Papermen, All I Want Is You , The World Is Made Of Glass, Red Turns To Blue, Let’s Dance, She Wants Everything, Star For Now.
Never Told A Soul: Boy With Chinese Eyes, The Night Café, Never Told A Soul, Jimmy On The Central Line, Northern Land, Another Alibi, Let The River Flow.
Material for a new album is currently being worked on and gig dates are planned for the near future across Europe and the USA.
(01/09/09)
ALCHEMY
5.1 DVD:
Chuck Ainlay recently remixed the original tapes which formed the Alchemy
album. The film is currently being digitally enhanced and a 5.1 and blue-ray
version of the concert will be released next year. The approximate release
date would be in April 2010 but this is not confirmed and retail will not
be aware of this release as yet. More details will be released as they become
available via markknopfler.com and here on MKNews. (04/08/09)
MARK
PRESENTS AWARD: Mark has presented British guitar legend Joe
Brown with the MOJO Outstanding Contribution To Music award at the 2009 MOJO
Honours List ceremony. To watch the presentation click
here and keep watching for the bonus footage of Mark and Joe at the end.
(17/06/09)
FALSE WEBSITE: There is a website in which the author has been posting blogs about his "herbal" drug use and making it seem as if Mark was writing the posts. Please be aware that this site is neither written by, affiliated with nor sanctioned by Mark Knopfler, PCM, MarkKnopfler.com or MKNews. (30/01/09)
DS
LIVE IN GERMANY: Statements on various internet sales sites
and elswhere claiming that an official double live Dire Straits CD and DVD
called, Sultans of Swing Live in Germany, have been released are
false. Any such releases are illegal factory pressed bootlegs and MKNews
recommends fans boycott such material. (05/01/09)
ACCURATE
SET LISTS:
If you have accurate set lists for any of the following KTGC shows
please mail to MKNews:
Portland/Woodinville/Vancouver/Calgary/Edmonton/Saskatoon/Regina/ Winnipeg/Vienna(USA)/Atlanta/Clearwater
(05/08/08)
DIGITAL DOWNLOADS: Fans in the UK and Canada can now obtain digital downloads of Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits albums directly from the markknopfler.com store. The downloads are in 256kbps MP3 format. (02/07/08)