Dire Straits

Knopfler's third solo visit to Ljubljana served up a superb mix of songs from his career, and Dire Straits fans got their fill too. Location: Stožice hall/Ljubljana/SloveniaDate: Saturday, June 29, 2019 It was 1977 when the…

"A two-hour journey through the legacy of one of Britain's most celebrated guitarists satisfied the appetite of a hungry Ljubljana crowd, who gave themselves over to the melancholically mellow yet still majestic musical storytelling of Mark…

Longtime friends and musical partners-in-crime David Knopfler and Harry Bogdanovs proved that a love of music runs through their veins. Even without the glare of the big media houses' flashbulbs, it was enough to serve the crowd a real…

To close out the year, we're serving up an interview we recorded back in March, right before a show by The Straits, the kind-of-legit heirs to the legendary Dire Straits. The Straits are definitely not a "tribute" band.

"Mark Knopfler treated a crowd of several thousand to the highlights of his solo career, with a few glimpses of the current album and, of course, a bit of predictable digging through the Dire Straits legacy"

"With Saturday's show, Mark Knopfler proved that after a full three decades in music, the competition still has a hard time keeping up with him."

Toward the end of the seventies, with the punk revolution still at its peak and a pile of new punk and new wave acts popping up on the scene every week, a band called Café Racers emerged in 1977. They later renamed themselves Dire Straits…

A year after a flawless debut album, Dire Straits came back with a very worthy follow-up. Even though the "critics" have branded it Dire Straits' weakest album, that claim is light-years away from the truth.

Mark Knopfler and his crew proved on this album that they're true masters! Five tracks, one of them the most incredible single in music history, a fourteen-minute masterpiece, a single that never really was one, and two killer tunes to…

I can easily say that on this album quality beats quantity! Seven fairytale tracks, each better than the last. On his third album, Knopfler entered his masterpiece phase.

REVIEW IN THE WORKS!

Author: Mark Debeljak Artist: Dire StraitsLabel: Vertigo RecordsReleased: 1985Running time: 54.40 Lineup Mark Knopfler: guitars, vocalsJohn Illsley: bass guitarAlan Clark: keyboardsGuy Fletcher: keyboardsOmar Hakim: drumsTerry Williams:…

"Mark Knopfler showed once again at this gig what passionate, creative guitar playing can be, with no pointless stage kitsch and no flinging himself around the stage (Mark leaves that to others, the younger guitarists), and on Tuesday the…