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Mark Knopfler Discussion => News Articles and Interview Transcripts => Topic started by: Marijo58 on January 27, 2015, 03:37:27 PM

Title: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 27, 2015, 03:37:27 PM
Having watched several NHB's shows lately thanks to Shangri La and AMIT TV, I noticed that MK mentionned Nana Mouskouri and the late Demis Roussos!! As he passed away this week end and he was an international artist who sold 60 millions albums I wonder if MK ever met him?? I assumed that maybe he knew him because Demis Roussos last album was made in London in 2006 if I recall it right!!  :wave
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: dustyvalentino on January 27, 2015, 08:35:18 PM
Ha.
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 27, 2015, 10:44:44 PM
Silly question I guess!!! Thanks Dustyvalentino!!!
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: ds1984 on January 27, 2015, 11:43:16 PM
Nana Mouskouri covered Why Worry but Demis Roussos?
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 28, 2015, 10:07:49 AM
Nana Mouskouri covered Why Worry but Demis Roussos?
I don't remember ds 1984 it was on 1999's shows!! I got to check it today!!!
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: dmg on January 28, 2015, 11:35:51 AM
I don't think Black Sabbath covered it either!  ;D
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 28, 2015, 04:36:08 PM
I don't think Black Sabbath covered it either!  ;D

I don't think so too DMG lol!! But I still haven't found the song yet and I'm sure he did say his name before one song!!! Let's hope I'll find out soon or later!! ??? 8)
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: dmg on January 28, 2015, 06:37:19 PM
I don't think Black Sabbath covered it either!  ;D

I don't think so too DMG lol!! But I still haven't found the song yet and I'm sure he did say his name before one song!!! Let's hope I'll find out soon or later!! ??? 8)

Mark and Brendan joked between them tossing a few artists names into the ring.  I liked the BS one - always gave me a laugh.
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 28, 2015, 06:45:33 PM
Yep Dmg they're great together!!!!!! I really regret deaply not attending at least one gig in London!!! I envy those who made it, must have been so fantastic to see them in a smaller place!! :wave
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: ds1984 on January 28, 2015, 09:20:29 PM
Yep Dmg they're great together!!!!!! I really regret deaply not attending at least one gig in London!!! I envy those who made it, must have been so fantastic to see them in a smaller place!! :wave

If you speak about the NHB, yes it was a great experience.
I wonder what happened  in 2002 as Mark never performed again with BC afterwards.
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 28, 2015, 11:00:31 PM
Yes I speak about NHB,I would have loved to attend one time!! :wave
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 29, 2015, 10:18:14 PM
Eureka I found it!!! It was before Why worry!!! He said that Demis Roussos didn't record it but Nana Mouskouri did!!! You'll hear it at the end of this vid of Railworks Song!!! And I remembered well when I said it was in 1999!! :D

http://youtu.be/_DT_VL3yew0?list=PLoGa3M7vHdvylNuuYo-RuyYwKtcXs6Nxf
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: rudiger on January 29, 2015, 10:31:30 PM
wow! it's amazing the attention that you put in listening to these videos  :clap
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: ds1984 on January 29, 2015, 11:12:43 PM
Eureka I found it!!! It was before Why worry!!! He said that Demis Roussos didn't record it but Nana Mouskouri did!!! You'll hear it at the end of this vid of Railworks Song!!! And I remembered well when I said it was in 1999!! :D

http://youtu.be/_DT_VL3yew0?list=PLoGa3M7vHdvylNuuYo-RuyYwKtcXs6Nxf

I was there THAT night!

Funny I did not notice it.

And a reminder of Nana's version

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz4WRP7vWT4

Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 30, 2015, 11:53:43 AM
Thank you ds1984,  he said it very quickly so maybe you didn't hear it!! Nana Mouskouri sings it very well by the way,  I like her, it's my Dad's favorite singer and he's 86 years old!! :thumbsup :wave
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on January 30, 2015, 11:57:37 AM
wow! it's amazing the attention that you put in listening to these videos  :clap

Yes I like these shows Rudiger!!!! I am very fond of the music they're playing!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Pottel on February 02, 2015, 10:37:06 PM
was there 19th and 20th awesome nights...
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on February 03, 2015, 02:31:32 PM
was there 19th and 20th awesome nights...

I can imagine that it was awesome Pottel, it always is when MK is on stage with the talented musicians that he usually chooses!!! :thumbsup
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: twm on March 14, 2015, 12:26:30 PM
As I've said before, it was the NHBs who brought me here (plus mrs twm, of course).

We attended the 24 July 1999 NHB show at Ronnie Scott's, too. Down in London for just over a week, we got to four shows in all.  Earlier on the evening of 24th July, we went to see "Plenty" at the Albery Theatre, with Cate Blanchett in the lead. We met Helen Mirren one night at Scott's. Rowan Atkinson was there another night (we'd seen him live in Stoke on a solo tour years before).

It was a great week. I got to a Bridget Riley exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (she being one of my interests from way back in the mid-1960s). We did a bit of shopping in those higher-end second-hand clothes shops in Mayfair and Marylebone (I still have a dark blue Valentino silk shirt from then). We went to the horse-racing at Sandown Park.  Another day, off to Greenwich and down to the Trafalgar Tavern for an (almost traditional) whitebait lunch, in the footsteps of Dickens and politicians of yore.  I met friend with a contact at Christies and I got to handle an original Dylan lyric sheet from a BLONDE ON BLONDE song that was in their current auction then. Plus all the usual family things.

But, the memory that lingers is spilling out of Ronnie Scott's in the early hours of the morning to find our way back to where we were staying. It took me back to my youth, going to all-nighters in Soho clubs. The difference was that, in 1999, the streets were still full of people and much was still going on. In the 1960s, if you went out for fresh air at that time in the morning, the streets were largely deserted and much less well-lit. And this was on midweek nights, too. Back then, the all-nighters were at weekends - in my case, just Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.

And all that mixed in with seeing and hearing the NHBs in a small intimate venue, sometimes very close indeed to the stage. And I mean very close. Good times!
Title: Re: NHB shows, death of Demis Roussos!!
Post by: Marijo58 on March 14, 2015, 03:59:49 PM
As I've said before, it was the NHBs who brought me here (plus mrs twm, of course).

We attended the 24 July 1999 NHB show at Ronnie Scott's, too. Down in London for just over a week, we got to four shows in all.  Earlier on the evening of 24th July, we went to see "Plenty" at the Albery Theatre, with Cate Blanchett in the lead. We met Helen Mirren one night at Scott's. Rowan Atkinson was there another night (we'd seen him live in Stoke on a solo tour years before).

It was a great week. I got to a Bridget Riley exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery (she being one of my interests from way back in the mid-1960s). We did a bit of shopping in those higher-end second-hand clothes shops in Mayfair and Marylebone (I still have a dark blue Valentino silk shirt from then). We went to the horse-racing at Sandown Park.  Another day, off to Greenwich and down to the Trafalgar Tavern for an (almost traditional) whitebait lunch, in the footsteps of Dickens and politicians of yore.  I met friend with a contact at Christies and I got to handle an original Dylan lyric sheet from a BLONDE ON BLONDE song that was in their current auction then. Plus all the usual family things.

But, the memory that lingers is spilling out of Ronnie Scott's in the early hours of the morning to find our way back to where we were staying. It took me back to my youth, going to all-nighters in Soho clubs. The difference was that, in 1999, the streets were still full of people and much was still going on. In the 1960s, if you went out for fresh air at that time in the morning, the streets were largely deserted and much less well-lit. And this was on midweek nights, too. Back then, the all-nighters were at weekends - in my case, just Saturday nights and Sunday mornings.

And all that mixed in with seeing and hearing the NHBs in a small intimate venue, sometimes very close indeed to the stage. And I mean very close. Good times!
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Thanks Twm for sharing these fantastic memories of the NHB's, I really would have enjoyed to attend but I guess he'll never do them again!!