A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: rosco on December 22, 2015, 08:12:17 PM
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MK's daughter has been fronting a campaign to get her Dad to perform at Glastonbury-possible DS reunion?
http://www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Mark-Knopfler-s-daughter-pleads-Glastonbury/story-28405605-detail/story.html
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I really hope not :smack
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page not found?
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Article no longer available
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Google cache :
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S5Psus6IuhUJ:www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Mark-Knopfler-s-daughter-pleads-Glastonbury/story-28405605-detail/story.html+&cd=1&hl=fr&ct=clnk&gl=fr (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S5Psus6IuhUJ:www.centralsomersetgazette.co.uk/Mark-Knopfler-s-daughter-pleads-Glastonbury/story-28405605-detail/story.html+&cd=1&hl=fr&ct=clnk&gl=fr)
She only asks for Mark to perform not Dire Straits.
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if you look for MK, you are linked to a preview of the article but also there it leads to nowhere.
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For sure it is always astonishing when someone has the influence and power to make things undone.... :think
To me it says that it won't happen.
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She removed her post from the Glasto chat facebook page afyer the press picked up her post. They are speaking about Knopflergate there.
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Glaston Mud Festival?
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Let us ask Guy about it ;D
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I think it is good to read he has been asked twice but for whatever reasons he does not want to play over there. :think.
Too bad if you ask me.
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I understand Mark standing on the matter.
I mean what would have been his point in disbanding Dire Straits and ending collaboration with Ed Bicknell?
In others words, Glasto would have been the perfect place for a DS music revival and this is exactly what Mark does not want.
We have been aware these later years that the only times Mark accepts to play the DS game is for private/corporate shows.
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Just a question about this article in 2006. Is there any truth in this or absolutely not??
http://www.gigwise.com/news/14581/michael-eavis-dire-straits-for-glastonbury-2007
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Just a question about this article in 2006. Is there any truth in this or absolutely not??
http://www.gigwise.com/news/14581/michael-eavis-dire-straits-for-glastonbury-2007
The interview is true. But when talking to "DS" he did not mention exactly "who" (and remember that DS has officially disbanded).
NME October 2008 :
"Illsley told BBC News that he had attempted to instigate a reunion, only to be rebuffed by his former bandmate.
Source : Mark Knopfler declines Dire Straits tour and album (http://www.nme.com/news/dire-straits/40270)
The BBCNews interview :
Knopfler declines Straits reunion (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7656310.stm)
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The opportunity has passed but seeing Rod Stewart, John Fogarty, Neil Young and Burning Spear do their thing at Glastonbury on the TV at the weekend did again remind me that DS would have gone down well at this festival, certainly in current years where the acts are even more varied, straying into pop.
Never quite understood the MK logic here.
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The opportunity has passed but seeing Rod Stewart, John Fogarty, Neil Young and Burning Spear do their thing at Glastonbury on the TV at the weekend did again remind me that DS would have gone down well at this festival, certainly in current years where the acts are even more varied, straying into pop.
Never quite understood the MK logic here.
He didn’t need the money and the stress levels. Also his guitar skills were already deteriorating since the ’96 tour.
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Yeah, I don't think Mark has plans to play live again even in solo.
Over 35 years since DS played live, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge.
It ain't ever going to happen - just accept it.
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
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Mk is retired of playing live.
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
20 years ago today
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/il-y-a-15-ans-pink-floyd-se-reunissait-pour-la-derniere-fois/
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
20 years ago today
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/il-y-a-15-ans-pink-floyd-se-reunissait-pour-la-derniere-fois/
Amazing! I forgot that it was July 2. And today I mentioned it :) Thanks JF
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
They were on their US leg of the 2005 Tour. July 1st was Boston. So probably schedule reasons.
LE
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
They were on their US leg of the 2005 Tour. Juli 1st was Boston. So probably schedule reasons.
LE
Yes, that's true, but big concerts like Live Aid or Live 8 were planned long in advance.
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I have zero expectations that DS would ever reform and play Glastonbury, or ever again for that matter.
I just think if history took a different path, it would have been a nice thing. That is underlined when you see artists of his era and age putting on a good show in the current day at Glastonbury.
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They could mime to backing tracks, though. Or do an avatar version, like ABBA.
:think
:hmm
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They could mime to backing tracks, though. Or do an avatar version, like ABBA.
:think
:hmm
Seriously?
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Yeah, I don't think Mark has plans to play live again even in solo.
Over 35 years since DS played live, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge.
It ain't ever going to happen - just accept it.
Indeed, he is never going to play live again. I bet with the Local Hero project he could have done it on a tv show or something like that. But he let Guy do some interviews. I also think we will not see him that often in public anymore. Perhaps a interview at BG at the best..
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They could mime to backing tracks, though. Or do an avatar version, like ABBA.
:think
:hmm
Seriously?
On second thought, no.
Mark's guitar skills have deteriorated so much that he would have had trouble miming the guitar parts.
Plus he would look really silly wearing a headband now. If he could have found one that fits, that is.
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
never read that..
maybe they already had a stellar reunion and did not need another one?
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
20 years ago today
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/il-y-a-15-ans-pink-floyd-se-reunissait-pour-la-derniere-fois/
Amazing! I forgot that it was July 2. And today I mentioned it :) Thanks JF
phil collins played live aid london AND live aid Philly....
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Grudge, they knew there were scheduling conflicts, or they just didn't think about it. I mean, it's not like every band that broke up would think about reuniting for Live 8, no?
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Eh, I'm pretty sure MK was already on tour at that point. In fact, I saw him at Radio City on 29th June 2005 and was still there when Live 8 was on. We had been on a Sopranos location tour and saw the Pink Floyd reunion on big screens in Times Square on our return.
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I never believed in Glastonbury but there was a chance for Live 8 in 2005. I remember Mark said in one of the interviews that they didn't play at that concert for unexplained reasons.
20 years ago today
https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/il-y-a-15-ans-pink-floyd-se-reunissait-pour-la-derniere-fois/
Amazing! I forgot that it was July 2. And today I mentioned it :) Thanks JF
phil collins played live aid london AND live aid Philly....
yes. I will write an article on 13th for the 40th anniversary
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My opinion is that anytime Mark would have wanted it, it would have happened.
Albeit nont promoted as it, 2002 was it.
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Somewhere between the 1996 Tour and the 2001 Tour MK grew definitively too old and too boring to make me even WISH to see him again with DS anytime. The freshness, energy and drive was totally missing. And it got worse over the next couple of tours with the exception of 2013 where he seemed to have a (last) outburst of energy and motivation. To be honest, from 2000 on I HOPED he would never come up with a DS reunion. It would have destroyed the legend, totally.
LE
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I’m sorry to completely agree..