A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Love Expresso on March 23, 2025, 11:37:20 AM
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I just watched the Heavy Fuel video clip again, aways loved it. Compared to some other band members, Chris is seen there quite often. As we have him on board here, I hope for some stories about how it came to be. The live footage was filmed very good, just imagine having the complete early indoor show as an official video, with curtain and all. Dreamin...
So, Chris? And anybody else of course. It was Manchester, wasn't it?
LE
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I'd always thought Sheffield.
Also features Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid.
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I'd always thought Sheffield.
Also features Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid.
Definitely Sheffield.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKo1zauqqjI
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I remember when I saw this video for the first time. My first thought: what happened here... 8) But it's great:)
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Yes, Sheffield. Right at the beginning of the tour.
No real memories other than it was funny to be standing around with Randy Quaid. I think we just shot some segments miming to the record, while Quaid bumped into things and generally destroyed the set up (as the bumbling roadie, wannabe rock star).
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I'd always thought Sheffield.
Also features Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid.
who now went FULL magat/retard
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Just had a scan of his wiki and it seems he went nuts pre all the maga stuff. And I must have known, but I'd completely forgotten that he was Dennis Quaid's brother.
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A long time lurker here on this forum, but I thought I would register to add to this post, given that I was fortunate enough to be at the Sheffield Arena show when the video was shot - Monday 2 September 1991.
Our seats were on the floor, about 15 rows back, and I remember the "Mexican wave" that's in the video starting a few times from the back corner of the arena. This was probably about 5-10 minutes before the show was due to start. At the time we assumed that it was just a group of fans starting it but looking back it may well have been the video production crew getting it going.
During the show itself (where we got some tour rarities in IH, WICTY and SMU) I did notice a single camera man moving about filming bits and pieces, occassionally on the stage itself, which presumably are the little clips of the live show that appear through the final video. Then at the end of the show, Mark said something like "we're just going to do a bit of filming now" and they played Heavy Fuel as the last song (this was before OES was released so all the new songs were unknown to us). It was during HF that the woman ran onto the stage and got carried off by the "roadie" - we were too far away to recognise Randy Quaid and I didn't realise it was all a set up lol.
I remember seeing this video get played on "The Chart Show" in the UK a couple of weeks after. They used to add little snippets of information about the videos they played and one of them said it was shot at the (then) brand new Sheffield Arena. I was stoked to realise I appeared in a Dire Straits video (sort of).
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Cool, thanks for register and adding, very interesting!
LE
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A long time lurker here on this forum, but I thought I would register to add to this post, given that I was fortunate enough to be at the Sheffield Arena show when the video was shot - Monday 2 September 1991.
Our seats were on the floor, about 15 rows back, and I remember the "Mexican wave" that's in the video starting a few times from the back corner of the arena. This was probably about 5-10 minutes before the show was due to start. At the time we assumed that it was just a group of fans starting it but looking back it may well have been the video production crew getting it going.
During the show itself (where we got some tour rarities in IH, WICTY and SMU) I did notice a single camera man moving about filming bits and pieces, occassionally on the stage itself, which presumably are the little clips of the live show that appear through the final video. Then at the end of the show, Mark said something like "we're just going to do a bit of filming now" and they played Heavy Fuel as the last song (this was before OES was released so all the new songs were unknown to us). It was during HF that the woman ran onto the stage and got carried off by the "roadie" - we were too far away to recognise Randy Quaid and I didn't realise it was all a set up lol.
I remember seeing this video get played on "The Chart Show" in the UK a couple of weeks after. They used to add little snippets of information about the videos they played and one of them said it was shot at the (then) brand new Sheffield Arena. I was stoked to realise I appeared in a Dire Straits video (sort of).
Brilliant, thanks for joining us and sharing, please join in with the other chats :)
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A long time lurker here on this forum, but I thought I would register to add to this post, given that I was fortunate enough to be at the Sheffield Arena show when the video was shot - Monday 2 September 1991.
Our seats were on the floor, about 15 rows back, and I remember the "Mexican wave" that's in the video starting a few times from the back corner of the arena. This was probably about 5-10 minutes before the show was due to start. At the time we assumed that it was just a group of fans starting it but looking back it may well have been the video production crew getting it going.
During the show itself (where we got some tour rarities in IH, WICTY and SMU) I did notice a single camera man moving about filming bits and pieces, occassionally on the stage itself, which presumably are the little clips of the live show that appear through the final video. Then at the end of the show, Mark said something like "we're just going to do a bit of filming now" and they played Heavy Fuel as the last song (this was before OES was released so all the new songs were unknown to us). It was during HF that the woman ran onto the stage and got carried off by the "roadie" - we were too far away to recognise Randy Quaid and I didn't realise it was all a set up lol.
I remember seeing this video get played on "The Chart Show" in the UK a couple of weeks after. They used to add little snippets of information about the videos they played and one of them said it was shot at the (then) brand new Sheffield Arena. I was stoked to realise I appeared in a Dire Straits video (sort of).
one of the top "first time posts" on here. awesome and thanks for sharing
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Great stuff there YorkshirePudding. You'll have to change your user name mind you because now I'm desperate for a roast dinner! 😋
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Thank you all for the kind welcome (and yes....a roast dinner with Yorkshire Pudding is hard to beat).
So far as the filming of the video goes, there isn't really anything else to add (or at least that I can remember). It was pretty unobtrusive to the show itself, which was awesome and the first time I had ever seen DS/MK live.
I've been fortunate enough to see many great concerts and bands over the years, but that "disappearing curtain" beginning to the show, along with the lights coming on, the accompanying blast of sound and absolutely thunderous drums is still one of the coolest things I have ever seen. It really looked like the band had just magically appeared out of nowhere on the stage.
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It seems there is no bootleg available from that show. Was Heavy Fuel played only at the end or was it played twice? Seems to be a strange ending for the show?
LE
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It seems there is no bootleg available from that show. Was Heavy Fuel played only at the end or was it played twice? Seems to be a strange ending for the show?
LE
A friend of mine told me he attended one of the Sheffield shows and So Far Away was played.
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It seems there is no bootleg available from that show. Was Heavy Fuel played only at the end or was it played twice? Seems to be a strange ending for the show?
LE
A friend of mine told me he attended one of the Sheffield shows and So Far Away was played.
Birmingham too, and Halifax in March 1992. And probably a few more times that we just don't have the info.
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They definitely only played it once, and it didn't seem strange when you were there. The crowd had been on their feet and clapping for the whole of the encore songs (in fact the whole gig had had a good atmosphere generally) and it was a good rocking song to finish the show with. When they started it, I thought it might be Solid Rock but once it got going it was obviously a new song. I am guessing they moved it to the end so that the crowd were at their most lively for the filming maybe?
I've not seen any recordings in circulation of any of the Sheffield shows - nor the other show I saw on that tour at Gateshead 92 - which I am sort of pleased about. I think hearing a (probably poor quality) recording would spoil my memories of the shows somehow.
As I said in my original post, we did get some rarities that particular night, although early in the tour they mixed the set up a lot more before it settled down. Iron Hand came over really well as a new song, WICTY which I already knew from the Hillbillies (I remember Danny coming down from his percussion rig and dancing around the stage with a tambourine during this one) and then Setting Me Up in the encores.
OES itself also sounded really good - I think Calling Elvis was the only new song that I knew at that point.
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To much to expect you to remember details of a song you had never heard before 34 years ago, but I'm assuming that for practical video reasons they would be miming to a playback of the track?
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To much to expect you to remember details of a song you had never heard before 34 years ago, but I'm assuming that for practical video reasons they would be miming to a playback of the track?
Even though I have only just started posting on the forum, as a fairly obsessed get-a-lifer as far as MK/DS
goes, these details are important to me :) And I was only eighteen and seeing DS/MK for the first time so doubly excited about the whole thing.
They definitely weren’t lip-syncing to a playback or anything like that, they just simply played HF as the last song in the set. In the final video I don’t think they tried to match the live performance with the record, the video is just a bunch of random clips of the show really. The woman running onto the stage happened really quickly and I didn’t even realise that it was part of their filming.
None of it impacted on the show itself
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To much to expect you to remember details of a song you had never heard before 34 years ago, but I'm assuming that for practical video reasons they would be miming to a playback of the track?
Even though I have only just started posting on the forum, as a fairly obsessed get-a-lifer as far as MK/DS
goes, these details are important to me :) And I was only eighteen and seeing DS/MK for the first time so doubly excited about the whole thing.
They definitely weren’t lip-syncing to a playback or anything like that, they just simply played HF as the last song in the set. In the final video I don’t think they tried to match the live performance with the record, the video is just a bunch of random clips of the show really. The woman running onto the stage happened really quickly and I didn’t even realise that it was part of their filming.
None of it impacted on the show itself
Interesting, many thanks. Been a while since I watched the video to be fair.
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And all the antics of chasing the girl on the stage, knocking keyboard risers over etc. I assume that didn’t happen live so that was just a studio take added in? Did Randy Quaid run across the stage?
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I don't think there was any studio take. Obviously they used cheap guitars and keyboards, not the kit we used in the show.
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And all the antics of chasing the girl on the stage, knocking keyboard risers over etc. I assume that didn’t happen live so that was just a studio take added in? Did Randy Quaid run across the stage?
He didn’t run around the stage chasing the girl up the stairs towards Guy and Chris. That must have been shot before the show and then edited in. The girl just kind of ran towards Mark and then got picked up and taken off. It all happened very quickly.
We were too far back to really recognise Randy Quaid, and the odd times he did go on the stage (which you see in the final video cut) I thought he was an actual roadie doing techie stuff!
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Another question for Chris on this time period please:
Regarding the promo video for "The Bug".
Do you have any recollections of the band portions of the shoot and when and where it may have taken place?
Thanks very much.
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No, I actually don't.
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The info I got many years ago is this;
During the Saturday show (31st August), members of the audience were given tickets to attend the Arena the following Monday (2nd September) daytime for the filming of the video for the Heavy fuel single.
It sounds logical, but now read a complete different story, which was HIGHLY interesting to read. Maybe they recorded parts during a special daytime show and parts during the actually concert? Wish there alwas a bootleg of 2nd September 1991 now!
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The info I got many years ago is this;
During the Saturday show (31st August), members of the audience were given tickets to attend the Arena the following Monday (2nd September) daytime for the filming of the video for the Heavy fuel single.
It sounds logical, but now read a complete different story, which was HIGHLY interesting to read. Maybe they recorded parts during a special daytime show and parts during the actually concert? Wish there alwas a bootleg of 2nd September 1991 now!
Maybe stuff was filmed through the day with a "crowd" but not used in the final video? All of the clips prior to the show seem to be just in the empty arena and then it's pretty clear which shots were taken at the live show, and which were done prior during the day.
Even a bootleg video probably wouldn't reveal too much - as I said in my original post, the only thing I noticed during the show was when a cameraman appeared on the stage from time to time, obviously just getting little clips of each band member which would be stitched together in the final video (I was hoping that maybe the show was being filmed similar to the Wembley 85 release, but once I saw the HF video on TV I realised what it must have been for). There was obviously at least one more camera filming from the back of the arena but I didn't see any others.
Other than that, the only difference to the actual show was the fact that HF was played last (and I didn't even know that that was unusual at the time). They played the usual encores (MFN, SMU, BIA) and then when they came out again MK just said something about "doing a bit of filming" before they played HF. Even during that song, the only noticeable thing that happened was the woman running onto the stage, but that happened very quickly. Probably if you were right at the front you might have seen them setting that up, and maybe also recognised Randy Quaid, but we were a little way back and on the opposite side of the stage (in front of John).
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My memory is that the filming happened on the day of a show, a few hours before the show.
I'm not sure we had spare days between shows on that part of the tour.
Obviously they could film with Randy Quaid at any time we weren't there.
We also filmed the song with Randy doing his antics, and they may have filmed us playing the song during the actual show too.