A Mark In Time

Mark Knopfler Discussion => Mark Knopfler Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Banjo99uk on November 13, 2009, 06:45:22 PM

Title: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Banjo99uk on November 13, 2009, 06:45:22 PM
Dont think this has been posted yet. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mayo
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: allen on November 13, 2009, 06:48:14 PM
Great!   We thought BBC were expected to do more.  So here it is. R&J!    Sweat!!!!  Thanks for the info!

Wishes
Allen
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: ustas on November 13, 2009, 06:55:43 PM
Dont think this has been posted yet.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/mayo

Posted in Get Lucky promo 50 mins ago  ;D

The podcast does not (oops! 2 TIMES!!! )  include the edited acoustic performance of R&J, so it is better to use iPlayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00nsjfm

The long version starts on 1:38
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Banjo99uk on November 13, 2009, 07:00:27 PM
sorry didn't realise, this is the best interview i've heard for years.  Simon Mayo is a real Dire straits nerd.
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: superval99 on November 13, 2009, 07:30:29 PM
Thank you so much ustas!    What a terrific interview!    I loved Mark's acoustic "Get Lucky" and "R & J", but especially the nerdly discussion near the end.   It sounds as though MK has a lot of new material and many more albums yet to come.  Fantastic!   :D
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Pottel on November 13, 2009, 07:49:47 PM
anyone upping it on spanish city???
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: superval99 on November 13, 2009, 08:27:59 PM
On iPlayer it starts at about 1:24
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: koobaa on November 13, 2009, 08:55:18 PM
Great interview! Wasn't Simon Mayo a host of a London showcase in 2007? I seem to recall he was quite 'nerdy' then too ;)  e.g. insisted on Mark to play Eastbound Train.
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Banjo99uk on November 13, 2009, 09:07:54 PM
Yep thats the same Mayo, been around on UK radio and TV for years.
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Best Brown Baggies on November 13, 2009, 11:01:18 PM
One of the best (if not THE best) interviews i've ever heard with Mark.
I've always liked Simon Mayo with his relaxed radio friendy style, and he always seems to bring out the best in Mark.
Listening to that has made my day, especially the bit about SOS. ;D

Cheers  BBB
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Jules on November 14, 2009, 02:19:07 PM
Did Simon insisted to MK to play Eastbound train again?  ;D
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Fieneke2 on November 14, 2009, 04:28:29 PM
THANK YOU for sharing this interview, it was great to hear Mark.

It seems he felt comfortable there during the interview!

Fieneke
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: sweetsurrender on November 15, 2009, 12:58:20 AM
Great interview. It was fun listening.  Not the same old stuff over and over again. 
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Pottel on November 15, 2009, 11:34:10 AM
yup, same here.
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: allen on November 15, 2009, 12:28:43 PM
Great interview, yes, nice questions and brilliant answers.

Wishes
Allen
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: dustyvalentino on November 16, 2009, 03:54:42 PM
Finally got round to listening to this.

FANTASTIC!

As others have said, this was a great interview, brilliant that both Simon mayo and Mark Kermode are clearly huge fans of MK's work and were therefore going into extreme depths of "nerdyness" that usually only the likes of ourselves would stoop to. :)

Secondly, the performances. Wow. First ever all acoustic Get Lucky I think. Sounded great. Very interesting to hear MK playing a solo in a psuedo Chet Atkins style where McCusker normally plays. Never heard him do this before, on any track, ever.

R&J, again, have we ever had a COMPLETELY solo acoustic performance of this before?

Brilliant stuff. What a shame we didn't know about it before. I could have listened to it live on Friday.  :-\
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: koobaa on November 16, 2009, 04:58:43 PM
Yes, I also liked that fingerstyle solo on Get Lucky, Dusty! Very nicely played, I think MK is into a lot of this kind of playing nowadays.
It reminded me of the way he played Devil Baby in the AOL sessions performance, the same kind of fingerstyle solo in the place where it was Les Paul on the record.

edit: Here is Devil Baby I was talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VIdNGYhim8
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: dustyvalentino on November 16, 2009, 05:31:10 PM
Yeah, nice too, but still has GF as well. Really a treat to get MK completely solo. I remember being at Hay on Wye for the world premiere of Secondary Waltz (and sandwiched between Martina and Nelly, Get Lucky or what! ;) ) and it was a real privilege to see MK playing that completely solo.

Would love to see a full solo MK show one day, just MK and an acoustic (or two). :)
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: superval99 on November 16, 2009, 06:01:42 PM
Yes, I remember "Secondary Waltz" at Hay, being really special!   I was behind you, dusty!   :)  What a fantastic weekend that was!   :D
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: xxFordiexx on November 16, 2009, 08:41:11 PM
What an awesome interview, I loved it.

This is what Mark Knopfler is all about and WAS all about to be honest!

Look back at some of the early stuff on youtube and Mark always performed some fingerpicking stuff like that.  There was a black and white recording on youtube from about 1980/81? It was some french interview I think.

I just think that in the early days with the band thing it would have been completely out of place.

This is Mark at his most happiest I reckon and what a privilege to have such an enormous British Legend still around today!
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: Pottel on November 16, 2009, 11:58:39 PM
love it too.
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: IrisRose on November 17, 2009, 04:57:36 AM
It's on the tracker now-but the title has the wrong date--because the uploader is an idiot. ;D
Title: Re: MK on bbc 5 live
Post by: allen on November 17, 2009, 08:26:13 AM
Thanks for uploading it.  Better worse than never.