Mark Knopfler On BBC Radio 2 20/03/15

[Adz]

Morning everyone,

Mark will be guesting on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show, on BBC Radio 2 this coming Friday, starting at 6.30am GMT. The link to the show should be:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055dz8g

Cheers,

Adam

[holaknopfler]

Wow thank you for sharing!

[superval99]

Thank you!    Maybe he will appear on BBC1 Breakfast too - two for the price of one!     They are both from the same building I presume?     

[geordie_60]

No. BBC Radio is from London whereas BBC Breakfast is broadcast from Media City in Manchester.

[superval99]

No. BBC Radio is from London whereas BBC Breakfast is broadcast from Media City in Manchester.

Of course!       Thanks for correcting me, Geordie_60!   I should have remembered that it moved to Salford!   

[jbaent]

Anyone could record a digital lossless version of it? I can listen their streaming online but that's lossy when recorded

[Adz]

Have a look at Get iPlayer:-

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe

[Knopflerfan]

Shall be recording that through Virgin Media (digital Radio/television) onto my 'topbox' but unsure how to record onwards....

[jbaent]

Have a look at Get iPlayer:-

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer_win/get_iplayer_setup_latest.exe

I guess that Iplayer is streaming so lossy too

[Adz]

Yes, it comes out as a constant bitrate .m4a (iTunes) stream, around 130 kbps I think, so somewhere around CD quality.

[Adz]

And that is the stream as broadcast. Most stream rippers dont rip the source, they just copy what is streamed, and convert that to .mp3 / .m4a / whatever.

[Mark Heritage]

Heard this this morning, great news. The guests normally come into the show at around 8:30am. Hopefully he'll have his guitar(s) with him..

[dustyvalentino]

Amazing. Chris Evans was the darling of Britpop 20 years ago and wouldn't have played MK in a million years.

[Knopflerfan]

Hopefully he'll have his guitar(s) with him..

I'm sure the Beryl single will be played during the interview and then maybe a couple or so 'unplugged' tunes in the studio - of course I may be wrong?!

[Banjo99uk]

He talked a couple of weeks ago about DS, and that he listened to them on cassette the other day and it still sounded fantastic.  He also talked about MKs amazing house on the south coast being close to another member of DS, his moral to the story was learn to play guitar kids.