DS Reunion at Glastonbury?

[rosco]

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

[Banjo99uk]

I really hope not 

[Pottel]

page not found?

[Dutchessy]

Article no longer available

[ds1984]

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

She only asks for Mark to perform not Dire Straits.

[Pottel]

if you look for MK, you are linked to a preview of the article but also there it leads to nowhere.

[Justme]

For sure it is always astonishing when someone has the influence and power to make things undone....

To me it says that it won't happen.

[Dutchessy]

She removed her post from the Glasto chat facebook page afyer the press picked up her post. They are speaking about Knopflergate there.

[Jules]

Glaston Mud Festival?



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[cannibals]

Let us ask Guy about it 

[cannibals]

I think it is good to read he has been asked twice but for whatever reasons he does not want to play over there. .
 Too bad if you ask me.

[ds1984]

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.

[cannibals]

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

[ds1984]

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

The BBCNews interview :

Knopfler declines Straits reunion

[the visitor]

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.