Local Hero Musical - The Official Release

[jbaent]

Many DS / MK concerts were recorded and never appeared, but studio material is something else


keep in mind it's not finished studio material, it's only demos.

I like demos

[Robson]

Me too. For example: Golden demos:)

[quizzaciously]

High hopes and Mark Knopfler is the four words that can't go together well

[dmg]

High hopes and Mark Knopfler is the four words that can't go together well

As the saying goes: always expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed.

[Robson]

I like it more: expect the unexpected:)

[jbaent]

I like it more: expect the unexpected:)

with MK the expected is always the contrary that we expect.

[jbaent]

In the Old Vic page for the Local Hero musical there are two snippets of two of the songs of the film

https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2020/local-hero

HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM

https://soundcloud.com/oldvictheatre/houston-from-local-hero-30-sec?in=oldvictheatre/sets/local-hero

GOING HOME
https://soundcloud.com/oldvictheatre/going-home-main-theme-from?in=oldvictheatre/sets/local-hero

I only listened to it at work with a bad speaker so I cannot say if it's recorded from one of the Edinburgh performances, or if it's really for the musical cast cd release!

[jbaent]

I kind of answer myself... soundcloud says it was uploaded 8 months ago so it looks it's recorded from the Edinburgh performances or during the rehearsals for the Edinburgh run 

[Knopflerfan]

Yes, deffo sounds like it's recordings from a show at Edinburgh...

[jbaent]

I asked Guy today about the Local Hero musical because he mentioned "Local Hero soundtrack, TBA" and this is what he answered:

Q: Local Hero soundtrack. TBA? I guess you mean the musical soundtrack, isn’t it? We are so very much looking forward to having that wonderful songs in our players…

A: Soundtrack and stage musical.  I cannot say anything about these right now so…stay tuned.

I don't really know what he means with this, as far as we know the idea was to release a cast cd with the actors of the musical singing and maybe the musicians that play in the musical, or maybe the original versions of the songs they recorded but with the cast voices... We know that MK and other singers (like Karen Matheson) recorded demos for the musical, so... maybe Guy means there is going to be two releases, one from the cast, and one from what they recorded with MK, Karen etc etc?

Or maybe he just mean news regarding the cast cd and the come back to the Old Vic...

Too excited to fully understand, LOL

[qjamesfloyd]

Maybe one CD with the singers and musicians from the stage performance, a cast recording, and another one with Mark and his musicians?

[dmg]

I personally doubt there'll be two different recordings; demand won't be sufficient for this. 

[quizzaciously]

I personally doubt there'll be two different recordings; demand won't be sufficient for this.

Sting did pretty much the same, he released his album The Last Ship, and also, separately, they released an album with cast recording for the musical. I think Mark's album will be filled with songs like "It's Oly Rocks and Water" sung by various artists and the cast recording is just the recording of an actual event.

[qjamesfloyd]

They could release both as a package together.

[wakeywakey]

They will package it with the half speed remaster for an inflated price and call it super deluxe.
It will probably be the only "super deluxe" MK ever releases