SPOILERS: John Illsley will publish a book about Dire Straits

[qjamesfloyd]

That is close, to me. still New Forest. Mark is 10 miles away.

[Knopflerfan]

That is close, to me. still New Forest. Mark is 10 miles away.

Oh you've beaten me, I'm exactly 28 Miles away from Mark's home.....

[mjhadlick]

Anecdotes from the OES tour would likely mostly involve MK being an ogre, so not a surprise that John glosses over them.

Phil Palmer's book has around 20 pages of that tour and, except being a perfectionist and the sausage incident, there is nothing bad regarding MK.

I didn't know Phil Palmer has a book! What is the name of it? And this is the second time I have heard of this "sausage incident" so I'm curious!

[jbaent]

Anecdotes from the OES tour would likely mostly involve MK being an ogre, so not a surprise that John glosses over them.

Phil Palmer's book has around 20 pages of that tour and, except being a perfectionist and the sausage incident, there is nothing bad regarding MK.

I didn't know Phil Palmer has a book! What is the name of it? And this is the second time I have heard of this "sausage incident" so I'm curious!

https://philpalmer.com/session-man/

[relaxcoustic]

First 60 pages in and the book is so fun. Also, holy hell John was a heavy weed smoker! I wonder what's Mark relationship with drugs

[straitsway75]

I finished reading it a few days ago, I had more expectations about John, not about what he was saying but about how. The portrait of a superficial and selfish person is well defined.... copies of albums sold, the concert with several people or the meeting with VIPs or even the presence of a few groupies here and there. The fact that he only became friends with Mark after the band disbanded speaks volumes about the internal climate in the band all the time. of course there are examples in other famous bands, but it's very sad all the same. One thing must be acknowledged to him, however, that he managed to overcome all this unscathed, including leukemia, and make a new life, as he himself says human finally

[hunter]

I finished reading it a few days ago, I had more expectations about John, not about what he was saying but about how. The portrait of a superficial and selfish person is well defined.... copies of albums sold, the concert with several people or the meeting with VIPs or even the presence of a few groupies here and there. The fact that he only became friends with Mark after the band disbanded speaks volumes about the internal climate in the band all the time. of course there are examples in other famous bands, but it's very sad all the same. One thing must be acknowledged to him, however, that he managed to overcome all this unscathed, including leukemia, and make a new life, as he himself says human finally

He states that plainly?

[straitsway75]

I finished reading it a few days ago, I had more expectations about John, not about what he was saying but about how. The portrait of a superficial and selfish person is well defined.... copies of albums sold, the concert with several people or the meeting with VIPs or even the presence of a few groupies here and there. The fact that he only became friends with Mark after the band disbanded speaks volumes about the internal climate in the band all the time. of course there are examples in other famous bands, but it's very sad all the same. One thing must be acknowledged to him, however, that he managed to overcome all this unscathed, including leukemia, and make a new life, as he himself says human finally

He states that plainly?

Yes and talk about him, his wife, Mark and Kitty are now often together for evenings with good bottle of wine...

[hunter]

Interesting. I always had the impression that they were kind of close friends all along.

[quizzaciously]

Interesting. I always had the impression that they were kind of close friends all along.

I think it's pretty obvious they were friends from day 1. But I also think they were so busy during DS times that there simply was no time to be friends if you know what I mean. Album after album, tour after tour, so only when the group broke up did they feel the release and that's what the original poster meant I think.

[jbaent]

Interesting. I always had the impression that they were kind of close friends all along.

I think it's pretty obvious they were friends from day 1. But I also think they were so busy during DS times that there simply was no time to be friends if you know what I mean. Album after album, tour after tour, so only when the group broke up did they feel the release and that's what the original poster meant I think.

I agree with that point, they were friends from day one, but after the band disbanded, they continued being friends, just friends, no bandmates, friends.

They live quite close in the South coast of England, and MK is there, closest pub is John's one, so they see each other quite a lot when MK is there, even walking the dogs by the beach, they live so close that they are gonna see each other for sure.

[jbaent]

First 60 pages in and the book is so fun. Also, holy hell John was a heavy weed smoker! I wonder what's Mark relationship with drugs

I remember MK saying in interviews that he smoked weed quite a lot in a period of his life, I guess that was at the early days, or maybe during the stressful days of the band.

[Knopflerfan]

Interesting. I always had the impression that they were kind of close friends all along.

I think it's pretty obvious they were friends from day 1. But I also think they were so busy during DS times that there simply was no time to be friends if you know what I mean. Album after album, tour after tour, so only when the group broke up did they feel the release and that's what the original poster meant I think.

 closest pub is John's one,

It's very true the East End Arms is close to them but there are also two other pubs in close proximity....

[jbaent]

Interesting. I always had the impression that they were kind of close friends all along.

I think it's pretty obvious they were friends from day 1. But I also think they were so busy during DS times that there simply was no time to be friends if you know what I mean. Album after album, tour after tour, so only when the group broke up did they feel the release and that's what the original poster meant I think.

 closest pub is John's one,

It's very true the East End Arms is close to them but there are also two other pubs in close proximity....

I don't think he's going to other than John's one...

[Knopflerfan]

Interesting. I always had the impression that they were kind of close friends all along.

I think it's pretty obvious they were friends from day 1. But I also think they were so busy during DS times that there simply was no time to be friends if you know what I mean. Album after album, tour after tour, so only when the group broke up did they feel the release and that's what the original poster meant I think.

 closest pub is John's one,

It's very true the East End Arms is close to them but there are also two other pubs in close proximity....

I don't think he's going to other than John's one...

You never know, MK might like a sneaky pint elsewhere!!!