Dire Straits Information Service (D.S.I.S.)

[dustyvalentino]

Thank you Skinny Kid.

Interesting that the Twisting video was filmed in Brighton, I wonder what the venue was.

Must be The Brighton Centre.
Got it from the list of tour dates on oneverybootleg.nl

I haven't watched the video for years, are the band not in the same room as the swimmers?

[jbaent]

Maybe they recorded the video while rehearsing/soundchecking etc for the LOG tour, as the videoclip features the whole LOG tour band, they played at Brighton in 1982.

[Vesper]

Maybe they recorded the video while rehearsing/soundchecking etc for the LOG tour, as the videoclip features the whole LOG tour band, they played at Brighton in 1982.

From reading the newsletter : When we were in Brighton, in the afternoon before the second show, the band did a video to go with the song,

Seems to me it was recorded December 16th 1982 (the day of their second show in Brighton)

[Dutchessy]

Maybe they recorded the video while rehearsing/soundchecking etc for the LOG tour, as the videoclip features the whole LOG tour band, they played at Brighton in 1982.

From reading the newsletter : When we were in Brighton, in the afternoon before the second show, the band did a video to go with the song,

Seems to me it was recorded December 16th 1982 (the day of their second show in Brighton)

Too cold for a swim 

[dustyvalentino]

Interesting that (from memory) Tommy was well featured in this video and then almost entirely removed from Alchemy 

[JF]

Interesting that (from memory) Tommy was well featured in this video and then almost entirely removed from Alchemy 

yes exactly.
and most of all, the end credits of the Alchemy video "forgot" to mention him !

[jbaent]

Tommy can be seen a lot during Alchemy, there are not direct scenes of him, but there is a reason for that, I think it was Joop de Korte Who explained that on Facebook long ago

When editing the Alchemy video, they noticed they didn't have enough close scenes of the musicians, so they hired a venue (can't remember which one), they put the music on and pretended to be playing.

One of the interesting things was that MK had thrown away his alchemy t-shirt and they had to do one with black tape on a white t-shirt for MK scenes.

Probably Tommy was back at the US at that time and wasn't worth to make him come back for that, that's why he is only on general views.

[ds1984]

Incredible.

One day we will learn that the live sound was actually the Paris show!