Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits

There is an upcoming interview with Mark Knopfler about his new album “Get Lucky” and his previous work with Dire Straits on a show that has featured exclusive one-on-one interviews with him before called “In the Studio”.

Throughout this week of October 5th you can listen to the shows as they air on the radio (over [...]

Interview Mark Knopfler did for WDR2

Win a set of casino chips from Get Lucky

This is the happy winner of the Casino Chips. Congratulations with the Casino Chips.

Thanks to Universal for making this chips available.

If you watched the Dvd that comes with Get Lucky, you can see Mark, Guy, Danny and Matt recording some backing vocals.

These vocals are from a song called “Time In The Sun”. This is only available as a amazon download.

You can hear a 30 second preview from the song here:

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This evening (Saturday 12th Sept ‘09)
Mark, Guy, Luke Brighty and John McCusker will be performing at private, invitation only fundraising event for the
Pallant House art gallery in Chichester.

more info can be found at Guy’s page

The North American tour dates have been announced by The Official Mark Knopfler Facebook page

Apr 08 Mark Knopfler at Seattle, Washington
Apr 09 Mark Knopfler at Vancouver, British Columbia
Apr 10 Mark Knopfler at Portland, Oregon
Apr 11 Mark Knopfler at Eugene, Oregon
Apr 13 Mark Knopfler at Oakland, California
Apr 14 Mark Knopfler at Santa Rosa, California
Apr 15 Mark [...]

(Article taken from Billboard) – With his sixth solo studio album coming September 15, Mark Knopfler is planning a big tour in 2010.

“It’ll be four, five months,” he tells Billboard.com. “Springtime — April, May — in the U.S., and June and July in Europe. And I’d like a week at the Royal Albert Hall (in [...]

At some iTunes stores you can buy the Get Lucky album with a new track called “Early Bird”
Listen here to a Sample

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Thanks to www.mark-knopfler.info who found an interview on Amazon with Mark Knopfler.
(watch out SPOILER inside)

Listen here to the interview where Mark talks about his latest solo album Get Lucky

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