From Chicago but living in China a little over 4 years. I guess MK won't be coming my way anytime soon. 
Though Dylan ventured over here this past Spring.
Hello, I am from Athens, Greece, which is rapidly becoming China. DS were presented to me by a friend who gave me his brother's Money for noting album to listen to, back in 1989. I was into my heavy metal period, but it was not meant to be. Upon hearing SOS, I changed my course and (almost) never went back. Strange thing, side B of MFN, gave me the impression that I was listening to an american band, and since I had no idea at that time, I thought it was so. But then I figured it out. All great music comes from the U.K.
Then I found out about BD and thought, hey this man is ripping the english folk songs.
I have only seen MK in Athens, 2008. I feel like Jackal in a way, but it is more due to change of lifestyle and luck of time, rather than not liking the music. But I guess the fan base of MK is rather shrinking over the years, young people find his music tame. And it is really strange, since DS play the sort of music with roots, but when they released their first LP it was already too late for musicians without 60ies credentials. They sort of fallen between spaces, New Wave, Punk, 80ies pop, the NWOBHM, FM rock, MTV and baby boomer rock. They based their sound on unique MK's guitar textured work and their experimenting with various songwriting forms really paid off, exactly due to the guitar skills. It is strange somehow that these two qualities (songwriting and guitar playing) can't be combined.
then after moving to Australia I eagerly awaited the release of OES and was bitterly disappointed - in fact listening to this album recently, it really does contain some stinkers (ticket to heaven/heavy fuel/my parties...)
Fletch, I really enjoyed OES. It is an album full of surprises. The thing is that I never quite liked the international singles, (CE, HF, the bug) but the rest of the album was superb. Ticket and My parties are just fantastic, the irony so thick you can almost walk on it. But it is a matter of taste.
And I was so disappointed that they didn't come in Greece then, and after that there were no DS
