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[Knopflerfan]

If the album is released in 2022, then the tour could be in 2023 and MK will be approaching 74 yrs.   I doubt very much it will happen, I'm sorry to say.

And also some of the band will be aged in 2023 as follows:

Richard Bennett - approaching 72,
Glenn Wharf: 69,
Guy Fletcher: 63,
Mike McGoldrick: 51,
John McCusker: 50,
Ian Thomas: 63,
Danny Cummings: 66....

Don’t worry, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are 207 and 235 respectively.

Hahahaha! 

[Pottel]

If the album is released in 2022, then the tour could be in 2023 and MK will be approaching 74 yrs.   I doubt very much it will happen, I'm sorry to say.

And also some of the band will be aged in 2023 as follows:

Richard Bennett - approaching 72,
Glenn Wharf: 69,
Guy Fletcher: 63,
Mike McGoldrick: 51,
John McCusker: 50,
Ian Thomas: 63,
Danny Cummings: 66....

if dylan can, he can. full stop.

[Jules]

If the album is released in 2022, then the tour could be in 2023 and MK will be approaching 74 yrs.   I doubt very much it will happen, I'm sorry to say.

And also some of the band will be aged in 2023 as follows:

Richard Bennett - approaching 72,
Glenn Wharf: 69,
Guy Fletcher: 63,
Mike McGoldrick: 51,
John McCusker: 50,
Ian Thomas: 63,
Danny Cummings: 66....

if dylan can, he can. full stop.

You can't compare it to Dylan, Dylan doesn't sings, he caws... and he plays keyboards or guitar like someone who doesn't know how to play, it's a total mess and disgrace in anything he does on stage. I rather see Phil Collins struggling to sing on a wheel chair.

I don't want MK to do what Dylan does. I don't want to see MK like Dylan. Never. Ever. Full stop.

[superval99]

If the album is released in 2022, then the tour could be in 2023 and MK will be approaching 74 yrs.   I doubt very much it will happen, I'm sorry to say.

And also some of the band will be aged in 2023 as follows:

Richard Bennett - approaching 72,
Glenn Wharf: 69,
Guy Fletcher: 63,
Mike McGoldrick: 51,
John McCusker: 50,
Ian Thomas: 63,
Danny Cummings: 66....

if dylan can, he can. full stop.

You can't compare it to Dylan, Dylan doesn't sings, he caws... and he plays keyboards or guitar like someone who doesn't know how to play, it's a total mess and disgrace in anything he does on stage. I rather see Phil Collins struggling to sing on a wheel chair.

I don't want MK to do what Dylan does. I don't want to see MK like Dylan. Never. Ever. Full stop.

Neither do I.   Bob Dylan's part of the 2011 concert was possibly the worst I have ever attended.   I wouldn't want to remember MK sounding like that on tour.   I would rather he concentrates on composing and making albums.

[Jules]

If the album is released in 2022, then the tour could be in 2023 and MK will be approaching 74 yrs.   I doubt very much it will happen, I'm sorry to say.

And also some of the band will be aged in 2023 as follows:

Richard Bennett - approaching 72,
Glenn Wharf: 69,
Guy Fletcher: 63,
Mike McGoldrick: 51,
John McCusker: 50,
Ian Thomas: 63,
Danny Cummings: 66....

if dylan can, he can. full stop.

You can't compare it to Dylan, Dylan doesn't sings, he caws... and he plays keyboards or guitar like someone who doesn't know how to play, it's a total mess and disgrace in anything he does on stage. I rather see Phil Collins struggling to sing on a wheel chair.

I don't want MK to do what Dylan does. I don't want to see MK like Dylan. Never. Ever. Full stop.

Neither do I.   Bob Dylan's part of the 2011 concert was possibly the worst I have ever attended.   I wouldn't want to remember MK sounding like that on tour.   I would rather he concentrates on composing and making albums.

Anytime someone asks me if he should go to a Dylan concert when he cames to Valencia (which he does often) I always answer "If you never saw him, you have to, swallow the pain he would cause you, and see the legend while he's still alive. If you already saw him once, don't, better stay at home looking cars passing by the street from your window"

[Knopflerfan]

Oh dear, I admit hand in the air that I walked out of his concert in 2011 after only a song or two. It was absolutely shocking!!

[Jules]

Oh dear, I admit hand in the air that I walked out of his concert in 2011 after only a song or two. It was absolutely shocking!!

I didn't by respect to the friend who came to that concert with me, as he is a Dylan fan, but I recall I was looking at my watch every now and then, waiting for the pain to finish.... It was the worst experience I ever had in any concert in my whole life.

[Knopflerfan]

Oh dear, I admit hand in the air that I walked out of his concert in 2011 after only a song or two. It was absolutely shocking!!

I didn't by respect to the friend who came to that concert with me, as he is a Dylan fan, but I recall I was looking at my watch every now and then, waiting for the pain to finish.... It was the worst experience I ever had in any concert in my whole life.

We both tried our best to stay but we just couldn't...we even missed MK playing with BD because we left early!

[Peter1981]

A bit off-topic, but this phrase just made me wonder ;  'Must be no more travelling for old Grandad'!
Is he actually a granddad? As in, having grandchildren?

If the album is released in 2022, then the tour could be in 2023 and MK will be approaching 74 yrs.   I doubt very much it will happen, I'm sorry to say.

I agree, but perhaps he may play some 'showcase' shows or similar but I just can't see it to be honest....

Remember his prize quote from the start of the Barcelona 2019 show - 'Must be no more travelling for old Grandad'!

[Jules]

A bit off-topic, but this phrase just made me wonder ;  'Must be no more travelling for old Grandad'!
Is he actually a granddad? As in, having grandchildren?

Not as far as I know...

His son Ben was dating a girl who had a child, so if they had familiy meetings, probably it was Grandda Mark, but Ben has another girlfriend nowadays, so, unless his brother Joe has children, which I don't know...

argg this is too gossip even for me, LOL

[dmg]

A bit off-topic, but this phrase just made me wonder ;  'Must be no more travelling for old Grandad'!
Is he actually a granddad? As in, having grandchildren?

Not as far as I know...

His son Ben was dating a girl who had a child, so if they had familiy meetings, probably it was Grandda Mark, but Ben has another girlfriend nowadays, so, unless his brother Joe has children, which I don't know...

argg this is too gossip even for me, LOL

Ha ha!  I would expect it to be a turn of phrase whether true or not.

[Peter1981]

Haha, I did just expect a 'yes' or 'no'  but this is quite an elaborate answer. Impressive research ;-)

A bit off-topic, but this phrase just made me wonder ;  'Must be no more travelling for old Grandad'!
Is he actually a granddad? As in, having grandchildren?

Not as far as I know...

His son Ben was dating a girl who had a child, so if they had familiy meetings, probably it was Grandda Mark, but Ben has another girlfriend nowadays, so, unless his brother Joe has children, which I don't know...

argg this is too gossip even for me, LOL

[Jules]

Haha, I did just expect a 'yes' or 'no'  but this is quite an elaborate answer. Impressive research ;-)

Some years ago I was doing some research to travel to Brighton from Spain, and Google kind of connect that search with my Knopfler activity in internet and suggest me to follow the Instagram of someone called Knopfler who lived in Brighton... That was Ben Knopfler, and he put a lot of photos of him, his girlfriend and the little kid in Brighton. I found funny that MK was his grandpa in law, lol

[BrianT]

Oh dear, I admit hand in the air that I walked out of his concert in 2011 after only a song or two. It was absolutely shocking!!

I didn't by respect to the friend who came to that concert with me, as he is a Dylan fan, but I recall I was looking at my watch every now and then, waiting for the pain to finish.... It was the worst experience I ever had in any concert in my whole life.

We had front row seats, for the MK & Dylan tour in Montreal.

Loved the opening act Mark Knopfler (anyone heard of him ), after the intermission Dylan and MK started, MK played with Dylan
for 2 songs, listening to Dylan was hard. Once Mark left the stage, my wife and myself left the area.
So Knopflerfan, you are not on your own.

Brian

[Knopflerfan]

Oh dear, I admit hand in the air that I walked out of his concert in 2011 after only a song or two. It was absolutely shocking!!

I didn't by respect to the friend who came to that concert with me, as he is a Dylan fan, but I recall I was looking at my watch every now and then, waiting for the pain to finish.... It was the worst experience I ever had in any concert in my whole life.

We had front row seats, for the MK & Dylan tour in Montreal.

Loved the opening act Mark Knopfler (anyone heard of him ), after the intermission Dylan and MK started, MK played with Dylan
for 2 songs, listening to Dylan was hard. Once Mark left the stage, my wife and myself left the area.
So Knopflerfan, you are not on your own.

Brian

How good to hear from you Brian, I'm glad we are not alone in walking out on BD....