Mark Knopfler & Bob Dylan: MAYBE a 2012 summer tour????

[Jackal]

Plus Guy's answer today:

Q: Doc, Any chance you will be in the house band again for this year

[Jules]

Over on the ER forum was another hint:
Fall tour with MK confirmed according to an unnamed man working for Bob.
I know it's neither completely new nor absolutely confirmed but still so nice a prospect for the second half of this year!

Fall tour, in North America, or in Europe, or both?
Please ask if you can 

[surferboy]

All the talk was only about a fall tour in the US, unfortunately.

[tunnel85]

Over on the ER forum was another hint:
Fall tour with MK confirmed according to an unnamed man working for Bob.
I know it's neither completely new nor absolutely confirmed but still so nice a prospect for the second half of this year!

Fall tour, in North America, or in Europe, or both?
Please ask if you can 

In Europe ? You're a funny guy jbaent. But you're right to keep the faith.

[twm]

As I have been saying for months, my own sources (who are pretty good) have said that MK and BD have reserved space in their diaries for a tour together this year and this autumn/fall in North America seemed most likely.

Both of them have new albums in the works. If those are released by then, which seems a decent bet, a tour of fairly major venues to support the release would be an eminently sensible move.

[Pottel]

Hakuna Matata from one at ER sat on a plane back from the Mexico bob shows and in front of him sat a guy talking about him working in the BD tour crew. After asking he got the following reply:
late summer U.S. ballpark tour - currently booking venues, but he could not confirm whether this will be a ballpark tour or not
fall U.S. tour with MK - confirmed

I'm not going to give away his name or what he does. He was a super nice guy, very warm, down to earth and open to questions!

[Pottel]

Confirmation enough for me.

[shooting_star_night]

Wonderful

[dustyvalentino]

Exciting stuff,  but how will this affect MK's normal schedule?  Two US tours in the space of 12 months is unlikely.

[Love Expresso]

I thought about it lately: Following the diary of the 2010 tour, it seems to me that the US are still a little "difficult" to tour for Mark - only very small venues, not that big audiences, maybe very expensive because of much travelling etc. So maybe MK kills two birds with one stone: Maybe a slightly longer set list as the 70 minutes from 2011, and that might it be for America. And after that, he tours Europe with a hopefully much longer set list - and without Bob!  

LE

[Pottel]

Is it confirmed that the band will join, or will it Not simply be Mark as an extra Special additional Guitar Player? Did Guy confirm anywhere the band's participation?

[shooting_star_night]

It will be just like Autumn 2011 Europe, but Stateside now.

[Jules]

Exciting stuff,  but how will this affect MK's normal schedule?  Two US tours in the space of 12 months is unlikely.

Well, I hope so, maybe I

[Jules]

Is it confirmed that the band will join, or will it Not simply be Mark as an extra Special additional Guitar Player? Did Guy confirm anywhere the band's participation?

Q: Doc, Any chance you will be in the house band again for this year

[DIFFICULTTOBELIEVE]

I would put a little bet on this order of events:

new album release late summer/early Autumn
promos in London
MK/BD tour of USA and album promotion in States, Autumn 2012
MK tour of Europe early/spring 2013.