MK Statistics

[foma]

I don't know how drunk I had to be to forgot Junkie Doll and Speedway, but this is ridiculous.
Thank you for pointing this out. I updated the list again, now MK Solo have three rows

Wild Mountain Thyme is not MK tune, as far as I know.

[foma]

Wonder how imperfect this list could be? Check out this:

Hot Of That

[Pottel]

I don't know how drunk I had to be to forgot Junkie Doll and Speedway, but this is ridiculous.
Thank you for pointing this out. I updated the list again, now MK Solo have three rows

Wild Mountain Thyme is not MK tune, as far as I know.

wild mountain theme
txt can be opened as excel, easy peasy.
send it to me, i will add the dates, see how i can get it started, maybe we can make it a forum effort, spreading the workload over a few volunteers?
up to 2008 (including we are talking some 1610 shows, split it up and it becomes far less of a gargantuan task

[mschaap]

Does anyone know if 'Dark was the night cold was the ground' by MK is somehow available as music only audio file? I mean apart from just being in the background in the documentary DVD Seeing In The Dark.

[vgonis]

Great work! Bravo!

[Pottel]

does anyone have an up to date excel (or other) overview of all MK/DS and others concerts ever played?
want to use that as a starting base, together with Foma's song overview.
to get to a "what was played where and when" overview.

[MK_live]

I tried to create such an overview a while ago, see here:

http://oneverybootleg.nl/tourdates.htm

As far as I know, it is the complete overview, but in case I missed anything,  all corrections are welcome 
Jeroen

[LoveExpresso]

Hey Jeroen, although I visit your site quite often, I never was aware of this! Great list indeed! (And interesting for me to see that the first time MK ever played in Germany was in Hamburg, Sporthalle in May 1978.. )

Kudos to you for this big amount of work!

LE

[Pottel]

i know jeroen, but do you have this as a file? excel, word, csv, access??

[Pottel]

Hey Jeroen, although I visit your site quite often, I never was aware of this! Great list indeed! (And interesting for me to see that the first time MK ever played in Germany was in Hamburg, Sporthalle in May 1978.. )

Kudos to you for this big amount of work!

LE

and i did not know that the first show outside of the uk was in belgium, a lot of them actually.

[MK_live]

Sorry, I don't have it in a separate file, I guess you have to copy-paste.
Good luck! 

 

[yontwocrows]

Thanks guys for all your effort. Amazing lists!

[Pottel]

Hey all my fellow get-a-lifers. You know I love lists and I wonder once, how many songs Mark has written up to date? There are many collections, but they lack numbers.

So I decided to do a research. UPDATED 06 April 2014 (12 new changes).

All the DS songs (officially released as Dire Straits):

Total: 60

All the MK solo songs (officially released + DS days + couple of co-written tunes + soundtrack songs):

Total: 140

All the MK instrumental music:

Total: 68 *Double 'The Rocks And The Thunder' tune is not the typo (check original CD), but counts like one tune anyway

All the MK unreleased songs:

Total: 16

Overall total: 284 tunes, 200 complete songs (words + music).

Longest DS+MK lyrics: Industrial Disease
Longest MK solo lyrics: Song For Sonny Liston
Shortest DS lyrics: How Long
Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much

Size of the all MK and DS lyrics: ~0,2 MB

What did I missed or did wrong? I'll correct all my faults. Let's do the complete and spot-on statistics

hey foma, can you send this to me in a format like excel, csv or word???

[dmg]

Nice work Foma and Pottel.

Shortest DS+MK lyrics: Say Too Much.  Too funny! 

[yontwocrows]

"Shortest DS lyrics: How long" - is not bad either