Mark at VW release last night (15th April)

[Jarle]

Hi!

 It seems that Mark did a performance at the world premiere of the new VW Transporter in Amsterdam last night:



https://twitter.com/vwgroup_en/status/588433320691822592
https://twitter.com/HuelvaWagen/status/588445494151663616

http://www.deutsche-handwerks-zeitung.de/mark-knopfler-sorgt-bei-weltpremiere-des-vw-t6-fuer-stimmung/150/2395/290655

Interesting to see the red Telecaster. WOL, I suppose...

-Jarle

[Silvertown]

Thanks for the pic. Yes, WOL is a good guess.

[holaknopfler]

They played sultans, walk of life, so far away and Romeo.

[dustyvalentino]

Playback?

[border_reiver]

Only DS songs! Wow, that must have hurt...

Even a rock star must pay the bills and feed the family.

[border_reiver]

Playback?

I would have killed to see irony of the late '70s original song as playback being performed by the 65 year old folk musician.  What a sight

[Jules]

Another "It's Money That Matters" show...

[Silvertown]

Think positively! This is surely partly because of the tour coming closer. And we hope that Mark felt comfortable to play sultans...

[Jules]

Before the Privateering tour he did another "It's Money That Matters" show for Range Rover in which he played Walk of Life, Money For Nothing etc, and... they were not played during the tour.

I guess that rich people money can't buy things that poor old fans can not.

[Silvertown]

Before the Privateering tour he did another "It's Money That Matters" show for Range Rover in which he played Walk of Life, Money For Nothing etc, and... they were not played during the tour.

I guess that rich people money can't buy things that poor old fans can not.

Maybe yes. But think also the audience in these private parties. Mark starts to play Privateering and people will think that when this warm-up artist will quit (might occur in normal tour too, of course) and the man from Dire Straits will appear to the stage.

[superval99]

I guess that rich people money can't buy things that poor old fans can not.

We are the lucky ones!  We will hear the new music, not old stuff he would rather not play! 

[Jules]

I guess that rich people money can't buy things that poor old fans can not.

We are the lucky ones!  We will hear the new music, not old stuff he would rather not play! 

Oh yes, don´t get me wrong, I would pay more if I know I won´t get any DS songs and I'll get some rare MK solo songs, but the fact it´s that MK plays the DS songs he refuse to play on tour because bla bla bla reasons when there is big money on the table, that's principles...

[crimmer]

Myabe its like last time with the Range rover gig there's some sort of sponsorship with VW for this tour like Range rover in 2013

also thank goodness I wasn't at this one ,walk of life, so far away, and Romeo and Juliet , MY THREE WORST SONGS KNOPFLER HAS DONE !!! it would of been one long pee break and back for sultans:)),

 maybe sax in sultans this tour a slowed down version with sax break in the middle ?

[Jules]

Myabe its like last time with the Range rover gig there's some sort of sponsorship with VW for this tour like Range rover in 2013

also thank goodness I wasn't at this one ,walk of life, so far away, and Romeo and Juliet , MY THREE WORST SONGS KNOPFLER HAS DONE !!! it would of been one long pee break and back for sultans:)),

 maybe sax in sultans this tour a slowed down version with sax break in the middle ?

It depends how much VW paid for it...

[Silvertown]

Myabe its like last time with the Range rover gig there's some sort of sponsorship with VW for this tour like Range rover in 2013

also thank goodness I wasn't at this one ,walk of life, so far away, and Romeo and Juliet , MY THREE WORST SONGS KNOPFLER HAS DONE !!! it would of been one long pee break and back for sultans:)),

 maybe sax in sultans this tour a slowed down version with sax break in the middle ?

It depends how much VW paid for it...

If not enough, then it´s old VW Kleinbusses on the tour.