To Jbaent and others:
Yes, OTN as a new 2-LP-Set will be pretty good, not the hybrid-source from the two concerts. Each concert at it´s own will be thrilling. But it is a personal dream by my side.
To Robson: There are various 2-CD-Sets with the Sydney Show. "Thank you Australia and New Zealand" (Pluto Records, pretty good sound but incomplete), "Australian Dream" in nice limited-edition Fold-Out-Cover (NeverEnd Records, also incomplete but good sound), "Brothers in Sydney" 2-CD-Set (Red Devil Records, very good sound and complete show WITH Ian Molly Meldrum Intro, with Press-Conference with Mark, Ed Bicknell and Molly Meldrum, with Waltzing Mathilda-Song and MKs Donations-Speech during that show).
I prefer the two 2-LP-Set Dire Straits Down Under Vol.1 and Vol.2, (Off the shelf-records ) here you have the complete Sydney-Show on 4 Vinyl-discs in very good sound and complete)
Hmm, Boston 1979 on 1-CD is also pretty good, currently a little difficult to get (I think there is no Boston on Vinyl currently available, but who know´s)
Dortmund 1980 is not so difficult to grab as CD-Album.
To me personally i value that Sydney-show as complete one, if the spoken intro is included, hosted by Ian Molly Meldrum, with the traditional Autralian folk song Waltzing Mathilda, and with the donation-speech of Australias health-minister and mark, and of course, with the press-conference with Mark, Ed and Molly Meldrum, according to the 1986 radio and TV-transfer from OZ and NZ.
Ian "Molly" Meldrum was a famous Australian Radio-Personality and music-journalist in that time.