This Sunday on Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt we chat to Mark Knopfler

[nando_5994]

This Sunday on Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt we chat to Mark Knopfler about his new album 'One Deep River' out on April 12th, his introduction to the guitar and his time fronting one of the greatest acts of the 80s, Dire Straits and those huge decade defining hits, like Sultans of Swing... The podcast is out on Sunday on all podcast channels.

[wakeywakey]

Wow this is a really good episode.
More info on Uncle K
What more could you want on a Sunday than 69 minutes of MK talking.

[Love Expresso]

I sometimes wonder how he manages it to not be bored to death himself by always the same stuff he literally must have told hundreds of times. Is he really thinking people don't detect it?

LE

[quizzaciously]

I sometimes wonder how he manages it to not be bored to death himself by always the same stuff he literally must have told hundreds of times. Is he really thinking people don't detect it?

LE

That's a good question... Mark is a smart guy, one of the smartest guys I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot, and NO WAY he's not noticing that he's telling the same stories over and over again. I think some of the clues here might be:

1) He's "complete" as a person and it manifests itself in answering all questions the same and doing the music pretty much the same way too

2) He probably knows that die-hard fans are a small percentage of people watching and for the majority of people, it's a new info

3) Answering questions differently requires time and effort, and Mark is telling all the time how he's careful about time

4) The interviewers are usually not die-hards, not prepared properly anyway, or too "official" like Mr Paul Sexton

[Love Expresso]

Ok he answered the question why he is not touring anymore. He wants to stay home and write more. It seems he doesn't think it's optimal to write songs while on tour. So One Deep River will be a first proof if the quality of his writing has become better by not touring.

LE

[rmarques821]

Ok he answered the question why he is not touring anymore. He wants to stay home and write more. It seems he doesn't think it's optimal to write songs while on tour. So One Deep River will be a first proof if the quality of his writing has become better by not touring.

LE

But we all know that's not true. He has been writing songs while on the road all his life. Many of his songs are inspired by touring (ex.Telegraph Road, Rudiger, So Far Away, Silver Eagle, etc.)
It can't be that only now at 74 he realized he wants to write at home

[MagicElliott]

It also means we won’t get geographical masterpieces like Lights of Taormina.
It’s not my favourite song by any stretch but how he got so many rhymes with Taormina is incredible.

However, he does also write when on holiday. I believe The Trawlerman’s Song was written while he was on holiday in Capetown.

[hunter v2.0]

Is it worth the time? If it's up to the standard of the Twiggy interview, count me in, but if it's almost all new info, then not so much.

[stratmad]

Imho it is worth the time. The interview is nice because a) MK is in a good mood and quite talkative and b) the interviewers are fellow musicians, hence they ask questions from a different angle. I really enjoyed it.

[hunter v2.0]

Imho it is worth the. The interview is nice because a) MK is in a good mood and quite talkative and b) the interviewers are fellow musicians, hence they ask questions from a different angle. I really enjoyed it.

 

Will give it go. I remember I liked the one with John Illsley. The interviewers were funny and asked interesting questions.

[hunter v2.0]

9 minutes in. Oh, yeah. Definitely worth it, much due to the interviewers, but Mark is in good form too.

[stratmad]

It's amazing how much depends on the atmosphere, the "chemistry", and on the right questions. With MK this seems to be the case more than with some other artists.
Sometimes I wonder what questions I would ask him, if I ever had the chance to interview him. Maybe this could be worth a new thread: What questions would you ask MK in an interview?

[hunter v2.0]

Totally! These interviewers know how to ask the right questions, and they are able to make even the extremely well-known stories become interesting topics of conversation.

[dustyvalentino]

Like Twiggy, this was very nice.

Seems MK is much more comfortable speaking to fellow professionals than journalists or broadcasters.

[quizzaciously]

It's amazing how much depends on the atmosphere, the "chemistry", and on the right questions. With MK this seems to be the case more than with some other artists.
Sometimes I wonder what questions I would ask him, if I ever had the chance to interview him. Maybe this could be worth a new thread: What questions would you ask MK in an interview?

I think I had a thread exactly about this recently, it wasn't popular though: https://www.amarkintime.org/forum/index.php?topic=8351.msg167362#msg167362