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Lineup
Mark Knopfler (Guitars / Vocals)
Guy Fletcher (Keyboards / Guitars / Vocals)
Danny Cummings (Drums)
Glenn Worf (Bass)
Matt Rollings (Piano / Organ / Accordion)
Richard Bennett (Guitars)
[ Richard's diary ]
Who was there ? 9
Mike Corren
26/07/2005
Hiya....I am driving up from salt lake city (!!!) as one show is never enough!...feel free to say gday...ill be the guy with the mile wide smile during the gig!....Mike
kathy brown
03/06/2005
I am so jacked about seeing Mark Knopfler live. I do believe he is the greatest musician on the planet. I was crushed when his last tour was cancelled (relieved he was ok). I want him to sing every song from Ragpicker's Dream and Shangri-La... plus a couple of my favorites from Sailing to Philidelphia. I can dream, can't I?
Jordan
08/05/2005
We'll be there - anyone up for meeting for a beer before the show? This show should be great!
Frank Wong
28/04/2005
I am most likely driving down from Seattle to this show.
In 2001 I went to all 3 northwest shows.
If anyone from Seattle wants to join me for a roadtrip to Portland, let me know. If anyone has an extra ticket, please let me know.
Shaun Toman
05/04/2005
Well guys Mark's coming back to Portland! It was a great show back in 2001. I had a chance to get backstage before the show and meet all the guys. I got an autograph and a photo with richard bennett. Can't wait til July 29th!
Jeroen Gerrits
05/04/2005
deanriverdave
02/04/2005
Looking forward to seeing MK in Portland again.
naveed/iqbal
30/03/2005
This would one hell of a show. Waited SO LONG to see mark live. SO EXCITED. The Best part? he is playing Telegraph Road on this tour!!!!!
Aileen Kaye
29/03/2005
Two of us will be going from Salem, Oregon which is one hour south of Portland. The tickets are not yet on sale.
Aileen Kaye
Reviews 1
Mike Corren
le 02/08/2005
The Portland show was number six in my MK 'experience' list ever since my first show when I was eleven years of age (brothers in arms)and like a fine wine,the man,and his band,just keep getting better and better!
I saw the Salt Lake City show and felt an almost panic the next day that it might be yet another four to five years before I see the boys again...which led me to Portland.
It was an 800 mile trip by car which I made the night before to Portland and I feared that tiredness may affect the pleasure which may have been had at the show...I couldn't have been more wrong!
To 'review' Mark and the band is almost an insult when it comes to this show,the band is soooooo tight,soooo perfect...and as the 'review' for the last concert of the tour said...Mark is indeed a living legend! The combination can not be faulted.
There is another matter which makes the show,for me,even more astounding.
It is the fact that MK has deliberately shaped his career in a way that sees him playing what he wants and in the way that he exactly wants to,it is all about smaller audiences,better sound and communication for the audience...he has remained pure to his art and passion for music.
In this day and age of boy and girl bands,instant success and even more instant falls from grace...to see this man stick to the pure path is warming to the heart of the true music lover.
As at the Salt Lake show it was fascinating to look at the diversity of the crowd waiting to go in and see the show,it is what I would call 'solid'...it is a crowd that will come back year after year...indeed there was even some of the older Straits tour shirts to be seen!....It is true that I considered unwrapping some of my mine but the tightness would be a sight nobody should be subjected to!
The set list was pretty much standard fair for the tour thus far,minus Rudiger and Wild Theme,but it did seem to my ear that Mark may have been extending things a little and adding some even tastier solos in to the songs (if that is possible!)
Marks communication with the audience was warm and funny,yet,as we all know,it is not an issue either way...these guys are the best at what they do,and the music speaks for itself.
Indeed,seeing the humble and Hollywood free way that Mark takes in the applause after a display that is purely breathtaking speaks volumes for the character of the man.
I loved every song,was always going to,but highlights for me included Sailing to Phil....Romeo and Juliet...Telegraph Road...Speedway to Naz..brilliant attention to detail,spot on.
It was sad when the end came,and indeed I wandered around for about an hour after the show in Portland in a daze knowing that I just saw something,yet again,that I will never forget for the rest of my life..and after all is said and done..isnt that what it's all about?
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