Various Artists (Dire Straits Included) - Prince's Trust 1988

Various artists (including Dire Straits)
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
5th and 6th June 1988
Soundboard

Disc 1

1. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
2. Sweet Little Mystery - Wet, Wet, Wet
3. Twist and shout - Wet, Wet, Wet
4. Tower of song - Leonard Cohen
5. Heart and soul - T`PAU
6. Never gonna give you up - Rick Astley
7. You can`t hurry love - Phil Collins and Midge Ure
8. The Letter - Joe Cocker & Midge Ure
9. You win again - Bee Gees

Disc 2

1. Money for Nothing - Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Elton John
2. I don`t wanna go on with you like that - Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Elton John
3. Behind the Mask - Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Elton John
4. Layla - Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton and Elton John
5. With a little help from my friends - all stars

One of the Best versions of layla, Some say that this is the best ever, I don't know, i like very much the version of the Rainbow Concert with Pete Townshend on second guitar too, i'ts up to you to decide if this is the best ever. Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, it's a perfect soundboard, originally taken from Japanese laser discs! Mark plays Money for nothing, Layla and the other songs of the "Eric Clapton all stars band". Enjoy.

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Dire Straits - Rockfile '81

A. Vigorelli, Milan, June 29th 1981
B. Carrara Stadio Comunale, July 1st 1981
C. Torino Stadio Comunale, June 30th 1981
D. Bologna Antistadio, June 30th 1981
E. Sanremo Stadio Comunale, June 27th 1981


Soundboard

Tracks

1. Intro [A]
2. Once upon a time in the west [A]
3. Expresso love [B]
4. Down to the waterline [B]
5. Lions [B]
6. Skateaway [C]
7. Sultans of swing [D]
8. Telegraph road [E]

A nice compilation of material from the year 1981. Taken from the original silver pressed bootleg "Rockfile '81". Containing one of the earliest versions of Telegraph road.

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Dire Straits - Boston 79

Orpheum, Boston, USA, 8th September 1979

Soundboard

Tracks

1. Down to the waterline
2. Six blade knife
3. Lady writer
4. Once upon a time in the west
5. News
6. Bernadette
7. What's the matter baby
8. In my car
9. Portobello belle
10. In the gallery
11. Lions
12. Sultans of swing
13. Setting me up
14. Southbound again
15. Where do you think you're going?
16. Eastbound train
17. Twisting by the pool

Taken from the original silver pressed bootleg "Boston 1979". Poor sound for a soundboard recording but it has got a lot of rarely perfomed songs! Bernadette (written by and sung by David Knopfler!), In my car (never officially released), Portobello belle, Setting me up (the only soundboard recording available for the public) and last but not least a very early version of Twisting by the pool. A must for all true fans.

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Mark Knopfler - Milan 2005

Fila Forum, Milan, Italy, 10th June 2005

Soundboard

DISC 1

1. Why aye man
2. Walk of life
3. What it is
4. Sailing to Philadelphia
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. Sultans of swing
7. Done with Bonaparte
8. Song for Sonny Liston
9. Donegan's gone

Disc 2

1. Boom, like that
2. Speedway at Nazareth
3. Telegraph road
4. Brothers in arms
5. Money for nothing
6. So far away
7. Our Shangri-La

Soundboard recording from the Shangri-La world tour 2005. Perfect sound quality.

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Mark Knopfler - Live in RTL2 2002

RTL2 Radio, France, 21st November 2002.





1. Intro
2. Interview with Mark Knopfler
3. Devil baby (live)
4. What it is (live)
5. Quality shoe (live)
6. Why aye man (live)

During his Ragpicker's Dream Promo tour Mark visited RTL2 Radio, France. Very good live versions of the songs and nice extra small licks in Why Aye Man! Bobby Valentino, Robbie McIntosh, Danny Cummings, Marcus Cliffe and Guy Fletcher accompanied him for this gig. Also featured on this is the interview that Mark did for this radio broadcast. Great sound quality.

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Mark Knopfler - Boothbay Opera House 2006

The Opera House, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA, September 20th, 2006





Disc 1

1. Intro
2. Done with Bonaparte
3. Sailing to Philadelphia
4. Donegan’s gone
5. Band introduction
6. Rüdiger
7. The trawlerman’s song
8. Romeo and Juliet
9. Song for Sonny Liston

Disc 2

1. Marbletown
2. Devil baby
3. Baloney again
4. Postcards from Paraguay
5. Whoop de doo
6. All that matters
7. A place where we used to live
8. Wild theme
9. If this is goodbye

Without a doubt this is the best Mark Knopfler Bootleg i've heard in a while and it's from a rare charity concert. A great soundboard recording, directly from Mark's in-ear monitor, which makes his voice and guitar pristine clear. The lineup is: Mark Knopfler, Guy Fletcher, Glenn Worf and Richard Bennett performing without a drummer for a sold out crowd at Boothbay Harbor's Opera House. Mark plays an amazing version of Mabletown and Whoop de doo is simply breathtaking, all among other songs he'd never played live before.

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Dire Straits - Rare Sessions V

A. Vince Gill & Mark Knopfler, Country Awards, Nashville, Grand Ole Opry House, 4th Ocotober 1995
B. The Prince's Trust, Wembley Arena, London, UK, 20th June 1986
C. The Prince's Trust, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, 5th June 1988
D. Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 13tj July 1985
E. Top of the Pops, 26th November 1980
F. Kenny Everet Video Show, 12th March 1981
G. Interview Mark Knopfler, BBC Radio 2, Christmas 1996

Soundboard

Tracks

1. Go rest high on that mountain [A]
2. Money for nothing [B]
3. Money for nothing [C]
4. Money for nothing [D]
5. Sultans of swing [D]
6. Romeo and Juliet [E]
7. Skateaway [F]
8. ROOTS - part one [G]
9. ROOTS - part two [G]

Nice collection of rare stuff like the Live Aid performance of 1985. Also a very interesting interview with Mark Knopfler in Roots, taken from BBC Radio 2.

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Dire Straits - On Every Street in Hartford (Request)

Civic Centre, Hartford, USA, March 6th, 1992





Disc 1

1. Intro
2. Calling Elvis
3. Walk of life
4. Heavy fuel
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. Planet of New Orleans
7. The bug
8. Private investigations
9. Sultans of swing

Disc 2

1. Iron hand
2. On every street
3. Two young lovers
4. Telegraph Road
5. Money for nothing
6. Brothers in arms
7. Solid rock

Good Audience Recording of the complete Hartford 1992 from OES Tour, nice to hear Iron hand.

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Dire Straits - Bijou 4CDset

Soundboard

A. Paris Theatre, London, UK, 19th July 1978
B. Old Waldorf, San Francisco, USA, 31st March 1979
C. Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 23rd July 1983
D. Summit Theatre, Houston, Texas, USA, 17th August 1985
E. Wembley Arena, London, UK, 10th July 1985
F. Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, 5th June 1988
G. Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 11th June 1988
H. The Maltings, Snape, UK, 15th May 1990
I. St. Jakob Stadion, Basel, Switserland, 28th June 1992
Source Soundboard
Format 4CD-R
Tracks CD 1

1. Down to the waterline [A]
2. Water of love [A]
3. Wild west end [A]
4. Lions [A]
5. Six blade knife [B]
6. Lady writer [B]
7. Where do you think you're going? [B]
8. News [B]
9. What's the matter baby [B]
10. Southbound again [B]
11. Eastbound train [B]
12. Once upon a time in the west [C]
13. Expresso love [D]
14. Tunnel of love [D]
15. One world [D]

Tracks CD 2

1. Sultans of swing [D]
2. Ride across the river [D]
3. So far away [E]
4. Romeo and Juliet [C]
5. Private investigations [E]
6. The man's too strong [E]
7. Brothers in arms [E]
8. Money for nothing [F]
9. Walk of life [G]
10. Wonderful tonight [G]
11. Solid rock [G]

Tracks CD 3

1. Two young lovers [D]
2. Love over gold [C]
3. Going home [C]
4. Why worry [E]
5. When it comes to you [H]
6. That's alright mama [H]
7. Your own sweet way [H]
8. Run me down [H]
9. Hobo's lullaby [H]
10. I think I love you too much [H]
11. Steelrail blues [H]
12. Feel like going home [H]
13. Money for nothing [G]
14. Brothers in arms [I]
15. Solid rock [I]

Tracks CD 4

1. Calling Elvis [I]
2. Walk of life [I]
3. Heavy fuel [I]
4. Romeo and Juliet [I]
5. The bug [I]
6. Private investigations [I]
7. Your latest trick [I]
8. On every street [I]
9. Telegraph road [I]

Additional comments

Great compilation CD. Taken from the original pressed bootleg "Bijou". Featuring a wide variaty of Dire Straits tours and a very good recording of the last concert of The Notting Hillbillies tour from 1990. All songs are taken from soundboard recordings, good to very good sound quality.

Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 Disc 4

Mark Knopfler - San Francisco 2001

Berkeley, San Francisco, USA, May 18th 2001

Soundboard

Calling Elvis
The Bonnie Banks O´Loch Lomond
What it is
Rüdiger
Romeo and Juliet
Sultans of Swing
Sailing to Philadelphia
Money for Nothing
So Far Away

Very nice Broadcast from part of the second Berkeley concert.

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Mark Knopfler - Florence Italy 2005

Mandela Palace, Florence, Italy, June 12th, 2005

DISC 1

1. Why aye man
2. Walk of life
3. What it is
4. Sailing to Philadelphia
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. Sultans of swing
7. Olé, olé
8. Done with Bonaparte
9. Song for Sonny Liston

DISC 2

1. Donegan's gone
2. Boom, like that
3. Speedway at Nazareth
4. Telegraph road
5. Brothers in arms
6. Money for nothing
7. So far away

As i promised, This is the Soundboard recording from the Shangri-La world tour 2005 in Florence ITALY. Perfect sound quality, a MUST for all fans!!!!

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Mark Knopfler - Live in WDR2 2002

WDR2 Radio, Germany, September25th, 2002

1. Introduction Mark Knopfler
2. Devil baby (live)
3. Quality shoe (live)
4. Why aye man (live)
5. Outro

This is a very nice radio show that Mark Knopfler did to promote his new album The Ragpicker's Dream. Very good live performance of three songs played live the the WDR studio. Mark brought the complete band to the studio, so not just acoustic versions here! The songs were recorded on 25th September 2002 and broadcasted on 3rd October 2002 in the program 'Soundfiles' on WDR2 radio. Excellent sound quality.

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The Notting Hillbillies - On BBC Radio 2

Studio, BBC Radio 2, UK. March 15th, 1990

Soundboard

Tracks

1. Interview - part 1
2. When it comes to you (live)
3. Interview - part 2
4. Tennessee blues (live)
5. Interview - part 3
6. The next time I'm in town (live)
7. Interview - part 4

Additional comments Very good sounding recording, some tape hiss. Taken from the Wally Whyton programme on BBC Radio 2, 1990. FM stereo broadcast, taken from master tapes. Interesting and funny interview with Mark Knopfler, Steve Phillips and Brendan Croker. Guy Fletcher is also in the studio, together they perform three tracks live in the radio studio. Total playing time is about 23 minutes.

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Mark Knopfler - British Grove 2007

British Grove studio, London, UK, November 19th, 2007

Soundboard

Tracks

1. Introduction
2. True love will never fade
3. Let it all go
4. Reporter
5. Mark Knopfler comments
6. The fizzy and the still
7. Reporter
8. Mark Knopfler comments
9. Secondary waltz
10. Reporter
11. The fish and the bird
12. Reporter
13. Mark Knopfler comments
14. Donegan's gone
15. Reporter
16. Mark Knopfler comments
17. Postcards from Paraguay
18. Brothers in arms
19. Outro

Italian radio re-broadcast (11th February 2008: Rai Radio 2: I Concerti di Radio2 Rome) of the original English broadcast from 19th November 2007. All tracks recorded at Mark Knopfler's own British Grove studio and are all completely live as a promotion for the new album Kill to get crimson. The tracks with comments from Mark Knopfler are translated in Italian. Very good sound quality!

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Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - A Prairie Home Companion

Mayo Civic Center Arena, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, April 22nd, 2006.

Soundboard

1. Introduction
2. Red staggerwing
3. Love and happiness
4. All the road running
5. If this is goodbye
6. The next time I'm in town / Outro

This is a recording of the FM re-broadcast of the "Prairie Home Companion" radio show where Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris guested and played a few tracks off of their new album "All the roadrunning". Only the parts where the musical guests are mentioned or playing music are included, the rest of the two hour show has been edited out. Interesting comment by Emmylou when she mentions that this is the very first time that she and Mark are playing live together.

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Dire Straits - Atlanta 1985 (Request)

Fox Theatre, Atlanta, USA, August 10th, 1985

Audience

Disc 1

1. Ride across the river
2. Expresso love
3. One world
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. Private investigations
6. Sultans of swing
7. Why worry
8. Walk of life
9. Two young lovers
10. Money for nothing

Disc 2

1. Wild west end
2. Tunnel of love
3. Brothers in arms
4. Solid rock
5. Going home
6. Interview with Mark Knopfler about the Brothers in arms tour

Very nice recording. Complete concert including a great version of Tunnel of love. Includes a short interview with Mark Knopfler, taken from a radio station in Houston, Texas.

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Dire Straits - Madrid 85 (Request)

Estadio Roman Valero, Madrid, Spain, June 3rd, 1985

Audience

Disc 1

1. Intro
2. Ride across the river
3. Expresso love
4. So far away
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. Private investigations
7. Sultans of swing
8. Why worry
9. Walk of life
10. Two young lovers
11. The man’s too strong

Disc 2

1. Money for nothing
2. Wild west end
3. Tunnel of love
4. Brothers in arms
5. Solid rock
6. Mark Knopfler saying goodbye to the audience
7. Going home

Additional comments

This has good sound quality, The man's too strong version is nice and specially, Tunnel of love is a good version. Good overall performance.

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Mark Knopfler & Eric Clapton - Music for Montserrat

September 15th, 1997, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK

Soundboard

On September 15th, 1997, Royal Albert Hall in London was the venue for the benefit concert Music for Montserrat, organized by Sir George and Lady Martin together with Harvey Goldsmith to raise money to help the victims of the Soufriere Volcano on Montserrat’s island erupting since mid 1993, Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton were two of the many guest artists for this event, Mark Knopfler played the Wild Theme with Guy Fletcher, but was edited out the VHS and DVD, I like this Wild Theme very much because mark did not play his Red Strat, he used his Les Paul and the sound and feeling of the song is very unique, really beautiful, judge by yourselves.

On this CD are only the songs they played whether together or by themselves, I have not included the ones where they were part of the band for someone else.

Tracks

Wild Theme - Mark Knopfler
Brothers in arms - Mark Knopfler
Money for nothing - Mark Knopfler
Broken hearted - Eric Clapton
Layla - Eric Clapton
Same old blues - Eric Clapton

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Dire Straits - On every street kickoff

The Point Depot, Dublin, Ireland, August 23rd, 1991

Audience

Disc 1

1. Calling Elvis
2. The bug
3. Walk of life
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. Planet of New Orleans
6. Heavy fuel
7. Private investigations
8. Sultans of swing
9. On every street

Disc 2

1. Iron hand
2. Portobello belle
3. I think I love you too much
4. Two young lovers
5. Telegraph road
6. Setting me up
7. Money for nothing
8. Brothers in arms
9. Wild theme
10. The long highway

Additional comments

This is the first concert frome the On Every Street tour. This is the first time Long highway was ever played, and it has a different than the arrangement of the Golden Heart Tour, there are several songs that were not often played during the tour, like Iron Hand, Setting me up, Mark uses the beginning of Money for Nothing to introduce the band. Very nice Audience recording!

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Mark Knopfler - Up Close: Golden Heart

1996

Soundboard

Music and Very interesting interview with Mark Knopfler. Aired in 1996 to promote Mark's album Golden Heart. Complete show with host Dan Neer. Really worth downloading.

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Dire Straits -Live in Chester 1978

Quaintway's Club, Chester, UK, April 19th, 1978

Soundboard

Tracks

1. Introduction
2. Down to the waterline
3. Six blade knife
4. In the gallery
5. Eastbound train
6. Water of love
7. Lions
8. Sultans of swing
9. Wild west end

Radio Liverpool sessions. Taken from the original silver pressed bootleg "Live in Chester". This is the first radio broadcast with Dire straits and it is not the same as the official album "Live at the BBC" which was recorded later in the summer. Excellent sound and hard to find bootleg. Dire Straits was still unknown for the big public, the first album was not released until about half a year after this.

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Dire Straits - Live in Wembley 1991

Wembley Arena, London, UK, September 18th, 1991

Audience

Disc 1

1. Calling Elvis
2. Walk of life
3. Heavy fuel
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. Planet of New Orleans
6. Private investigations
7. Sultans of swing
8. On every street

Disc 2

1. Setting me up
2. Two young lovers
3. Tunnel of love
4. Money for nothing
5. Brothers in arms
6. Solid rock

Really nice audience recording, great version of Setting me up and a lovely Tunnel of love. This is the complete version of the show.

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Mark Knopfler - STP Promo Tour 2000

Various Soundboards

This is a CD i got from a good friend from Poland around 2002, I don't exactly know the dates and venues of all the songs and neither does he. I've managed to identify sone of them, i hope you enjoy this one as much as i do. if anyone can fill in the blanks on this for me i'll be very grateful.

1. Baloney Again
2. What it is
3. Baloney again
4. What it is - Late Show with David Letterman (09.27.00)
5. Interview - Musikbutikken, Denmark (10.06.00)
6. What it is - Musikbutikken, Denmark (10.06.00)
7. Wild Theme - Musikbutikken, Denmark (10.06.00)
8. Baloney again
9. Wild Theme
10. interview - Nulle Part Ailleurs - Interview (10.11.00)
11. Baloney Again - Nulle Part Ailleurs - Interview (10.11.00)
12. Presentation & Interview - Leute Heute ZDF - Interview (13.10.00)?
13. What it is
14. Baloney again
15. What it is
16. Baloney again
17. Rudolf the rednose reindeer Invasao Da Cidade Brazil (19.??.00)
18. What it is - Tonight show w/Jay Leno (11.29.00)
19. Fade to black

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Mark Knopfler - Florence, MA, USA, 2005

Pines Theatre, Florence, MA, USA, June 30th, 2005

Soundboard

Dic one

1. Why aye man
2. Walk of life
3. What it is
4. Sailing to Philadelphia
5. Romeo and Juliet
6. Sultans of swing
7. Done with Bonaparte
8. Song for Sonny Liston
9. Rüdiger

Disc 2

1. Boom, like that
2. Speedway at Nazareth
3. Telegraph road
4. Brothers in arms
5. Money for nothing
6. So far away

Perfect soundboard from the Shangri-La Tour!

This recording is not from Sunday june 12th 2005 at Mandela Palace, Florence, Italy, this recording is from June 30th 2005 at the Pines Teather in Florence Massachusetts, USA.

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Dire Straits - On Every Street in Munich

Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany, October, 11th 1991
Audience

Disc 1

1. Calling Elvis
2. Walk of life
3. Planet of New Orleans
4. Private investigations
5. Sultans of swing
6. On every street

Disc 2

1. You and your friend
2. Two young lovers
3. Tunnel of love
4. Money for nothing
5. Brothers in arms
6. Solid rock

This is a really great sounding Audience recording, unfortunately it is not the complete concert. Last night i was debating whether if i uploaded the full concert (which has lower sound quality) or this one, i finally chose sound quality, About the songs, Tunnel of love is great, You and your friend is amazing, specially since they rarely played it Throughout the On Every Street Tour. Tracks are Extracted from the silver pressed "On Every Street in Munich", no more words, enjoy.

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Mark Knopfler - AVO Session

1. Donegan's gone
2. Song for Sonny Liston
3. Rüdiger
4. Let it all go
5. The fizzy and the still
6. True love will never fade
7. Done with Bonaparte
8. Postcards from Paraguay
9. Brothers in arms
10. Our Shangri-La

Festsaal Messe, Basel, Switzerland, November 12th, 2007.

This is a live recording of the fifth showcase that Mark Knopfler did to promote his new album "Kill to get Crimson". After Berlin, Madrid, Amsterdam, and London, the AVO Session Basel has the honour of being his host festival. The tickets were not sold, but could only be won in contests on TV, the internet and on several radio stations. On 24th December, Swiss radio DRS3 broadcasted the complete showcase. During the broadcast, there were some radio jingles between a few songs. Only to remove these jingles, the source from the earlier broadcast (13th November on Swiss radio channel DRS3) was used. These two sources combined result in a great 10 track recording which features the complete showcase. Soundboard recording with good sound quality.

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Dire Straits - European Tour 1992 FLAC (REQUEST)

This time in Lossless format

St. Jacob stadium, Basel, Switserland

June 28th, 1992

Soundboard

Taken from the original silver pressed bootleg "European tour 1992". This is the best sounding Basel recording there is. Perfect sound and a great performance. This concert was both recorded for a television and radio broadcast. Complete concert, Sound is better than "Ticket to heaven" Bootleg.

Disc one

1. Calling Elvis
2. Walk of life
3. Heavy fuel
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. The bug
6. Private investigations
7. Sultans of swing

Disc Two

1. Your latest trick
2. On every street
3. Two young lovers
4. Telegraph road
5. Money for nothing
6. Brothers in arms
7. Solid rock
8. Wild theme

Links in .txt file

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