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On this day, 22 May 2008, former rock band Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler played Cardiff International Arena on his Kill To Get Crimson tour.
Knopfler released his fifth solo studio-album Kill To Get Crimson on 14 September 2007 in Germany, 17 September in the UK and 18 September in the United States.
During the autumn of 2007 he played a series of intimate 'showcases' in various European cities to promote the album. A tour of Europe and North America followed in 2008.
The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitars, vocals), Richard Bennett (guitars), Danny Cummings (drums), Guy Fletcher (keyboards),Matt Rollings (keyboards), Glen Wharf (bass) and John McCusker (fiddle, cittern).
Setlist
Cannibals
Why Aye Man
What It Is
Sailing to Philadelphia
True Love Will Never Fade
The Fish and the Bird
Hill Farmer's Blues
Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits song)
Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits song)
Marbletown
Postcards From Paraguay
Speedway at Nazareth
Telegraph Road (Dire Straits song)
Encore:
Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits song) Our Shangri-La
So Far Away (Dire Straits song) Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero
