On This Day 22/05/2008 Mark Knopfler

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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

Dire Straits, On This Day 11/6/92

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On this day, 11 June 1992, rock band Dire Straits played Cardiff Arms Park on their, On Every Street World Tour.
Support was provided by Was(Not Was) and Lyle Lovett.

The tour was supporting the band’s sixth and final album, On Every Street. It lasted from 23 August 1991 to 9 October 1992, and included 229 shows in 19 countries throughout Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The world tour sold 7.1 million tickets.

The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), John Illsley (bass), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Alan Clark (keyboards), Chris White (saxophone, flute), Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar), Danny Cummings (percussion), Phil Palmer (guitar), and Chris Whitten (drums).


"The last tour was utter misery," said manager Ed Bicknell. "Whatever the zeitgeist was that we had been part of, it had passed." "Personal relationships were in trouble and it put a terrible strain on everybody, emotionally and physically," agreed Illsley. "We were changed by it."

Setlist
1. Calling Elvis
2. Walk of Life
3. Heavy Fuel
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. The Bug
6. Private Investigations
7. Sultans of Swing
8. Your Latest Trick
9. On Every Street
10. Two Young Lovers
11. Tunnel of Love
Encore #1
12. Money for Nothing
13. Brothers in Arms
14. Solid Rock
15. Wild Theme