Mark Knopfler

Very exciting!!  :) I can't wait.

Wonderful! I have been patiently awaiting this since the end of the Shangri-la tour! I've been especially excited since seeing Guy's diary on it. I'm sure it will be wonderful. His stuff always is!

September come fast please! Come to Barcelona Mark!
I have waiting for this album since Guy started the Diary.
I'm sure that this is another great album! I'm so excited. We need another tour! Come again Mark!

I have to say that this news is amazing for me. I am a big fan from Argentina, and I hope you can repeat a gig here. If not, I am allowed to travel to Europe, so I will be seeing Mark again (the only time was with my father in STP tour). Thanks for your music. Warm regards from Argentina. Leschner Ivan.

OMG, looks so charming. Come on september!

Thanks Mark for yet another album to look forward to, carn't wait for another tour, please come to Leicester. Christine.

Best piece of news I've heard all year!! Can't wait to listen to it!! But I sure hope Mark has the time to come to Helsinki on his next tour!! It's been too long!

I´m very happy to hear about the dateof therelease of the album. I really can´t wait. Hope it´s better then Shangri-la.

Fantastic, Fantastic!  Roll on with the tour plans! We can't wait to hear all these new songs live. Hay on Wye was a wonderful experience, hearing Mark speak about his roots and influences as well as hearing him play. Track 6 - the Secondary Waltz - is quite a story.  Looking forward so much to hearing the album.  Thanks, Mark for all your great writing!!!! J&I xxxx

Fantastic, I can`t wait to september

Yesssss !!! And when for another tour ? :-)

I just can´t wait until September, come to Portugal Mark i have seen all your performances here

Great news!!! Mark, I hope you can include Brazil in the tour, you already have known how you're loved here since you came in 2001. Would be marvelous again see and hear you alive near to us and giving us real songs. I was there at the STP tour and I keep waiting for new opportunity to share some good moments of listening.

A Spectacular event to come. Can anything match Je Suis de Sole? All that I  can see is Je Suis de Sole. Mark Montgelas

Excellent news! But another 3 months, that is torture. And please, please, please come back to Glasgow.

that is awesome news! this year has been quite exciting music wise, but this is always the best news ever!!!!
love the album title, the song listing makes me curious !!!
cannot wait!!!!

Excellent news!!! I'm happy!! I love you!!

Come to Luxembourg please!!!

I can't wait. I never get tired of hearing Mark,s music. Please come to an area close to nc in the USA.

Wonderful!!!
Already looking forward to the tour!

wonderful!!! , another new album. But, will you continue tormenting us in the tours with money for nothing and and walk of life, or you will dare to touch at least 3 of these new songs.
mk number one!.

Very nice new! I hope also that the new album will be better than Shangri-La. I hope that Mark will tour also here in Udine (Italy) again. In 2001 tour "you" promised us to "come back to Udine", during So far Away track.......... I do not forget your words Mark!!! Super. Ciao

Fantastic! Keep on waiting for the new, marvellous, Mark's album!!! Ciao.

I'm waiting September with excitement. I know this will be great like everything that Mark does. I only wish Mark on tour in CROATIA or at least somewhere near. Love from Croatia.

fantastic.  Can not wait to hear the new music.  Look forward to seeing the tour in NY.

Beautiful and fantastic news, i hope to see in Venice or Verona for your next tour

mark i cant wait to hear your next album. im gonna buy ur album as soon as it comes to croatia. marija, odakle si ti?

another fan of Mark from Croatia! nice. ja sam od svakud, ovisi kako gledaš. odakle si ti, eroll?

Ahhh!  New music!  Fabulous news.  I look forward to Canadian dates on the next tour.  Just please, let's have more Knopfler solo tunes and a bit less DS stuff (not that I have anything against the DS material).

He's fast! And that's good, obviously. Tommy Emmanuel said that he plans to record an album with Mark. I hope that'll be soon. Another MK and DS fan from Balkan. Mark, come to CROATIA!!

How about a tour? :> Mark, please, come to Poland! We're waiting for you! Katowice welcome to :]

I'm curious to know what has inspired him this time!!!in Shangri-la the accident that he'd had played a big role.
one more thing: i think ha 's changed his stile of singing.I mean he probably won't go so bass.that's what i could hear also in the roadrunning.let's wait and see.

Maria said: ''I only wish Mark on tour in CROATIA or at least somewhere near.''
Can't wait for Kill To Get Crimson

Please don´t forget to come to Madrid this time, last year you come to Barcelona and this year or the next one please come to Madrid, please, please....
Are you going to put any song on your web-space youtube... like you did last album?
Thank you to make me happy with a new album.

I hope see one off these days Dire Straits all togerther back again...

im ignacio from argentina.  well im expecting the album a lot but i´d like mark here in buenos Aires... when are you going to come? see you

it's great

Very Exciting wait for the new albumn, Im sure it will be another stunning performance, is it ever any different from MK? : )

I'm so happy for this news about the new solo album. Hope to see you again in France very soon ! It's always a real pleasure to see you.
Greetings & all the best ! ;)
Bluesygirl

Deep joy!

I´m a big Mark Knopfler´s fan...and I can´t wait for 2007 Kill To Get Crimson, because I know it will be as great as the rest of his albums :-) ...and I hope Mark will come to Prague again, his last gig here was great!! Please, Mark, come again to Czech Republic!!! And please, play more solo tunes on the tour, mainly songs of The Ragpicker´s Dream and Golden Heart...(but samely as KevinF says: not that I have anything against the DS material:-) ...see you, DannyK

Welcome the new album and welcome the Band on tour in Hungary!
Gábor

Ohh.. =D
Good news.. :-)

Hope mark visit Norway on the next tour =)

Excellent news!!! Very exciting!! Mark, I hope to see in Brazil for your next tour!!  Please !!!  
I love you!!!

Mighty job,
long overdue but i aint complainin,
come to ireland v v v soon

Realy good news. I realy do hope that it will be a new tour and you and your great musican will come to Oslo, Norway.
Thank you for sharing all your wonderful music with us :-)

Great cd art work!  Someone on the forum mentioned that the painting looks like John Illsly's work.  It would be great if it were.  

Great, a  new cd!!But I can't wait for 2 months!!Come in Italy!Bolzano is waiting for you!!

Fantastic, I can`t wait to september !!!
Please Mark come to Rio de Janeiro - Brazil !!! I was there at the STP tour and I keep waiting for new opportunity to share some good moments of listening.
We loves you.

Wonderful news mr.Knopfler. I am already admirer since your Golden Heart. I went to your concert in Groningen.

Your music is more than satisfaying.

Cannot wait 'till your new album is released. Please consider Groningen again in your upcoming tour. Groningen is the city where the "soccer EC-final 2007 under 21" just took place. A wonderful city for you to get your crimson 07/08 !!!

(the new album discussion can be continued at Hattrick. Take a look at the Mark Knopfler Federation)

Please release a single sooner.

Pretty please do Philadelphia when you "Do Do America!"

not only is it always exciting to get new music, everytime it is also interesting to see which cover is chosen for the album and how it fits together wtih the album!! *impatience arises*

Please, please, please - Come to Johannesburg, South Africa again Mark!!!

Come to the capital of Mark Knopfler country, London Ontario.   Peter

Great News ! What about the tour ? Aftr visiting Dubai last time, you have to come to Qatar the next tour !!
Ralf, Doha

Yeah, new CD!  Boom, like that it'll be September!   Awesome.  Come to Washington, DC area and bring William Topley with you! This girl is thrilled!  Can't wait!
Patti

It would make one of my dreams come true if Mark came to London ad i could see him live!
PLEASE COME TO LONDON!!

Great News!!

Make sure to come to Red Rocks before the end of the outdoor concert season and give Morrison a shiver in the dark!

The album titles look good and spark the imagination.
Australia is anxiously waiting Mark. Especially here in Melborne!
Best wishes mate.  Thank you for your great music.

Chris White :D

best news Iv'e had this summer!!!. Seen you last summer at meadowbrook outside of detroit and it was the best show in a long time. please come back to the detroit area. please!!!!.

Fantastic News.... Mark you are a true legend and an inspiration for any musician. You’ve been my favorite composer and performer since I received my first cassette of Dire Straits aged 3! Please come and visit us in Orlando, FL. There are so many of us Brits living here, a great place to perform also. Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton have been recently and were very well received, you would top them off easily! Carry on the great work, you make me proud to be a Brit!

Great news Mark. Can't wait for the tour. being a trumpet & sax player -looking forward to the horn section.

I am so happy... I live in Madrid and i wento to all the concerts here. Dire Straits, Mark alone. Even last year as Mark couldn´t come to Madrid i went to Barcelona to hear his concert. I´d like seeing you in Madrid next year, but if nos possible, I´ll go anywhewre. Thankyou

Can't wait for it !
Please come to Paris Mark!

i can't wait for this new album, getting excited !

I just can't wait to have it...
But i have one thing to ask...PLEASE...include Brazil in this next tour. We beg you...there're millions of fans here waiting to see Mark again....

"Good luck and take care"

I noticed that Richard Bennett is not on the credits for the album. Is everything ok with Richard, is he going to be on the upcoming tour?

Extremely excited at the prospect of sharing the latest musical gifts from Mark.

Australia welcomes your return with open arms to our antipodean shores Mark!!

Nice selection of Bratby artwork on the cover.  

You get a shiver in the dark!

hello, I live in Algeria, at Béjaïa city, I am fan for more than 20 years, I awaits this album impatiently, I know that it will be sublime, unfortunately, I never saw MK in concert, I know a thing, it is the best in our hearts.

P.S : my wife caught the virus too

Hi Mark! I can`t wait to hear these new songs! I hope that you'll come here in Belgrade-Serbia again, when you where here with dIRE STRAITs I was too young to hear you playing.  And it's one of my dreams, make it real :-)  Chris White again ;-) I just can`t wait! Please come to Belgrade!

Pozdrav za sve one koji su ostavljali ovde porukice a razumeju ovo da prochitaju ;-) Mark je genije, a muzika ne poznaje granice. There`s so many different worlds so many different suns and we have just one world but we live in different ones !   Uzivajte

Greetings from Belgrade

Wreszcie nowe wydawnictwo Marka. Nie moge sie doczekac tego krazka i nowych dzwiekow na nim zawartych...
Mam nadziejeze i tym razem odwiedzi Polske...?

Poland is waiting for You again Mark...all the best. R'n'R!

Can't wait for it!!!!
Mark you're the no.1 guitar player in the world!!
Please visit Germany again!!

Wow!
How about a wallpaper in 1024x768 of the new album's cover??

I'm happy to see that there will be a new release.
Looking foreward to it
Hope Mark and the band will make a promotion tour and visite the Netherlands.
Glad to see that Chris White is back, still think his solo on Romeo & Julliet during the On every Steet Tour 1991/1992 makes that song the Best Dire Straits song ever preformed during an live concert
Hope to meet Mark ones in the future.
A fan for allmost 30 years now

Mark...Portland Oregon needs to be in your tour plans. Really excited about the new CD.

Will you be so kind and promote this brand new album in Romania too?
There are tons of fans here! I haven't heard of Dire Straits to come in Romania yet:(

Take a look on "A Bigger Bang" tour success of The Rolling Stones here in Romania.

If Dire Straits would come too, the success will be even greater!

Looking forward to September - I think my work colleagues could do with a different Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits cd playing!! Unfortunately my home town of Abergavenny (South Wales) is too small a place for you to visit, but, please could you come back to Cardiff?  Your concert on the 24th May 2005 was brilliant!!  I have some good pictures of you and the band appearing there! Rose T.

really look forward to crimson. plz end tour at greek in berkeley.
and consider mixing in great oddball tunes like devil baby, pigweed and are we in trouble now. thanx mk and gf! c-ya on the bay.

Can't wait. Please grace New Orleans with a show on this tour!

Hi Mark,
I gotta say that we hear you every day at work and we melt by the sound of your guitar.
every note played by you sends me directly to heaven.
please consider coming to play in the Holly city Jerusalem in Israel, it will make my dreams come true.

your the best,
sencerely yours... Zeevi.

I can`t wait to hear these new album.
please come to Israel.

Steely Dan will have to share the title of classiest of the classic rock musicians with Mark.  

I hope he crafted this new batch of songs with the same perfection as the rest of his catalogue of compositions.  His is more than just music - it is literate and inspired.  The content is mature and moving and forever listenable.

How about the ultimate collaborative supergroup of true musicians: Knopfler, Hornsby, Sting, Henley and Jackson Browne. Talk about the Wilburys of songwriting and style...Is anyone reading this able to assemble these stellar musicians to write and record together?  Imagine the results.  Someone needs to make this happen.

I can't wait!!! I listen to Goldenheart and All The Road Running over and over and over again. It's so rare to find such talented musician's with quality material like yours. Thank you very much :)

Looking forward to this album but especially a tour. i really loved the last album and wished you had played more tracks from shangri la on the tour. dont leave out everybody pays, whoop de doo and postcards on the next tour pleeeeeease.

good luck.

As everyone of your fans, I´m excited and i can´t wait september  17th cames, too. I hope you can visit Spain on your tour and, what about visiting other cities, not always Madrid or Barcelona? Smaller towns exists, too. Would you mind to visit Zamora?. It would be an extraordinary event here and you could  help a almost forgotten historic place to re-born and to be known to lots of people, all around the world!!. Just a suggest. Anyways, hope the album an tour are another succses. Thanks.

Hi there Mark. Just wanted to say thanks for giving us the immense pleasure of enjoying your amazing talent thru your incredible and unique music. Needless to say I'm really looking forward to this new album. I'm sure it will manage to propel us into that other planet just like the rest of your works did. I'm from the tiny island of Malta which is situated at the heart of the Mediterranean. Was wondering whether you can eventually pop up and pay us Maltese a visit whilst on tour around Europe. Have my word for it....You won't regret it!!!.

Wishing you you the best of successes.

Super, que de rebondissement depuis  2000. Mark nous gratifie régulièrement de nouveles chanson comme il ait si bien le faire , un véritable enchantement vivement le 17 septembre et la futur tournée.

Just listened to the True Love Will Never Fade sampler - amazing as always!! I am looking forward to the album in September and hopefullly a tour??!! Mark - please come and play Aylesbury.

The city of Porto is waiting for you in Portugal

After hearing the sampler "we can get wild" I am completely breathless. It's quite possibly the best music Mark has ever created.

If Mark is coming anywhere near Eastern Canada, TicketMaster can name their price, I am going. Bring along some the "Kill to get Crimson" T-Shirts, I am buying.

Beautiful! Another cd and another tour with my favourite musician...the dream comes true!! I love you!!

Now Spanish!!

Muy buenos temas que he escuchado, esperando algun dia ver a Mark por estas latitudes...osea en Chile.

Un abrazo PAra ti gran Mark Knopfler..

Atte.
Don Pacollo
Stgo - Chile

Hope to see Mark and the Band in Switzerland again to promote his new work. It's just great to see that the story goes on.

A year with a new Knopfler album is a great year. Thanks! I needed that.
Can't wait to hear it. And I hope you'll continue to make appearances around our U.S. Midwest states like Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.

I can't wait to her the new tracks from marks brand new CD!!!
And I hope to see you again live in Stuttgart/Germany with my Son together.We love you.So long...

We'll he's going to do it again :-)
Many thanks man.
We're waiting for you in Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisbon, again.
Your're and always will be welcome to Portugal.
See you soon.

You gotta do THE SAGE in Gateshead!!

Would love to see you come back to Maine again. It's hard to believe it almost has been a year since your Boothbay Harbor Concert.

I am stoked to listen to the new Album. Please come back to British Columbia again.

I do have to ask though, did you really write a song called Punish the Monkey? Well, actually Mark you can do anything you want, but the song title did cause me to raise an eyebrow.

September!!!  I’m very happy!
Come to Athens Greece Mark!

MK is relly an hard worker. I just ordered a new album and I hope it sounds like Ragpickers dream.
Best regards
MP

please come to Turkey Mark, you have never been in Turkey...I would like to you know that you have a lots of your fan in Turkey

Wonderful.  As it is, my birthday is in September, and what a beautiful gift that album will be.  Thank you, Mark.  But my birthday would not be quite complete without Mark stopping in the Elkhart/South Bend area (Indiana) for a special concert in honor of my birthday.  I mean, come on - I'll be 45 years old and Mark hasn't gotten me a single thing yet.  I figure him giving a special concert in Elkhart, maybe an outdoor performance on "Island Park", would be the least he could do to make up for all these years he's never done anything for me on my birthday.

Anyway, getting serious:  I would like to know why Mark titled the album, "Kill to Get Crimson", and why he chose the scooter/moped artwork for the album (aside from the fact it's nice art, and it's crimson).  Mind you, I plan to buy the album, but I'd prefer not to wait until then to set my mind at ease, as I can be a great worrier and obsessor over trivia.  Besides, news about Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears is getting a bit slow.  :)

Just heard 1.30 of 'The Scaffolder’s Wife' - I LOVE IT! the lyrics are amazing and the use of the flute in the chorus is just lovely!!

Is there any chance to see you in Serbia.
Over 20 years we weathing for YOU.
Novi Sad, EXIT festival maybe?!

Mark.. simply Mark ... Don't forget to came to Sao Paulo / BRAZIL in your next tour... long time no see you here.. since STP in 2001. It'll be such a pleasure to see and listen you live again!!!

waiting... :)

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Hi,Dear Mark and his fans....
I am very very anxious waiting for the new album,i have listened to the three new songs everyday(many times),WONDERFUL,i'm sure this new album will be a big sucessful.Mark,Come back to Brazil,i really hope to see you again.GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

KTGC teaser on WB's youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uiMcHJrTRAw

thanks for link! Hope Mark will come to Czech Republic again...his last gig here was great and there was almost 8.500 fans!! Please, come again...

TommyG,


Well, thank you very much for answering my two questions right off the bat, and doing so by referring to Mark Knopfler himself, in his own words and in his own likeness.  One would think, almost, that he had read my post, and then answered my questions in that "teaser" video.

I hope it is better than the Shangri-la nonsense.
Mark's claim to fame is his extraordinary guitar playing coupled with great writing. He needs to put the fire back in his playing. Just me, but I can't even listen to S. la without falling asleep

I, too, would appreciate a bit more "fire" in his playing.  I enjoyed "Shangri-la", but it wasn't my favorite of his albums.  Songs more along the lines of "Water of Love", "Golden Heart", "Darling Pretty", "Speedway at Nazareth", "Hill Farmer's Blues", and the like would be more up my alley.

Hi From Australia, It was 15 years between the last tour down here PLEASE... don't keep us waiting that long again! I hope a tour down here is in consideration for the release of the new album. Love the work.

By Dire Straits: SECONDARY WALTZ in YOUTUBE : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mKEE3myo2B8&mode=related&search=

i know how scottmathison feels its been a while anyones wispered the name Mark Knopfler down here in Australia.......

looking foward to the albums release :)

The latest sample I've heard is 'Heart Full of Holes' (1.29secs sample) I LOVE it - one of my favourites from this album so far - I can't wait for the release now - never doubt MK...ever...he always knows best!

Yes, I also love "Heart Full Of Holes" sample...hope Mark will  
come to Prague again to promote his new album...there was also
a very nice article about KTGC in best known czech newspapers...I think this will be very successfull album...all the best, DannyJ

Mark is probably the last person who wants comments on his upcoming album, but I just want to say what a great influence Mark Knopfler is, with his music, his attitude and his 'nice guy' demeanour. Thank you for all you have done, and we hope and pray you will continue in teh same vein for a long time to come. From Mumbai, India (hope you make it here again, last time was brilliant)!

oh yeah.

Mark, just read an article on a weekly italian magazine....I'll buy it for sure....just a curiosity...on the article you are showed with a red Vespa, beg of 60's model...the sketches on the cover is a Lambretta, model LI type 1, end of 50's....you may have ome enemy now ! Smile.
Thanks for the emotion you give ms.
Roberto

Excellent to hear another album will soon be released. A tour stop in Austin, TX, USA would be perfect -- or somewhere nearby!

HELLO!I Am 15 Years old.2 years ago I Started Listenning a Dire Straits music.I Realy Like IT!And Mark`s Solo album too.Mark You Are very talented singer,Please in world tour Visit a Saint-Petersburg!!!!!Please!!!!!!I Love You MUSIC!!!!!
ARseny Andreev
My E-mail:mark-knopfler96@rambler.ru
:)

Thank YOU Mark.

Mark

It was great talking to you in Vancouver after the STP Tour.You're music touches the soul
Looking forward to a concert in Vancouver or Victoria!!!
B.C. Canada Hey!!! We have a new Venue in Victoria.

Marija i erol pozdrav iz Kanade

Zeljko

I have all the MK and Dire Straits Albuns.
since i have 12 years old, I never stop to listen Mark Knopfler.for me, is the best musician of world.
Thank You Mark Knopfler!!

can't wait for it !!

I'm a learning player and Mark has been a great source of inspiration for ages. Got most albums and I have not been dissapointed yet. I am sure this one will pour out his tallent and skills.

Keep on keeping on Mark - see you on the UK leg of the tour

it´s a great news that a new cd it´s coming soon...i can´t wait to listen it.
I´m from argentina and 6 years ago i´d have the satisfaction to listen to him playing alive so i´m waitting to see him again...i hope he´s coming back to play here with this new tour.
i´m 30 years old and i listen to his music before my brother since i was 5 yers old.
and i love his music and his way to play guitar...hi´s fantastique...
so i hope to see him again so soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oooooohhh, Mark is gonna to play in Sazka Arena, Prague, Czech Republic 11th May 2008...sooo great!!! This hall has a capacity up to 18,000
people! Hope you will make some big promotion to sell it out!!
It would be a huge sucsess...I told about this great gig all my friends...and it will be a great gig. Cannot wait!!!!!!play
many new songs, Mark!!:-) cheers

A masterpiece.
The most beautiful Mark's solo album.
See You soon in Italy

Purchased the Album today.
Fantastic Mark!!.
Mark please come to Plymouth devon, plymouth fans are screaming out for you!!.
See you in cardif, in may.
The Album inset (from the painting you said you bought, in the 60's, was'nt it?. well it was a good idea !!).
Good luck through out your Tour.
Cheers Eileen x

Hi Mark!

Gorgeous! I LOVE your new album!

Congratulations! ****