Mark Knopfler - BBC Sessions, Volume 5- Music Club, Simon Mayo Show, London, Britain, 10-5-2007

This is the fifth, and probably the last, album in my BBC series for Mark Knopfler. (I say "probably" because it's possible he'll recorded more for the BBC, who knows.) This is an unreleased concert. But it seems that instead of just having the BBC record one of his full concerts in some big arena, he did a truncated show for a small studio audience.

This concert was to promote his 2007 album "Kill to Get Crimson," which had just been released. But actually, only three songs here are from that: "True Love Will Never Fade," "The Fizzy and the Still," and "Let It All Go." The rest are from his earlier solo albums, plus three songs from his years with Dire Straits ("Going Home," "Brothers in Arms," and "So Far Away.")

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect. However, I suspect there was banter between songs that got removed. I base this on the fact that for many of the songs, though not all, the applause quickly faded out in an unnatural way. And Knopfler did make one brief comment near the end that seemed to be a follow up to an earlier comment that's missing. So if anyone has the complete version with the banter, let me know so I can use that.

I did my best to fix the edited applause. For those songs, I patched in more applause from other songs, so at least it should sound like there's a decent amount of applause after each song.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Donegan's Gone (Mark Knopfler)
02 Rudiger (Mark Knopfler)
03 True Love Will Never Fade (Mark Knopfler)
04 The Fizzy and the Still (Mark Knopfler)
05 Let It All Go [Electric Version] (Mark Knopfler)
06 Our Shangri-La (Mark Knopfler)
07 Going Home [Theme From 'Local Hero'] [Instrumental] (Mark Knopfler)
08 Postcards from Paraguay (Mark Knopfler)
09 Brothers in Arms (Mark Knopfler)
10 So Far Away (Mark Knopfler)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16177703/MRKKNPF2007_BBSessnsVlum5MscClbSmnMyoShwLndnBrtin__10-5-2007_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a concert in Rome, Italy, on June 6, 2008.