One Night of Dire Straits - Tribute Show - '30 years later' Tour

Dire Straits were a band of superlatives. With Mark Knopfler's distinctive guitar playing and his deep voice instantly recognizable, they rose from small bar gigs to the world's biggest stages in less than a decade.

As a counterpoint to the punk-rock that dominated at the time, these always modest musicians ("Dire Straits") with their diverse musical influences occupied a niche for only a short while before rapidly becoming one of the most famous and successful bands in music history, selling over 120 million records.

Their breakthrough came in the late 1970s with "Sultans of Swing", which put Mark Knopfler front and centre as a singer, composer, and above all as a guitarist. The band reached its peak in the mid-1980s with "Money For Nothing", a collaboration with Sting.

But success and enormous pressure took too high a toll on the musicians involved. After the success of their final album "On Every Street" (38x platinum worldwide) and the accompanying world tour of 1991-1992 with a total of 229 concerts, Mark Knopfler announced in 1995 that the band would be inactive and would no longer perform public concerts.

This final chapter now stands, 30 years later, at the heart of the tribute show "One Night of Dire Straits". Guitarist and vocalist Alex Moll, together with his expertly assembled band of studio and touring musicians, takes the audience on a journey filled with captivating, handcrafted music.

Moll has studied Knopfler's music and guitar playing since his youth, gathering in his band only fellow musicians for whom Dire Straits runs as deep as it does for him. Moll succeeds not only in coaxing from his guitar the same sounds that made Mark Knopfler world-famous, but also in raising the energy and joy of playing of his nine-piece band to the level of the original.