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 then-popular punk rock scene, these perpetually cash-strapped musicians ("Dire Straits") with their diverse musical influences initially occupied a niche, until they rapidly became 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 established Mark Knopfler as a singer, composer, and above all a guitarist at the centre of attention. The band reached its peak in the mid-1980s with "Money For Nothing", a collaboration with fellow countryman Sting.

But success and enormous pressure took too high a price from the musicians involved. After the success of their final album "On Every Street" (38x platinum worldwide) and the corresponding 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 phase is now, 30 years later, the focus 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 and handcrafted music.

Moll has studied Knopfler's music and guitar playing since his youth and gathers in his band exclusively fellow musicians for whom Dire Straits runs as deep in their blood as it does in his. Moll succeeds not only in drawing from his guitar the same sounds for which Mark Knopfler is renowned worldwide, but also in elevating the energy and joy of playing of his nine-piece band to the level of the original.