One Night of Dire Straits - Tribute Show - Tour Premiere 2027

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 concerts to the world's biggest stages in less than a decade.

As a counterpoint to the punk-rock that dominated at the time, the musicians of Dire Straits (literally: "dire straits") occupied a niche for a while, until they rapidly became one of the most famous and successful bands in music history, selling over 120 million records.

The song "Sultans of Swing" brought them their breakthrough in the late 1970s and put Mark Knopfler at the center of attention as a singer, composer, and above all as a guitarist. The band reached its peak in the mid-1980s with the song "Money For Nothing", a collaboration with 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 accompanying world tour of 1991-1992, which included 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 now stands, 30 years later, at the center of the tribute show "One Night of Dire Straits". Guitarist and vocalist Alex Moll, together with his expertly assembled band of studio and live musicians, takes the audience on a journey full of fascinating, handcrafted music.

Moll has studied Knopfler's music and guitar playing since his youth and gathers in his band exclusively fellow musicians who have Dire Straits in their blood just as much as he does. Moll succeeds not only in drawing from his guitar the same sounds that made Mark Knopfler world-famous, but also in raising the energy and joy of playing of the nine-member band to the level of the original.