One Night of Dire Straits - Tribute Show - Tour 2027

Dire Straits were a band of superlatives. With Mark Knopfler's distinctive guitar playing and his deep voice immediately recognizable, they managed in just a decade to rise from small bar concerts to the world's biggest stages.

As a counterpoint to the punk-rock that was popular at the time, the musicians of Dire Straits - always struggling financially (hence their name) - initially remained in a niche segment. Yet in record time they 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 put Mark Knopfler front and center 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 release 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, at the center of the tribute show "One Night of Dire Straits". Guitarist and vocalist Alex Moll, together with his expertly assembled band of session and studio 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 brings together in his band exclusively musicians who have Dire Straits in their blood as much as he does. Moll succeeds not only in coaxing the same sounds from his guitar 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.