CHICAGO 2008
 
Artist Mark Knopfler
Venue Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, USA
Date 13th July 2008
Source Audience
Format 2CD-R
Tracks CD 1
  1. Intro
  2. Cannibals
  3. Why aye man
  4. What it is
  5. Sailing to Philadelphia
  6. True love will never fade
  7. The fish and the bird
  8. Hill farmer's blues
  9. Romeo and Juliet
  10. Sultans of swing
  11. Talking & noodling
  12. Song for Sonny Liston
Tracks CD 2
 
  1. Band introduction
  2. Marbletown
  3. Speedway at Nazareth
  4. Telegraph road
  5. Brothers in arms
  6. So far away
  7. Going home
Additional comments Very good sounding recording. Nice version of Song for Sonny Liston, a song which was not played on the European leg of this tour. One of the non-musical highlights was a well timed shout out from one of the female fans in the audience. Right as the crowd was settling down after Sultans of swing, before Song for Sonny Liston, in the silence she yells out: "You rock my soul sex man!" to which Mark Knopfler replies "I just gotta adjust my hearing aid... You know that you're gotta be doing something right when the ladies start barking like dogs. You know the rest of the band, they're just coiled springs and they're waiting to stave of the stage invasion, you know what I mean? Where have they gone? I've got no protection at here at all..." Very funny moment, it's clear that Mark and the band are having a great time on the road! Complete show.