NIPPON SEINENKAN 1983
 
Artist Dire Straits
Venue Seineken Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Date 3rd & 4th April 1983
Source Audience
Format 4CD-R
Tracks CD 1 (3rd April)
  1. Intro
  2. Once upon a time in the west
  3. Industrial disease
  4. Expresso love
  5. Romeo and Juliet
  6. Love over gold
  7. Private investigations
     
Tracks CD 2 (3rd April)
  1. Sultans of swing
  2. Twisting by the pool
  3. Two young lovers [A]
  4. Portobello belle [A]
  5. Tunnel of love
  6. Telegraph road
  7. Solid rock
  8. Going home
     
    9.

[A] guest player Paul Williamson
 
Tracks CD 3 (4th April)
  1. Once upon a time in the west
  2. Industrial disease
  3. Expresso love
  4. Romeo and Juliet
  5. Love over gold
  6. Private investigations
  7. Sultans of swing
     
Tracks CD 4 (4th April)
  1. Twisting by the pool
  2. Two young lovers [A]
  3. Portobello belle [A]
  4. Tunnel of love
  5. Telegraph road (cut)
     
    6.

[A] guest player Paul Williamson

 
Additional comments

This is taken from the professional CD-R release called "Nippon Seinenkan 1983". The first two discs have very good sound quality. Nice guest performance of Australian saxophone player Paul Williamson! Some funny moments when Mark Knopfler is "talking" to the audience in Japan. There is also a fan in the audience who keeps on shouting for Skateaway. Mark gets really annoyed by this and just when he is announcing Going home, this person shouts again very loud. Mark replied: "Where are you? Skateaway... Skateaway... Come on man, do us a favour: skate away!" Complete concert. The third and fourth disc feature the second concert in Tokyo from the day after and was (to my knowledge) not circulating before. Good sound aswell and also featuring guest player Paul Williamson. Unfortunately, Telegraph road is cut after almost seven minutes and the last two tracks Solid rock and Going home are missing.