When I went to see the Shangri La Tour three years ago, it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen. Mark did most of the songs sitting down, but that must have been as a result of his motor bike accident which meant that the tour had to be resheduled. But this time he was back to his old self standing throughout.
I liked it that the new arrangements of many of the songs that he played previously were just slightly different. The addition of JohnMcCusker on fiddle/citern just raised the folk sound a notch. The band played all but two of the Dire Straits numbers from last time. Walk on Life and Money for Nothing were dropped but the rest were there: Romeo and Juliet, Sultans of Swing, Telegraph Road, Brothers in Arms, So Far Away and the full 13 minutes of Telegraph Road. Sublime.
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