Privateering Tour
| European tour by Mark Knopfler | |
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| Location | Europe |
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| Associated album | Privateering |
| Start date | 25 April 2013 |
| End date | 31 July 2013 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 70 |
| Mark Knopfler concert chronology | |
The Privateering Tour was a 2013 concert tour by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, promoting the release of his album Privateering. The tour started on 25 April 2013 in Bucharest, Romania, and included 70 concerts in 63 cities, ending on 31 July 2013 in Calella de Palafrugell, Spain. The tour included a six-night run at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The concerts typically consisted of Knopfler and his band performing a sixteen-song set, drawing from each period in the artist's thirty-five year career. The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Richard Bennett (guitar), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Jim Cox (piano, organ, accordion), Michael McGoldrick (whistles, uilleann pipes), John McCusker (violin, cittern), Glenn Worf (bass), and Ian Thomas (drums). Nigel Hitchcock (saxophone) and Ruth Moody (vocals) appeared with the band for concerts in the United Kingdom.
In his review of one of the Royal Albert Hall concerts in The Financial Times, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney wrote that Knopfler "played guitar throughout with customary lyricism, a folk fingerpicker in a rock idiom, riffs unfolding at unhurried pace and with a superb sense of space", singling out his solo in "Sultans of Swing", which was "like a stone skimming gracefully over a lake." Hunter-Tilney was impressed with Knopfler's song selection, particularly with his aversion to falling back to "1980s revivalism". Some of the highlights, in fact, were performances of newer songs from his latest album, Privateering. Hunter-Tilney was equally impressed with the musicianship if Knopfler's backing band and guest vocalist, writing:
Fiddle, pennywhistle and uilleann pipes (a kind of Irish bagpipe), immaculately played by members of his impressive backing band, gave his tales of stoical working men a deep traditional resonance. Meanwhile support act Ruth Moody, guest vocalist on "I Dug Up a Diamond" and "Seattle", evoked the absent sweethearts in Knopfler's songs, the lure of home and hearth.
Istanbul, Turkey, 27 April 2013
Istanbul, Turkey, 27 April 2013
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