The Dire Straits Experience

There are groups that time preserves and that popular memory even tends to sublimate. Dire Straits is part of the circle. So, to make this English gem shine ad vitam æternam, Chris White has decided to bring Mark Knopfler's most beautiful songs back to life!

The jewel of rock, Dire Straits is a joyful industrial accident as it sometimes happens on British soil. For no one, oh never, would have thought for a moment that these wild young adults from Deptford would make the speakers of the free world vibrate, against the trends of the time. With Mark Knopfler as frontman, the band managed to put on a British-style rock that, as a matter of course, will never die. 

Their daring melodies, carried by the crystalline sound of Knopfler's Fender Stratocaster, are still being reasoned with today. Their efficiency takes to the guts and their vagabond state of mind makes you want to run away from the box. It's good to crack vinyl records, as the music of Dire Straits is so alive. But we sometimes miss the perfume of the stage to remain immersed, for centuries and centuries, in this spirit that gives us balm to the heart. So Chris White, Mark Knopfler's former acting partner, decided to take matters into his own hands and put on his costume to pay a faithful tribute to his friends of yesteryear. With him, time seems to have stood still, as if frozen in ecstasy and admiration, in front of the musical nuggets of these heroes from the suburbs of London. 

Admittedly, under the spotlight, the men are not the same, but everything is respected to the letter, as if to rekindle a flame ready to set our second youth ablaze. Yesterday's crazy energy is combined with the present, under the weight of those masterful riffs that have made the reputation of Dire Straits. The work is then celebrated, transcended by Sultans of Swing or Walk Of Life. What a pleasure to breathe this British air that makes us fly, leap after leap, metres above the ground. More than a tribute band, The Dire Straits Experience revisits the most beautiful chapters of the quartet's crazy adventure.