Belgrade apartments – Whitesnake at Fortress

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English rock legends Whitesnake will stage a concert on 14th June at Lower Town of Belgrade Fortress. This concert will be part of the band’s world tour “Year of the Snake” which begins in May in the USA and continues to many European countries. What doubles fans pleasure is that the drummer, Tommy Aldridge, has rejoined the band recently and will play on the tour, as well.

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As they announced, on this tour they will perform the greatest hits from their decades-long career, such as “Is This Love”, “Here I Go Again”, “Fool For Your Loving”, “Still of the Night”…

Whitesnake formed David Coverdale in 1978, who had previously collaborated with Deep Purple. First four albums made a great success, reaching the world’s top 10 albums. The band has released 11 albums and dozens of live releases. In 2005, Whitesnake was named the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time by VH1.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased from 1990 RSD for the floor, 2990 RSD Fan Pit and 3500 RSD for VIP stands, at Eventim points of sale.

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Belgrade apartments – mikser festival

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Savamala – Mikser festival 28/05/-02/06/2013

Savamala is far removed from the image of a hidden-away, isolated riverfront toponym, which offers up an unobtrusive connection between architecture, art and the public. It is, in fact, full of people who wreak havoc to it, pollute and abuse it, which is precisely what drew us there. Savamala hasn’t got an already established festival space – it is one big urban, historical and ideological disparity, which, while leaking at both ends, still manages to remind, provoke, bleed and to plead.

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It is well known that with the development of explosive projects such as MIKSER, there is a difficulty in avoiding its premature fruition, and with it an eventual entry into the framework of the predictable, a loss of freshness, a relaxation of a lulled management which easily slips into the paradigm of that which it originally fought against. It seems certain that continuous searching and ceaseless challenges are the only way with which the vigour and strength of an enterprise can be preserved, and that is exactly what MIKSER has done with its choice of Savamala as its future festival location. Or at least, it’s firmly convinced that it has!

Savamala, take two. It will be exhausting and won’t happen overnight. One day, when the lorries have all left and once the facade of the most stunning palatial building in the city (that of the Belgrade cooperative, founded in 1907) regains its original shine and splendour, MIKSER will pack up and move on. To a place where it is least expected.

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MIKSER is a multidisciplinary platform which centres around the affirmation of cultural industry of the Balkans and the organization of the biggest regional festival of creative arts. MIKSER gathers together professionals and enthusiasts who, through their different transcultural projects, support the development of national and regional creative economy, and who facilitate a dialogue between contemporary global trends and domestic, as well as regional practice. Projects such as ‘Ghost Project’ – the international showcase of young industrial designers, and ‘Young Balkan Designers’ – a selection of the best product designs of the region, which MIKSER proudly displays at Milan’s furniture fair (I Saloni) – the world’s largest design expo. All this exemplifies MIKSER’s philosophy, which is based on the nurture of young talents, not only from the sphere of design, but also from various other creative disciplines. With the creation of its own, unique platform for interaction between designers, architects, artists, companies, independent organisations, public institutions and the media, the Mikser organisation has set-up and now manages its own festival of creative industry, simply known as MIKSER.

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Apartments Belgrade – Green Day in BG

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Green Day will headline Calling 2013 on May 27th at Kalemegdan, Belgrade!

PROGRAM

22:00 – 00:30 GREEN DAY, USA

20:00 – 21:15 HLADNO PIVO, CRO

19:05 – 19:45 SUPERHIKS, MKD

18:15 – 18:50 ATHEIST RAP, SRB

18:00 Door open

Tickets are sold worldwide via online service by one of the Europe’s leading ticketing companies  Eventim!

27 May 2013
FAN PIT PARTER 1 PARTER 2
3990 RSD 3390 RSD 2790 RSD
35 EUR* 30 EUR* 24 EUR*

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Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tré Cool and guitarist and backing vocalist Jason White, who became a full member after playing in the band as a session and touring guitarist for 13 years.[1] Cool replaced former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990, prior to the recording of the band’s second studio album, Kerplunk (1992).

Green Day was originally part of the punk scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. The band’s early releases were from the independent record label Lookout! Records. In 1994, its major label debut Dookie released through Reprise Recordsbecame a breakout success and eventually sold over 10 million copies in the U.S.[2]Green Day was widely credited, alongside fellow California punk bands Sublime,[3] The Offspring and Rancid, with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States.[4][5] Green Day’s three follow-up albums, Insomniac (1995), Nimrod(1997), and Warning (2000) did not achieve the massive success of Dookie, though they were still successful, with Insomniac and Nimrod reaching double platinum andWarning reaching gold status.[6] The band’s rock opera, American Idiot (2004), reignited the band’s popularity with a younger generation, selling five million copies in the United States.[6] The band’s eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released in 2009 which achieved the band’s best chart performance to date.[7] In 2012, 21st Century Breakdown was followed up by a trilogy of albums called ¡Uno!¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!released on September, November and December 2012 respectively.[8]

They are one of the world’s best-selling groups of all time, having sold over 75 million albums worldwide.[9] The group has won five Grammy Awards: Best Alternative Albumfor Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, Record of the Year for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, Best Rock Album for the second time for 21st Century Breakdownand Best Musical Show Album for American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording. In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway. The musical was nominated for several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Scenic Design.

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Apartments Belgrade – Depeshe Mode in BG

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Depeshe Mode at Ušće

With Diamond Version and Plastic Sunday

Sunday 19 May 2013, 20:00

Ticket price
Promo parter = 2990 RSD
Parter = 3990 RSD
Fan pit = 5990 RSD
VIP = 9990 RSD

Depeche Mode  are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in  Essex. The group’s original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals, occasional songwriter since 2005), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981),  Andy Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter 1980–81). Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album,Speak & Spell and was replaced by Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, occasional songwriter) with Gore taking over songwriting. Wilder left the band in 1995; Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher have since continued as a trio.

Depeche Mode have had 49 songs in the UK Singles Chart and thirteen top 10 albums in the UK charts, two of which debuted at No. 1. According to EMI, Depeche Mode have sold over 100 million albums and singles worldwide, making them the most successful electronic band in music history. Q magazine calls Depeche Mode “The most popular electronic band the world has ever known” and included the band in the list of the “50 Bands That Changed The World!”. VH1 ranked the group no. 98 on his list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”.

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Apartments Belgrade Serbia – MUSEUM NIGHT

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Museum Night Sathurday, 18. May

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The “Museum Night” is a unique event, held annually in the middle of May, in Belgrade and major cities across Serbia, when museums, galleries and other exhibition spaces are presented to the public in ways they have never seen it before. Unusual and interesting events, concerts, performances, fashion shows and thematic exhibitions, along with permanent museums exhibitions take place in just one night, during unorthodox hours, offering great time and unforgettable festive feel. www.nocmuzeja.rs

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This year is Museum Night tenth anniversary and will be held on Saturday, 18 May 2013. Museums,galleries and streets in 65 towns in Serbia have remained awake until 2 o’clock in the morning.

Ticket price 400 rsd , on 18.05. 450 rsd.

Last year, over 500,000 people visited Belgrade’s museums and galleries during the 9th annual Museum Night in Serbia.

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Apartments in Belgrade – Let’s learn Serbian

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LET’S LEARN SERBIAN!

Good morning       Dobro jutro      /doh-broh yootroh/

Good afternoon     Dobar dan      /doh-bar daan/

Good evening        Dobro veče   /doh-broh ve-che/

Hello                       Zdravo          /zdrah-vo/

Goodbye                Doviđenja     /doh-vee gi-enya/

Good night             Laku noć       /lah-koo noch/

 

Yes           Da   /dah/

No            Ne   /neh/

Thank you   Hvala     /hvah-la/

Tomorrow   Sutra     /soo-trah/

Yesterday   Juče     /yoo-cheh/

When?        Kada?   /kah-dah/

Where?       Gde?    /gh-deh/

 

What time is it?        Koliko je sati?    /Koh-lee-koh ye sah-tee/

Let’s go!                   Idemo!     /ee-deh-moh/

How are you?           Kako si?   /kah-koh see/

Nice to meet you!    Drago mi je!  /drah-goh mee yeh/

See you!                  Vidimo se!    /Vee-dee-moh se/

May I…?                  Da li mogu…    /dah lee moh-goo/

Please                      Molim Vas  /moh-leem vahs/

Excuse me               Izvinite   /eez-vee-nee teh/

I don’t understand    Ne razumem   /ne rah-zoo-mehm/

May I help you?        Izvolite   /eez-voh-lee-teh/

Here you are            Izvolite     /eez-voh-lee-teh/

How much is it?        Koliko košta?    /Koh-lee-koh koh-shtah/

Can I pay with credit card?   Može kartica?   /moh-zheh kahr-tee-tyah/

Exchange office   Menjačnica    /meh-nyah-chnee-tyah/

Bank          Banka   /bahn-kah/

Post office  Pošta   /poh-shtah/

 

Good      Dobro   /doh-broh/

Bad         Loše   /loh-sheh/

Big          Veliko   /veh-lee-koh/

Small      Malo  /mah-loh/

Full          Puno  /poo-noh/

Empty     Prazno   /prah-znoh/

Hot         Vruće   /vroo-cheh/

Cold       Hladno   /hlah-dnoh/

More      Više   /vee-sheh/

Less       Manje   /mah-nyeh/

A lot       Mnogo   /mnoh-goh/

A little    Malo  /mah-lo/

Open    Otvoreno   /oh-tvoh-reh noh/

Closed   Zatvoreno    /zah-tvoh-reh-noh/

 

In front of    Ispred   /ees-prehd/

Behind        Iza   /ee-zah/

Above        Iznad   /eez-nahd/

Below         Ispod   /ees-pohd/

I’m hungry    Gladan  sam  /gah-dahn sahm/

I’m thirsty     Žedan sam   /yheh-dahn sahm/

 

Food     Hrana   /hrah-nah/

Drink     Piće   /pee-che/

Have a nice meal   Prijatno    /pree-yar-no/

Breakfast               Doručak    /doh-roo-chahk/

Dinner                   Večera     /veh-cheh-rah/

Bread                     Hleb         /hlehb/

Salt                        So            /soh/

Pepper                   Biber       /bee-behr/

Vinegar                  Sir           /seer-cheh/

Water                     Voda       /voh-dah

Wine                    Vino         /vee-noh/

Beer                     Pivo           /pee-voh/

Brandy                 Rakija       /rah-kee-yah/

Coffee                  Kafa           /kah-fah/

Tea                      Čaj             /chahy/

Milk                     Mleko         /mleh-koh/

Salad                  Salata        /sah-lah-tah/

Soup                   Supa          /soo-pah/

Meat                    Meso         /meh-soh/

Fish                     Riba           /ree-bah/

Cheese                Sir             /seer/

Eggs Jaja   /zah-zah/

Fruit   Voće   /voh-cheh/

Bill   Račun   /rah-choon/

 

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Serbian alphabet

 

 

I         Ja   /yah/

You   Ti   /tee/

He     On  /ohn/

She   Ona  /ohnah/

It       Ono   /ohnoh/

 

We    Mi   /mee/

You    Vi  /vee/

They  Oni  /ohnee/

 

 

1        /yeh-dahn/

2       /dvah/

3       /tree/

4       /cheh-tee-ree/

5       /peht/

     /sheh-st/

7       /she-dahm/

8       /oh-sahm/

9      /deh-vet/

10    /deh-set/

11    /yeh-dah-nah-est/

12    /dvah-nah-est/

13    /tree-nah-est/

14    /cheh-tr-nah-est/

15    /pet-nah-est/

16    /shes-nah-est/

17    /seh-dahm-nah-est/

18    /oh-sahm-nah-est/

19    /deh-veht-nah-est/

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20   /dvah-deh-set/

30   /tree-deh-set/

40   /cheh-tr-deh-set/

50   /peh-deh-set/

60   /shehz-deh-set/

70   /she-dahm-deh-set/

80   /oh-sahm-deh-set/

90  /deh-veh-deh-set/

100   /stoh/

500   /peht-stoh/

1000   /hee-lyah-doo/

 

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Apartments Belgrade – Andrea Bocelli

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2013/05/10

ANDREA BOCELLI

The famous Italian tenor will be performing his concert at Belgrade’s Kombank Arena on 10th May 2013.

You can purchase tickets on all CS Eventim outlets and on box offices: Kombank Arena, Bilet centar Beograd, Dom omladine and UŠĆE Shopping centar. Online sales available on:http://www.kombankarena.com//www.eventim.rshttp://www.tickets.rs/

The Italian tenor, who began to rise to fame during the nineties, is returning to Belgrade after many, hugely successful seasons, several releases and sold out performances in some of the best known opera houses and larger venues throughout the world. His concerts are famed for their diverse repertoire drawing from many genres and for the excellent duets with stars such as Pavorotti and Domingo. The names of those to guest with Andrea at his Belgrade concert will be announced this Autumn.

 His musical career began at the San Remo Festival in 1994 by winning the “Newcomers” section with the song “Il Mare Calmo della Sera”. Just after the festival, Bocelli released his debut album, which has the same title of the winning song.

Bocelli’s patrons at the start of his career were Luciano Pavarotti and Zucchero. It was the song “Con te partirò” that helped him rise to fame and after that he went on to sing with Sarah Brightman in the unforgetable duet “Time To Say Goodbye”. His album “Romanza” sold over  two hundred thousand copies in the Czech Republic alone and last year’s DVD “Andrea Bocelli – One Night In Central Park”  is a worldwide bestseller.

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Biography

Andrea Angel Bocelli,  born 22 September 1958, is an Italian tenor, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a football accident.

Since winning the Newcomers section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994, Bocelli has recorded fourteen solo studio albums, of both pop and classical music, three greatest hits albums, and nine complete operas, selling over 80 million records worldwide. Thus, he is the biggest-selling artist in the history of classical music and has caused core classical repertoire to “cross over” to the top of international pop charts and into previously uncharted territory in popular culture.

In 1998, he was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People. In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards was the first time since Leontyne Price in 1961 that a classical artist had been nominated in the category. The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film The Quest for Camelot, won the Golden Globefor Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. With the release of his classical album, Sacred Arias, Bocelli captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records, as he simultaneously held the top 3 positions on the US classical albums charts. Seven of his albums have since reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, and a record-setting 8 have topped the classical albums charts in the United States.

With 5 million units sold worldwide, Sacred Arias became the biggest-selling classical album by a solo artist of all time, and with over 20 million copies sold worldwide, his 1997 pop album, Romanza became the best-selling album by an Italian artist of any genre in history, as well as the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Canada, and a number of other countries in Europe and Latin America. The album’s first single, “Time to Say Goodbye”, topped charts all across Europe, including Germany, where it stayed at the top of the charts for fourteen consecutive weeks, breaking the all-time sales record, with over 3 million copies sold in the country. The single went on to sell over 12 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.

Widely regarded as both the most popular Italian and classical singer in the world, Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2006, and on March 2, 2010, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Live Theater.

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Belgrade apartments – Forest park Kosutnjak

 

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Košutnjak spread out over a hill that is 250m high,
this 330 hectare forest park used to be the royal hunting
grounds until 1903, when it was opened to the public.
The forest, a mixture of deciduous and coniferous trees,
is crisscrossed with numerous trim trails and nature
walks and there are picnic tables in the clearings for the
overwhelming majority who prefer to just sit and enjoy
a barbeque. The Košutnjak Sports Centre features an
indoor and five outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, a
football pitch and volleyball and basketball facilities. There
are a number of restaurants beneath shady trees and a
spring at the foot of the hill, whose water is safe to drink.

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The Hajdučka česma drinking fountain

 

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Apartments Belgrade – RAMMSTEIN in Belgrade

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2013/04/28 Kombank Arena

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“Wir halten das Tempo” will also be Rammstein’s motto for 2013, with the band headlining a number of big European festivals.

Over the past two years alone over 1.3 million people from Mexico, the USA, South Africa, Australia, Canada and Europe have been blown away by the band’s spectacular live show. The Rammstein machine keeps rolling on and on, and 2013 will be no different: it promises to be one hot summer!

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Short stay apartments Belgrade – Mark Knopfler in BG

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2013/04/30  20:30 Thusday
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Mark Knopfler is one of the most critically and commercially successful artists of all time.

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Mark, who was recently presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards (the UK’s highest songwriting accolade) announces summer 2013 tour dates in support of his new album Privateering, released on 3rd September 2012, on Universal Records.  The tour runs through April, May, June and July 2013, encompassing 72 shows in 25 European countries.

Biography

“A privateer is what I am, really,” says Mark Knopfler.

The title track of the legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist’s eighth solo album evokes a swashbuckling era of seafaring plunder, merchant raiders and licensed pirates. But Mark finds an analogy with the modern rock and roll life. “I really get a buzz out of having this little group of people that sallies forth across the world. I enjoy being in command of it, the band, the crew, travelling through this ever changing landscape and playing in all these different places. You get where you get without any kind of assistance, really, making your own way in the world. There are no government grants to play this music. You’re a privateer. And that’s the way I like it.”

Privateering is Mark Knopfler’s first double album in a 35-year recording career. “The older I get, the more I want to write,” he says. “Whether that is just panic at time running out, I’m not sure. I’m enjoying the process more than ever, writing, recording and playing live, I enjoy all of it. I’m almost tripping over songs.”

These 20 tracks of consummately crafted folk, blues, country and rock originals reflect the creative exuberance of an artist whose exceptional abilities were recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Ivor Novellos. He has performed live in front of countless millions. He has collaborated with artists of the stature of Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Emmylou Harris and Van Morrison. He has composed distinctive soundtracks for such classic films as Local Hero, The Princess BrideLast Exit To Brooklyn and Wag The Dog. He has been regularly acclaimed as one of the greatest guitarists in the world. But what he sees himself as, first and foremost, is a songwriter. And this may be his finest-ever collection.

“I have always thought in terms of the transatlantic nature of music. My idea of heaven is somewhere where the Mississippi Delta meets the Tyne. What I wanted from the very first album with Dire Straits and songs like ‘Sultans of Swing’ was to write my own geography into the American music that shaped me, to identify the English, Irish and Scottish landmarks on Chuck Berry’s road. I think what I’m doing now is both synthesising those influences and separating them. The band I have is so talented, and so flexible, they give me the kind of palette to go anywhere I want, so I can jump from a hill farm in the north of England and go straight to the streets of New York City or go down into the delta for a straight-ahead blues.”

Privateering travels from the dreamy Americana of ‘Redbud Tree’, filled with trademark silvery Stratocaster licks, to the sea shanty pipes of ‘Haul Away’, the swaggering slide electric blues of -’Gator Blood’ and the Celtic folk yearning of ‘Kingdom Of Gold’. It is full of drawn characters like the tough northern sheep farmer of ‘Yon Two Crows’ and the boastful gambler of ‘Hot Or What’, and evocative situations like the embattled lovers in the rain swept ‘Seattle’ and the mysterious contemplations of mortality of ‘Dream Of The Drowned Submariner’. The lyrical and musical detail in these songs is of the very first order, with Mark Knopfler’s singing and playing always bringing the story home on the back of one of the finest bands in the world. Privateering is not a concept album. It is not a song cycle. It is simply one of our finest and most distinctive musical talents doing what he does best.

“I chose to make a double album this time just because of the sheer volume of material. I didn’t want to separate songs into blues and folk and country and I didn’t want to leave songs on the shelf. I just wanted it to be a reflection of the fantastic sessions we had. With a great bunch of players, it’s the same as a great group of actors reading a script from the page, the thing can come alive in ways it just never has before. This is the band I have been working towards my whole life.”

The line-up of musicians Mark has been gathering around him since the mid-90s includes Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Jim Cox (piano), Glenn Worf (bass), Mike McGoldrick (whistle and flute) and John McCusker (fiddle) with the recent addition of the fantastic Ian Thomas (drums). Special guests included Paul Franklin (pedal steel), Phil Cunningham (accordion) and Tim O’Brien (mandolin). Ruth Moody of rising roots band The Wailin’ Jennys contributed her distinctive vocals. “To have Ruth singing on the record was very special for me,” says Mark. “She is on the very top level of singers and songwriters out there and I can’t take her off my jukebox.” The blues material was infused with the harmonica playing of Kim Wilson of legendary blues rockers The Fabulous Thunderbirds. “One of the most important things about the blues to me has always been the harp. Seeing Muddy Waters as a kid made a big impression on me, the harp was burbling away all the time, the band was swinging. And to me the greatest modern exponent is Kim Wilson, he’s been my top man for many years, so it was really great to have him on board. We hit it off straight away and got a great session going.”

Recorded in Mark’s own studio, British Grove, Privateering is a smart, subtle, soulful and utterly superb collection of songs from a class act with an unbeatable band. These are tough tales of real people, living hard lives in difficult times. And it is all carried off with the self-confident bravado of a latter-day privateer. The cover, featuring a battered van and a shaggy dog, says it all. “I remember in the early days, if you had a van you could get into a group, so band wagons have always had a special place in my heart. It was important to use something like that, to take it away from the nautical swashbuckler. To me a man in a van has got as much to do with privateering as a frigate or a gunboat or anything like that. He’s on the road, he’s making his own way, he’s doing his thing, the best way he knows how. That’s what I’m talking about. That’s what we’re all trying to do.”

From www.markknopfler.com

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