Check this out: a post at "Dylan, etc." about the big Dire Straits concert in Syddo in 1986. I remember the TV broadcast well (it was live to Australia and New Zealand), introduced by a young-ish and nervous Molly Meldrum blathering on from a teleprompter and fluffing most of it. The concert itself is good enough, but it bears little relation to anything I like about Dire Straights; the dude at Dylan, etc. likes it a lot more than me, though. Lots of people recorded it on top-loading VCRs onto grainy domestic quality-VHS tapes with lines and blown-out reds and it got dubbed a lot and passed around people's parents and it sat on little shelves under their TVs for up to 10 years.The post I linked to above has links for downloading the audio from the concert; if you go here you can download individual tracks. It's not available commercially, so don't worry about that.
I quite like the track Industrial Disease:
I go down to speaker's corner I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you Rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease
Meanwhile the first Jesus says I'd cure it soon
Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons
The other one's on a hunger strike he's dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets industrial disease?
I'm still trying to work out which war they're talking about, though. Maybe they're talking about all wars. (Lyrics from LyricsFreak; if you wanna know more about industrial disease, you can read about it here).
But this is all a long-winded way of saying that I gotta get me one of them headbands. Seriously.
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