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Here's the Knopfler concert, as promised.

MARK KNOPFLER
LIVE AT RUMSEY PLAYFIELD (CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE)
7.23.08

1. Intro
2. Cannibals
3. Why Aye Man
4. What It Is
5. Sailing to Philadelphia
6. True Love Will Never Fade
7. The Fish and the Bird
8. Hill Farmer's Blues
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Sultans of Swing
11. Song for Sonny Liston
12. (band introductions)
13. Marbletown
14. Speedway at Nazareth
15. Telegraph Road
16. Brothers in Arms
17. So Far Away
18. Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero
    

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Summertime is concert season. Recently I had the pleasure of seeing Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Mark Knopfler and akron/family all in the same week.

A pretty decent recording of the Malkmus show can be found below, courtesy of nyctaper-- the set's primarily material from the new Real Emotional Trash album. (Note: right-clicking doesn't seem to work properly for some reason; I think because I'm hosting the files on a free server. I don't really understand how any of this crap works. Just click through and a download page should pop up.)

I'll post the Knopfler show later today (alas, no such recording seems to exist of the akron/family show, prob'ly because it would melt your face off).

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
LIVE AT THE SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL (CONEY ISLAND)
7.19.08

1. Baby C'mon
2. Gardenia
3. Dragonfly Pie
4. Jenny and the Ess-Dog
5. Phantasies
6. Hopscotch Willie
7. Elmo Delmo
8. Cold Son
9. Baltimore
10. Astral Facial
11. We Can't Help You
12. Real Emotional Trash
13. (encore break)
14. All Over Gently
15. Pencil Rot
16. Two Tickets to Paradise (Eddie Money)