Duo Straits
An Acoustic Tribute to Dire Straits
VVK 17 Euro / AK 19 Euro
Tickets are available at the local advance booking offices Touristinfo, theatre office and BBV Bocholt and online at www.tixforgigs.com/de-DE/Event/67965
Maik Goth and Murat Kayi have been a duo since 1990 - which means nothing other than that they already had their guitars with them in class at school to make music together during breaks.
Anyone who has been in tune with each other for so long and also shares a fascination for the music of Dire Straits must sooner or later come up with the idea of making an evening-long programme out of it. Even if it is not an obvious idea to condense the sometimes quite complex music of Dire Straits into just two instruments.
Not only conventional guitars are used. Dire Straits fans will recognise the Resonator guitar from the album cover of "Brothers in Arms". Maik Goth and Murat Kayi use both this and a special type of guitar: the steel guitar or dobro. With this selection and two voices, the two musicians manage to dust off the eighties from the songs and bring out what these pieces have always been: first-class songs. They don't shy away from any album or any hit, no matter how atmospherically multi-layered. Why should they? They are passionate about what they do, have fun and are highly skilful. An evening with the two musicians is perhaps the next best thing to a real Dire Straits concert, because here they don't imitate - they celebrate and revel with passion!
Murat Kayi is a musician, author and cabaret artist. He presented the Liederlounge Live on WDR radio, performed for many years with the Geierabend in Dortmund and has won awards for his work (most recently the Ruhr 2022 Literature Prize, sponsorship award). Maik Goth is a musician, author and freelance lecturer. His debut album "Polaris" was released by RetterdesRock in 2023.