Apparently
"New" bands promoting a first (charting) album are under a lot of pressure from their record companies to ensure that the live performance closely matches the album sound because they don't want to confuse the customers. When I saw the Vaccines last year it was like listening to their album in a field with a big sound system, a depressingly sterile performance.
( wakeupandsmellthebacon, Tue 30 Jul 2013, 9:59, 1 reply)

In the very early 80's I saw
Dire Straits. It was one of the the first few 'big gigs' I'd been to see (included with Billy Joel on his "Back in the USSR tour" (my mums choice) and Steve Earl on his "Copperhead Road Tour" (my choice).

Mark Knopfler is a weird balding git but he can sure as fuck play the guitar better than anyone else I know or have watched. Apart from the guy from Storytime. Maybe.
EDIT: Sultans of Swing sounded very similar to the ver. on my brand new "Brother In Arms with Bonus Live CD" cd.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 30 Jul 2013, 10:36, closed)