Mark Knopfler will release his ninth solo studio album on 16 November 2018 on his own British Grove label via Virgin EMI/EMI Music Australia.

Entitled 'Down The Road Wherever' it features 14 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs inspired by a wide range of subjects, including his early days in Deptford with Dire Straits, a stray football fan lost in a strange town, the compulsion of a musician hitching home through the snow, and a man out of time in his local greasy spoon.

Mark has a poet's eye for telling details that infuse his songs with his unique psychogeography – 'where the Delta meets the Tyne' as he describes it – and his warm Geordie vocal tone and his deft, richly melodic guitar playing are as breathtaking and thrilling as ever.