Dear everyone,

This is an extra newsletter as we have decided to put the tickets for the UK autumn tour on sale earlier than we planned originally, and this will give you a chance to get in early with your applications.

DIRE STRAITS - AUTUMN UK TOUR - BOOKING DETAILS
As you will see from the list below, we've had to change some of the dates and take out some of the smaller halls as we now have such a huge production on the road we couldn't fit it in to some of them! The Irish dates which were to take place at the very end of December/beginning of January 1986, have been postponed and the group are going to try and visit in the summer of 1986.

The dates are now as follows:

DECEMBER 3/4/5/6	City Hall, Newcast1e
DECEMBER 7/8/9/10	Apollo, Manchester
DECEMBER 11/12	Leisure Centre, Deeside
DECEMBER 13/14	Showering Pavilion, Shepton Mallet
DECEMBER 15/16	N.E.C., Birmingham
DECEMBER 17/18/19/20/21/22/23	Odeon, Hammersmith, London
DECEMBER 29/30/31	Playhouse, Edinburgh

Must rush as I've just got back from the South of France and Monaco and I'm off to Geneva tomorrow so I've got to do all the fan letters today...

ADDITIONAL NEWS
You may have heard on the radio or TV (or read in the papers) about the big Band Aid concert on July 13th at Wembley Stadium.

Quite a lot of you have written in to ask how Dire Straits can possibly be appearing at this as they are playing at Wembley Arena that night. Well - they are appearing there. Each band does about 20 minutes, and we have managed to work things out so that they can soundcheck at the Arena, then dash across to the Stadium and play there at about 6.00pm, then dash back again for their own gig! I'm sure it will be totally chaotic, but it's for a really good cause, and will raise masses of money for Ethiopia, so we felt that we must try and do it. If you are not attending the Dire Straits show that night, you should stay by the TV as the Band Aid show is being televised live (and also satellited around the world to an estimated one-billion people!).

If you are attending the Straits gig at Wembley that night, I should warn you that traffic will be very heavy indeed, and you should make an early start. The same applies on July 6th when Bruce Springsteen is playing at Wembley Stadium. His show is an early one, and it shouldn't be quite such a problem, but you should still allow plenty of time (also for finding somewhere to park!). All of the band and us will be going to see Springsteen, at least for the first part of his show, before going back over to the Arena.

That's all for now,