Hello
I'm a huge fan of Leonard Cohen, wich I discover when I saw the movie Natural Born Killers. It was love at first sight (or music). And now, 14 years after, he's on tour again and his coming to Europe. I live in Portugal and hopefully he will come here, but I'm willing to go wherever my money allow me, just to see him
Go Leonard!!!
OMG --I am going to be in Spain on those dates--How can I find out more about the festival -any english info would be gratefully accepted as my Spanish is well-non-existent. I do speak a little French. I am so excited I am almost beside myself.
richardrj wrote:It may be worth keeping an eye on the websites of likely venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in the next few days. It's not unknown for venues to jump the gun and post details of shows before the artist's management has gotten around to making an official announcement.
is that really possible? i hope that not...
It has already happened - see the Benicassim festival announcement - and I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again.
' Leonard Cohen is set to play an outdoor seated show in Dublin in June. The venue for Cohen's first Irish show in two decades is believed to be the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham.
Last week, POD Concerts applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission to hold live shows at this location between June 13th and 20th, with "up to 12,000 people" expected to attend '
The above information is from The Irish Times newspaper this morning . Details of the tour are definitely drip feeding out !!
Jarrko , HELP !!---I will be out of Ireland from the 18th June --please use all your influence to have the Dublin concert before the 18TH!!!!!
Hi there,
please, treat this post as a very serious petition on behalf of a long time fan of Leonard's music. I hope someone from the management can read this and will schedule at least a couple of concerts in a normal music hall somewhere in the southern Europe (Spain, Portugal...) I've been searching this forum twice a day since the veruy first info concerning the tour, finally I've started posting myself as well. I know many of you, LC fans, are in a pretty much same position as I am: kids, work, other obligations. How on earth LC management can expect we will be going to a rock festival to see Leonard with shouting, drunken and drugged teenagers. LC is to listen in quiet, warm atmosphere. For me is just like an opera - you are not going to jump there and move your head until your neck hurts! You just sit and listen and let LC poetry "tie you to a kitchen chair (...) and from your lips (..) drew the "halleluyah"!...
Should Jarkko or anyone has anything to say to comfort me, you're welcome to do so. I feel really bad, as I see my great opportunity to listen to LC live in concert is fading away... I just CAN?T go to Benicassim with two small kids... and frankly I am not even sure whether I want to listen to Leonard in such a place despite all my love for his music...
Beyond the myths and the masks the soul remains alone...
I soooo agree with you magasto. I have waited nearly 40 years to see him in concert and a festival is not the best place but anywhere would do. I would travel to Canada or the US or Euorpe if I thought I could get tickets to his concert. So is all this leaked information just speculation by journalist who have head about his tour and put two and two together to make 5, or are these snippits of info correct? HELP
According to the Irish Times article mentioned above:
"He has already been confirmed as one of the headliners for this summer's Glastonbury Festival and is also expected to play a run of shows at London's O2 Arena"
As per today's Ticket (weekly entertainment supplement to the Irish Times), LC will be here in Dublin between 13 & 20 June, playing in an all seated venue, Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Still sounds a bit tentative, but hopes are rising!
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
from Wild Geese
Mary Oliver
I agree totally about the festival atmosphere. I gave up on Glastonbury long ago, and even LC couldn't get me back there. Since there was the first whisper of a tour I've thought I'll do anything, go anywhere to see him, but I must say both Glastonbury and Benacassim are out, for exactly the reasons other posters have mentioned. But lets take heart, there surely will be concerts in normal venues - the O2 arena or albert hall in London, SURELY somewhere in Paris etc. I feel like waiting for a winning lottery ticket, waiting for concert news, and sensing the rest of you as eager as me, for our pass to the Tower of Song...
damellon wrote:As per today's Ticket (weekly entertainment supplement to the Irish Times), LC will be here in Dublin between 13 & 20 June, playing in an all seated venue, Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Still sounds a bit tentative, but hopes are rising!
It looks like it is going to be another festival like last years some days never end. The iggy pop show on the 16th june is an outside affair.
oh and also found this so it is starting to look good damelion
Leonard Cohen is set to play an outdoor seated show in
Dublin in June. The venue for Cohen’s first Irish show in two
decades is believed to be the Royal Hospital in
Kilmainham.
"I needed so much, to have nothing to touch - I've always been greedy that way"
Note that Judy Collins is playing in London on 11 June. What are the chances of a guest appearance by Leonard at that show, since it looks like he will be in Europe at the time?
---I think both yesterday's Spanish and this Irish announcement are reliable. These first venues confirm our
information that many of the concerts will happen outdoors, either independently or as a part of a very big rock festival.
Meanwhile Leonard has started rehearsals with his new band.
UPDATE SIX HOURS LATER: I have received new information that overturns my comment about the Spanish and Irish concerts.
