Well: this is my debut as a journalist for a Leonard Cohen concert, so I was a bit nervous but it wasn't that bad, right?
I can't remember the guy's name, but I had met him earlier during the early entrance in SJ and he told me then he was planning on making a blog or something about the concert and the fans and he asked me if he could take a picture of me with Hattie Webb (my favorite Webb, by the way). Of course I didn't mind, but I can't recall whether or not we actually got 'round to taking a pic... He was a really nice guy and we had a very brief chat during the early entrance. Later, during the intermission of the show, I was talking with some forum members close to the stage and he came up to me and asked me if he could interview me... I agreed after hesitating a bit because I'm no good in interviews and then he suddenly pulled out his camera! That scared the hell out of me, but he persuaded me to do it anyhow. I talked about the concert and later about the LC Files, Jarkko, The Forum, ... for a few minutes. I will send him a message on YouTube, or Mistery Man: if you read this: get in touch through email please!
I don't know the second person in the video, but the girl at the end is Vera. She's a Dutch girl who was wandering through the SJ streets in the afternoon of the concert, wearing a fedora when she bumped into a bunch of Forum members. They recognized a fellow Cohen fan and invited her over to the meetup at the hotel before the early entrance. I met her there and we talked a bit. She's a really great girl and big LC fan. Once inside the venue, I noticed she had a ticket in row 70+ or something with a lousy view and I swapped my 3rd center stage row seat (next to Jarkko, Eija, Dick, Linda,...) with her for the first set of the concert so she would be able to see LC from really close. I already saw LC plenty of times from really, really close (first row in Vegas the day before) and I think she deserved this gesture from me. At first, she refused to swap with me, but at the end I convinced her to do it and I guess she's glad that she did. We changed places again during the intermission... The only "catch" to swapping places with me was that she had to promise me to join the Forum, which she has already done by now (although I don't think she has posted anything yet).
Later, she joined us for the meetup at the hotel with some band members and other "important" people. I had to leave at 4AM that night to get my plane to Belgium and we socialized some more with her, Dana and someone else from San Fran who's name I can't recall. I even convinced the three of them to stay awake all night and wait for Leonard to see him when he would go for his early walk the next day. They stayed up all night and waited until 11pm or so at the hotel lobby to see Leonard, but never did...
Her interview was taken at the hotel, I guess.
That's it!
Maarten
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