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In the hope that he will do it... and in the hope that someone with some influence might see this.... Yorkshire opens it's arms to Leonard Cohen.

Sheffield City Hall would be an amazing venue. KD Lang and many others agree!

York Barbican Centre or Harrogate International Centre would be errrrrrrrrrr... mighty convenient for me!

Unofficial dates I found browsing thru regional papers and websites:

Ljubljana, Slovenia, Hala Tivoli - September 25 - on sale in few days - http://www.zavod-tivoli.si/ (It's a sport hall, but also serves as a famous concert venue. Basketball part has 4050 places, both standing on the parket and seats around, probably that's one for the shows; left half of the hall - hockey on ice - is 6000 seats.)

Belgrade (Beograd), Serbia - Arena - September 30 (first date was Sept. 10, what was too early) - http://www.arenabeograd.com/ - 19394 seats

Sofia, Romania - somewhere here
Budapest - also


Also, Serbian newspapers said that one of major thing for having a show is that the distance between two venues has to be under 400 km.

(Vienna-) Ljubljana-Budapest-Belgrade-Sofia is in the line, except that it's little more between Serbia and Slovenia - and what's funny, Zagreb is on the half, and there's no concert it seems.

I guess we will know everything next week, when Leonard's management publish the schedule here.

Found these Brazilian dates here: http://www.last.fm/music/Leonard+Cohen/+events


22.10.2008, Marina da Glória, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL / Tim Festival 2008 with Franz Ferdinand, Amy Winehouse, Mika, Leonard Cohen, Ryan Adams, Klaxons, Beirut, The Gossip, MGMT, Gogol Bordello, Santogold, Marcelo Camelo, Esperanza Spalding
http://www.marinadagloria.com.br/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_da_Gl%C3%B3ria

next: Auditório Ibirapuera, São Paulo, BRASIL / Tim Festival 2008, same names
http://www.auditorioibirapuera.com.br/i ... nicas.aspx - capacity only 800 ???????????
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit%C3%B3rio_Ibirapuera

and: 28.10.2008 at Pedreira Paulo Leminski, CURITIBA, BRASIL / Tim Festival 2008, same names
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedreira_Paulo_Leminski - capacity 30.000 !!!

Anybody heard any rumors of more Canadian dates this Fall?


***No dates for US/Canada this Fall -- as far as we know now!!! / Jarkko***

What about Finland? Is he coming... I'm waiting - and I'm sure many are... hope it's possible, really.

***Terve Aune! Vastaan piruuttani suomeksi, niin muut ihmettelevät mitä tässä nyt sanotaan! Vahvistamattoman ohjelman mukaan Helsinki saa kyllä oman konserttinsa syksyn kuluessa. Vahvistus saataneen parin viikon aikana. Yritämme saada jopa lippukiintiön katsomon edessä, saa nähdä onnistuuko. Mahdoitko huomata konserttiarvioinnin tämänpäiväisestä Hesarista - oli kovasti kehuva. Juttelin etukäteen toimittajan kanssa ja hän on vanha Cohen-fani. Emme uskaltaneet laittaa vielä varmaa tietoa Helsingin konsertista, joten tekstissä tyydyttiin "Cohenin tuntevan tahon" tietoihin vai miten se nyt meni / Jarkko***

Moi Jarkko! Jep huomasin, ja se kyllä nosti mieleen keväällä virinneen toiveen. Harkitsin reissua johonkin muuhun konserttiin, mutta ei onnistunut. Mutta tuo, jos vain toteutuu - huikeaa! Toivomme...

pironi wrote:Found these Brazilian dates here: http://www.last.fm/music/Leonard+Cohen/+events

next: Auditório Ibirapuera, São Paulo, BRASIL / Tim Festival 2008, same names
http://www.auditorioibirapuera.com.br/i ... nicas.aspx - capacity only 800 ???????????

800 seats for the small indoor auditorium but 15,000 outdoors!

When is the concert in Vienna supposed to be?

ive heard from a very reliable source that wakefield unity hall is about to graced with the great man

Just in case our old friends are involved there is a ticketmaster "priority" service that costs twenty quid and may help you to queue jump a little bit. I joined it for Tom W tickets and got some and I guess demand was pretty heavy. I managed to find details of the service on the TM website. In any event, good luck!

jarkko wrote:...we have also heard rumors from Brazilian friends...

This is a pattern I've seen on a number of forums devoted to artists I'm fond of. South Americans plead and beg incessantly for the artist to travel to their part of the world, and if that doesn't work (it usually doesn't) they will optimistically resort to announcing tour dates themselves in the hope that the artist will cave in and fulfil the engagement. Gotta love 'em.

tragicomix wrote:When is the concert in Vienna supposed to be?

We don't know yet. Wait and see.

Does anybody know IF there will b e a concert in Vienna.
Otherwise I should buy tickets for Germany quite soon, as our neighbours are gain the first to sell tickets...

tragicomix wrote:Does anybody know IF there will b e a concert in Vienna.
Otherwise I should buy tickets for Germany quite soon, as our neighbours are gain the first to sell tickets...

We don't know yet. Wait and see.