This morning I found all the paperwork from the first Leonard Cohen Event held in Lincoln, England in 1998. It was just a day event, costing £10. I found copies of the event brochure and some rather shabby posters I didn't know I had. But the special find was the 'Visitors' Book', signed by everyone...

Does anyone know anything about Marianne Ihlen's siblings?

Peter and I will be attending, and looking forward to it very much.
It will be lovely to meet old friends again, and to find new ones.
It will be 20 years since the first event in Lincoln, UK!
I would be very grateful if someone could let me know when registration starts.

Do we have exact dates for the Budapest Event?

Lack of space is forcing a clearing-out of a lot of Leonard Cohen memorabilia. I have 30-40 tapes of early radio interviews and music. I have many magazines containing articles about Leonard Cohen; mostly British weekend newspaper supplements, but some music magazines and some with the 'free' cd sti...

I'm still waiting. What is worse, I'm getting no reply from the company selling the limited edition, even though they say, "we will reply within 24 hours". Hmmm.

I have been dutiful, patient. I have not misbehaved. I have not listened to previews and free downloads. I have been silently waiting for the postman to arrive with the limited edition album. I have a frame ready for the lithograph. The album was posted on the 26th. It is now the 30th. Aaaagh!

Ray's death leaves a big space in my heart. He was a very dear friend. Ray and I first met when I was organising the Cohen event in Lincoln, and discovered that one of the attendees also lived in Leicestershire. We met many times from then on, to spend evenings together in Leicester - lots of drinki...