St. Joseph's Oratory capacity - 2200If so, bookers might consider a bigger room. St. Joseph's Oratory?
Place Des Arts WP capacity - 2990
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St. Joseph's Oratory capacity - 2200If so, bookers might consider a bigger room. St. Joseph's Oratory?
Actually, the author of the article is Bill Brownstein, not Bernstein.jarkko wrote:I have posted the Montreal Gazette review by Bill Bernstein and a great dia show by Allan LaCroix on a new Montreal page at
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/tour2008-13.html
Both Bill Bernstein and Allan LaCroix kindly gave their permission to use their work on the website.
I think the point the author was trying to make, given all the references in the rest of the article, is that St. Joseph's Oratory would be more suitable as seeing Leonard was like a "religious exerience".Steve Wilcox wrote:St. Joseph's Oratory capacity - 2200If so, bookers might consider a bigger room. St. Joseph's Oratory?
Place Des Arts WP capacity - 2990
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What exactly do you mean by ;" everyone had filed out" ?SALee wrote:And then we got up and left, thinking the concert had ended, and because everyone had filed out.
Guess you can tell I don't understand French! Glad to hear he said it. We had a very nice young man next to us translate some parts for us and were pleased that Leonard spoke English quite bit, too.Steve Wilcox wrote:
Leonard actually said, each night, "we'll back back in 15 minutes" but always in French. What a shame that made the difference between seeing one hour or seeing three.
I saw that, and wondered what it was all about, as both sides seemed fairly adamant, and then the one couple just leaving abruptly. Quite a loud discussion too, with cell phones being turned on to light up the tickets to read them. A few calls for "down in front!"Steve Wilcox wrote:Next to me on the 25th another interesting thing happened - a couple came in (during Bird On A Wire mind you) to find two people in their seats - discussion ensued (also during Bird On A Wire!!!) - turned out the second couple to arrive had tickets for the night before, the 24th! Now that was unbelievable, how could you pay $360 for 2 tickets and show up the wrong night, and a night too late at that - at least a night too soon would have been repairable. Unless a scalper screwed them right before show time, purposely selling them spoiled tickets.
Did this happen to be in row 'J'? The reason I'm asking is because I was there on the 24th and I just could not believe that the two seats next to me, and very good seats at that, were empty!!! I thought it was really a waste. Now I'm guessing that the people meant for those seats were the people you observed the following night...Steve Wilcox wrote: Next to me on the 25th another interesting thing happened - a couple came in (during Bird On A Wire mind you) to find two people in their seats - discussion ensued (also during Bird On A Wire!!!) - turned out the second couple to arrive had tickets for the night before, the 24th! Now that was unbelievable, how could you pay $360 for 2 tickets and show up the wrong night, and a night too late at that - at least a night too soon would have been repairable. Unless a scalper screwed them right before show time, purposely selling them spoiled tickets.