letter from I shorts in the irish independent.
How very fitting for these pandemic days are some of the lyrics of the late, great Leonard Cohen’s Waiting For The Miracle....
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/lett ... 93738.html
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- Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: Comments & Questions
- Topic: Everybody knows the plague is comming
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1448
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: ken follett - novelist - is a leonard cohen fan
- Replies: 0
- Views: 184
ken follett - novelist - is a leonard cohen fan
together with his wife of 40 years.
picks `dance me to the end of love` as one of his two inheritance tracks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08z5cgv
picks `dance me to the end of love` as one of his two inheritance tracks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08z5cgv
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Review of Jewish Museum Show A Crack in Everything
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6809
emily sigalow muses on jews and buddhism
let's hope leonard gets mentioned : "...I recently finished a book project about the historical and contemporary encounter between Judaism and Buddhism in America. "This book, American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change, (Princeton University Press) explains how Judaism and Buddhism met, c...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: Tribute concerts, Cover versions & Soundtracks
- Topic: leonard cohen tribute act in carcassonne
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1646
leonard cohen tribute act in carcassonne
carcassonne in france ...On our first evening, we ate at a little bistro looking straight across at the ramparts. The maitre d’ must have seen the look on my face when an intense young man with a guitar began to pour out his sorrows in song. We were shown to a perfect table outside on the rear patio...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:57 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Judy Collins: ‘Leonard Cohen was a gentleman – except if you were having an affair with him’
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1114
Re: Judy Collins: ‘Leonard Cohen was a gentleman – except if you were having an affair with him’
... She has sung definitive versions of songs from everyone from Joni Mitchell to Bob Dylan over many decades, but octogenarian Judy Collins has no plans to stop any time soon, writes John Meagher... Leonard Cohen and Judy Collins perform a mesmerising duet of ‘Suzanne’, 1976 https://www.independent...
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, film by Nick Broomfield
- Replies: 74
- Views: 24762
Re: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, film by Nick Broomfield
rick vick - R.I.P.
Rick Vick obituary
The ‘Poet of Stroud’ who performed in prisons and became friends with Leonard Cohen when a holiday to Hydra lasted 14 years...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rick ... -jd027q9t9
Rick Vick obituary
The ‘Poet of Stroud’ who performed in prisons and became friends with Leonard Cohen when a holiday to Hydra lasted 14 years...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rick ... -jd027q9t9
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:21 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: we had it so good - novel by linda grant
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5179
bishop baines cites leonard on premier christian radio
bishop baines cites leonard during interview on premier christian radio - 1 hour and 28 minutes approx into programme. leonard had tried drugs and drink but joy kept breaking through - quote from recent live tour https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Weekday/Inspirational-Breakfast/Episodes/In...
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:20 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: A Case of Cohen- Nick Baines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1097
leonard cohen- nick baines
bishop baines cites leonard during interview on premier christian radio - 1 hour and 28 minutes approx into programme. leonard had tried drugs and drink but joy kept breaking through - quote from recent live tour https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Weekday/Inspirational-Breakfast/Episodes/In...
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:55 pm
- Forum: Tribute concerts, Cover versions & Soundtracks
- Topic: Olympia Theatre Dublin May 31st 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1331
Re: Dublin - march 4th and 5th, 2020 - bord gáis energy theatre
RTÉ is irish state broadcaster (similar to bbc in uk). their orchestra plays music of leonard cohen. special guests :- lisa hannigan, mick flannery, suzanne savage and phelim drew. AIKEN PROMOTIONS PRESENTS “This was a magical and profoundly moving performance” Hot Press “Fast becoming one of Irelan...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:38 pm
- Forum: Adam Cohen
- Topic: adam cohen and rufus wainwright tour- late autumn 2012
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11076
rufus and martha in london - royal festival hall - 6th december, 2019
Rufus & Martha Wainwright's A Not So Silent Night Feel the holiday spirit at the Wainwright family party, where Rufus and Martha pay tribute to their singer-songwriter mother Kate McGarrigle. The siblings return to Royal Festival Hall after the first tribute show to McGarrigle was staged here on 12...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:27 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, film by Nick Broomfield
- Replies: 74
- Views: 24762
Re: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, film by Nick Broomfield
nick interviewed by jason solomons in the new european : anti-brexit newspaper.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-6171013
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-6171013
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:21 pm
- Forum: Other Writers and Writing
- Topic: louis de bernieres - of love and desire : leonard admired
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5654
Re: louis de bernieres - of love and desire : leonard admired
culture fix in the times - saturday review - page 10 - july 20th. the life and times of louis. the lyric i wish i'd written : ...if it be your will by leonard cohen. it's full of the beautiful resignation of one who has fallen to the very depths and now admits to their helplessness... the song that ...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:14 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Sylvie Simmons - LC's biographer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3877
Re: Sylvie Simmons - LC's biographer
programme audio now on website of bbc radio 4 extra. Sylvie Simmons left Islington as a teenager in the seventies to freelance as a rock correspondent for the likes of NME, Sounds and Melody Maker. Music journalists were rare on the West Coast back then, female ones even rarer. Sylvie talks to Nick ...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:11 pm
- Forum: Tribute concerts, Cover versions & Soundtracks
- Topic: Ed Sheeran sings "Hallelujah"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2578
Re: Ed Sheeran sings "Hallelujah"
reprised at roundhay park in leeds.
...his version of Leonard Cohen’s classic Hallelujah was convincing with the massed audience giving it their all...
https://www.metro.news/review-rain-cant ... n/1680498/
...his version of Leonard Cohen’s classic Hallelujah was convincing with the massed audience giving it their all...
https://www.metro.news/review-rain-cant ... n/1680498/
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:08 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, film by Nick Broomfield
- Replies: 74
- Views: 24762
Re: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, film by Nick Broomfield
adrian chiles interviews nick about movie on bbc radio 5live.
long interview - 2 hours and 40 minutes approx into programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t86
long interview - 2 hours and 40 minutes approx into programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009t86