Hello Eric We could go on and on about whether Henk is Europe's best or second best pop singer, but this would lead us - and the other forum members - nowhere. This is leonardcohenforum.com, not henkhofstede.com. Let's leave it at that. It's all, as you put it rightly, a matter of interpretation. Th...

Thanks very much, Faconer, for coming in here. I totally agree with the slowness of the audience in Frauenfeld. But then 300 people certainly (and automatically) create more enthusiasm than a mere fifty. I remember having written in my CD review that *we* sang worse than Henk. In my opinion Henk def...

Hello Lizzy and Jarkko Finland and Florida and Frauenfeld - what a coincidence :-) I am glad you (Lizzy) liked my genuine feelings about the concert... If anyone out there is able to read German, here's the review I wrote for the local newspaper: http://www.thurgauerzeitung.ch/default2.cfm?vDest=vtA...

Hi Lizzy Thanks for your warm welcome to the forum. I think the audience were quiet at first for three reasons: there were only about 50 of them; some had come for Henk because they knew The Nits (others, including me, went because they had grown up with Leonard); there were chairs for most of the a...

I enjoyed their concert last night very much. After listening to their record I was a bit doubtful at first - I'm 50 and as great a fan of Leonard's as Henk. But on stage they get very close to the audience (who took a while to thaw). Their interpretations are faithful yet never too close, and I som...