O2

[jasmina]

does anybody know when tickets for O2 will be dispatch

[A.Sukitu]

jasmina, hi -
i think that the 02 send out tickets around 10 days before the event (i guess to avoid chaos if concerts are cancelled etc etc). i know ... not very helpful if you are travelling ...
hope you have a decent seat - or are taking a portable telescope? i am taking binoculars.
all bests,
Annie

[David Blackman]

Re the O2 and and the wonderful tickets I got from everyones favourite ticket seller. I hope to borrow the Hubble telescope I might get to see Leonard on stage that way , but if not there is always a distant planet I can look for.

[yhtrownu]

David, you are funny, turning misery to comedy, so thanks. On the plus side, there's usually a massive video screen at the O2, which is 100 percent necessary, as nearly everybody there will need to look at it to see Leonard's expressions, since the room is so ridiculously big. . .

[yhtrownu]

Oh, and as to when O2 tickets are sent out, it's varied massively for me in the past. I have my Kylie ticket for July 30 already, so I will guess that the Leonard tickets will be sent out soon, maybe in May.

[David Blackman]

Re going to the O2, I have got tickets for the Roger Waters, Dark Side of the Moon gig . I got good seats from another outlet, no problem which just goes to show you it is possible to get reasonable tickets from some outlets but thats another topic. No Hubble telescope needed that night, not even to see the Dark side of the Moon. I think it will be a blue moon if Leonard plays somewhere else in London other than the O2, but once in a while I believe there is a blue moon. If not I be on the dark side re the Leonard concerts.

[jondi]

If you get a chance look in today's Observer Music Monthly, a great review of O2 given a major acoustic thumbs up by the great and the good and apparently the massive screen will be there too. Happy I am going to Manchester but happy that you will have a world class time in the south too

[brokenhill]

Another acoustic thumbs up in the Grauniad (and lots of other background for first timers)
I'm still glad that I, too will be in Manchester, but the O2 is not as bad as I'd feared apparently.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/ ... 62,00.html

[David Blackman]

The O2 as a venue I am sure ticks all the right boxes . I just feel it lends itself to some more than others and that despite the good reviews it gets Leonard would have been better served say somewhere like the Albert Hall where I last saw him I believe in 1993.The 0 dear 2 may have a big screen so all of us at the back can see him, thanks Ticketmaster but if I wanted to watch Leonard on screen I would watch a video of him or get a DVD of the concert,if one comes out after the tour. I know I will enjoy the concert but I feel something of the intimacy will be lost in that vast expanse of the old dome. Lets be honest most of you who have tickets for Manchester are happier with that venue .

[Paula]

Oh, and as to when O2 tickets are sent out, it's varied massively for me in the past. I have my Kylie ticket for July 30 already, so I will guess that the Leonard tickets will be sent out soon, maybe in May.

Yhtrown - you nearly managed to get that through without comment.

The musical tastes of us Cohenites never ceases to amaze me

[David Blackman]

I will have a better take on the O2 after I have seen Roger Waters do Dark Side of the Moon. At least it beat Kylie oops

[WinterMute]

I live 15 mins from the O2 and have seen a number of acts there, in fact my daughter was the first act on the stage on opening night (along with 300 other local kids...).

The room actually doesn't suit big, loud acts very well, as it is essentially an oval, sight lines are excellent, but if leonard is using an end stage those at the end of the room are a Looooooooong way away. Binoculars aren't a bad idea, but the big screens are Hi-def and very good indeed.

Prince suffered from being too loud and the bass got away from his engineers, it was messy till they got the message and turned it down a bit, later gigs were much better (wife is a massive fan, so went multiple times). The Eagles sound was one of the best concert sounds I've heard and provides a bigger clue as to how Leonard's band will sound in the big room.

The good news is that, provided his engineers are up to the scale (and they should be) the sound has the possibility of being very good indeed. Prince did a solo encore one night with a guitar and mic, and he generated more atmosphere in that 20 mins than in the entire night, it was extraordinary. I expect Leonard's adoring legions to provide the same atmosphere.

The O2 is a good venue, it's comfortable and is a very good large scale venue, if leonard has to play big rooms, it's probably the best in London.

I'm a studio sound engineer, so I'm hyper critical, but the Eagles sounded great (but looked like bank managers), so the room in manageable.

See you all there.

[yhtrownu]

lol, OK, Paula, David, I outed myself and you called me on it!

Of course, not every ticket is worth the same to me, but I feel the O2 is taking me back twenty years to the time I first discovered Leonard Cohen. I was a teenager, my favourite artist was Bruce Springsteen, and I watched Kylie on Neighbours with my mum. While my little sister invented dances with her friend to Kylie's "I should be so lucky" and "Locomotion," I holed up in my room listening to the Boss, singing along to "Dancing in the Dark" and "I'm on Fire." One night, I watched McCabe and Mrs. Miller, by myself, alone in the dark, and suddenly I felt much much older, watching poor old Warren Beatty meander to his doom, together with his savvy-but-hooked lady of the night, Julie Christie. But it was the deep gravelly voiced rendering of the poetic "The Stranger," and other songs, on the soundtrack, that really imprinted on my mind. There was no google, so I actually had to work to find out that Leonard Cohen was that gravelly poetic voice, and I rushed out to buy "Songs of Leonard Cohen. . ."

Back in those days, I never went to concerts, as I didn't have the money, so it was December last year that I got to time-travel back twenty years, and see Bruce Springsteen for the first time at the O2 Arena. He was marvellous, and in the heady afterglow of that concert, my heart warming to the aircraft hanger that brought the Boss to my city, and my curiosity peaked by Kylie's impending 40th birthday, and her resilience in the face of twenty years and the Big C, I booked to see her.

At the Springsteen concert, I conversed with an experienced French concertgoer, who had flown to London from Paris just for the concert. "I've seen Dylan 6 times, Springsteen two times, but no, I've never seen Leonard Cohen, and ah, I don't think I ever will!" That's what he said when I asked him about Leonard. . . When I saw Leonard lined up to play at the O2, my eyes practically popped out of their sockets. It seems the O2 will not only take me back to my childhood, but my adulthood as well. . .

[A.Sukitu]

............ plea to Jarkko ...........

please could you draw the engineers' attention to WinterMute's message above? Then maybe the 02 will not be a dreadful aural anticipation ...
thanks in hope -
Annie

[jasmina]

dear Yhtrownu, I understand how you feel, because my feeling for LC is the same - I can't wait my tickets
Does anybody know when will Ticketmaster sent to us our tickets