songwriter wrote:foo fighters at 1 and u2 at 2 make that list lose a lot of credibility though!

Why? It's a reader's poll, not a critics' year-end best-of list. While I don't like the U2 or Foo Fighters record, I can imagine them winning a readers' poll.

Matt

One of my favourite unpublished Leonard Cohen lyrics used to be in "A Street": It’s gonna be September now For many years to come Every heart adjusting To that strict September drum immediately before the "I see the Ghost of Culture" line. I never was a big fan of most art that t...

Mabeanie1 wrote:Meanwhile, there is always someone around to pour scorn on your crazy dream.

Wendy

It was not my intention to "pour scorn on your crazy dream" and I apologize if my posting came across that way.

Matt

It would be good to have something that will be remembered in the collective consciousness - Leonard included - for long after September 21, 2014. I would like to see a 80th birthday celebration with a celebratory (tribute) concert in an iconic venue long associated with Leonard. Naturally I though...

An opinion piece in today's "Der Standard" quotes Leonard's "The Future" in connection with the crisis in Crimea: http://dastandard.at/1395363328826/ A translation of the beginning of the article: GIVE ME BACK THE BERLIN WALL "The west" reinvents itself with Russia agai...

I wonder, though, if you can fill in the blanks - you wrote ". . it wouldn't make that much difference if. . ." - if what? I'm not sure what you mean & I don't want to misinterpret anything. . . Something obvious along the lines of "Given the fact that he's still performing these...

Hi Matt, Thank you for sharing your thoughts - they are well said & you make some interesting points, & I copied here the ones I might like to respond to. I think you are probably right that loyalty is an element involved here, & I don't think there is anything wrong with that; & th...

I have just been to the concert in Mannheim and can answer the TS's question with a definite NO. Everything you say (which I snipped for the sake of brevity) are valid points, and I agree with the sentiment that you can appreciate music more when you know it intimately. But for us fans, that is the...

And maybe you want to read this. It's a very critical review of the Vienna concert ... the reviewer did not like hearing the old songs all over again. :D http://derstandard.at/1373513962040/Die-Zukunft-mit-Return-Taste It's actually a positive review. It's just the way Schachinger (the critic) writ...

To those criticizing multiple concert-going, my 2 cents: every artist has his/her own way of performing live, there's no good or bad so I don't really understand why go into comparisons.. Similarly, every fan has the prerogative to choose whether they wish to attend only 1 concert a leg or 10+ and ...

I guess I'll be alone with this opinion here, but, for my girlfriend and me, I'm starting to think less is more with Leonard Cohen live. And the sad thing is, it could easily be very, very different. When I was growing up, seeing a Leonard Cohen show was on the top of my bucket list, but back then, ...

Last time (in 2010) first row center tickets costed about 140 eur in Austria (Salzburg, Graz, St. Margarethen). Not cheap but not extremely high. This 300 eur is quite the shock. Thats' true for Burgenland and Salzburg, but Vienna in 2008 as far I recall was also more than 200 Euros so I dropped th...

Heike wrote:Presale is working now
Thank you for your efforts, Jarkko!!!

(The first category is a rip-off though, went for the second.)

That's the understatement of the year. 295 euros, that's 385 USD. For a single ticket. No thanks, but no.

This is beyond insane.

Caren wrote:Nothing yet in Vienna.

Or is there a new link I haven't noticed?

You didn't see that in the presales thread?
Well, the best tickets are gone now.




Just kidding. Nothing yet.

Thank you, Matthias. I have firefox but I'm not using it. And I'd be afraid to start installing something new while waiting for the link to start working, & then trust the reload function, which I've never used before, to do what its supposed to do - that might not relax me very much. But reall...