Two songs from the 1985 Oslo concert

[Goldin]

Today someone called DrBlindopolis uploaded 2 videos:

Memories
Heart With No Companion

Diamonds in the Mine site doesn't give much info about the recording:

30 June 1985 - Oslo, Norway - Kalvoya Festival - Jim Devlin reports that some songs from this shows were televised.

[ianinfrance]

Removed now.

[Goldin]

Available now at Guitars101 Forum (3rd set of links (filefactory.com) seems to be working). Anyway, can't manage to download it

Maybe you'll be luckier.

Leonard Cohen - 1985-06-30 - Oslo, Norway
(DVDfull pro-shot)

Kalvoya Festival

SOURCE:
Screen Capture > TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works > TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 > Video TS

VIDEO:
Mpeg-2, PAL, 4x3, 704x576, 25fps, 4582 Kb/s

AUDIO:
Mpeg-1 Layer 2, 48000 Hz, 256 kb/s

Top Menu with Track Selection

01. Memories
02. Heart With No Companion
03. Story Of Isaac

bonus
4. Interview from 2006

notes:
Excellent Picture but many unrepairable sound faults

[tomsakic]

I was sure the complete DVD is online but I see it's gone now. The link on Forum was viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16712

The member/uploader was so nice that he sent me DVDR back then. I can upload the show on my channel.

[Goldin]

Available now @ DIME, uploaded by kkjohns:

Leonard Cohen - Norway 1985 & 1988 [TV VHS Rip]

Artist:
Leonard Cohen with band

Bootleg title:
Leonard Cohen - Norway 1985 & 1988 [TV - VHSRip]

Format: PAL (DVD with menu)
Video bitrate: 7847 kbps
Aspect ratio: 4:3 (720 x 576)
Audio codec: MPEG-1 Layer 2
Audio bitrate: 224 kb/s
Subtitles: Norwegian


DVD tracks:

Track I. Kalvøyafestivalen (Isle of Calf Music Festival), June 30, 1985

Titles:
01. Memories (fade in)
02. Heart With No Companion
03. Story of Isaac
04. I Tried to Leave You (including band presentation)

Duration: 25:28

Line-up:
Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar
Anjani Thomas - vocals, keyboards
Mitchell Watkins - guitars, keyboards, back-up vocals
Ron Getman - guitars, pedal steel, back-up vocals
John Crowder - bass, back-up vocals
Richard Crooks - drums


Track II. Oslo Konserthus (Oslo Concert Hall), May, 1988

Titles:
01. First We Take Manhattan (complete)
02. Interview (1:42)
03. Joan of Arc (fade in)
04. Interview (2:00)
05. I'm Your Man (fade in and fade out)
06. Interview (0:43)
07. Ain't No Cure for Love (snippet)
08. Interview (0:49)
09. Ain't No Cure for Love (continued and fade out)
10. Interview (0:49)
11. Chelsea Hotel #2 (complete)
12. Interview (1:15)
13. Tower of Song (with two interviews in the middle of the song, and fade out)
14. Interview (2:35)
15. Take This Waltz (complete, with credits)
16. Credits

Duration: 49:02

Line-up:
Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboard
Julie Christensen - vocals
Perla Batalla - vocals
John Bilezikjian - oud, mandolin
Bob Betzger - guitars
Bob Furgo - keyboards, violin
Tom McMorran - keyboards
Stephen Zirkel - bass, keyboards, trumpet
Steve Meador - drums


MD5 checksum: In attached checksum file.

No artwork.

Source:
Two TV programmes from NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation).

Lineage:
TV broadcast (NRK) -> VHS tape -> Hard disk recorder (HDD) -> Cropped black borders, adjusted volume and created mpg in TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works -> Created DVD in TMPGEnc Authoring Works.

Description:

Track I, Kalvøyafestivalen (Isle of Calf Music Festival), June 30, 1985:
Kalvøya is an island just outside Oslo, Norway, where the annual music festival Kalvøyafestivalen was held from 1971 to 1997.
This VHS tape recording from TV was done by a friend of mine. He was a bit slow to press the record button, so the opening song, "Memories", is faded in. The image is a bit blurred - not the best quality - but to my knowledge this is the only recording in existence of the concert, or at least the only one that has surfaced so far. (NRK probably has a copy of the programme.) The recording ends with an 11 minutes long "I Tried to Leave You".

Track II, Oslo Konserthus (Oslo Concert Hall), May, 1988:
TV programme title: "Take This Waltz - Leonard Cohen Europe 1988".
This is my own VHS taping of the complete TV programme, but it's not the complete concert. Cohen held two concerts in Oslo on this occasion, on May 1st and May 7th. I don't know from which concert the recordings are - maybe some from both. In the TV programmme the concert is interspersed with interviews which often - unfortunately - cut off the songs. The interviewer is Vera Kvaal, and the interviews are interesting enough, but there ought to be a law against cutting off songs like that. Good image and sound quality on this one.