@hansoostrum - Ahoy Rotterdam: we wachten op de grote dichter en zanger Leonard Cohen!!!
[Ahoy Rotterdam: we wait for the great poet and singer Leonard Cohen!!]
@Nikkiforlove - Leonard Cohen is in Holland. I saw only like three tour busses lol..
@PauldeRuijter - Leonard Cohen gaat zo optreden in Ahoy pic.twitter.com/Y5wZfI9BJd
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUdeKUxCYAAtWfi.jpg
@kaatwijnen - Bij Leonard Cohen in Ahoy. Zo ontzettend prachtig!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeBHm0CUAAh-66.jpg
[With Leonard Cohen in Ahoy. So incredibly beautiful!}
@veroniquejansen Twittermomentje #LeonardCohen zingt adembenemend met fantastische band pic.twitter.com/YyR81ywTaz
[A moment. Leonard Cohen sings breathtaking with fantastic band pic.twitter.com/YyR81ywTaz}
@HenkvVeldhuizen - Leonard Cohen in Ahoy. Hij blijft geweldig. pic.twitter.com/ZvvOfrLvtX
[Leonard Cohen in Ahoy. He remains great.]
(
@theovaneijk - Leonard Cohen in Ahoy. Gouwe muziek uit mijn ouwe tijd. Nog steeds fantastisch en volle zalen! pic.twitter.com/4UR7WycIBD
[Leonard Cohen in Ahoy. Oldies music from my old days. Still fantastic and full houses!]
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeAciLCYAAyjmx.jpg
@hansoostrum - Het lijkt wel of Leonard Cohen zichzelf elk concert weer overtreft.
[It seems that Leonard Cohen surpasses himself every concert.]
@hermanterveen - Leonard Cohen in topvorm.
[Leonard Cohen in top form.]
@stichtingros - Ontroerende en ijzersterke bijna 80 jarige Leonard Cohen in #Ahoy pic.twitter.com/H7alwmIjO3
[Touching and strong almost 80 years Leonard Cohen]
@gmtenklooster - Prachtige voorstelling Leonard Cohen Ahoy pic.twitter.com/LFXkUbrmiY
[Wonderful representation - Leonard Cohen at Ahoy]
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeJXfiCEAAnHcD.jpg
@charlottelafort - Duizenden mensen in #Ahoy. Allemaal zingen ze 'Hallelujah' en al die andere prachtige klassiekers van Leonard Cohen mee. #kippenvel
[Thousands of people in # Ahoy. They all sing 'Hallelujah' and all those other wonderful classics of Leonard Cohen with it. # goosebumps]
@kaatwijnen - @marhendrickx terecht. Was geweldig!! Alle klassiekers kwamen voorbij. Prachtig van eerste tot laatste minuut. Genieten!! #leonardcohen
(Was great! All classics passed. Wonderful from first to last minute. Enjoyed!}
@louisadebruin - Leonard cohen in r'dam - http://moby.to/mqsn07
[Video clip – Bird On The Wire - http://www.mobypicture.com/user/louisad ... w/15982278 ]
@cultuurbarbara - Hallelujah #leonardcohen #Ahoy pic.twitter.com/BKFrHIthmE
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeT8ptCAAEHKTq.jpg
Gerwin Berentschot @Berentschot - De Meester is terug in Nederland! Vorig jaar was ik erbij en het was in één woord BRILJANT! http://www.nufoto.nl/fotos/399126/leona ... erdam.html
[The Master is back in the Netherlands! Last year I was there and it was in one word BRILLIANT!
@nufoto - Leonard Cohen in Ahoy Rotterdam - http://www.nufoto.nl/fotos/399124/leona ... erdam.html …
@theomiltenburg1 - Geweldig concert , pijnlijke schoonheid #LeonardCohen
[Great concert, painful beauty # Leonard Cohen]
@mcrynja - - De meester aan het werk #leonardcohen pic.twitter.com/dDB0x4CH59 - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeiDEnCQAA6kW4.jpg
[The master at work # leonard cohen]
@CriseoC - Leonard Cohen in Ahoy, great concert, he couldn't stop singing...talking his beautiful lyrics, still so uptodate! Intimist, yes!
STATIGRAM -@johannesmaurice - Net een geweldig concert van #LeonardCohen bijgewoond in #Ahoy 78 jaar oud #respect
[Just a great concert of Leonard Cohen at Ahoy - 78 years - respect]
Wirebird wrote:ROTTERDAM, AHOY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 2013
Set 1
Dance Me to the End of Love
The Future
Bird on a Wire
Everybody Knows
Who By Fire
Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
The Darkness
Amen
Come Healing
Lover Lover Lover
Anthem
Set 2
Tower of Song
Suzanne
Chelsea Hotel #2
The Partisan
In My Secret Life
Alexandra Leaving (Sharon Robinson)
I'm Your Man
Hallelujah
Take this Waltz
Encores
So Long Marianne
Going Home
First We Take Manhattan
Famous Blue Raincoat
If It Be Your Will (The Webb Sisters)
Closing Time
I Tried To Leave You
Save The Last Dance For Me
Leonard Cohen Alludes To Say Goodbye To Dutch Public
Published: September 19, 2013 09:58
Last update: September 19, 2013 10:26
The Canadian troubadour Leonard Cohen, aged 78, was here Wednesday possible to admire. Most recently in Netherlands. That thought this evening in Ahoy was reinforced by the singer himself.
NU.nl / Charles Batenburg - Leonard Cohen Ahoy Photo Series - here -> http://www.nu.nl/muziek/3579462/leonard ... popup.html
"I do not know when we'll see each other again, no one knows," he says, just as on stage. "But I promise that we will give everything we have tonight."
Lots of time to philosophize about the future of the singer, who in recent years frequently in the Netherlands to admire was, he did not give the crowd with a dance Cohen comes on stage.
Immediately afterwards he makes Ahoy court with a cheery welcome speech. He is indeed had not come more often to Rotterdam, because he did not want to intrude, he says. Cohen hopes that people not from the domestic game have taken to get here. Too much money.
He is grateful that so many people the steep stairs of the second ring, dared to climb up to see him. "Beware if you sit there, do not lean too far forward, because if you fall down," he says even. "Call us feel like you are sitting in places and you feel shortage done. Then we turn to you."
Crisp
The welcome speech was a perfect start to what is a perfect appearance. Cohen opens with Dance Me To The End Of Love. His voice appears immediately so impressive and so crystal clear that there is less reason to get straight back to go home. Nicer than this anyway. The
But as a boxer Cohen shares immediately after punch, striking vital moving on the big stage. He plays games with the photographers, calls his friends and fans as his band members solo, he takes his hat off to them in adoration. Get his six-member band from Cohen detail the space, like the three singers.
Classifieds
The Canadian does not only clear, but he remains involved. He never disappears from the stage, he always looks full of love. The number of times that his band members and vocalists name suggests, is not to count on one hand. The magisterial early this evening in the first part gets a sequel with more classics.
Bird On The Wire Everybody Knows and belong to the best pop music of the last fifty years has produced. Cohen sings these evergreens in Ahoy as if they first sing. Sometimes with eyes closed, then just with eyes wide open and gesturing. So focused, passionate, inspired.
Eruptions
The audience in the full Ahoy can only silent watch and the singer then reward you with one open book after another. Cohen does not let himself be distracted by it. He touches despite the eruptions of applause just increasing in trance, only awakened by the toilet break in between.
That even the eternally fit Cohen's age can not beat but occasionally noting, for example in the hushed version of Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye.'s Suddenly very fragile look of Cohen, who plays guitar and suddenly it an old man looks, goes through the bone.
Weeping
Even more than in the monumental Hallelujah, which Cohen suddenly seems to want to hide. Behind the full sound of his band He was allowed to sing that song, maybe even without a microphone. Completely unaccompanied Only his voice was already been enough Ahoy tonight to deliver. Tears of happiness
Those tears flow out of this number, the expectations were perhaps too high, but in other classics such as Suzanne and So Long, Marianne.
In the encore everyone looks completely fainting matter how Cohen Ahoy sets ablaze. For the last time probably. Hopefully he beats the age again as he does that tonight.
By: NU.nl / Anton Slotboom
Leonard Cohen Gets Slick Show Down In Ahoy
(AP) - Artists usually get a standing ovation at the end of the evening, as thanks for their action. When Leonard Cohen went Wednesday night in Ahoy very different. When the 78-year-old singer in a trot took the stage, the audience completely exploded.
Cohen show kicked off with the Rotterdam Dance Me to the End of Love and thanked the audience then thoroughly for the warm welcome. He got the laugh on his hand. "Thank you have climbed to see me so high," he was referring to the stands. "Do not lean too far over!"
The Canadian took time for his show, who hardly knew jagged edges. Under the direction of the maestro drummer wielded sticks with his flair, turned the only standing guitarist pirouettes and danced the blonde backing singers on command. But it must be said Cohen neatly took off his hat and his musicians played a solo.
After a break of twenty minutes began the second part of the action more intimate and smaller. Classics like Suzanne and Hallelujah were reviewed. Cohen may not be the youngest, he was in good voice and ventured occasionally a little dance. The audience was not the youngest, but reacted with undisguised enthusiasm and eagerly applauded.
The moments that Cohen really involved his audience at the show were at the beginning of his performance and immediately after the break. And of course at the end. Valve Take This Waltz was the perfect backdrop for the singer again to thank. His band And it was the sign for the public to massively move to the stage and a sprint Cohen - perhaps for the last time - to shake a hand.
