NEWS: Tour Date - July 27
Another Leonard Cohen concert tour date has been announced:
July 27 - Salzburg, Austria
Be sure to consult The Leonard Cohen Forum for ticket presale and sale info.
July 27 - Salzburg, Austria
Be sure to consult The Leonard Cohen Forum for ticket presale and sale info.
NEWS: Tour Dates - August 4, 8 and 12
Three new tour dates have been announced for Leonard Cohen's 2010 tour
4-Aug-10 Malmo, Sweden, Arena - on sale April 19.
8-Aug: Stockholm, Sweden, Globen - on sale April 19.
12-Aug: Gothenburg/Göteborg, Scandinavium - on sale April 19.
Get sale and presale info on The Leonard Cohen Forum.
4-Aug-10 Malmo, Sweden, Arena - on sale April 19.
8-Aug: Stockholm, Sweden, Globen - on sale April 19.
12-Aug: Gothenburg/Göteborg, Scandinavium - on sale April 19.
Get sale and presale info on The Leonard Cohen Forum.
NEWS: Tour Dates - August 6 and August 14
AEG has posted the two tour dates below. Note that pre-sale for Oslo begins today. Get an update of the links for presale on The Leonard Cohen Forum.
Oslo, Norway at Spektrum on August 6
Presale 13 April
Onsale 14 April
Odense, Denmark at Odense Engen, Fruens Boge on August 14
Presale 18 April
Onsale 19 April
Oslo, Norway at Spektrum on August 6
Presale 13 April
Onsale 14 April
Odense, Denmark at Odense Engen, Fruens Boge on August 14
Presale 18 April
Onsale 19 April
YOUTUBES: Dylan Does Hallelujah
FB friend Lorraine just made a discovery. Though Leonard has talked about this performance, I'd never heard it. But indeed, there is a recording of Bob Dylan singing Hallelujah in concert in Montreal on 08-07-1988. Thank you, luckydip90, for uploading and thank you, Lorraine for discovering it.
YOUTUBES: An Early Traitor
messalina79 shares another breathtaking Cohen audio performance. This time it is an early version of the song, The Traitor, which later appeared on Leonard's album Recent Songs. This is a performance from Bryn Mawr, PA in 1975. Below I have included the lyrics from the song as it appeared on Recent Songs so you can compare. As always, thank you, messalina79.
From The Leonard Cohen Files:
The Traitor
Now the Swan it floated on the English river
Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide
A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer
and the judges watched us from the other side
I told my mother "Mother I must leave you
preserve my room but do not shed a tear
Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
it was half my fault and half the atmosphere"
But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
and the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame
She said at last I was her finest lover
and if she withered I would be to blame
The judges said you missed it by a fraction
rise up and brace your troops for the attack
Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
Oh see the men of action falling back
But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
My falsity had stung me like a hornet
The poison sank and it paralysed my will
I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
that they had been deserted from above
So on battlefields from here to Barcelona
I'm listed with the enemies of love
And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
You can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping
Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan"
So daily I renew my idle duty
I touch her here and there -- I know my place
I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
and people call me traitor to my face
From The Leonard Cohen Files:
The Traitor
Now the Swan it floated on the English river
Ah the Rose of High Romance it opened wide
A sun tanned woman yearned me through the summer
and the judges watched us from the other side
I told my mother "Mother I must leave you
preserve my room but do not shed a tear
Should rumour of a shabby ending reach you
it was half my fault and half the atmosphere"
But the Rose I sickened with a scarlet fever
and the Swan I tempted with a sense of shame
She said at last I was her finest lover
and if she withered I would be to blame
The judges said you missed it by a fraction
rise up and brace your troops for the attack
Ah the dreamers ride against the men of action
Oh see the men of action falling back
But I lingered on her thighs a fatal moment
I kissed her lips as though I thirsted still
My falsity had stung me like a hornet
The poison sank and it paralysed my will
I could not move to warn all the younger soldiers
that they had been deserted from above
So on battlefields from here to Barcelona
I'm listed with the enemies of love
And long ago she said "I must be leaving,
Ah but keep my body here to lie upon
You can move it up and down and when I'm sleeping
Run some wire through that Rose and wind the Swan"
So daily I renew my idle duty
I touch her here and there -- I know my place
I kiss her open mouth and I praise her beauty
and people call me traitor to my face
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