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New DVD – Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire.

andrew — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:41:17 +0000

We were recently at the UK premier of the long awaited’ ‘Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire’ film at the Green Man festival.

The film was introduced by Tony Palmer who described in detail the painstaking way the release had been put together.

The Leonard Cohen Bird on a Wire DVD (live in Eurpoe 1972) is released on September 6th and can be purchased here.

For more information about the process of making the film you can visit Tony Palmer’s blog.

New live CD and DVD out now! (Live at the Isle of Wight 1970)

andrew — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:56:10 +0000

The new CD and DVD ‘Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 is out now.
Nearly 40 summers ago on August 31, 1970, 35-year-old Leonard Cohen was awakened at 2 a.m. from a nap in his trailer and brought onstage to perform with his band at the third annual Isle Of Wight music festival. The audience of 600,000 was in a fiery and frenzied mood, after turning the festival into a political arena, trampling the fences, setting fire to structures and equipment – and stoked by the most incendiary performance of Jimi Hendrix’s career. As Cohen followed Hendrix’s set, onlookers (and fellow festival headliners) Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collins and others stood side stage in awe as the Canadian folksinger songwriter- poet-novelist quietly tamed the crowd. Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, whose footage of the 1970 festival did not begin to see release until 1995, was able to capture Cohen’s performance. This package is available in two formats. The DVD/CD contains the new documentary by Lerner and the full performance on CD. All tracks are previously unreleased (apart from bits of “Suzanne” which were featured in the documentary Message to Love, also by Lerner). Included are live versions of classic songs from the first two Leonard Cohen LPs: “So Long, Marianne,” “The Stranger Song,” “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye,” “Suzanne,” “Bird On The Wire,” “You Know Who I Am,” and “The Partisan”, as well as spoken word and poetry.

INTRODUCTION
BIRD ON THE WIRE
INTRO TO SO LONG, MARIANNE
SO LONG, MARIANNE
INTRO: “LET’S RENEW OURSELVES NOW…”
YOU KNOW WHO I AM
INTRO TO POEMS
LADY MIDNIGHT
THEY LOCKED UP A MAN (POEM)/A PERSON WHO EATS MEAT/INTRO
ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG
STRANGER SONG
TONIGHT WILL BE FINE
HEY, THAT’S NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE
DIAMONDS IN THE MINE
SUZANNE
SING ANOTHER SONG, BOYS
PARTISAN

Welcome to Leonardcohen.co.uk!

andrew — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:45:00 +0000

Our Leonard Cohen fan site is based in the UK.

Primarily the site will become a resource for articles about Leonard that have been published (over the years) in the UK press.

This site has gone through many ‘basic’ guises over the past few years. We intend that this new updated site will become a genuinely useful resource for Cohen fans in the UK and beyond. Other Leonard Cohen fans will soon be able to contribute to our archive and to help the site grow.

With the recent UK tours and festival appearances we will be updating the website with articles from the past two years shortly.

The site will also become a resource for Leonard Cohen fans in the UK to find and share information about Leonard.

We intend to be a resource for gig reviews, lyrics, photos, and links to other sites containing information about Leonard Cohen.