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     lindy morrison Member Username: Lindymorrison Post Number: 31 Registered: 09-2004 |
Pádraig are you going to Sydney Festival concert of Cohen's songs with Nick Cave performing? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Unregistered guest |
Yes I am Lindy! How nice of you to ask! I am going on the Saturday night I think (someone else has the tickets), which is a pity as I would have liked to go see your fellow politician, Mr Garrett, at the Wave Aid concert that night. It will almost certainly be the final, final, final Midnight Oil concert and I am sorry I have never seen them live. I did have a ticket to see them in London in 1990, but unemployment forced me to leave the city before the gig. I wish I had gone to see them in the Brookvale leagues club on their 'farewell' tour, only the clever bastards did not announce it was their swan song until all the dates were finished. But I digress. Yes, I'm looking forward to the Cohen night. I saw the man himself in Dublin in 1988. One of the best shows I've ever seen. He played two two-hour sets that night. He did not have time to do another night, so when the first concert sold out so quickly they just put on another the same night. I was at the first and have the bootleg tapes of the second. Both were magical. What night are you going to the Cohen show? | ||
| lindy morrison Member Username: Lindymorrison Post Number: 33 Registered: 09-2004 |
Sunday, we can both post reviews. Looking forward to hearing Nick again. I met Peter the other day, he's doing great. I think he will do a good job, I respect him. I only saw the Oils once at Selinas, in the early 90's. I was too much of an artistic snob to recognize their worth in the eighties. Never saw Cohen. | ||
| Peter Collins Unregistered guest |
Padraig - are you sure it was just uemployment that made you leave....? There's more to this than meets the eye. | ||
| Peter Ward Unregistered guest |
Hi Padraig I was at the stadium for the second Cohen concert in'88, it was one of my first gigs and I've rarely enjoyed one as much since, he set a high precedent! The guy next to me was twisted and showed me a copy of"Beautiful Losers" he had with him that he was going to ask Cohen to sign...this was before the show started. He disappeared at one point early on only to reappear on the stage a while later, climbing aboard he was grabbed by the bouncers which prompted Cohen to intervene saying that he was "not a terrorist", they let him up and he threw his arms aroud Lenny, embracing him like a long lost friend, novel in hand, reeking of porter..Security intervene once more and Cohen announces "maybe he is!" When he arrived back to my side he was in a fouler with security and was looking for a "little green candle" people were asking him to be quiet and he became more irrate, his friends (x3) gathered him up and left and Cohen hasn't played here or many other places since, anti-terrorism eh? Is this edited from the bootleg, I've never heard it? My brother met Ian McCulloch in the toilet at that show, he said he had been following that tour around, as did John Cale which is where he picked up the revised lyrics for Hallelujah which everybody now covers, did Cohen ever record that version? The Montreaux'78 bootleg was played to death in our house around that time, that crackly cassette is still taken out every now and then. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Unregistered guest |
Hi Peter, that's amazing that you were at the Cohen show too! I was just telling someone about the trouble with the guy who went on stage too! It's all there on the bootleg. At one stage Leonard said to the bouncers "Oh no, not the rubber hoses". It sounded both really annoying (on the drunk guy's part) and hilarious (on Cohen's part). I have not played those tapes in years (a C-90 and a C-60 if memory serves), but they are in a box somewhere. I'll dig them out sometime. Do you remember that that was the Dublin Milenium year? Cohen said that he had seen the posters about it coming in from the airport and that it was nice to play in one of the original buildings! The National Stadium really was a tip. The last time I was there was in 1994 for Paul Weller and it was still a tip then too. I also saw Pixies there on 1 October 1990. Three great shows. Fond memories. I was 21 when I saw that Cohen gig so it was not my first, but it was certainly the best I had seen at the time apart from U2 in Pairc Ui Chaoimh (pronounced Pawrk Ee Keev for you non-Irish in attendance) in Cork a year earlier. Peter, I'm not certain what it is that you are implying (though I have an idea it is to do with Irish republicanism - if it is that's not funny even to jest about); but yes, there was another reason I left London. I wanted to go back to Boston, and I did. | ||
| Peter C Unregistered guest |
Twas only a little joke. Nothing about Ireland entered my head, but even if it had, I'm not sure one can't make jokes about Irish republicanism. But there we go. Sheesh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Unregistered guest |
Fair enough Peter. I get a little touchy about such things. Sure one can make jokes about it ... just not with me on that subject! As with most Irish people I have no truck with it. I have in the past accused Columbians, jokingly, of being in the Medellin Cartel. So I can dish it out but can't take it on these matters. You'll be happy anyway as Chelsea won again. And Liverpool lost again. |