Posts Tagged ‘ leonard-cohen ’

Leonard Cohen in Dublin 2009

Jul 18th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: Favourites, Music

Leonard Cohen plays the O2 in Dublin



Leonard Cohen in Dublin

Mar 14th, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Favourites, Music

Update here:
Leonard Cohen In Dublin – Concert Review
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Lenny’s playing Ireland shortly, and I give thanks to the manager who ripped him off while he was living on Mount Baldy.  Without this crook, I might never have had the chance to hear Lenny again.  I worshipped at his feet in the National Stadium about twenty years [...]



Beautiful Losers

Apr 29th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Music

Well, we went to see I’m Your Man tonight, and I have to tell you I enjoyed almost every second of it.
Almost, Bock? Why not every single second?
Oh, that’s simple. I can answer that in one word: Bono.
Was there ever such a pretentious, self-obsessed, insincere twat as Bono? Is there a single [...]



Championes Championes!!

Apr 29th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Music, soccer

It’s official. As of yesterday, not only are Scunthorpe going to be promoted to the Championship, but they go up as winners of League One.
What do you make of that? The Wrinklies are in confusion, as I am myself, and though we’re all agreed that while it will be great to see Scunthorpe [...]



More Cohen

Mar 15th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Music

See what they started now? Thanks to Sam and Anna, I’ll probably just get worse and worse here. You see, looking at that video, I thought I noticed Jenny singing backing vocals, so I thought, why not have Jenny’s version of Famous Blue Raincoat as well, since it’s an absolute cast-iron classic from [...]



Lenny Cohen

Mar 15th, 2007 | By Bock | Category: Music

I’m grateful to Sam for the link to this site , which belongs to Anna, Sam’s friend.
It includes this clip from the incomparable Leonard Cohen, playing one of his many masterpieces, Famous Blue Raincoat.
Enjoy.