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Jun 21, 2013 (11 years ago) The O2 London, England, United Kingdom
Art Pop, Blues, Blues Rock, Chamber Folk, Contemporary Folk, Folk, Folk Rock, Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Slack-Key Guitar, Soft Rock, Sophisti-Pop, Canadian, Permanent Wave, Melancholia, Canadian Singer-Songwriter, and Nuno.
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As Joan Baez left the stage, I fell asleep. This was Sunday night at the Isle of Wight Festival, in August 1970, and I was lying in the field about 120m from the stage. Somewhere in the distance I could hear Leonard Cohen singing ‘So Long Marianne’ and thinking, “hey, it’s just like the record”. I lay on the grass and let the rest of his set wash over me. The O2 arena in Stratford is vast, but Leonard turned it into a lounge bar. He managed the acoustics and the crowd; we were in awe. Songs from our youth, songs that spoke to and for us, songs half-remembered, songs of love and hate, the songs of Leonard Cohen. “First we will take Manhattan” we sang, “then we will take Berlin”, Hallelujah, Suzanne.
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