I had never seen Leonard Cohen before. I appreciated his music in the early seventies when "Songs Of Leonard Cohen" and "Songs from a Room" were popular but I was never really enthusiastic. But when he released "I'm Your Man" in the late eighties I was a convert.
I had missed the earlier June gigs due to being on holiday and the rave reviews saw me heading to Bournemouth for the November show.
I have to see this was better than I could have hoped. His voice was incredible - it seems to have got better with age. The band were, without exception, exceptional. The show was somewhere close to three hours long and covered pretty much any song you might want to hear. The man himself bounced around whenever movement was called for defying his age but was not averse to getting down on his knees when that was appropriate.
It is actually difficult to pick highlights because the whole show was done to a superb standard and I pick the following tracks either because they are amongst my favourite Cohen tracks or because the particular delivery showed me something more in the song. In the former category would be "Ain't No Cure For Love", Tower of Song", "Everybody Knows" and "First We Take Manhattan". In the latter category would be "Bird on a Wire" and "Hallelujah" but really it was all superb.
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