Leonard Cohen
Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28
January 2009
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Audience recording - Complete concert - 164 minutes
Set One:
01 Dance Me to the End of Love
02 The Future
03 Ain't No Cure for Love
04 Bird on the Wire
05 Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
06 In My Secret Life (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
07 Who by Fire
08 Chelsea Hotel #2
09 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
10. Anthem
---fade out---
Set Two:
11 Tower of Song
12 Suzanne
13 The Gypsy's Wife
14 The Partisan (Anna Marly/Hy Zaret)
15 Boogie Street (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
16 Hallelujah
17 I'm Your Man
18 A Thousand Kisses Deep (poem)
19 Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen after Federico Garcia Lorca)
---fade out---
Encores:
20 So Long, Marianne
21 First We Take Manhattan
22 Famous Blue Raincoat
23 If It Be Your Will
24 Democracy
25 I Tried to Leave You
26 Whither Thou Goest (Guy Singer after the Book of Ruth 1:16)
"Taper's notes: Just go to
http://www.leonardcohenforum.com/viewforum.php?f=31 to get
an impression of the torrent of love and devotion Leonard's Downunder
tour provoked. The papers and radio stations reflected that
he truely was the talk of the town after his concerts. I'm glad I went
relatively unprepared, just with some memories of some of his best
songs, to the show. This allowed me to be totally overwhelmed by the
experience, the quality of Leonard's singing, his miraculous
youthfulness and kind and warmhearted presence, by how outstanding the
band was and also by the realization of how many immortal songs
Leonard has created in his lifetime. I must also confess to bursting
into tears with the beauty of the "If It Be Your Will" song.
I was sitting relatively far back, about half way up the ranks. For
that I was positively surprised by the quality of the sound. I love to
listen to my recording, as the sound is very round and balanced.
Isuppose every one of these various audience recordings shows a
different nuance and can not be summarised by something as mundane as
an A- or a B+. It was also great on the night to see the waves of
people getting up for Leonard, originating in the stalls and working
their way up the ranks.
I'm hoping that some people who were actually there on the night will
pick this up and appreciate the chance to hear the show again."