As exclusively revealed last month in Hot Press, Leonard Cohen is bringing his Old Ideas World Tour to Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham on September 11 and 12.
Tickets priced from €75 go on sale on Friday March 30 and won’t, we imagine, be hanging around for long.
Mr. Cohen – if there’s a musician worthy of respect, he’s it! – first visit to the Royal Hospital was in 2008 when he blew everybody, including our man Stuart Clark, away with his Springsteen-esque three-hour set.
“Orgasmic” was his summation of a show, which drew from every phase of the Canadian’s 50-year-plus career.
Team Hot Press is looking forward to hearing a batch of new tunes from Old Ideas, which is arguably his best studio album since 1988’s I’m Your Man. It certainly contains one of his finest ever lyrics – “I love to speak with Leonard/He's a sportsman and a shepherd/He's a lazy bastard/Living in a suit” – which features on the opening ‘Going Home’.