LEONARD COHEN O2 Dublin
Hallelujah? Canadian poet, novelist and singer-songwriter, highly adept at exploring interpersonal relationships, sexuality, religion, depression and – quite microscopically – the meaning of life.
How old? 78.
Best moment back in the day? The austere, but often startlingly beautiful 1967 debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen, and its 1969 follow-up, Songs from a Room.
Can he still cut it? Yes. Following a self-imposed exile, Cohen returned in 2001 with the album Ten New Songs. His latest album, 2012’s Old Ideas, contains songs as good as any he has written.
Playing when? Wednesday September 11th/ Thursday, September 12th, O2, Dublin.
