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The legendarily depressed Leonard Cohen will head to the UK and Ireland this summer for a short series of live dates.

The singer, pictured above with his tree, is yet to confirm whether or not he’ll be collaborating with Cadence Weapon, but he will be at an Opera House, Arena or Castle near you in between a number of European festival appearances.

Those include Benicassim and the reasonably amusingly named Nice Jazz Festival. All, below:

June
14 Dublin IMMA
15 Dublin IMMA
18 Manchester Opera House
19 Manchester Opera House
20 Manchester Opera House
21 Manchester Opera House
29 Glastonbury Festival

July
1 Oslo Aliset Stadium
3 Helsingborg Open Air
5 Copenhagen Rosenborg Castle
6 Arhuus Radhus Parken
8 Montreux Jazz Festival
9 Lyon Festival
10 Bruges Cactus
12 Amsterdam Westerdam
16 Edinburgh Castle
17 London o2 Arena
19 Lisbon Passeio Maritimo
20 Benicassim Festival
22 Nice Jazz Festival
25 Lorrach Stimmen De Weit
27 Lucca Summer Festival
29 Athens Lykabettus Theatre

Ticket details for some of the concerts are yet to emerge, though entrance to the Manchester and Dublin shows can be bartered for from 9am this Friday (14 Mar). More news will follow.