About Us
Imperfect Offering is a Leonard Cohen Tribute Band. When Peter McMillan, lead vocalist of Imperfect Offering, began playing the guitar in 1972, one of the first songs he learnt was Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’. Inspired by the “I’m Your Man” tribute album and Cohen's own public performances in the last decades of his life, Peter decided to form a band to do Leonard Cohen Tribute Concerts here in New Zealand. Imperfect Offering first met together in November 2014. The band, including musicians from jazz, classical, country and rock backgrounds, have been performing together since April 2015. They had sell-out concerts in Auckland in 2016 and appeared on Television One News on the event of Cohen's death in November 2016. The North Island tour to commemorate Leonard Cohen began with sellout concerts at Meteor Theatre, Hamilton, and Q Theatre, Auckland, October & November 2017. Due to popular demand, the commemorative concert series continues into 2018. The band has played to full houses at the Pump House, Takapuna, Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana, and MTG Century Theatre, Napier. Commemorative Concerts are scheduled for the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber in October and St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, in November. There has been huge interest in Cohen's music and Imperfect Offering are proud to present a nine-piece band to perform his best-loved songs including "Suzanne", "Bird on the Wire", "Everybody Knows" and his best known song "Hallelujah" as well as music from his last album, "You Want It Darker".
The name Imperfect Offering is inspired by Cohen’s lyric in ‘Anthem’
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in"
The name Imperfect Offering is inspired by Cohen’s lyric in ‘Anthem’
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in"