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 and continued into 2018.
In 2018 the band has played to full houses including performances at the Pump House Theatre, Takapuna, Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana, and MTG Century Theatre, Napier. Imperfect Offering's biggest audience to date was in the gorgeous Concert Chamber in the Auckland Town Hall on Sunday 28 October 2018. And to finish a busy year, the band's first appearance in the Capital City Wellington earned them a standing ovation in St Andrews on the Terrace, in November.
This year, 2019 Imperfect Offering has been invited back to perform at Ascension Wine Estate, they have performed for the first time in Kerikeri and soon in Whangarei plus plan to perform in Auckland City once more and visit Tauranga and Hamilton again.
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"
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 and continued into 2018.
In 2018 the band has played to full houses including performances at the Pump House Theatre, Takapuna, Ascension Wine Estate, Matakana, and MTG Century Theatre, Napier. Imperfect Offering's biggest audience to date was in the gorgeous Concert Chamber in the Auckland Town Hall on Sunday 28 October 2018. And to finish a busy year, the band's first appearance in the Capital City Wellington earned them a standing ovation in St Andrews on the Terrace, in November.
This year, 2019 Imperfect Offering has been invited back to perform at Ascension Wine Estate, they have performed for the first time in Kerikeri and soon in Whangarei plus plan to perform in Auckland City once more and visit Tauranga and Hamilton again.
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"