Although Neil Hannon never appeared during Keane’s tour in Autumn 2006, which was happening at the same time as The Divine Comedy’s final tour for
Victory For The Comic Muse, Keane’s shows featured a sample of Neil Hannon reading W.B. Yeats’ poem ‘
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’.
The studio recording of that reading has never been released, but is to be heard on Keane’s live recording of shows from that tour. Indeed nine shows were recorded by Live Concert (who also recorded in 2010
Live At Somerset House), and only 1000 copies of each were pressed and sold after the shows.
Later, in 2007, Neil Hannon would join Keane on stage for a live reading, in
Dublin and
London, the latter being filmed for the
DVD Keane Live.