
Chris Worsey is The Divine Comedy’s regular cellist. He first played with Neil Hannon for the
Liberation album and subsequently toured with The Divine Comedy. During the recording of
Promenade he introduced
Joby Talbot into the band.
After that experience, Chris co-founded
Millennia Strings with
Ian Burdge and performed with artists such as The Verve, George Michael, Oasis and Suede. Aside from this, he was also part of the
Brunel Ensemble and performed on the
Casanova album.
Although he did not play with The Divine Comedy for a while, he reunited at the time of
Absent Friends and on tour with the
Millennia Strings. He still plays on every Neil Hannon’s albums since then, and often tour with him with different line-ups: band, string quartet, etc.