31/03/2012, Cricket | Music amidst cricket in Dublin | ESPNSTAR.com
They love their cricket in Ireland- throw in some music and the old Irish flair and what you get is scintillating and stunning. Check it out with DC.
31/03/2012, Part Eight: Destroy
So for my part 2 of the project I reflected back on the people whom I looked at for a comparison in my life. These were people that had already gone through the experience of writing a song and I...
30/03/2012, The Divine Comedy | Review | Music @ The Digital Fix
The Divine Comedy Review at The Digital Fix
30/03/2012, The Divine Comedy – Bang Goes The Knighthood
The tenth album from Neil Hannon, treading a dangerous tightrope between whimsical charm and farce.
30/03/2012, Album: The Divine Comedy, Bang Goes The Knighthood (DCR)
Unstrapping his shin pads after last year's success with The Duckworth Lewis Method, Neil Hannon returns to his main day-job with Bang Goes The Knighthood, an album on which the cast of familiar Divine Comedy characters are targeted with his usual precision and urbanity.
29/03/2012, Review: Swallows and Amazons at the Playhouse
Swallows and Amazons is a delight not despite its innocence and lack of side, but because of it.
29/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
L.S. Media Rating **** Cast: Celia Adams, Akiya Henry, Richard Holt, Katie Moore, Sophie Waller, Stewart Wright, Greg Barnett, Francesca Bradley, Neal Craig, Adrian Garratt, Alison George, Hilary Tones, Jon Trenchard. Every so often a production comes along that when all is said and done is nothin...
29/03/2012, Review: Swallows and Amazons, Liverpool Playhouse - Liverpool Arts - Culture - Liverpool Daily Post
AHOY, me hearties, there be pirates afoot in the Playhouse, where the stage version of Arthur Ransome's well-loved children's story has more gumption than a one- legged buccaneer with a treasure map in his hand.
29/03/2012, REVIEW: Swallows and Amazons at the Liverpool Playhouse - ECHO reviews - Entertainment - Liverpool E
ARTHUR RANSOME’S gentle tale of a group of youngsters’ Lakeland adventures may no longer be required childhood reading, but this musical retelling of the 1930 original shows his world still has the power to both entrance and entertain.
29/03/2012, The Public Reviews » CHILD’S EYE VIEW: Swallows and Amazons – Liverpool Playhouse
I went to the Liverpool Playhouse last night with my dad, we saw Swallows and Amazons. This play is brilliant, I have given it five stars but I would have given it ten, if I could. I have not read the books but that did not matter, I have asked for them for my birthday.
29/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons Reviews at Liverpool Playhouse - Liverpool - Whatsonstage.com
All the world’s a stag - what appears to be a dusty attic can be anything you like, given a vivid imagination, and a wondrous play brings out the best in the audience. Two and a half hours is a long time to keep children entertained, but all you need is a fantastic cast, a marvelous, industrious tea...
29/03/2012, Swallows And Amazons set's sail at Liverpool Playhouse > Reviews > Culture - Click Liverpool
It's so refreshing to see a children's classic story being bought to live through theatre, and for children of this generation to be able to share in one of literatures all time favourites.
29/03/2012, The Public Reviews » Swallows and Amazons – West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
It is with heartfelt delight that West Yorkshire Playhouse host an innovative and unique musical adaptation of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ by the Children’s Touring Partnership lead by independent producer Fiery Angel and Chichester Festival Theatre. A captivated audience is catapulted back in time to la...
29/03/2012, The Public Reviews » Swallows and Amazons – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Swallows and Amazons is currently at the beginning of a UK tour after playing at the Bristol Old Vic and the West End. Directed by Tom Morris, the co-director of War Horse, with music and lyrics by Neil Hannon.
29/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons. National Theatre/ Children’s Touring Partnership/Bristol Old Vic at the West Y
Arthur Ransome’s children’s classic Swallows and Amazons, and its eleven successors have some very devoted fans. I am one of them, so when I sat down in a packed expectant West Yorkshire Play...
29/03/2012, My Lovely Horse
The wonderful Celtic theme tune is the creation of The Divine Comedy, and their songwriting skills appear a few times in the series, notably in the form of two songs for the Eurovison Song contest.
29/03/2012, IFTN Gallery | The Irish Film & Television Network
The Irish premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull took place at Dublin's Savoy Cinema this week. Sadly, Steven Spielberg could not attend but a range of well known Irish faces walked the red carpet before enjoying the main event. Actors Brenda Fricker, David Kelly, Sarah Bolg...
28/03/2012, Nuits de Fourvière 2012 à Lyon: création de Denis Podalydès en ouverture
Les "Nuits de Fourvière" font par ailleurs la part belle à la pop britannique, avec notamment Neil Hannon qui donnera le 14 juin à Lyon son "concert unique en France", selon les organisateurs, interprétant au piano et à la guitare des titres de son groupe The Divine Comedy.
28/03/2012, Edition 2012 des Nuits de Fourvière à Lyon: création de Denis Podalydès en ouverture
Les "Nuits de Fourvière" font par ailleurs la part belle à la pop britannique, avec notamment Neil Hannon qui donnera le 14 juin à Lyon son "concert unique en France", selon les organisateurs, reprenant au piano et à la guitare des titres de son défunt groupe The Divine Comedy.
25/03/2012, WIN: Swallows And Amazons Lyceum tickets - plus make Our Cow Molly ice-cream - News - The Star
IT’s all aboard for a family treat with a stage version of Swallows and Amazons at Sheffield’s Lyceum Theatre this Easter - and we are celebrating with a really cool prize.
23/03/2012, Dara O’ Briain. Comedy legend returns to Liverpool Empire Theatre.
L.S. Media Rating ***** Before the curtain was raised even one inch on what became a night of high class comedy, the gentle and uplifting music of Neil Hannon’s Divine Comedy classic The Lost Art of Conversation filtered through the auditorium and to the awaiting, patient audience’s ears as they too...
23/03/2012, Doing swimmingly
Swallows And Amazons, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, tonight at 7pm; tomorrow at 1.30pm and 7pm. Box office: 0113 213 7700.
23/03/2012, Review: Swallows and Amazons - News - Yorkshire Post
It’s a long time since children ate corned beef sandwiches for tea and thought lemonade a simply splendid treat.
23/03/2012, Cobras in the Rough | Grant Gordon | Hardback | Constable & Robinson
is a book about golf but also about fathers and sons, and the ways in which they follow, or refuse to follow, in each other's footsteps.
23/03/2012, Theatre review: Swallows and Amazons, West Yorkshire Playhouse - Theatre Reviews - Yorkshire Evening
AN ADMISSION: this reviewer knows absolutely nothing about Swallows and Amazons, which means he’s probably the worst person to assess this musical....or possibly the best.
23/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
An inspired production full of laughter, action and imagination, Swallows and Amazons is a night of entertainment for all the family! From the director of the West-End hit War Horse (Tom Morris), the production was based on four young children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (played by Richard ...
23/03/2012, Review: Swallows and Amazons - The Yorker
You may be familiar with Swallows and Amazons' director, Tom Morris’, work. He is the artistic director of Bristol Old Vic and associate director at the National Theatre and developed and co-directed War Horse at the National and its critically acclaimed West End transfer. With such accolades, I exp...
23/03/2012, INTERVIEW: Neil Hannon on Swallows and Amazons coming to the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre - Liverpool
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon brings his first musical to the Liverpool stage next week. He talks to Laura Davis
20/03/2012, Blessing 76 – Swallows And Amazons
Tonight I went to see Swallows and Amazons at the Theatre Royal and was blown away by how amazing the performance was. It has to go down as one of the best productions I’ve ever seen....
19/03/2012, Swallows And Amazons, Quarry Theatre, March 20-24
WHETHER by chance or design, coincidence or fate, two plays written by Helen Edmundson are running simultaneously at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
19/03/2012, Review: The Divine Comedy | Regeneration (Parlophone) by James Hindle
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19/03/2012, Interview: The Divine Comedy by Mike Agate
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18/03/2012, BBC - Across the Line: Great Northern Songbook list in Full..
As reported on ATL earlier, the BBC is asking YOU to help choose the soundtrack to the Great Northern Songbook concert on May 22nd as part of the Ulster Hall's 150th anniversary celebrations.
18/03/2012, The Divine Comedy – Hot Press 20th Sep 1990
The latest episode of ‘Pimp my iPod‘ looks at labels one of whom, Setanta released the debut album from The Divine Comedy in 1990. Neil Hannon has I believe since distanced himself from...
18/03/2012, Writer bids for monster hits with two plays on one stage - Theatre - Yorkshire Post
At West Yorkshire Playhouse this spring, Francesca Done discovers a story of one woman and two very different plays.
17/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons Reviews at Theatre Royal - Norwich - Whatsonstage.com
At first thought, you might decide that Arthur Ransome’s stories about middle-class children having boating adventures at the start of the 1930s were pretty irrelevant in the 2010s. But they’re not. The Swallows and Amazons series is still much read by its intended age-group and – which is even more...
17/03/2012, Swallows And Amazons: West Yorkshire Playhouse - Theatre Reviews - Yorkshire Evening Post
BACK when Blur and Oasis regularly staged playground battles for Britpop dominance, The Divine Comedy were the quieter, more dignified geniuses at the back of the class.
17/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons sets sail into Norwich - Theatre - Norwich Evening News
As a new touring stage production of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons Tale sails into Norwich, IAN COLLINS looks at a saga of adventure where the author’s own life was surely even stranger than his fiction. Plus: Neil Hannon Q&A.
17/03/2012, Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy | Felsted
Felsted School was delighted to welcome Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy to perform in the Grignon Hall on Friday 24th February 2012, as part of the Felsted Olympiad
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11/03/2012, BBC - BBC Radio 6 Music Programmes - The Live Music Hour, Steve Mason, Broken Bells, Biffy Clyro, Di
BBC Radio 6 Music Celebrates 10 years with live music from 2010 including: Steve Mason, Broken Bells, Biffy Clyro, Dirty Projectors and session tracks from Ash, The Divine Comedy and Sleepy Sun.
08/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons - Reviews - UK Theatre Network
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08/03/2012, Swallows and Amazons Forever | Andy Bramfitt
There have been some amazing developments in cinematography recently – high definition, IMAX, 3D – not to mention the fantastical CGI demonstrated in films such as Transformers, Avatar and Inception, but sometimes I wonder whether all this ”alternative reality on a plate” is stripping away our abili...
07/03/2012, Blog de Abel Venero » The Divine Comedy - Casanova
The Divine Comedy - Casanova,Críticas de un aficionado a temas de música contemporánea
03/03/2012, My first song
From an early age I was humming endlessly in the back of the car. I remember my mum asking me what I was humming and saying, 'I don't know. I made it up.' At 10 I wrote a song called Digital Watch. 'Walking down the street/ Wanna know the time/ Look at my wrist/ I've got a digital watch, a digital w...
03/03/2012, An Evening of Political Song
Royal Festival Hall, London Far from being worthy or smug, this redrawing of the parameters of political song brings home the importance of this uniquely emotive form of history, writes Dorian Lynskey
03/03/2012, An Evening of Political Song; The Duckworth Lewis Method; Seasick Steve
Meltdown: From politics and cricket to singalongs with blues stomper Seasick Steve, Richard Thompson's passion for folk-based, rootsy music makes for a rousing week on the Southbank, writes Kitty Empire
03/03/2012, The Duckworth Lewis Method
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London It's a big ask for the Duckworth Lewis Method to fill a 90-minute show with one album's worth of material but the crowd love it anyway, writes Michael Hann
03/03/2012, My Meltdown: Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson explains his choices as curator of this year's Meltdown festival and reveals the acts he's most looking forward to seeing
03/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Bang Goes the Knighthood
Neil Hannon is best known for his whimsy, but his serious side results is the better music, says Will Dean
03/03/2012, Dizzee Rascal and Lily Allen lead the way in Ivor Novello nominations
The pop acts are among the artists in the line for a songwriting prize. Plus, there's another nomination for last year's surprise contender Nick Hemming
03/03/2012, Pop review: The Duckworth Lewis Method, The Duckworth Lewis Method
Does cricket tire as a theme? Actually, no. Played, boys, oh well played, says Tom Lamont
03/03/2012, The Duckworth Lewis Method: The Duckworth Lewis Method
A perfectly rendered set of pastiches and one of the summer's most delightful albums, writes Michael Hann
03/03/2012, Hits for six
Neil Hannon's new album celebrates cricket's 'beautiful silliness'. It's about time the sport got its musical due, writes Anthony Bateman
03/03/2012, The Divine Comedy, Somerset House, London
"I'm not sure that I want a knighthood," says Neil Hannon, in response to a shouted suggestion from the crowd. He pauses, twinkles, reconsiders. "Well, maybe I wouldn't mind being a baron." It's been 16 years since Hannon's band the Divine Comedy, then a trio of REM-loving Londonderry teenagers, rel...
03/03/2012, The Divine Comedy, Victory for the Comic Muse
Neil Hannon's affinity with the Britpop era was sealed when his hit Something for the Weekend provided a title for Denise Van Outen's ghastly TV programme. On the evidence of recent albums, that seems to have depressed Hannon as much as anybody. However, this triumphant comeback sees him rediscoveri...
03/03/2012, The Divine Comedy, Live at the Palladium
Live shows by the Divine Comedy have a reputation for their infectious goodwill and sense of occasion. As is often the case with concert films, this doesn't entirely carry over into your living room. Performing without the aid of any multimedia enhancements, Neil Hannon and the 16-piece Millennia En...
03/03/2012, The Divine Comedy, Palladium, London
Odd that Neil Hannon persists in disowning his first record, a mini-album called Fanfare for the Comic Muse, released at the beginning of the 1990s, when the Divine Comedy were still a band. Even more odd, now history is repeating itself. Fanfare... betrays an obvious REM influence; Regeneration, Ha...
03/03/2012, The Divine Comedy, Absent Friends
Never a man to use a string section where the London Philharmonic will do, Neil Hannon has a vision, and a wardrobe of crushed velvet, that's paralleled only by OutKast. By far the more specialised taste, he returns from a three-year break more detached from the mainstream than ever. Anyone with fon...
03/03/2012, To divinity and beyond
After Neil Hannon ditched his band, suits and crooning style, his career stalled. Now the lad is a dad, and is back with a thrilling new Divine Comedy album. So where did it all go right? By Kitty Empire.
03/03/2012, Q&A
Neil Hannon was born in 1970. He was brought up in Enniskillen, and attended Portora Royal School. He formed The Divine Comedy in 1989, but after the 1992 release of the EP Europop, they went their separate ways. Hannon continued to write songs, teamed up with other musicians and composers, and kept...
03/03/2012, I lost my heart in Dublin
03/03/2012, Odd man in
Neil Hannon started off singing about film and art. Then came sex. Unsurprisingly, he and his concept-turned-band, the Divine Comedy, were labelled both profound and pretentious. Now, they're in a new phase. And Hannon? He just wants to be a normal rock star. Honest
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Bang Goes the Knighthood | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
Neil Hannon continues to quietly and effectively operate his own one-man niche, thanks to impeccable arrangements and tightrope-walking songwriting.
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Victory for the Comic Muse | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
On his ninth album, Neil Hannon retains his Wildean wit and apposite sense of style.
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Absent Friends | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
Singer/songwriter Neil Hannon resurrects his Britpop alias, three years after splitting up the band.
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Regeneration | Album Reviews | Pitchfork
The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon openly admits in interviews that he's never\n\ actually read the book his ...
02/03/2012, Album: The Divine Comedy, Bang Goes The Knighthood (DCR) - Reviews, Music & Gigs - Belfasttelegraph.
Unstrapping his shin pads after last year's success with The Duckworth Lewis Method, Neil Hannon returns to his main day-job with Bang Goes The Knighthood, an album on which the cast of familiar Divine Comedy characters are targeted with his usual precision and urbanity.
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Bang Goes the Knighthood, CD review - Telegraph
Although he strains to keep one eyebrow raise, Neil Hannon's Bang Goes the Knighthood is more moving than expected. Rating: * * *
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Bang Goes the Knighthood
Ten albums in, and Neil Hannon proves himself to be as able as ever -- with fewer dirty jokes.
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Victory for the Comic Muse
Neil Hannon has largely toned down his extravagant look-at-me persona, and decided instead to rely on the quality of his song-writing.
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Absent Friends
Genius is like money; 90 percent of it is owned by a mere 10 percent of the population. When it comes to describing songwriters, the expression is thrown about with little regard to its literal meaning; Rob Thomas, for example may be a hit maker with a knack for songwriting and a dedicated work ethi...
02/03/2012, The Divine Comedy: Regeneration
Neil Hannon, the diminutive blond Englishman who is the heart and soul of The Divine Comedy, named his band’s last studio CD Fin de Siecle. It’s French for “End of the Century” and that title couldn’t be more apt for the band’s trajectory. Where that last record’s themes and moods were dark takes on...
01/03/2012, Bang Goes The Knighthood -The Divine Comedy | Record Collector
Bang Goes The Knighthood by The Divine Comedy. Back in the pavilion with pop sophistication. Record Collector is the world's leading authority on rare and collectable records
01/03/2012, BBC - Music - Review of The Divine Comedy - Bang Goes the Knighthood
As ever, Neil Hannon’s way with a tune is magnificent.
01/03/2012, BBC - Music - Review of Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
After three long years in the musical wilderness, the UK's favourite fop idol is back.
01/03/2012, Win family tickets to Swallows and Amazons at Norwich Theatre Royal - Theatre - Norwich Evening News
We have ten family tickets to give away for a new production of children’s classic Swallows and Amazons, directed by Tom Morris (War Horse) and featuring music by Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy).
