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Après 20 ans de groupe à géométries variables, avec toujours la même tête pensante et composante, Divine Comedy assume: Neil Hannon is back alone on stage, avec quand même un piano. Pour le magnifique et ironique dernier album de l'Irlandais, Bang Goes the Knighthood, centré autour des claviers, pa

El carismático líder de The Divine Comedy nos invitó a una velada llena de de talento, diversión, romanticisimo y joyas del pop en Barcelona.

El francés afincado en Zaragoza Eric Cihigoyenetche defendió con acierto las canciones firmadas bajo el nombre de El Brindador, certificando el secreto a voces que circula en la ciudad acerca de la calidad de sus canciones, al tiempo de probar lo atinado de su elección como artista local invitado pa

Neil Hannon já tinha confessado há uns anos que é sempre mais seguro transformar totalmente um disco para tocá-lo em palco do que tentar mimetizá-lo na perfeição. Para quem ambicionava chegar ao Royal Albert Hall e rodear-se de uma grande e esmagadora orquestra, este facilitismo era uma contradição, mas mesmo assim a surpresa chegou este ano com o músico irlandês, depois de se assumir mais uma vez como o solitário autor dos Divine Comedy, a planear a nova digressão, imaginem, sozinho.

Amb bombí i maletí, vestit de Complete banker –títol de la cançó del l'últim disc de The Divine Comedy que ironitza sobre la crisi econòmica actual–,

Neil Hannon is back in Barcelona on Tuesday 23 November to present the songs from his new album, Bang Goes the Knighthood, at the Casino L’Aliança in Poblenou.

The injustice of it all is that the showcase of her sumptuous smoky-toned songwriting that followed deserved nothing of... - Read the Divine Comedy West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge - 12/11/2010 Live Review from Contactmusic

After Joby Talbot recorded his reinterpretation of The White Stripes’ “Aluminum” with a small orchestra in London, the British composer, best known for his enchanting soundtracks and his work with pop group The Divine Comedy, earned a reputation he considered extremely unfair: ruthless Svengali.

@Kcsunshine73 Cathy Davey and Neil Hannon together. Singing.

@Kcsunshine73 Cathy Davey and Neil Hannon together. Singing.

Divine Comedy aka Neil Hannon at Oxford O2. Like, now.

With less than six weeks to go until we ring in 2011, more and more events for the big NYE are being announced. Today news comes of what will probably be the biggest New Year's Eve event in Dublin, with a line up that's well worth the ticket price....

El timonel de The Divine Comedy ofrece esta noche un recital en solitario, a voz y piano, en el Casino L'Aliança de Poble Nou

Neil Hannon finishing his triumphant set with the Human League's "Don't You Want Me". And lots more. Splendid time had by all. Watch this space for news of the next one.

Over the many years Divine Comedy has existed frontman Neil Hannon has been the only consistent member, and at times the only member. In 2001 Hannon decided to fire the entire band he had at the time and go solo again. Pic: RetnaUK

The best book I've read recently is The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross. It's a very thick tome about 20th-century classical music. It filled in a lot of blanks in my knowledge as well as being a riveting read. Right now I'm reading Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter. I went through a phase of readi

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I witnessed not just a great musician and lyricist in action, but also in every sense a fantastic performer and actor.

RT@hicksdesign @divinecomedyhq's Neil Hannon was fantastic! Even managed covers of Blue Monday and My lovely Horse!

Bless Cathy Davey. The blonde songstress has the enviable task of warming up the politely seated crowd for Hannon, and she has us nose deep in palm edibles.

We’re going to play our album now,” Neil Hannon announces as The Duckworth Lewis Method stumble onto the stage amid various cricket paraphernalia. That’s exactly what the duo – backed by a band that occasionally features the likes of Cathy Davey and Matt Berry – go on to do, in order, pausing occasionally to sarcastically ask the audience which song comes next. Predictable, in this case, is not a byword for dull.

There’s always a space in indie music for quirky, and Neil Hannon’s Divine Comedy have spent 10 albums redefining off-the-wall in his own terms. It is clearly the Northern Irish balladeer’s stock-in-trade, and it inspires a dogged devotion in the capacity crowd of 400 at The Gate.

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Un petit clin d’oeil à Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy) qui était en concert le 10 novembre au Royal Festival Hall de Londres. Il était impossible de ne pas saluer la performance de ce musicien surdoué, drôle et british jusqu’au bout du chapeau melon.

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Divine Comedy is Neil Hannon is Divine Comedy. It’s a Badly Drawn Boy /Damon Gough dynamic which means there will never be different line-ups… unless Neil plans on major schizophrenic schisms. Hannon does sometimes play with a band but tonight it’s only Neil, armed only with a grand piano, acoustic

@dughall Neil Hannon enters to the Mr Benn theme! @stevebunce

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I can’t reliably recall when it was that I first listened to The Divine Comedy. Sometime back in the 90′s for sure, and likely to have been during one of my Saturday shopping trips into Shibuya or Shinjuku (Tokyo). Many enjoyable solo hours were spent wandering the floors of HMV or Tower Records, h

Excuse me, I got carried away there. Whatever happens in a Neil “I am the Divine Comedy” Hannon gig, I’m pre-disposed to have a good time. He’s debonair (with just the right amount of polish worn off), looks like he could hold court around a piano – sipping wine and telling amusing anecdotes, and mo

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When Bristol Old Vic artistic director Tom Morris was looking for a collaborator to write the music for new musical Swallows and Amazons, he made an inspired choice picking Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy. Hannon tells stories in each and every one of his songs and he had the audience eating out of

The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon is heading to Cardiff for an intimate one night only performance. He tells Dave Owens why he’s conquered his nerves to step out stage front once again

We caught most of the opening set by Cathy Davey. She was really good. We bought her latest CD The Nameless and listened to it on the car ride home. Had an interesting view of the stage from where we sat (photos taken with HTC Desire phone). Off to see Imogen Heap in Hall One tonight.

Neil at the Lexington, London.

Well, hello,” says a besuited Neil Hannon, tipping his bowler hat in a bemused fashion to the baying crowd rammed into the basement of Oran Mor. Tonight’s show is billed as ‘an evening with’ the Northern Irish wit, and he doesn’t disappoint on either humorous asides or perfectly constructed wry pop.

Τhe Divine Comedy: 13 Δεκεμβρίου - News - Μουσική

This month in our irish arts blog we're delighted to publish an interview with Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy, one of Irelands most influential musicians