The Divine Comedy
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Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 8 February 1992
SETANTA HAS PROVED to be a prolific nurturing ground for new talent lately, with acts like Power of Dreams, Into Paradise and the Frank and ...
Review by Stuart Maconie, Select, May 1994
ROCK MUSIC likes to think of itself as radical, revolutionary and scarily anarchistic, but really it's so arse-clenchingly conservative it must leave Portillo and Lilley ...
The Divine Comedy: Champagne Casanova
Interview by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 22 June 1996
THE DIVINE COMEDY are this year's finest purveyors of unlucky-in-love pop — this year's Pulp, in other words. Which makes mainman NEIL HANNON, the new ...
Up the Dante — The Divine Comedy: Casanova (Setanta)
Review and Interview by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 13 July 1996
Did the world misunderstand THE DIVINE COMEDY'S last LP? Now it's been reissued, and it's time to think again ...
The Divine Comedy: York Hall Leisure Centre, Bethnal Green, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 12 August 1996
Divine, darling, simply Divine ...
The Divine Comedy: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 29 March 1997
Kitschy coup: Few pop musicians could carry it off, but Divine Comedy's orchestral manoeuvres impress Caroline Sullivan ...
The Divine Comedy: Casanova (Setanta) ****
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 17 April 1997
LIKE MOST tortured artists, Neil Hannon is filled with anguish and frustration. But Hannon, the Irishman who is the Divine Comedy, has little use for ...
The Divine Comedy: Funny peculiar
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 14 August 1998
Neil Hannon, aka the Divine Comedy, belongs in the last century, says Caroline Sullivan — the man who penned the Father Ted theme tune is ...
The Divine Comedy: Ulster Hall, Belfast
Live Review by Colin Harper, The Irish Times, 9 December 1998
"WHAT A STRANGE looking person," said the young lady next to me as Neil Hannon arrived on the stage, to the fanfare of his conversely ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
THE ARCH COMBO RETURN WITH A NEW ALBUM, REGENERATION, PRODUCED BY NIGEL (KID A) GODRICH. HERE, FRONTMAN NEIL HANNON AND MUSICAL LYNCHPIN JOBY TALBOT TELL ...
The Divine Comedy: Regeneration
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, April 2001
NEW SOUND but same ideals for polished popsmiths. ...
The Divine Comedy: Bang Goes the Knighthood
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 29 May 2010
NOW THE DIVINE COMEDY have left EMI, the band's sole member, Neil Hannon, is putting out albums himself and needs to sell a fraction of ...
Interview by James Medd, The Word, May 2012
It takes weeks to make it sound this easy, says Divine Comedy songsmith. ...
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