Hannon and an eleven-piece ensemble will also be celebrating the band's 30th anniversary with residencies at The Barbican in London and the Cité de la Musique in Paris. These shows, postponed from September 2020 to September 2022, will feature the band playing two of the classic albums, per show, in a five-show residency in each venue. Also included is the iconic 'Song Of Love' - a reworking of the tune originally written for the Channel 4 comedy 'Father Ted'. Seen here in a more stripped down version and with a beautiful set of harmonic vocals playing blissfully over the harpsichord melody it's certainly one of the highlights of the album. Taken from the same session 'A Woman Of The World' was also a contender for the show's theme tune but ultimately became the jaunty deep cut seen here, proving that Hannon is no stranger to recycling creative ideas across his career. Something for the Weekend" is a song by the Divine Comedy, produced by Darren Allison and Neil Hannon. [1] It was the first single from Casanova and reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. [2] The song subsequently became a hit when Chris Evans heard it at a friend's party and had it played on his radio show the following Monday. [3]

Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.a b Aston, Martin (June 1996). "The Divine Comedy: Casanova". Q. No.117. Archived from the original on 1 September 2004 . Retrieved 13 April 2020. October 2020 peaks for re-issued albums released on The Divine Comedy's own record label". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 12 November 2020. He was neglected by his mother and yearns for connection’ … another image from Northern Ballet’s production. Photograph: Caroline Holden On 2 September 2016, The Divine Comedy released their eleventh album Foreverland. A live album featuring performances from the 2016–17 Foreverland tour, "Loose Canon", was released digitally on 16 February 2018 after being made available as a CD on the tour.

It's not an entirely successful collection : "Can You Stand Upon One Leg" is a silly, throwaway kids song – Hannon's Sesame Street moment, maybe – and "The Lost Art Of Conversation", his Beatlesque pop piece about the delights of discourse, is little more than an excuse to string together ludicrously literate lists of subjects for discussion.Gender swap … Hayley Carmichael in Told by an Idiot’s version. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian Victory for the Comic Muse peaked at No. 47 in October 2020 when re-issued on their own label Divine Comedy Violin – Alex Postlethwaite, Alice Pratley, Alison Fletcher, Anna Giddey, Colum Pettit, Emile Chitikow*, Eos Councell*, Jethro Shirley-Smith, Laura Samuel, Leonie Curtin, Mark Knight (2), Padraic Savage, Rebecca Hayes (2), Roberto Borzoni, Sylvia Kapp, Yuri Kalnitz* Our Love Goes Deeper Than This" by Duke Special, on the 2-CD version of Songs from the Deep Forest (2006)

Europe By Train' is one of the few occasions when Liberation abandons its quasi-Englishness, a cheeky Zorba The Greek parody which is redolent of sunkissed Mediterranean islands and a severe overdose of Ouzo. A Secret History... The Best of the Divine Comedy" (PDF). Music & Media . Retrieved 12 November 2020. Clayton-Lea, Tony (9 October 2020). "The Divine Comedy: Venus, Cupid, Folly & Time review – 30 years of smart pop". The Irish Times . Retrieved 8 September 2021.In 2006, whilst on tour, the band did a Take-Away Show video session shot by Vincent Moon. A year later, the first ten or so seconds of "Tonight We Fly" was used as the ending tune to BBC7's Digi Radio. The song was also used for an advertisement for the Airbus A340 airliner. [21] Flaherty, Mike (24 October 1997). " Casanova – Review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 13 April 2020. However, at times, Office Politics seems a little too aware of its joke, not unlike like the disco-dope of “The Life and Soul of the Party,” showing off drunken dance moves and rambling to co-workers who do not care. The punchline—that he’s alone and no one likes him—is obvious from the song’s opening line: we get it, office and suburban life are dull, but by this point in the album, it’s a cliche. The Divine Comedy celebrated its 30th anniversary by reissuing remastered versions of the band's first nine albums (from Liberation to Bang Goes the Knighthood) on LP and CD. All eleven albums were included in the box set Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time: 30 Years of the Divine Comedy, released in October 2020. [24] The 24-disc box set consists of 12 albums of two CDs: each with an original remastered album, with a second CD of B-sides, demos, alternate versions, rarities and unreleased material curated by Neil Hannon. The collection includes the original album Fanfare for the Comic Muse, and other pre- Liberation material. The CD release of A Short Album About Love comes with a DVD of A Short Film About A Short Album About Love – a previously unreleased 50-minute film of the Shepherd's Bush Empire concert at which Short Album... was recorded. [25]