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Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy namechecks Morrissey
posted by davidt on Monday June 19 2006, @10:00AM

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Neil Hannon: Son of a preacher man - The Independent

By now the shy bishop's son had become a bona fide star, duetting with Tom Jones, touring with REM and selling out the Albert Hall. He even provided the theme tune to Father Ted. Along with Jarvis Cocker, Hannon was one of the era's more interesting pop stars who was infatuated with the power of word play. Alas, the music press, by this time hooked on Britpop's beer-swilling effrontery, took against his lyrical intellectualism and labelled him pretentious. A particular source of ire was "Book Lover's List", which name-checked no less than 70 literary stars, from Aphra Behn to Salman Rushdie.

"Yeah, that was asking for a punching," chuckles Hannon, "especially considering I hadn't read half of the books in it. In the early days I did rather wear cleverness on my sleeve but at the time I thought it was OK. Morrissey did it, so why couldn't I? But as time has gone on I've tried to plough my own furrow and have more original thoughts. I suppose latterly I've tried to think more about what those writers were writing about rather than getting carried away with their style."

 
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The Divine Comedy (Score:0)
I never herd of Neil Hannon, but I've herd of the book The Devine Comedy, my dad told me about it, but he read it in spanish "La divina Comedia"

Off topic? I know, Read the book!!!
Anonymous -- Monday June 19 2006, @11:35AM (#225481)
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Played HMV last Friday (Score:1)
I strolled into HMV in Dublin lunchtime on Friday and came upon the live dulcet tones of Mr Hannon and his band show-casing some tunes from their new album. They have a distinctive theatrical style, more languid than Morrissey I would say, but interesting.
goinghome -- Monday June 19 2006, @11:51AM (#225485)
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Hannons new album (Score:0)
The Divine Comedy's new album is better than ROTT in my opinion.

It has a song on it entitled 'A Lady Of A Certain Age' which everyone should listen to, it seriously is very very good.
Anonymous -- Monday June 19 2006, @03:25PM (#225560)
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Neil Hannon (Score:1)
He hasn't made a bad album and the new one is just breathtaking. The Divine Comedy is DEFINITELY worth looking into for any Moz fan - Especially a Moz fan that also likes some Scott Walker with the tea one makes with one's tears.
Uncle Frank -- Monday June 19 2006, @08:17PM (#225593)
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 A booted man in black with a peaked cap will call for me and troll me down the hall and slot me into his black car
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At the Olympia (Score:0)
Neil was at Mozza's first night in Dublin in April.
Anonymous -- Tuesday June 20 2006, @02:41PM (#225736)
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    wood...shed! (Score:0)
    i've been listening to 'something for the weekend' this morning. reading about divine comedy reminded me of being a teenager and hearing it on the radio on sunny days.

    there's something in the wood...shed!
    Anonymous -- Wednesday June 21 2006, @04:15AM (#225792)
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