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Divine Comedy: Neil Hannon
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Neil Hannon's appearance at David Bowie's Meltdown was always going to be interesting, following line-up changes to The Divine Comedy late last year. What would this most chameleonesque of musicians be able to create as the latest incarnation of the band? Once again Hannon proved that his band is well named - at times comedic and at times divinely sublime. With long hair and scruffy clothes, there he was in charge of a band of classical musicians.
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By the summer of 2005 Hannon had uncorked 20 to 30 songs of his own, 11 of them ultimately comprising this year’s Victory for the Comic Muse, the ninth Divine Comedy long-player. Though a proper band from Northern Ireland when it debuted in 1990 with the R.E.M./Ride-influenced Fanfare for the Comic Muse, The Divine Comedy has since been essentially Neil Hannon. His sardonic brand of chamber pop in place by 1993’s Liberation, he rode the Britpop wave as something of a stylistic odd man out, scoring a hit in 1996 with Casanova opener “Something for the Weekend.” He remains relatively unknown across the pond from his Dublin home, where he lives with his wife and young daughter.
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Neil Hannon claims to have written The Divine Comedy's triumphant ninth album, Victory For The Comic Muse, more or less by accident. After touring extensively on the back of 2004's Absent Friends, Hannon found himself, once back home in Dublin with his family, suffering the ennui common to those who've endured an intense period of being forced to listen to the sound of their own voice. In order to prod his muse towards taking an interest in life again, Hannon threw himself into a bewilderingly diverse array of side projects.
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