Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neil Hannon, aka The Divine Comedy, doesn't seem to like modern pop music much. In fact, he has described it as "rancid". The ...

The County Derry musician, behind the "Father Ted" theme tune, penned seven tunes for "Wonka" a companion movie to the original 1971 movie based on Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

“I’m not known for my wild emotion,” jokes Neil Hannon, sitting in the Paddington Hotel in London. It’s one stop on the “madcap jet set life” Hannon has been leading, on his way to Spain following the ...

Neil Hannon is set to return with his 11th album as The Divine Comedy. The new record is called Foreverland, his first DivCom LP in six years, and will be out September 2 via PIAS. (Pre-order.) If you ...

We’re lining up for our regimented 20 minute interview slots with Mr Hannon, founder of The Divine Comedy, the musicians’ musician, now up for a Novello award for his excellent album The Duckworth ...

Neil Hannon invites us into his ‘mind palace’, the place inside his head where his career lives, as he looks back on 30 years of The Divine Comedy.

In the last few days of summer, The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon released his 13th album, the stunning Rainy Sunday Afternoon —just when his fans needed his sage, witty, and heartfelt perspective the ...

One of the most delicious details of Wonka (now in theatres) is its delectable original music. Two of the men behind that music are Joby Talbot, who composed the score and Neil Hannon who wrote the ...

The 30 th band anniversary – which has also been marked with the release of a box set that I think I’m obliged to describe as “lavish” – is a bit of a swizz, in that the 1990 iteration of the band ...

The Divine Comedy (the orchestral-pop project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter/composer Neil Hannon) is releasing a new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, on September 19. Now he has shared its second ...

Edward Neil Anthony Hannon is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member. Hannon wrote ...