Absent Friends

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Memo: The Divine Comedy Announce New Album 'Office Politics' ". The Divine Comedy . Retrieved 10 November 2021. Graham, Stephen (31 August 2018). "Twenty Years of Fin de Siècle". We Are Cult . Retrieved 26 March 2021. Woods, Mikael (7 March 2002). "Ben Folds, Divine Comedy". Dallas Observer . Retrieved 13 November 2021. Choice Music Prize". RTÉ.ie. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012 . Retrieved 26 March 2021. The Divine Comedy are a pop band from Northern Ireland, formed in 1989 and fronted by Neil Hannon. Hannon has been the only constant member of the group, playing, in some instances, all of the non-orchestral instrumentation except drums. The band has released 12 studio albums. Between 1996 and 1999, nine singles released by the band made the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, including the 1999 top ten hit, " National Express".

Watch: The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon grapples with a lovely horse in My Lovely Horse Rescue campaign video". The Independent. 20 September 2018 . Retrieved 10 January 2019. 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. Wright, Helen. "Review: Absent Friends". musicOMH. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011 . Retrieved 4 November 2011.And then there’s “The Happy Goth”, the album’s landmark achievement. A surefire new entry to any fan’s list of favorite DC songs of all time, “Goth” wraps a hilarious and note-perfect lyric around the bounciest melody Hannon’s written this side of “National Express”. But it’s his rhyming of “cloth” with the ice planet of “Hoth” from the Star Wars movies (which also doubles as metaphor for the color of his subject’s skin) that elevates the song to the stuff of, yes, genius. Hannon, however, was not deterred in his efforts and entered the studio again in March 1993, teaming up with co-producer/drummer Darren Allison, for the recording of Liberation. [4] The record is characterised by a plethora of literary references: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" recalls a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald; "Three Sisters" draws upon the play by Anton Chekhov; and "Lucy" is essentially three William Wordsworth poems abridged to music. [5] Larman, Alexander (13 October 2020). "The Divine Comedy at 30". The Critic . Retrieved 10 November 2021.

Sullivan, Caroline (26 March 2004). "Review: Absent Friends". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 November 2011. 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] a b c d The History of The Secret History (CD booklet). The Divine Comedy. Setanta Records. SETCDL100. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

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Lynskey, Dorian. "The Divine Comedy Absent Friends". Blender. Archived from the original on 20 August 2004 . Retrieved 7 December 2021. On 1 April 2019, the Divine Comedy announced a new single "Queuejumper", first played on BBC 6 Music on 3 April. It was followed by the announcement of Office Politics, the band's first double album, which was released on 7 June 2019. [23] The release of "Queuejumper" was followed by the single "Norman and Norma", released on 16 May 2019, and an animated music video for the songs "Infernal Machines" / "You'll Never Work in this Town Again", released on 3 October 2019.