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Neil Hannon

Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy chooses his favourite records with Ken Bruce.

Neil Hannon, the founder and lead singer of The Divine Comedy chooses his favourite records with Ken Brucei. Neil is considered one of the country鈥檚 most creative songwriters and has recently released his latest album from The Divine Comedy called Office Politics. The album is full of songs about characters and machines, synthesizers and songs about synthesizers. It also has guitars, orchestras, accordions and songs about love and greed. Neil says the songs and characters for the album emerged faster than he could keep track of them.

Neil formed The Divine Comedy in 1989 in Northern Ireland and he is the only consistent band member, and at times has played all the instruments himself. The band鈥檚 break-through album was Casanova in 1996, their fourth album which featured the single 鈥楽omething For The Weekend鈥�. Their highest charting single was 鈥楴ational Express鈥� which reached number 8 in the UK charts in 1999.

In 1998 Neil provided backing vocals with Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys for Robbie Williams鈥� single 鈥楴o Regrets鈥�. The Divine Comedy also supported Robbie Williams on his post-Millennium tour in the same year.

Neil also wrote the theme tunes to the hit TV series Father Ted and The IT Crowd and is currently working on the Father Ted musical with Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews .

57 minutes

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Fri 16 Aug 2019 03:00
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Music Played

  • The Undertones

    Here Comes The Summer

    • The Anthology.
    • Sanctuary.

  • Kate Bush

    Cloudbusting

    • Remastered Part I.
    • Fish People.

  • Blur

    Girls & Boys

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Kiri Te Kanawa

    O Mio Babbino Caro

  • U2

    All I Want Is You

    • The Best Of U2: 1980-1990.
    • Island.

  • Ben Folds

    Still Fighting It

  • R.E.M.

    It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

    • R.E.M. Singles Collected.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Depeche Mode

    New Life

    • The Best Of.
    • Mute.

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Edwyn Collins

    A Girl Like You

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

Broadcast

  • Fri 16 Aug 2019 03:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2