Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Neil Hannon was the feature artist in a BBC Northern Ireland programme this week about local songwriters who made good. Reflecting on his life and music he made spoke about his experiences of growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles as a middle class child. What he said rang true for me and many of my contemporaries, in that we drifted alongside the carnage without really ever...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Found this on I-player from a series called the music makers. Nice run through of Divine comedy's career including Neil singing as a choir boy in a cave and a moody version of "My lovely horse" http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n9pzy/b00n9pzf/Music_Makers_Epis...
The 'Spill (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg, 'spill favourite, much donded on the mothership, tremendous actress, impeccable of birth, cement of garden, is BACK! Or should i say "IS BECK", as he's written and produced the lions share of the new record. Her first album, that received so much 'Spiller love, was a merry mix of Air, Jarvis Cocker, and Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy - and is well worth...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
While the last album, made with the help of Air, Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon, was very quiet and delicate, this one, co-written and produced by Beck, sounds like it might be a somewhat more eclectic affair. "IRM", which is also the name of the album, is mildly rambunctious (if it's possible to put those to terms together) and I like it a lot. The track sounds somewhat like the sort...
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
... acclaimed, half-million selling 2006 release 5:55 , which saw her team up with Air, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Hannon and producer Nigel Godrich, IRM was recorded and produced by Beck at his Los Angeles studio and looks set to push Charlotte’s music into several previously unexplored directions. The title track makes an excellent case for it with Charlotte’s very clinical, almost robotic...
Knitting on the Green (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... ridiculously funny ("The Day I Took Bros into a Goods Yard"). And "The Day I Saved Neil Hannon's Bacon" probably has the best (4-page) description of the atmosphere at the Cambridge Folk Festival I've ever read. As the review from David Bowie on the front page says, "Steal this book!" Although obviously I didn't as I got it from the library and that would...
Christopher Fowlers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
I’ve always been a big Neil Hannon fan. The Divine Comedy’s shows aren’t much live – just Neil at a keyboard – but there has always been a touch of Victorian cabaret in his music, and his quirky songs are unique, even though they’re ‘a bit last decade’ and ‘dad music’ (according to websites). He’s [...]
castalia747mo | 09/26/2009
... 2006's "5:55," an album that included guests Air, Jarvis Cocker and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon. American audiences can also see Gainsbourg this fall starring opposite Willem Defoe in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist." At the Cannes Film Festival she won a best actress award for her performance as a woman tormented by the death of her child. Though Beck contributed
