24.08.2012 / For Noise Festival
divine comedy / Neil Hannon solo
Show information
www.thedivinecomedy.comVenue
For Noise Festivalwww.fornoise.ch
Tickets:
pass 3 days: www.petzitickets.ch
friday 24th august: www.petzitickets.ch
Born and raised in Northern Ireland, Neil Hannon signed his first record deal aged 19. Recording as The Divine Comedy, his first albums Liberation and Promenade were critically acclaimed, but it was the 1996 album Casanova, and lead single Something For The Weekend that brought widespread fame. A Short Album about Love and Fin de Siecle followed, with track National Express from the latter album becoming the band’s first hit single. 1999’s best of compilation A Secret History charted at number 3 in the UK. Regeneration was released on new label Parlophone in 2001. This was followed in 2004 by Absent Friends and in 2006 by the Choice Music Prize winning Victory For The Comic Muse.
In 2007 Neil set up his own record label, Divine Comedy Records. 2009 saw the first release on the label, a collaborative project with fellow Irishman Thomas Walsh. A concept album about cricket called The Duckworth Lewis Method the album was unexpectedly a success. It was nominated in the best album category at the Ivor Novello Awards, the Meteor Awards and the Choice Music Prize. It was followed in 2010 by the first Divine Comedy release on Neil’s own label – “Bang Goes The Knighthood.” This too was a commercial and critical success, charting at 20 in the UK. Extensive touring culminated in sell out shows at London’s Somerset House and Royal Festival Hall.
Outside The Divine Comedy, Neil Hannon has collaborated with everyone from Michael Nyman to Tom Jones. He has written for TV shows including Father Ted and The IT Crowd, contributed the IFTA Award nominated score to the 2009 film Wide Open Spaces and recently wrote the music and lyrics for the National Theatre’s popular and acclaimed musical adaptation of Swallows and Amazons, directed by Tom Morris. He is currently writing a short opera for the Royal Opera House’s “OperaShots” season.
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