I’VE long been intrigued by Neil Hannon – not just because he once wrote a song called Something For The Weekend.  The son of ...

Welcome to the 11th Songs of the Week of 2025. It was quite a week for songs from ’90s artists. As a teenager, in 1995, I once saw Stereolab open for Pulp at the Brixton Academy in London and both ...

So that it will be worthy of salvation. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't concentrate on three lines at a time – you have to ...

Neil Hannon drew on Noel Coward and a friend for "A Lady Of A Certain Age", and the song is one of The Divine Comedy's greatest triumphs.

Tonight at 11p.m. on "UKNY," I'll spend most of the hour in conversation with Hannon, with songs from this gorgeous record, which arrived on September 19 on Hannon's Divine Comedy Records. Rainy ...

Hannon is on thin ice here. Willow, his daughter is a song-writer herself. The last time one song writer (Loudon Wainwright III) wrote a song to his own song-writer daughter (Martha Wainwright), it ...

Julian Schnabel's Dante Alighieri ode 'In the Hand of Dante' recalls 'Megalopolis': messy, miscalculated, ambitious, and with moments of grandeur.

The Divine Comedy (the orchestral-pop project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter/composer Neil Hannon) has announced a new album, Rainy Sunday Afternoon, and shared its first single, “Achilles.” ...

Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. The challenge to approaching a translation of Dante's original Italian this way is that it means you can't ...