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For anyone interested, Neil Hannon has written 7 songs for the new "Wonka" movie. Alas, its not sung by him but by Chalamet... oh well, worth a listen on streaming services.

The rest of the score is written by Joby Talbot, who was in DC during Casanova mainly.

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a nice coup for Messrs Hannon and Talbot. The film seems like it's doing well.

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For anyone interested, Neil Hannon has written 7 songs for the new "Wonka" movie. Alas, its not sung by him but by Chalamet... oh well, worth a listen on streaming services.

The rest of the score is written by Joby Talbot, who was in DC during Casanova mainly.

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I am surprised Divine Comedy are the support. However, the only time I saw Hawley solo, Paul Weller was the support.

ROCK N ROLL CIRCUS: RICHARD HAWLEY plus The Divine Comedy, The Coral + more to be announced

Thursday 29th August 2024 Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield


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WOW. Hawley + DC... just missing Pulp and its the perfect night.

Makes sense DC is support in Sheffield, I dont think Neil Hannon is that popular in those areas.

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WOW. Hawley + DC... just missing Pulp and its the perfect night.

Makes sense DC is support in Sheffield, I dont think Neil Hannon is that popular in those areas.

The Divine Comedy sold out 5 consecutive nights at Barbican (and Paris) revisiting their back catalogue in its entirety.  They have thirteen 40 singles and nine top 40 LPs.  They sold out London Palladium in hours.  And Neil Hannon has just done the Wonka sound track.

Richard Hawley has one single that scraped into the top 40 (at #40) and six top 40 LPs. And the music for a play.

As for Paul Weller, he has 16 top ten LPs (6 #1, 7 #2) and umpteen top 40 singles and thats before considering his work with The Style Council and The Jam.

Must be a Sheffield thing, cos it makes no sense to me

 



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ArrGee wrote:
andy wrote:

WOW. Hawley + DC... just missing Pulp and its the perfect night.

Makes sense DC is support in Sheffield, I dont think Neil Hannon is that popular in those areas.

The Divine Comedy sold out 5 consecutive nights at Barbican (and Paris) revisiting their back catalogue in its entirety.  They have thirteen 40 singles and nine top 40 LPs.  They sold out London Palladium in hours.  And Neil Hannon has just done the Wonka sound track.

Richard Hawley has one single that scraped into the top 40 (at #40) and six top 40 LPs. And the music for a play.

As for Paul Weller, he has 16 top ten LPs (6 #1, 7 #2) and umpteen top 40 singles and thats before considering his work with The Style Council and The Jam.

Must be a Sheffield thing, cos it makes no sense to me

 

 Not that it really changes your argument, but the Longpigs did have two top-twenty singles ('On and On' and the reissued 'She Said').



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ArrGee wrote:
andy wrote:

WOW. Hawley + DC... just missing Pulp and its the perfect night.

Makes sense DC is support in Sheffield, I dont think Neil Hannon is that popular in those areas.

The Divine Comedy sold out 5 consecutive nights at Barbican (and Paris) revisiting their back catalogue in its entirety.  They have thirteen 40 singles and nine top 40 LPs.  They sold out London Palladium in hours.  And Neil Hannon has just done the Wonka sound track.

Richard Hawley has one single that scraped into the top 40 (at #40) and six top 40 LPs. And the music for a play.

As for Paul Weller, he has 16 top ten LPs (6 #1, 7 #2) and umpteen top 40 singles and thats before considering his work with The Style Council and The Jam.

Must be a Sheffield thing, cos it makes no sense to me

 

 

It must be yeah... I'm not specialist but from outside England, cities like Sheffield, Liverpool or Manchester seem to be a bit "different" from the rest of the country biggrin

I'd say Richard is a local treasure, when DC attracts only people in capitals. Festivals know what they are doing though, they exactly where the fans are and that's how they plan their headliners. 

I'm still gutted i missed those DC shows. I had tickets for the first shows planned in 2020 that were cancelled due to covid and then when they did it again i was moving and could not go hmm

 



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Yeah, Hawley has local caché that is hard to quantify but strong enough that he's "the boss" of a local line-up.
And the success of the Standing At The Sky's Edge musical has given his profile another boost nationwide.

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Yeah, Hawley has local caché that is hard to quantify but strong enough that he's "the boss" of a local line-up.
And the success of the Standing At The Sky's Edge musical has given his profile another boost nationwide.

Will be interesting to see the international impact of Neil Hannon's songs on the Wonka soundtrack on tour plans of The Divine Comedy in 2024. Been 20 years since the last dates in US.



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Probably negligible if he's not singing on them.

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ArrGee wrote:
Eamonn wrote:

Yeah, Hawley has local caché that is hard to quantify but strong enough that he's "the boss" of a local line-up.
And the success of the Standing At The Sky's Edge musical has given his profile another boost nationwide.

Will be interesting to see the international impact of Neil Hannon's songs on the Wonka soundtrack on tour plans of The Divine Comedy in 2024. Been 20 years since the last dates in US.

 

None.

 

If only more Movie work for him, but that's it. DC's new album is at "planning" stage right now so maybe a little festival tour this summer but that's it. 



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Back at Barbican for 2 nights in October 2025. Tickets on sale Thursday 17 April 10am. Also lots of other dates

Mon 6th Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
Tue 7th Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
Wed 8th Bath, Forum
Fri 10th Gateshead, The Glasshouse
Sat 11th London, Barbican
Sun 12th London, Barbican
Mon 13th Brighton, Dome
Wed15th Cambridge, Corn Exchange
Thu 16th Sheffield, City Hall
Fri 17th Wolverhampton, Uni The Civic Hall
Sat 18th Swansea, Arena
Mon 20th Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
Tue 21st York, Barbican
Thu 23rd Oxford, New Theatre
Fri 24th Manchester, Bridgewater Hall
Sat 25th Bristol, Beacon

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The comeback song, Achilles, is quite clever isn't it? Not that you'd expect anything less.

I never get why it's called a collective. Isn't Neil effectively the entire Divine Comedy? He writes everything, no one else is in pictures or does promo. The rest are effectively interchangeable session/live players, right?


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The comeback song, Achilles, is quite clever isn't it? Not that you'd expect anything less.

I never get why it's called a collective. Isn't Neil effectively the entire Divine Comedy? He writes everything, no one else is in pictures or does promo. The rest are effectively interchangeable session/live players, right?

 

I'm not too sold on the single for now. Its well done, nothing bad to say about it: but that was exactly what i was expecting. He's done things like that in the past: it's like a mix between Laday of a Certain Age, Catherine the Great and Norman and Norma. It's ok, i know he needs a single that fits his image, it's easy and will be played on radio... and the rest of the album should be way better. Just like the previous ones, the "main" single was actually the weakest track on the record.

As for the DC thing: Yeah, he's been a one man band since after Regeneration in the early 2000. The "band" thing didn't quite work, although there was no bad feeling (he worked with ex-DC Joby Talbot on Wonka). So since Charmed Life, he's Divine Comedy, but with a steady backing band, it's almost the same people since then, and they are quite impressive live, having seen them many, many times. He's got Andrew Skeet who arranges all the strings on his records, so he's kinda the shadow man in Divine Comedy. But his demos are quite impressive : all is basically there, then Skeet translate it into readable music for the sessions players and adds nuance. 

He's keeping the Divine Comedy because he started it all alone, actually. But yeah, its not a band. It's Neil Hannon and is sidekicks. 



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